Archive for November, 2005

ごったく

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

ごっちさん、オタクの世界へようこそ!初パソコン(PowerBookとiPodセット)ゲットして、嬉しいね!新iPodの画面はデッカっ!欲しいなぁ!パソコンでエロサイトタトゥーの資料を検索するため、メッチャ便利やけどくせになる可能性もありますので気をつけてください!

Gotch’s first computer! PowerBook and iPod set! I’m so jealous… just seeing the big screen on the new one makes me wanna make a video podcast! Super convenient for looking up porn tattoo references,… just so long as it doesn’t get too addictive. Be careful, ok?

生け花アシスタント!

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

また奇麗な生け花が出来上がった!先生はメッチャうまいから自分のへたくそのを見せるのはちょっと恥ずかしいけどね。今回、チョップのバイトの子はアシスタントとして手伝ってもらおうと思った。おおきにききちゃん!

毎週、生け花の教室にいって、いろんな花の実験をしています。そういう静かなところで花の事を集中したら、なんとなく落ち着ます。いつも受付のほうに飾っているから、ぜひ見に来て!

New ikebana! I’m a little embarrassed to show this since my teacher is about 1000 times better… but it helps to have my lovely assistant Kiwa hold up this weeks flower arrangement.

Concentrating only on the beauty of flowers in the quiet of a countryside classroom makes it easy to relax and forget about the busy life of the city. I always put these near the reception area so drop by and see!

Loli For Life!

Monday, November 21st, 2005

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Super Lolita Skull action!… or so I would have you believe. This is not my best painting - the chroma is wacky - but it was fun to experiment with a few new ideas. Hope you like it!

スパーゴスロリ髑髏や!そう見える?この絵を描いた時、いろんな実験をした。色はめっちゃ可笑しいけどちょっと面白くない?宜しく!

Better luck next year Hanshin

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Interviewer: Do you ever have problems coming up with ideas for your blog?
Ben: Yeah, sometimes…

報告者:ブログの為、毎回面白い話題を考えるのは大変でしょうか?
ベン:まぁ、な

The Queen of Hearts - Now with 100% less Juice Newton

Friday, November 4th, 2005

I finally finished my next piece for Belio magazine! … (click for larger version) I really had a grander vision involving 10 or so illustrations for this, maybe paintings, but due to time constraints, I decided to try my hand at Painter again. The results are a little oversaturated, but at least the 3rd or 4th layout seemed to work ok. The theme this time was “Alice” (which is pretty broad) so I decided to do what the Simpsons should have done a long time ago and focus on a non-main character - (wait,… does that make Homer, Alice? Ewww..) If the Simpsons ever parodies the Japanese “GothLoli,” someone send me an mpeg, ok? (PS - thanks to Kuddlekore for helping me flesh out the ideas in the zero hour!)

Belioのため、次のイラストが出来た!今回はPainterでいった。構図を何回も変更したけど最後の選んだのはまぁまぁいいと思った。今回のテーマは「不思議な国のアリス」僕の大好きな!もっとうまくかけたかったなぁ。また今度自由に挑戦しよう?意見を教えてください!

Recyclable Heroes

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Well, Hanshin lost this year, but I made a victory stencil for them anyway. Please note my irresponsible misappropriation of the Kamikaze pilot and the cry of “Tora Tora Tora.”

阪神は負けたけど優勝記念ステンシルを作っちゃった。多分タブーやけど勝手に神風のパイロットの絵を使って、戦争のかわり、「阪神虎」のため、虎虎虎を入れました。どう?ぼこぼこされるかな。右翼外人は珍しいな!

Ba- of InfumiyaKumiai fame even swapped me a parka to spray it on (Thanks!) My second Kansai winter should be much warmer than the last! In turn, he did a few “special edition” parkas for the shop. I swear, nothing beats spontaneous creativity. You just can’t duplicate the warm feel of quality one-of-a-kind custom items. Who knows - maybe you’ll see it around Minami!

ステンシルを一二三屋のバーさんに借りてあげてからあったかいパーカーをもらった!こんなカスタム/コラボ・アイテムはめっちゃ好きやねん!みなさん、ミナミの周りに探しなさい!

In Japan, going in black-face for Halloween isn’t really a social taboo (as long as you don’t run into any offended parties on your way to the costume ball) but I don’t have any pictures yet to prove that Novu actually did it this year! It might have just been an OD on Atmosphere’s new album, but here was my take on it this year. Behold the half-arsed “costume” that almost was - until even more culturally offensive aesthetics prevailed. Us whitey’s is eatin’ up hip-hop like it was May-yo-naze!

アメリカには、黒人のコスをするのはちょっとタブーだけど日本にはその決まりは全くないらしい。証明の写真はないけど今年そういうコスをやっている人もおって、めっちゃショックだった!Atmosphere(俺の出身のヒップホップ)の新規アルバムを聞き過ぎか分からないけどとりあえず、こういうコスをやってみようと思った!結局、もっと社会に対して失礼な奴が出来たけど「死んでいるラッパー」のもよかったかもな!

What exciting topic will my next post be about… pants maybe?

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