Arc an ciel
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Just look over there
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The rainbow!
I visited Paris for the first time in a long while after I regained some strength and stamina in London.
The weather is like same as in London here . . . you have brief rain showers often . . . - I had brief rain showers when I was thinking things like that. Then I saw this big rainbow!
That's Arc an ciel
The big rainbow across in the gray sky - it looked so beautiful.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Balls Day 2 London ver.
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Kuma Chang took a position at the Guard of Buckingham Palace
Pardon his being bottomless
Day 2 London was just AWESOME! I'm so happy I finished off the tour with such a good last show! It was like a mixed juice of nationalities having audiences coming all across Europe.
So my tour is done now ! ! ! So quick! On the other hand the first show in Honolulu, it seems like a long time ago for me now . . .
It's tough to tour chilly places, especially for singers. Good I made it through the finish line safe and sound.
Each show turned out to be a different one, even though the content was always the same, which was quite interesting!
Really worth it to try the tour this time, I feel so all the more because I've grown up a lot through it.
Which made me look forward to performing in future live shows.
I'll take some rest for a while.
Adios!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Hikaru☆Cantabile
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I found this cute piano for kids in a piano shop in Lindon - - - ! ! !
I really felt I had to ask someone to take a photo!
Such a nice shot isn't it.
I was worrying if the tiny chair would collapse (lol) Good it was well-built (lol)
Oh yes, and here I would like to tell you something . . .
There's this my Japanese staff woman who was confused with my mom quite a few times during my tour in the US.
Perhaps it's because she was around my dad, but she's just turned 40 and looks very young for her age. (lol) She has short hair at the moment, which makes her look boyish . . . I really feel sorry for her. (lol)
At first I couldn't believe it because she just couldn't look like my mom but she started saying things like "Maybe it's because I look old?" as she was mixed up over and over again . . . I say probably Americans are overestimating the age-uncertainness of Asians a bit too much! Makes me really surprised . . .
On top of that she is pregnant at the moment ! ! (lol) Her belly is getting fairly large!
This just can't be possible (lol)
This episode makes me think that's how reports of sightings go around.
Today! I finished my very ☆ first show in Europe with no troubles, on a high note!
Tomorrow will be the last day of my tour this time -
I'm almost there~!
Good night!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Breast baring in NY
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I went to a department store in NY with my stylist-san to buy clothes for my extra show in London.
We went up to the floor by escalator where dresses were displayed and this mannequin-san welcomed us . . .
Ta - daaah
OH MY
GOD!
Her breast is
Out off ! ! !
(´ロ｀)Oh my god, super sexy!
She's striking a sexy pose like that. Excellent.
(Okay . . . correction)
I wonder if it was an accident or someone did it on purpose (lol) The most feared accident that could happen when women wear this type of off-the-shoulder clothes . . .
It's not the one I bought, by the way. (lol)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Balls NY ver. 1.2
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I ended up making both versions cause it was too hard to choose between the two (well I wanted to draw both versions, matter of fact)!
"Kuma of Liberty"
Originally Kuma Chang's character is full of liberty, though (lol)
The audience at my NY show was so unbelievably charged up, which made me really surprised . . . I have this feeling I'm writing impressions like this again and again but you know, it was really awesome . . . such a greatness of my hometown!
I found this person in the front row, who was standing in line from the midnight of the day before!! It's almost like the release date of popular video games . . . I wonder if I happen to have lots of avid fans in NY or NY people are all crazy like that (lol)
Now only two more shows to go in London (including the extra one added).
It's gonna be my first show in Europe ! ! Good luck to me !
Balls NY ver. 1.1
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Kuma Kong (lol)
That's a big Kuma Chang mounting on the Empire State Building, holding a blond woman in his left hand!
My stylist-san said "awesomeness"( ＾ω＾)
Monday, February 08, 2010
Before going to bed
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I'm just making a draft of illustrations I'm gonna draw on the autographed balls for my tomorrow's show in NY . . .
I wanna choose either of these but the balls are so small~
How can I draw the simplified version~
*yawns*
Good night
Balls Boston ver.
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After lots of wavering I decided to draw Kuma Chang cheerfully carrying a Boston bag wearing red socks of Boston Red Sox, the hometown baseball team on the balls for my Boston show!
(Also "♪" symbol implies it's where the famous Berklee College of Music is located)
(I love the one on top left best because he looks super happy (lol))
Boston bags was originally made for students to walk around tucking lots of heavy books in it. Browsing Wikipedia I found it saying " . . . because it is used habitually by the students of Boston University . . ." I thought it was named after the city which had lots of students.
