R.I.P Guru, will be remembered forever

I've been a huge fans for Jazzy Hip Hop genre and no one can ever replace Guru period. Today was sad as Erwin from bboyworld.com forwarded me the news about Guru's death. He will be remembered forever. R.I.P Guru

some articles about Guru's death;
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1637388/20100420/gang_starr.jhtml
http://blog.taragana.com/e/2010/04/20/rapper-guru-dead-at-43-111303/

My first time on Lighting Writing Animation!

I'm always a fan of light writing, I used to post a lot of Lichtfaktor and Pika Pikas' work on my blog. Last night, I tried lighting writing ANIMATION, gosh, it takes tremendous effort for a 6 seconds footage. I did 'FAKE' lighting writing before using After effects which takes a lot of time as well, but the difference is you seating on your comfortable chair while the "photography stop motion light writing animation (which I call the real light writing)" I have to move the equipments, spending time in the cold, animate everything frame by frame. Anyway, I'm not complaining and the outcome is really satisfying!

Actually I did this for my Uni elective units project called "Text".I wanted to use AE and make a similar one to what I did before, but think of it, this is a good chance to get my lazy arse outside the comfort zone and try something new. Not sure how the whole video would look like but I'm sure it's gonna be great!(at least for me).I would update more on how and what did it used for this project soon.

Also, Thanks Myoung for helping me out or else I would have to spend 6 hours for a 6 seconds footage :)

This is my "FAKE" light writing video.

BBoys in Fukuoka, Japan

One month in Fukuoka I've been training with these guys almost everyday. I reached Fukuoka with a really really bad Japanese, but.. we speak bboying. The bboys there were just so friendly compare to other bboys in most Asian countries and they tried to talk to me and all that. Patrick, a German trickster that I met at the language school was amazed how friendly Bboys culture is. BBoying is the best icebreaker is pretty much true, we do get aggressive on the floor but most of us are cool other time.

I filmed this video on the last day before I left Fukuoka, well, not all of them let me film, Japanese people are just shy. Anyhow I was still able to capture some pretty good shots of the bboys. Big respect to Hakata Bboys, and Taichan Roc (Japan old school, 36 still rockin fresh)

and oh, i learnt this japanese greetings "O Tsu Ka Re Sa Ma De su", have to say this everytime I leave. Hard to translate this to English lol

**For the bboys who looking for a training spot in Fukuoka, goto Hakata Station's underground shops from 9pm.

Snowboarding, new passion?!

Been living in a country that having a temperature around 32 degree for the whole year, what can be happier for me to enjoy the snow and freezing my ass off? My Japanese bother Masa is a really dope snowboarder, but I haven't seen him showing much skills because he have to wait for me because I'm slow and that was my very first time to do snowboarding. Guess what, after one hour lesson from Masa, I were able to reach the bottom of the hill without landing on my ass which made me really proud and I was like "Im hell talented!".

Anyway, before we went for snowboarding, I was thinking what sort of video I can get from snowboarding? So, I came thru a video by Provo brothers video on Vimeo, got inspired and copy that idea and flip it.. a bit. You can call me a biter(bboy term) if you want, well, just having fun, dont have to be so serious! :)
Enjoy the video!



and.. some words for Masa, thanks a lot bro!!! Love ya!!

Warring Fictions.. What kind of impression you have towards Iran?

Few days ago, I've came through a video of Iran bboys from 1991, I totally didn't expect that Iran actually have bboys. I'm just like many people, think that Iran all about destroyed buildings, terrorism and stuff, just like in the movies.... but that footage and this documentary "Warring Fictions" totally changed my view towards Iran. I'm not going to say much on this, watch the trailer and the whole documentary is available on this site http://warringfactions.com/

Relax, watch and listen

I've been wanting to try this in Japan but I failed few times because the owner of Japanese sushi bars just wont allow me to do so. I was inspired by Dennis Wheatley's video in vimeo, which he basicly did the same thing. I found the exact same Sushi bar in Tokyo, but I was rejected by the staff... probably I shouldn't have ask them. Well, I actually gave up to make this video but I passed by a sushi bar in Malaysia and I was thinking why don't I just give it a try?

