You are clever at finding things! This looks fascinating and I see you've put up a dedicated post too, which is excellent.
When I was rummaging through a datastick to find a good image match for my sword-finger poem, I was struck by the regular and significant recurrence of the sword theme in Gackt's photo archive. Whether contemporary, period or fantasy, he does preserve that Japanese essence of the sword which I think you get over very, very well in your article.
I'm so pleased and grateful that you have the time and willingness to work some of these themes up. I have lots of ideas but I'm either stretched too thin activity-wise or too lacking (no Japanese, sometimes internet deprived, not very glossy tech base, little knowledge of the resources available etc) to do much.
I've got one or two fun Gackt-based ideas which would make quizzes/games for Christmas but am getting to the stage (near to Christmas!) of making a plea to a couple of likely suspects to take them on.
[ Oh, and your words, "interested in ... martial arts ... and weaponry" are a kindly polite description of an unbalanced and anachronistic obsession! ]
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Date: 2008-10-24 08:09 am (UTC)When I was rummaging through a datastick to find a good image match for my sword-finger poem, I was struck by the regular and significant recurrence of the sword theme in Gackt's photo archive. Whether contemporary, period or fantasy, he does preserve that Japanese essence of the sword which I think you get over very, very well in your article.
I'm so pleased and grateful that you have the time and willingness to work some of these themes up. I have lots of ideas but I'm either stretched too thin activity-wise or too lacking (no Japanese, sometimes internet deprived, not very glossy tech base, little knowledge of the resources available etc) to do much.
I've got one or two fun Gackt-based ideas which would make quizzes/games for Christmas but am getting to the stage (near to Christmas!) of making a plea to a couple of likely suspects to take them on.
[ Oh, and your words, "interested in ... martial arts ... and weaponry" are a kindly polite description of an unbalanced and anachronistic obsession! ]