You know, school textbooks in America (and probably in Europe too) are so huge and heavy . . . every class gives you textbooks that look like encylopedias. Even an outdoor brand backpack is no t enough to pack all those textbooks in, you gotta hold some in your hand.
I've always been jealous of small backs students in other junior or senior high were using when I was commuting to the international school by train . . . (also jealous of sailor suits, actually) Well I must admit you really bother the others if you have a crammed backpack with you in a packed train. (lol) My sincere apologies for the people using Inogashira-line and Shin Tamagawa-line.
Japanese textbooks are so small and light like that, would it be because they have different ones per semester? If so that's soooooooo smart of Japanese, I mean it's a very nice idea, no wonder why its culture is good at downsizing . . . On the other hand, could it be like small textbooks are made so that they don't get in the way in a packed train . . . ? OK I know packed trains didn't exist from such long ago (lol)
Or could it be like, western people were too blank-minded? Or is it supposed to be used for buliding up students' physique? Something like a training? Well in fact it provided me a very good exercise to run having that on my back every time I was about to be late . . . I think there was such a person in Japan who looked like that . . . the big boy reading a book having lots of books on his back . . . oh yes, that's Ninomiya Sontoku!!
I rushed to search his image and found out what he was having on his back was not books
but firewoods
So, that's all about the reason why university students in Boston were using big handbag.
I arrived in New York yesterday for the first time in a while, I say I'm so happy(´ω｀)
I'm home~
It's so nice to breathe the air of the place where you were born, in the season you were born.
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Sweet dreams
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"I'm back Kuma Chang - ! Thanks as always for your hard work to guard the hotel roo . . . "
'*mumble mumble* Mmm - oh Hi Hikaru-chan'
". . . Kuma Chang were you sleeping?"
'You returned earlier today what happened'
"Today the show started one hour earlier than usual, that's why it ended earlier."
'Me was not sleeping Me was just lying down'
"Ah I see, I'll lie down soon, too! After I finish uploading messages and such."
'Okay ni ni Hikaru-chan Boston is a nice place Me has lots of pillow-san'
Friday, February 05, 2010
Puppeteer
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Those people who perform Puppet Shows, how can we call them in Japanese? - I was thinking about such things, which made me wanna watch "Ghost in the Shell" like immediately!! Too bad I didn't bring the DVD with me . . . This time what I brought with me are a DVD of "Onihei" I've watched partway, and this super cool DVD box set called "Ano hito ni aitai" by NHK . . . what a Japanese selection, for my first US and London tour (lol)
I stayed in the huge museum I talked about as late as possible until the closing time, then went out on the street and this thing in the photo was parked right in front of my eyes.
It says "Puppet" at the back! So the owner is Jack-san who performs puppet shows! Too bad I couldn't watch the show! What a shame the timing was off!
It's fun to stop to enjoy watching people performing on the street, isn't it. It makes you realize you have time to spare, your life is not just for getting to your destination in a fidget.
I rarely see this kind of thing in Japan, come to think of it.
Dancers, musicians and such, many people were performing like everywhere every time I walked around on the streets of New York with my mom, and she used to stop to watch them for a long long time. I remember it was so chilly in winter.
Sometimes she watched them till the very end of the performance when the performers were playing musical instruments or singing, which eventually ended up inviting them home, I mean bring them back home . . .
Greatness of my mom(´ロ｀)
So that's why I love to stop to watch people performing on the street! It reminds me of the time.
In Japan . . . oh yes, sometimes you see people selling their poems on the street, right? I myself don't like it that much. I mean, I haven't thoguht it nice so far when I stopped to take a look at it.
Story teller in Winter
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Autographed balls Chicago ver.
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Maybe it's not that popular in Japan but I bet most Americans know it!
"American Gothic" by Grant Wood
It is the drawing released in around 1930, which instantly became an icon for America. I drew Kuma Chang version of it.
I saw the real drawing of it in this huge museum called the Art Institute of Chicago where I spent most of the day right before the show! I drew it on the first ball, then realized the illustration this time would need to be in extraordinary detail . . . but I managed to finish all ! 12 ! balls!
Chicago show was yet again a huge success! It snowed in the morning, which gave a slight snow makeup to the city.
I say the interior artwork at the House of Blues was the cutest among all the HOB venues I've been to so far. It was kinda like a folk art. The show space there looked somewhat like a tiny cute fake operahouse, I found it very interesting.
Alright tomorrow I'll do the show in Boston.
I finally reached here ! US east coast ! !
