Interlude 2.3

“A Harmony that can make you cry, make you laugh, make you smile or can make you mad, hence it can’t be heard, unless you’re here. Sometimes it’s easier to find enlightment with a sound that eases away your woes to another world leaving you relaxed and free of the unstable world, but sometimes music isn’t always the solution, sometimes it can be an influence for you to try new things, putting you in a different mood to become motivated or sometimes, it can even be the one thing that inspires you to start being the very music that created your moods. Music is Sound with the elements of Dynamics, Pitch, Structue, Composition and Melody, a simple mastercrafted vibration directed to one’s ear can create a special effect towards one’s unique exprecence to gain the next level in life.”
~Interpreation of Harmonic Vibration~
Ah, Music, We all love music in our own way, it’s a past time as well as something we can create if we really plan to become committed to it, it’s the worl’d universal lanuage that can motivate us to do things we may normally not do or never tried. How did I get into the trend of listening to music? we all have our own stories of how we all started but here’s mine:
It started back in the day of what I call the Shit Era (a dreaded time where everything in the world went wrong, back in those days I didn’t know this route had been taken, but it was all too late to turn back even if I did know – An interesting story I’d like to share with you all another time) It was during a Science Class in the year 2003 (I believe) a Good friend of mine Sir Gregory Ward was listening to some music, I sighed and told him I don’t listen to music (My Real response would of been on the lines of I don’t listen to music but I had to put up with my big brothers crappy music), his response was for me to listen to Linkin Park – Reanimation album (obviously his words was along the line of I’m missing out on the trend of society), after 2 days of listening to the songs on the album and watching the special clips, I came to the conclusion that I like that kind of music and I should listen to more of it often, But alas even if I wanted it to it was rather hard for me because for starters I don’t have a wide radio station range for me to listen to music to, so during that period of time I ended up not listening to music for a week or so, but I DID however find a way to obtain music and listen to it, it was a nice thing they put on the internet called downloading, I of course started out with Linkin Park then got a variety of game music that I enjoyed listening to, people say it isn’t music but my respone to you NOW would be “It bloody fricking is, it’s orchestra type music aswell so it’s the real stuff, pure Art.” sure there ain’t no lyrics, but how do you think that a song gets so good in the first place, you cann’t just start with the lyrics, you have to work with it and add the instrumental as you go along, that’s how you create Popular music. So anyway, during that time my music taste range was extremely limited and I needed a new way to obtain good music, thus far the genres I listened to back then was Linkin Park and Game music, at that time I believe I was at Hong Kong during the summer, I came back with the entire Gundam Seed DVD series and guess what, I found the openings and closing themes rather catchy and I liked them, so there’s some more music to my collection, but alas I never really thoguht of looking for the artists back then, I only ever got what I heard, so I had the following:
Linkin Park
Game Music
T.M. Revolution (I read that on the opening and I always thought that was just a company)
Takani Nami
See-Saw
Mm-hm, yeh, so this was my young archive of music I did get Inuyasha Openings and Closings but most of them wasn’t to my taste, I am however a very good Song Finder so I found songs for people and go it them for free, but I never listened to many of them incase they weren’t my type of thing cos some songs had some obscene titles so I stay cleared from those back then, alas I never really was into music back in the day, i didnt even know what type of music I was listening to either.
One day day however, I watched some David Firth Animation and it opened my eyes to some things I didnt see before, like how strong people can portray such images and still make it entertaining, but the important bit was the music, the first time i heard Aphex Twin I developed a liking for it, the first song i liked was Boy Girl Song, it was weird because i didnt know of the genre Drum and Bass before i always thought it was a good song to listen to back in the day, then came Boards of Canada, i enjoyed the weird trippy sounds of Chromakey Dreamcoat, it made me happy in a weird way for how trippy it sounded.
But really though, what really made me listen to music?
What really started me listening to a wider range of music?