The result.. lack of some feeling, the Japanese feeling, but I'm still happy with it because I still able make a video on sushi train. :)

As suggested, when you watch this video, try to relax, and then watch and listen.

Finding my purpose

Flying, flying and flying.. Well, some people get sick of it but i started to enjoy it, a lot. I Have been flying for the past few months and now, finally, settle down again, well, not completely, because still got lots of stuff to unpack, Thats the part I don't enjoy the most for travelling, pack and unpack.

Well, now I have some time to Blog, I don't really enjoy blogging you see, I got too many stuff I want to learn, to practise, to see, to experience, whatever it is. I'm just lazy to post something, but why am I still blogging, I dont know lol. To show or market my work? I'm neither professional photographer, videographer, dancer or dj.. still a student, and yep..

I'm final year student, thats why I'm lost, don't know what path I'm going to choose for my future. Just like this blog, this blog don't have much direction as you can see, I like to put lots of crap into this blog (as long as I found interesting). Recall back to two years ago, I dont really know why I started this blog. I think I just think it was 'cool' to have a blog, just like my other hobbies, I did it because I think its cool, and after I get more into them, it's more than just being 'cool'.

So.. I dont know, I still dont know why I blog, I'll keep blogging if possible, show off some work and posting up some craps lol.

Anyway, heres some of the photos i took during my adventure in Japan. There would be more videos coming.

A message to Spammer

Im just wondering did anyone actually click on the link of spammers or they actually bought something from them... successfully? Well, I didnt really hate spammers that much because I got a hotmail account that exclusively for you all spammers, so far i got around 10k unread yet but please send more to my hotmail because im trying to reach 1 million or more someday.
So this is my spammers exclusive email address: anarki450@hotmail.com
feel free to spam at my hotmail... please.

But please dont spam at this blog, it takes time for me to remove, if I remove it, youll spammers' effort are gone, and not able to reach anyone. So dont spam at my comments which actually made me think
"oh! my blog is getting famous! I got heaps of follower!...... no... just spammers"

So yeh, go on and spam on that email, when it reach one million all the credits will goto youll spammers. thanks for dropping by as well.





oh wait, theres Japanese spammers as well. http://a-volution.blogspot.com/2009/05/gorgeous-super-slow-motion.html#comments

もし私は、すべてのスパマーの努力を行っており、誰に到達することができないそれを削除このブログではいけないスパムしてください、私には削除するには、時間がかかります。したがって、この私のスパマーは排他的な電子メールアドレス：anarki450@hotmail.comです
私のhotmailのスパムを自由に...どうぞ

Will Emily Marry Him?

Currently was really busy in Japan, going for trips, filming and photography stuff. Finally got some little time to stay at house watching videos, photos and hopefully get inspired from those available video on internet. As you its really difficult to get a chance to travel because you gotta work your ass off to save money and stuff.

Well, came through this video on Vimeo's staff pick, actually I didnt want to post another video so that if anyone of you who read this blog wont think that im a lazy blogger(in fact i am), but this video is the most massive light writing I ever seen so far, and.. its a proposal video, how sweet was that. Must have put a lot of effort on it, but once in a life time definitely worth it I guess. I assume they already got married so wish them happy (lame, because i dont know what wishing stuff I should say to a married couple in English)

anyway, heres the video

Light Writing Proposal from Derick Childress on Vimeo.

Underground Vibes

I used to be a fans of skateboarding, having orgasm when i saw tony hawk did 900 and wishing that I have a skateboard when I was younger, but never got a chance to own one. Anyway, just came through this video randomly while I'm looking for skateboard slowmotion, but this is not a slowmotion and not typical skateboard video that I've seen which is pretty worth mentioning. This video kinda show the lifestyle, not just pulling difficult tricks. I like the mix of everything in the video (skateboarder, tokyo, cars, people). Props to 13thWitness™ and SHINGO

Underground Vibes from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.