Project Tribute

Okay! It has a name, wtf?!

So... my ideas have been brewing quite a bit. I've developed a deeper sense of what I want for Jingna's shot. While scrolling through her gallery, I realized that I seem to especially enjoy her as a model. While her photos generally seem to be environmentally bright, she herself has a gloomy introversion. This will be the essential signature within the shot, but I'm still clogged as of who is going to be my model. The only person that really pops into my head is my old friend Kimi, who I don't see anymore. She 'had' that feel to her in highschool, but she seems much happier now.
Some of the shots:


Junko's shot is already finalized, I really just need the money to purchase the outfit. I figure I'll pay for the outfit and that will be my payment to the model... whoever that might be. I'll also need to purchase a REALLY big wig. The piece of the gosuloli will need a black wig with large pony tails, though those could be made (not sure how easily).


The final shot will undoubtedly be the most expensive to me. Rei requires blue hair, red eyes, and a plug suit that does not exist. I've found a plug suit on a cosplay site, but really... it sucks bad. I might as well wrap Yoshimi up in white spandex and DRAW the suit contours on her with a sharpie if I were to purchase that thing. So, I'm left with Dani and I to design it. I've remembered that I wanted Rei to have her eyepatch on, and so I've found a figurine that is sort of like how I envision it:


Had a really good quick photoshoot today. Lei was kind enough to join Kelsey and I. Kelsey brought some of his arsenal and we had an assassin-themed shoot. Anything to pass the time as traffic piles up in Kea'au bypass. I really hate that merge lane.

Lehua mentioned a photoshoot this saturday, but I'm foggy of the details. All I remember her saying was that it was an all-day shoot... something about the school which she works at.

Ugh, it's already 1:44 am. I need to sleep by 2:00 am or I get bitchy.

A New Project

So I've been gone for a little while, I apologize my beloved blog.

I've been to Japan! It was amazing, stupendous, fantastic, thrilling, testing, lustful, beautiful, and I'm dying to go back, but that's for another blog.

I need a new project, a new photography project... and I have an idea. I'm going to work on three pieces which pay tribute to my three favorite artists: Megumi Hayashibara, Zhang Jingna, and Junko Mizuno.

I'm a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan. I've watched the series 7 times now and I don't see myself stopping there. My favorite character in the series is none other than Rei Ayanami, and that is in a large part because of her Seiyuu (voice actor/actress), Megumi Hayashibara. Megumi is an extremely well-accomplished voice actress, she's voiced such characters as Fey from Cowboy Bebop, Paprika, and a ton of other characters in other shows. She's also a singer, but I feel that her strengths really lie in voice acting. Here is a trailer for the Eva movie "Death & Rebirth" where Megumi displays her wonderful voice in the beginning:

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So, my tribute to Megumi Hayashibara will be none other than a shot of Rei Ayanami. A friend of mine, Yoshimi, would make a perfect Rei Ayanami.

Next on my list is Junko Mizuno. She is a "Kawaii Noir" artist, which means that her artworks are usually about cute, yet scary things. The BBC show "Japanorama" makes use of her artwork as commercial segways. Here is a compilation of most of them (please note the very last one):


My favorite is the last. It is also what I will base my shots on. I'm going to attempt to get someone to wear a gosuloli outfit and hold a Katana with blood on it. I've attempted this with Tammy (sort of) and I'll try to perfect it.

This brings me to my last, and most difficult artist: Zhang Jingna. She is an amazing photographer and is known throughout the digital grapevine as one of the most growing fashion photographers, and she's a year younger than me! Yes, smell the envy yet? Anyway, her work has been a huge inspiration to me and I strive to better myself through her. You can find a large portion of her work at her DeviantArt page here. Anyway, I still haven't decided what to do about that shot, as she herself is a photographer and while she does have her own style, I find it hard to pinpoint a shot that screams "zemotion".

Anyway, that's my to-do list.