Well, in the year 2006, I met a Friend called Jonathon Nisbet, alas yes of course first impressions was, “Whoa, I wonder why I haven’t seen him around” but of course my eyes also drifted to his tech folder which had a pen drawing of the Prince off Prince of Persia which actually first i thoguht “Now that’s something i’d like to learn to achieve” then came to the first impressions, but alas i muat of thought that cos i admired his art work. Carrying on with the music origins (i’ll tell you more about friendship stories another time), it was about the time when Jonn and i had a conversation over Virtual Workspace (yes, we was not cool enough to use MSN, although i had it before hand i never used it in fear of it crashing my pc again) it was then where Jonn told me of the song Redemption by Gackt, i pondered and decided to check it out, after such immense listening session i blew me away, of course i didn’t understand a word but it was purely amazing, it was also about that time i got into Janne Da Arc. During those fateful days i had a decent sized music archive (in the real world, decent is about a good 100mb or less), but as i noticed i had a large ratio of Japanese music opposed to English music, so i went on a search for music that i can understand the lyrics to, then came to the time i listened to Utada Hikaru on Kingdom Hearts, the enjoyed those lyrics of which i can understand although the artist is Japanese there wasn’t any problems with it. After that, i suppose it came to the days where i took in the interest of Techno music, so searching for a good band that does techno was mu next mission, but i couldn’t find a singlegood artist, it was all the same to me, so i gave up for about 3 weeks, during those 3 weeks i had a odd fond of My Chemical Romance for some oddish reason, i however was influenced by Nobuo Uemetsu during those days which i suppose lead me to take Music for my GCSEs, but moving on, i was struck to end up not finding a decent Techno band/artist until one day, i searched on youtube, i saw a person playing a immensely good techno tune, it amazed me, but he never recorded it towards his music archive which was a shame, but then i came across a song, 2 songs even, both in the techno genre and i was stunned and amazed, i had to know what the songs were, so spending around 2 months trying to find the band/artist, it ended up being the 2 artists called, Dune and DJ Energy, having to finally know the artists i was at a relief (during those 2 months i also added to my archive, Uverworld, Kitade Nana, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Akeboshi, HIGH and MIGHTY Color and Orange Range).
Quite a big music Archive i’ve built up so far i think, but i did infact drop some due to the fact that i came to the decision that i dont like them too much, carrying on, one question still remains, how did i got about listening to more english music? well first it was thanks to the help of Jonn, for he started my long loving affair with Enter Shikari, ah such a great band, I plan to continue to enjoy their work as long as they don’t go stale, so yes there’s enter shikari to the archive, hat else did i listen to? hmm, i suppose it was that time in my life where i went clubbing.
Mm, those days i havent re-visited in a long time, it’s almost a relief that i stopped going aswell, but even though i went countless amount of times i still have a small archive of English music but they are notable, i got into; Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Lost Prophets (actually i got into Lost Prophets before I went clubbing but nevermind), Trivium, Rammstein (yes, i know they aren’t english but they’re pretty damn good), Stone Sour, Bowling For Soup, Drowning Pool, Metallica and Soil. But some of these aren’t very major band/artists that i had a big interest in, I foolishly got into Hellogoodbye and Madina Lake, if i recall now, i dont know why the frick i listened to them in the first place. But Jonn introduced me to some of the more major bands/artists i still listen to today, they consist of; Bloc Party, HORSE The Band, Maxiimo Park, Abingdon Boys School, Bit Shifter, Maximum The Hormone, Dong and Hitoshi Sakimoto.
Mmm yeh, i have a pretty mixed genre based liking of music, rather recently i’ve been getting myself into bands/artists like; Nullsleep, Random, Dir en Grey, L’arc-en-ciel, Access, Daisuke Asakura, Red Balloon, Nightmare, Hearts Grow, Captain Straydum, YO-KING, Tommy Heavenly6, Amplified, Takahashi Hitomi, Snowkel, DOES, NIRGILIS, JUNE, Surface, Rie Fu, The Brilliant Green, Stephanie, LM.C, Splay and BOWL.
Ah the beauty of music, shame i cant do well on it, oh well i’ll always have my interpretations, of course since my music tastes grows with time, this blog will be corrected of 9th of March, 2008.
I’ll see you all the next time, Ciaossu.

