Monthly Archives: February, 2010
Tokyo Fashion Festa – Baby The Stars Shine Bright and Alice & The Pirates
Tokyo Fashion Festa came to NYC at FIT’s Haft Auditorium. The auditorium seats approximately 750 people and the middle front section was filled entirely with girls (and some boys) dressed in Japanese lolita style. A mix of street, visual kei and goth were sprinkled throughout the rest of the venue. Morrie from [...]
Polysics @ Gramercy Theater 2010
I love the Gramercy Theater. Someone smart designed the space with a floor that slopes down into the stage. There’s nothing obstructing your view from just about anywhere in the venue and the stage is nice and big. There’s seats for folks who don’t want to stand and plenty of floor space. [...]
1940’s Murder Mystery
I love working with talented models and there couldn’t be a more talented trio than the twin bees (Alexandra and Juliana) and Yuffie. It just takes a big load off your shoulders when your models know how to take direction and understand the concepts you’re trying to convey. It helps that they’re all avid designers [...]
J-Classical Industrial Nation Tour @ Santos Party House NYC
Tainted Reality is an online radio station that streams Japanese music, industrial, synth-pop and metal. They sponsor a few gothic industrial type musicians from overseas and this year included DJ Sisen, Seileen and GPKISM. The opening band Echostream isn’t from Japan, but they’re pretty well known to fans of J-rock.