color waves

The other day at zouk when we had our shuttershades with lights!

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halcali +

Many hearts to Halcali!

So trippy. Love the colors, love the style!

Only from the city. Something I wanna achieve, very urban very fun.

Anyhow trashed the works that weren’t all original. Was figuring out some design rules and ripping off some works and see how it goes. But figured I should have credited if I were to post them online. Pretty sorry there.

Filed under: fashion, music , halcali

like kylie

I like her 10th album X, new rave. Hahaha. Yeah have always love her.

In your eyes is not from X but still a style I’m looking for. I love Like A Drug, but apparently it doesn’t have a video. D:

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quirky +

I love these two girls.

HalCali. Very girlish but with a basket full of quirks.

I love the new PV. Very hmm new rave and trippy. A hopeful style I hope to look into for my project. I can’t seem to post it up, gonna try again later.

Looking for a tying point or in fact many points for androgyny and city.

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new rave

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Douglas Neitzke by Jolijn Snijders

Very intimate very personal. Almost delicate.

Douglas Neitzke brings me back to my stereotype visualization of the ideal androgyny. The skinny boy with soft features. He looks everything feminine yet you get it he is male. 

Do I make a point when I say and I think androgyny is about harmony? I eat my words now, when I said androgyny is physical. Okay here and there, I still believe in that, but it’s a lot more than that. Attitude, is one other huge factor. Mannerism, too, which in a way can stem from attitude, you think?

Looking through at what I like, I would love my final project to have such intimate/personal touch and probably making it all trippy as well. Stylish yet familiar, that will be nice.

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can’t have too many pairs of shoes!

More of shopping than anything.

THESE ARE GORGEOUS!

So what do you think? Feminine or masculine? Can a single piece of clothes/shoes determine your gender? Or how can I put this, gender of your dressing?

I always toyed with the idea of the skinny jeans. Jeans began as work pants for men, and became a fashion icon in the popular culture. And it made waves with different cuts tailored for men and women respectively. And came the skinny jeans, made initially to flatter the women’s body. And boys started to wear them too. This system of crisscrossing of dressing styles, it’s pretty cool huh? Looking into this currently too! Would love some opinions!

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noh

 national noh theatre, yokohama, japan

Noh is more than a dance. It is about fluid movements. It is about expressing from the inside. The concept of having it all stylized, it’s not just about the brief gestures, it is a lot on technique and attitude.

And it got me thinking, what is the function of theatre? Is it meant to be seen or there is some sort of fulfillment by the performers themselves. This thought struck me when I was at the Noh lecture in NAFA last week when he said that a french man commented that Noh is so boring! And many members of the audience do fall asleep during performance. And so if it’s not exactly all out there meant to entertain, what else can there be? Yes I agree it is a highly regarded art form meant to be appreciated. But it is not blatant, most people, even Japanese themselves would not be able to understand if they are to watch a Noh performance for the first time.

On another note, on the stage, there is no gender; only characters. I feel it even more for Noh. I video-ed one of the actor’s transformation into a female character. So now really, how can I determine what’s female and male on stage? 

Some googled shots. I was too far away from the stage to take any good ones from last week’s lecture. But I did take some interesting videos that I wish to make into some sort of booklog. Stay tune.

I love the use of masks. But who said there can only be one expression? That’s the beauty of Noh for me, the whole idea of stylization, to the smallest details. Do note that masks are not always used, but there are a highlight definitely.

Poster design for the Noh Theatre. A lil too lazy to crop, my photoshop is taking far too long these days. D:

for june

 

for july

 

This idea of making the old new. Some Noh-inspired performance of Kamenashi Kazuya during a concert.

I do ponder, is that good or bad? To abstract some sort of heritage or culture and make it commercialized for the popular culture. I won’t diss it I guess, as long as it does not make a fool out of the good ole history of it! Or if it does work in getting the masses to look and get interested again. But Mister Kamenashi does look very good in the kimono, yes?

All geared up for the final semester. Oh and I’m curious, why are there so many mixi referrers to my blog? Haha.

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urban express

Thank you Cass for these paparazzi pictures.

A spin-off thought from my previous project kaleidescope. An evening walk with miss eng here. It is the whole idea of many perspectives and distorted images. Ah, I don’t like the negative connotation of the word distorted, I meant it more of a personal view on a subject. I also want to highlight that the subject matter is not only my model but the environment has its own character to play as well.

Please think of why androgyny should have a place in our society today.

On a totally separate point, fashion today is perceived and copied or taken to wear in our popular culture. See where perspectives and personality take you on that?

And I’m upset there are 2 missing pages from this! I can’t seem to upload it. The page order is semi crazy too, I blame it on the slow connection today. Will be printing this out on big format! Excited!

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is not // is

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