Interlude 2.2

“One must move to show a story of themselves, one must use movement to express themselves, movement creates a strong strength within one to show others what they are trying to express, gesture can make us feel emotive, action can make a change, movement makes things work, without movement we are lifeless like a solid sculpture that doesn’t move.”
~Interpretation of Agito~
The second part of Interlude 2, here I’ll tell about the things I create on a spare time basis, of course the things I create in this section is all Motion based creations and I’ll tell you the stories of their origins to me.
Back in the days of year 2006, going on the popular Video Hosting site Youtube, I stumble upon a number of great videos made by people, it makes me smile, it makes me feel tension, it gave me emotion and life, it’s like a summed up nutshell of a tv show in no more than around 10 minutes, in short “the vids are great, made by all people.”
However, one day during that year, I stumbled upon one of the most greatest Videos I’ve ever seen, back in the day I didn’t know what AMV stands for but it can stand for either Anime Music Video or the a more ranged meaning which is Animated Music Video, this one I can remember clearly, it was during the days of me getting into Japanese music properly, I browsed about on Youtube for some good vids to watch since that one Jonn had shown me (Meant to Live, a Naruto AMV), it had quite an impact on him, but I only took it as a great video, nothing effective on me when I watched it back in the day, while I was browsing, I was searching for particularly Gundam Seed/ Seed Destiny AMVs because back then it was the thing of the days (well within my family it was), I watched many Gundam Seed/ Seed Destiny MAvs and they are very well made I must admit but none of them was truly amazing in my opinion until stumbled upon the AMV named “Gundam Seed Destiny – Maria no Tsumeato”, it got me curious because of the name “Maria no Tsumeato” so Watched it to learn more, and when I did, it blew me away, it worked so well, the song fits so well with the vid I was technically crying for it’s majestic impact on me, it was my all time favourite AMV (until Youtube suspened the user’s account, personally I didn’t see what was wrong, he was only making AMVs like everyone else), it was also the day I adored the Japanese band Janne Da Arc, it was amazing.
Since that day the AMV always made me feel great, it was so fast paced that it was like life was passing through so quickly that you can’t help but feel excited about it, I respected the maker of the AMV (Kenji/Ken-G, even if you are suspened I will try to carry on your work). A few days later after being inspired by a great AMV creator and knowing a way to create them, I started a hobby to create my own AMVs, of course as all novices are, the first few AMVs made are reletively not well made, no substancial clip cutting and fast tracking or fitting which makes first work shit to put it straight, but hence no matter how shit it might be, one can always improve from it.
Whilst my first 2 AMVs were down the drain and not interesting or meritable at all, I made another AMV, I really thought at that time it’d be my last one, but as I tweaked around with it and posted it on Youtube, within a week it skyrocketed with a lot of views and positive comments, that grand fateful day of August 13th 2006 saved my AMV creating hobby and I intend to make more since then.
So now you all know how I got into it I’ll now list and explain the types of Agito Creations I’m interested in;

~AMV (Anime/Animated Music Video)~
The Main interest of my Agito Creation Hobby, it’s what started it and it’s what I do best, unfortunatly (like all my other Videos I’ve made) I cannot create them on a daily basis due to the fact that I don’t have a suitable program compatible for my Desktop Computer, but the urge to create Agito Creations is very strong so I had no choice BUT to go to my cousins and make them there, rather awkward but it’s worth it. Back to the topic of AMV creating, although the clips are pre-made and not my own, I can easily create a different Interpretation with them and the right use of music then it’s surely possible, AMV is like my other work, it’s Interpretive, Motivating and Intense when it’s made the right way.

