Halloween, Dress Up Party? Oh Wait its Visual Kei

Shinya from Dir en grey

Visual Kei is a movement among Japanese musicians, characterized by the used of make up, elaborate hair style and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous asthetics (For morons, lol, just kidding. :} Androgynous means refers to the mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, as in fashion. Easy explaination for asthetic is the final outcome or look). But some sources state that visual kei refers to music genre or Japanese rock, with particular sound related to glam-rock, punk and metal.

These are what Visual Kei look like;

Alice Nine

Versailles

Believe it or not, all of them are guys even the one in the red dress? or whatever he is wearing. This style emergered in the late 1980s, pioneered by bands such as X Japan, D'enlanger, Buck-Tick and Color.

In my opinion, they all look like they are attending a dress party and a VERY, VERY posh one. :}

Finally!!!!!

Right, let's make one thing straight. This work was due on the 7 May 2010 but I handed my work in on the 10 May 2010, WITH the tutor's approval. Why? bacause in our group I was the only student that the tutor can not give a hand, so I made my patterns by myself. (>.<)

Back View

Front View

All of the pattern is inspired by a flower. On the bottom hem of the shirt is a petal that went through a lot of experimenting with repetition, linking and scale. The pattern on the collar and cuff are hand made crochet. YES!!! they are all hand made. Took me like months to finish them all and let me tell you my was KILLING me after I done one crochet. For the people who does not know what crochet is. It is a knitting method that only use one knitting needle that got a hook at the end. The threads that I used is a embroidery threads that cost me a bomb, :/ but I guess it's worth it. :) Oh, BTW, the shirt is from a store not a hand made one. :}

Edgar Mueller

Edgar Müller/Mueller was born in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany on 10 July 1968. His fascination with painting began in his childhood, with paintings of rural scenes of Straelen. He went to the high school in the neighboring town of Geldern, where an international competition of street painters took place. Since 1998 Edgar Müller has held the title of 'maestro madonnari' (master street painter). The title is awarded at the world’s largest street painting festival, called The Grazie Festival, which is held in the small pilgrim town of Grazie in Italy. Around the age of 25, Müller decided to devote himself completely to street painting.

This link is a video of how he create his work;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0

Amazing or What?

I was on facebook when I saw this photograph. No, the road does not look like that in reality. It actually do look like its real, like the floor did actually made that massive hole and a waterfall is actually under it. It would be actually epic if it is real. The image it self attract attention, I was attracted to the details and colours aswell as how he was able to blend the colours and made it look realistic. This is drawn using a chalk or soft pastel by Edgar Mueller, NO PHOTOSHOP!! I did not do more research about him YET! due to the fact that I was busy with college work but I will do a blog about him, hopefully soon. I'll edit this one when I finish researching about him.

Shoes!!!!!

I went to Roebuckfest today with my boyfriend and met up with the band that he is in. While we were waiting for them to come around I started looking around at what people is wearing. They were all wearing like normal clothes but I keep noticing the shoes that they're wearing. So when I came home I went and look at shoes and I found shoes that attract me the most.

According to the website the image above is a Prada shoes. The heels of this shoes is what attract me the most.

The image above reminds me of the floor of buildings. It also reminds me of the layering technique that i always use on my college work.

The image above is my favorite because of the details off the shoe. I am always attracted to things with a lot of details because I find them challenging and inspiring.

The First Study Book That I Like.

One of my hobbies is reading books that doesn't have anything to do with reality, why do I like books like this? Simple, this books activate all the creative ideas in my mind. They inspired me to create new things. But there is a kind of books that I would to anything just to avoid reading this kind of book. This books are school books or anything to do with studying, why? I found them boring and a waste of time because it's either be forgotten after a few days or week or you don't actually need that information. But in the first time in my life, I found a book that is connected with studying and I am now extremely obssess with.

I found an interesting book yesterday at the library. I was doing research for my current brief for college, I wanted to find different technique on fabric manipulation and embroidery when I found a book called Metal Thread Embroidery by Jane Lemon(embroiderer). This book just doesn't give information about embroidery it also explain the materials, tools and explain how to do the technique, but that's not all! The book also got a page on places you can visit to observe or do research about metal thread embroidery. It doesn't finish there, there is also a page on where you can purchase supplies of metal threads. I learn a lot about embroidery and different techniques, this is all thanks to this book.