Dove Evolution, a commercial film, is now only available on the YouTube. It's very impressive film and also has a big suggestion for you to have a suspicious eye to beauty in advertising. This film won various prizes this year in advertising industry all over the world.
MTV Australia's started an interesting campaign “Welcome Snoop”, asking for us to help Snoop get citizenship of Australia. It seems Snoop wanted to spend a bit more time in Australia, where his crew did shooting his video.
The sensational dance movie, “Stomp The Yard (sony pictures)” is finally gonna be released on Sep.15 2007 on the screen in Japan. Its DVD has already sold in the US.
The DVD, a documentary film showing the backstage of Hip Hop industry, which is associated with a very important form of Hip Hop styles, “MIXTAPE”, is now on sale.
In this movie “Smokin' Aces”, Common makes his acting debut. he is said he will co-star opposite Denzel Washington in American Gangster movie, directed by Ridley Scott later in the year. This film goes down on January 26th, 2007.
iPhone by Apple Computer is gonna be released in June, 2007 in the U.S., but in Asia, it's said to be in 2008. It includes iPod system and has 2 line-ups, 8GB & 4GB models.
The biggest snow boarding contest in the world “X-trail jam in Tokyo dome” is gonna take place in this weekend, Dec 9-10. World famous top riders will make a great performance there, so you should watch that great tricks by them.
世界最大級のスノーボード・コンテスト、その名も「X-tral Jam in Tokyo Dome」が今週末である12/9-10に開催される。世界の名だたるトップライダーたちが間違いないパフォーマンスを繰り広げる。その華麗なトリックは一見の価値あり。
I often see various performances in my work, but this is a little different one I have seen. So some of you might watch this, however I wanna show you the marvelous performance I was so impressed the other day. It is the great performance by Justin Timberlake in MTV Video Music Award 2006. Another interesting point is that Timbaland, producer and featuring artist of the songs in this performance, seems to work hard in unusual suit for him.
仕事がら様々なパフォーマンスを目にする機会が多いが、自分的に久々に圧倒されたパフォーマンスということで紹介。Justin Timberlakeが今年のMTV Video Music Award 2006で見せた素晴らしいパフォーマンス。プロデューサー兼フィーチャリング・アーティストのTimbalandが慣れないスーツを着て頑張っている様も見もののひとつ。
I went to watch a game of CFL, which is the professional football league called Canadian Football League, at Rogers Centre (Toronto) last weekend. I have known about american football called NFL, which is one of the big 3 sport entertainments in the U.S.. However, to be honest, I had never heard the exsitence of CFL till recently.
Incidentally, the matching of the game was Argonauts against Tiger Cats.
先週末にロジャース・センター（トロント）にて行われたプロ・フットボールリーグ「CFL (Canadian Football League)」の試合を観戦しに行った。アメリカ３大スポーツの１つであるアメフト「NFL (National Football League)」のコトは知っていたものの、最近までカナダにアメフトのリーグがあること自体、全く知らなかった。とにかく初めてアメフトを生で見ることができたことは、自分にとって非常に有意義な経験だった。
ちなみに試合の組み合わせは「Argonauts v.s. Tiger Cats」でした。
Anyway, that experience I could watch the live game of american football directly at first time must be very meaningful for me.
In addition that, to my surprise, the live performance by the veteran HipHop group "Swollen Members" was held in half time, which must be a part of sales promotion of their brand new album "Black Magic". Even so regrattably, that performance seemed to be a kind of figurative aspects showing HipHop is not popular at all in Toronto.
The brand new song "Breathe" by Lenny Kravitz can be downloaded on the web site, Absolut Kravitz, supported by Absolut collaborating
with Lenny Kravitz. Anyway, the point is that there are various remixes here. Having written about him, even the remix by Eric Roberson can be also available. Which one do you prefer?
The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game.
The movie, A Scanner Darkly (Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, 2006: Warner Independent Pictures), is now playing. In this movie, you can see the special effect 'Rotoscoping', which is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame. This movie must be unavoidable to check. Incidentally, the official web site of this movie got FWA award, Site of The Day.
映画「A Scanner Darkly」(Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, 2006: Warner Independent Pictures) が現在、米国にて公開されている。この映画は、実際のモーションをフレーム毎にトレースした「ロトスコープ」という特殊なアニメーション効果によって構成されている。チェックしない手はないでしょう。ちなみに、オフィシャルサイトは『FWA: Site f The Day』受賞。
Eric Roberson performed in ISLAND SOUL, which had been held at Harbourfront Centre during Aug.4-7. Eric Roberson, who has been gradually becoming more famous with works of Dwele, Jill Scott, 112, Carl Thomas...etc, is actually not so popular in Japan, but here in Toronto, I don't know that is because it is near from NY, many enthusiastic fans had been getting excited to listen to his music during whole the live show case. The quality of his performance which has been cultivated in his long career as an artist made us feel that he is the very professional as an entertainer. To sum up, It was much more remarkable performance than I had thought.
Known for his club anthems (Change For Me with Osunlade), insightful lyrics and soothing vocals, this established songwriter and vocalist’s credits include tracks featuring Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Dwele, 112, Case and Carl Thomas. His talents once made him a core writer for one of the premiere production houses in the world, DJ Jazzy Jeff's A Touch Of Jazz.
PRIDE PARADE 2006 which was a kind of parades was taken place in Toronto. That parade which was held to express the human rights of the people who are socially regarded as a minority group of homosexsual could be realized as a demonstration with being understood those things
by society of Canada, which is one of the countries which have deep understandings of advanced cultures. I had many thoghts about that
impressing experience.
"The Stepfather Tour" was held at Reverb, 651 Queen St. W, Toronto, ON, on May 13, following the release of barnd new album "Stepfather/People Under The Stairs". The tour is featuring "People Under The Stairs", "Time Machine", "Gym Class Heroes", "Psalm One". Their performances were extremely high level beyond discription. Following pics. are their performaces.
5/13に People Under The Stairs のニューアルバム「Stepfather」発売に伴って行われている「The Stepfather Tour」が「Reverb」651 Queen St. W, Toronto, ON. にて開催された。出演者は、【People Under The Stairs】、【Time Machine】、【Gym Class Heroes】、【Psalm One】といった面々。非常にハイレベルなパーフォーマンスが展開された。以下その模様。
Red Bull King of the Ring is battle that takes place at Sony BMG building in Toronto on Sunday, May 21, 2006. 32 of the bast B-boys from North America will battle inside a boxing ring placed outdoors under a tent in the parking lot of the historic Sony BMG building located in one of Toronto's most urban neighborhood, Parkdale.
明日、5/21にトロント市内にある「SONY BMG BUILDING」にて 1 vs 1 B-Boy Battle "King of The Ring" が開催される。今回はトロント都心の由緒ある Sony BMG building の駐車場にテントを敷設しボクシング・リングを設け、その上で北米から集まった32人のB-BOY達がバトルが繰り広げるといったスタイルをとる。
Baseball is much more popular in Toronto than I had ever thought. I saw many many people dancing, shouting, enjoying and exciting around the Rogers Center which is the home ground of Toronto Blue Jays in spite of the weekday. In any case, When I come to the U.S, it reminds me of what the ENTERTAINMENT is.