~Dubbing~
Although I don’t have any Dubbed Videos on Youtube, it’s always fun to make them, it’s nmore of the entertaining and comedy side of things to my hobbies, but nevertheless I enjoy making them for no reason, but because I need to sort out the tone of my voice I won’t be posting any of my dubbed work just yet, but otherwise I enjoy this type of Agito Creation (although it’s more Sound than Agito).

And that’s that for the Agito side of my Hobbies, you surely by now must have a little idea of who I am and what I’m like but we still have a ways to go before you can understand my character more.
Until the next Time.
Catcha

Interlude #2.1

Sub Part 1 of the Second part of my Interlude series, basically these sub parts to the second part of my interlude are just further information about why I actually do these hobbies, some of this actually interesting if you read on and it could probably relate to you in some way, I don’t know but it could well do but to further the case let’s start with Art my Favourite Interpretation media “Nature Morte”. (Notice how on all of my blogs I start with an Interpretation, I do this cos I didn’t title this Blog “Interpretation of Reality and Dream” for no reason lol but hence I only do this on blogs I decide to make into series that have meaning)
“Nature Morte a Tranquility of a still life, unable to move from the subject’s current pose, however althought they cannot move, surely it is noticable that they are symbolizing something, what is it you might ask, we don’t know, Nature Morte is Art with a lot of meanings within it, to understand it’s purpose you have to decipher it, if you look at Art and not decipher it, you’ll only get the impression that it is just Nature Morte, tranquil and undisturbed is all you see but if you take notice of all the small detail within the Art and draw your attention away from the main subject you can make out a story or a meaning of the art, that is the true meaning of a Nature Morte.”
~Interpretation of Nature Morte~
Art, why have I made Art one of my hobbies?
Art is a big part in my life, rather than the fact that I wish to choose a career in the art district in the future, it’s why I chose to learn Art and Design at College, great area of study. Furthermore, the reason why I’m doing and liking art is because back in the days of childhood, I always envy the way my big brother draws, it’s so crisp and perfect in a way (well I thought it was back in the day). I always tried to do better than him but I end up having this feeling that I’m a whole staircase behind him, so I kept at it and tried harder and harder but I always seem to fall behind. By the time big brother reached near the end of his high school academic years he for some reason didn’t draw as much no more, this in mind gave me the thought that I can catch up now. After changing my style of drawing from front to back and back to front, I ended up with the conclusion that I can draw Freehand Self Manga Style (and I haven’t stopped this style). When I realized that and looked back at the work I used to do I feel embarassed yet accomplished at the same time, because my style has improved drastically since those days, when I compared it to Big Brother’s work however I felt that I’m still behind on a few things even though he stopped. So after realizing those things I kept on trying and trying again to see what I’m stuck behind on, I found out what I was lacking in the end and improved on it, then once I compared it to my Big Brother’s work I see a sort of same level comparison however I noticed something else more, Big Brother was only copying characters he saw through his life, not that he traced anything (infact I’m still impressed he never traced anything, he only ever copied pictures and had them look near enough exact) but he did try out different styles but still with the same copied characters doing different things they don’t normally do. Impressive but yet it’s something anyone can achieve, after realizing I was competing against someone who copies character made me think 2 things; I’ve been competing against a fan artist and I’ve already surpassed Big Brother (I suppose I did when I started drawing my own characters) but hence even though his style of art isn’t his own original work, he was still the one I was competing against all the time to get better.
Now, I’m still improving as we speak and I’m trying out new styles and new media, you can see some of my work on the Link Terrance labled DeviantArt or look on my Myspace and look into my drawn pictures, some that will catch your eye and some you might just think “It’s good but it’s only fair” but I don’t mind it’s all safe play after all. Some of my work have Interpretations, but because some people don’t look at the picture for long to decipher I give the answers out to what I am trying to interpretate (but as some people go and don’t read, they just think it’s a picture unfortunately).
This part is an In-depth of the types of Art I’m into (No, I’m not planning on going into Interlude #2.1X cos that’s just stupid and hard to organize).

~Interpretation~
The sort of art I’m into (or simply a style I developed), Creating an Atmosphere of meaning within the Drawings. I got into donig this sort of work when I listened to Enter Shikari’s Debut album “Take to the Skies”, the songs in the album were so strong and the lyrics had a lot of meaning within them (it’s something I’d call Sound Interpretation or in the best scenario EPIC) and because of this, I created Interpretation draws of the songs, some were more straight forward than others and some others where harder to do than others but no matter the case it was this album that started my new style of Interpretation.

~Manga~
The base of all my work, the main style I’m into and my Favourite, I believe that there is more to Manga art than just a storyline. I think there is a strong impact hidden somewhere in the art style that makes you think “I’m Moved by this”, compared to normal drawing of still life and protraiture, Manga shows more imagination and has a strong in-depth meaning within it than realism, it has the mixture of abstract and realism within it so it makes everything seem so logical and do-able. Compared to normal comics, Manga takes the priority of having detail and dynamics at the smae time, in my view comics don’t have that much of an impact as such, but compared to manga you see no exaggeration most times, even if something is made to seem exaggerated, you don’t see it as exaggeration, you see it as something that is pratically possible to do, althought sometimes there is a lot more to read, but that small bit of text makes everything seem so real, logical and possible that you eventually believe in it. I took in the style of manga when I had a step by step guide on how to draw it (Create it even), althoguht it was only 50 pages, I’d say it was the most detailed and most advanced tutorial of a manga how to draw ever (still have it aswell), thanks to it, I was able to create masses upon masses of self styled characters with a hint of influence of other artists (like Nobuohiro Watsuki and Takashi Obata), with that in mind I can draw numerous different events and different styles, by drawing masses allowed me to improve. Improving and being motivated to get better is the best tool for getting better.

~Cosplay~
Something I do on the bases that I’m bored and motivated or for a special occasion. Cosplay consists on dressing up as a character from any media with characters you’re fond of dressing up as, people tend to get wigs and props for such occasions and are making the impossible seem possible. I tried out my first Cosplay when collecting Death Note the manga, it was a great Manga and one of the characters L was incredible so I decided to attemp to cosplay like him, succeeded halfwise when I couldn’t get a better gel to do my hair like L but overall it went well. After a time, I watched D.Gray-Man and the main Character Allen Walker was influencial and awesome that I decided to cosplay as him aswell, but hence I didn’t have the time to make a replica of his coat or had the time to dye my hair snow white so i stuck to the main features of the face and arm, it succeeded halfwise aswell since I didnt have any crimson pain to put on my arm, luckily I was able to do that at college (good times) and take pictures there, good times cosplaying but I don’t plan to make a big deal out of it since I was only doing it for fun.

~Photography~
The most minor type of Art I have interest in, nothing much really, everyone likes to take a picture or 2 of themselves and edit it and thats what I do, nothing special of the sort, but I hope to make something big out of Photography, I swear it lol. I started donig so with a phone (still) when I did photography at college, it opened my eyes to a lot of things so I hope to make good use to it. (I hope to update this when I have something in working.)

~Writing~
Interpretation or writing a poem is the same thing technically, and writing to interpretate does exactly that. Like the bible or what I wrote above, it makes no difference o the fact that both of it is interpretating something of the sort. So by trying to master Literature also masters interpretation, in my view that’s how it happens. I started Literature when I met my good friend, he inspired me to write with his philosophical words (Words of the Prophet he calls it, or used to call it…I think lol), because of that I saw so much more into life that I decided to follow his ways and tried to do better in my literature, I can safely say it’s a lot better than what I used to write about, believe me.
That’s it for the Art side of my hobbies and interests, look forward to the next part of my Part 2 subbing Interlude.
Catcha.

Interlude #2

Part 2 of my Interlude, to be fair well and honest, there is alot to tak about yourself isn’t there, but I suppose if you go in too much detail about yourself you’ll start to feel a bit too open about yourself but anywho, on with the interlude.
“A Rapture Dance is a pleasure of delight to one’s life as well as to others around them, this is about maknig the most of a life, if a life was to focus on one aspect then it will not be full,so take the chance and start a Rapture Dance to enlight your life and the people around you. Of course a dance of delight isn’t enough to make full of one’s life, no, one must make a haste of themselves and try many new things as well as improve on the familiar, it’s all about experience and having (as one of my friends would say) a Neat-o time. Sure some things happen in life an you don’t seem proud of and end up becoming upset but hence if you can look forward to life then there is no need to, just cut off a slight amount of your time to sort out the dispute and carry on, for your own sake in life make the most out of it and ‘Laugh Out Loud’.”
~Interpretation of the Rapture Dance for those who Fight Further~
You probably have an idea of what this part of the interlude is going to be about, if you don’t then no problem cos I’m gonna tell you anyway.
This part of my interlude I’m going to state my hobbies and interests, like everyone should have, they all have at least one hobby, nothing to be surprised about I’m sure that my hobbies come close to what some people also take as a hobby, I’m going to state my hobbies in a different way compared to most ways that people would do so, so then let’s begin.
Art:
Interpretation
Manga
Cosplay
Photography
Writing
Creation:
AMV
Dubbing
Music (the following list is just a list of bands/artists I like):
Enter Shikari
Abingdon Boys School
Bloc Party
Maximum The Hormone
HORSE the Band
Gackt
Diamond Lil
Bit Shifter
Nullsleep
Lost Prophets
Trivium
30 Seconds to Mars
Access
Dong
Janne Da Arc
Kitade Nana
T.M. Revolution
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Tamaki Nami
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Snowkel
The Used
Surface
Dune
Aphex Twin
Reading (the following list are just some books I like):
Rurouni Kenshin
Death Note
Full Metal Alchemist
Cromartie High School
Buso Renkin
Black Cat
D.Gray-Man
Gintama
Dance:
Rave (no drugs involved)
Glow Rave (no drugs involved)
Mosh
Interpretate
Sword Arts:
Suburi
Battoujatsu
Miyominane
Miyominane Remix
Isogi-Shisei
Noryoku-Shisei
Boei-Shisei
Duel Nito-Ryu
Video Gaming (the following list is just series of what I play):
Final Fantasy
Metroid
Legend of Zelda
Devil May Cry
Kingdom Hearts
Just a few hobbies and couple of subs of what it is I do in those hobbies, but hence, this part of the interpretation is not finished, you’ll understand when I post the next few Interludes.
Thus ends this part Catch later.

Interlude #1

“Pyroclasm of the burning spirit entering one’s body, this is called giving Life, the burning soul is then supported within a stronger body with a spirit. This stronger spirit supplies the spirit with a body, but the body itself is too weak but is strong enough to support itself, thus released from the stronger one. But this Body is still too weak to manage anything so the stronger one supports it further with food and it’s knowledge. As the young one learns, it gains many other things aswell; experience, friendship and inhabitance, with these things the young one can level up from a weak one to a less novice spirit but hence, it is still too weak for it to depend on itself so it needs to gain more levels before it can depend on itself. Advancing from Novice to Standard by gaining more Wisdom, Power and Courage, it is now strong enough to depend on itself.”
~Interpretation of the Fire that burns the spirit to start one’s life~
An interpretation of young Life in a few words, touching how everything in the world develops that way, but depending on how much it has gained depends on it’s personality, physical apperance and intelligance, but enough about that, because it’s obvious I wrote that to make a complete start to this blog.
Interlude:
Gender: Male
Experience Rank: Standard
Personality: Determined Being
Body: Under-Developed
Pros: Haste, Light, Determined, Ambitious, Understanding = Loyal, Unpredictable, Whatever you think I may be
Cons: Poor Eyesight, Weak Trachea
Hence this is just a brief description of myself, nothing too personal and nothing too detailed that you’ll not understand.
For now let’s end this Interlude and we’ll carry on later on Interlude #2
Catcha Later
~Levanter~