Happy New Year!

Since it's late and I'm partying with my family I thought I leave a note for you here.

Happy New Year!

May it be better for you than this year and may you keep the promises you take!!

I'll see you all around next year...

Merry Christmas!

Although I'm not here, I'm thinking of you guys.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of us!
May you all have a wonderful day with your families today and tomorrow.

Yours sincerly,
Jasmin

Message From Santa Claus

If it were in my powers,
I would bring peace and love,
To this world of ours,
But I don't have magic enough,
I can cross the sky,
and pass by the stars,
But I can't seem to stop,
Any of hatred's wars,
I see children on the street,
With no hope left,
in the eyes.
So many homeless people
with no where to sleep.
And my heart cries.
I can't give the things they need,
Oh But God I would try.
I'm only a fantasy,
that once took wings to fly,
Some are deceived,
by the gifts that money can buy,
But those who truly believe,
see the gift with the heart,
not with the eye,
I sometime stop and go to my knees,
and pause,
and I too always pray,
That we will find a end to wars,
and live in peace one day.
For all those who believe in me,
I will continue my cause,
Across the stars,
over the wars,
On Christmas Eve,
For the hearts that still believe,
In Santa Claus

©Judy Arline Puckett

Mognet Christmas Present

I just saw that there were new releases over at Mognet! I actually thought we'd release them after Christmas, but obviously we didn't.

These two are releases we had done for some time, but kept till christmas, because they fit.
Unfortunately I should have done more than those two videos, but as you can guess, I didn't have the time to work on more of them. Hopefully I'll have some inspiration while being at my grandparent's. Though I do not know if it will change anything, as it's awefully hard to work with my laptop on any videos, while not having a decent mouse but a touchpad instead. *sigh*
I'll try to figure something out eventually. Maybe I can use the mouce my granny has on her computer. We'll see.

Anyway, here are the pic to the releases!
I hope you'll enjoy them.

L'arc~en~Ciel - Hurry X'mas & RSP - Lifetime Respect -onna hen-


Merry Christmas from all of us at Mognet!

May a light guide you...

...through the darkness into light.

Still snowing

Yesterday I arrived savely and today I started bright and early. It's
still snowing outside. It looks like it's supposed to in the dead of
Winter. We're all going to take a nap now.

Our Birthday Boy!

Hello guys!

Yes, actually I'm not here. I went on my deserved vacation yesterday and probably won't be back till January 6th. But that doesn't mean I can't post you something.
Here's the latest video release we did for Hello!Fansubs.
Can you believe it! It's actually the last for this year! (At least from my point. There's going to be another one either on Christmas or New Year, so please be sure to check out our groups' website)

This year's been great. A lot has happend and I got a L-O-T of work done, but honestly it never ends. I'm still on a hundred - yes 100, one-zero-zero - running projects and it just keeps getting more and more. *sigh* I hope we'll be able to get them all done sooner or later. I'm just very sad for some pretty old projects that get delayed and delayed and delayed some more....

Oh well.

Todays release is: Buono! - My Boy
We specifically released this today because it has a birthday cake in it AND! our very adoreable and hard-working leader is having his birthday today.

Happy Birthday, SacredCultivator!!!

I really had a lot of fun with this vid. It was actually pretty much finished back in August, but I had some trouble with one of the effects and after that I forgot about it and it totally slipped my mind until a few weeks ago.

I hope you'll have as much fun with this awesome song as we did.
See ya soon!

First snow in Vienna

Oh noes!!!!!

The Princess and the Frog

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome movie!

Really Cold

Today is definitly one of the first really cold days here in Vienna. I
can see my breath as white little puffs in front of me. It's nice and
finally feels like Winter weather, but it's also fricking cooooooold.

I see meteors coming down!

Can you believe it?!

There's another video released for you. I'm actually a little behind with my blog post, but here it is anyway.
Hello!Fansubs released another very nice Hello!Project video. I hope you'll all enjoy. Main effect idea was - how can it be anything else - a meteor. The song is called "Ryuusei Boy" (Meteor Boy) and it is by BerryZ Koubou! It's the A-Single of their latest release.We actually try to keep up, but we fail - miserably at that. I'm very sorry, but we can't help it right now. Hopefully it'll all be better soon. *sigh*

Christmas present

Christmas present for my grandparents!!!!!! A digital photoframe

Old tram

Amazing how old Trams look if you really look. I kinda like this "old"
feeling they have. Imagine a few scraps, chips and scribblings on
their Backs and it gets a whole new charm.

New Moon - twilight 2

Finally went to watch it at the cinema tuesday night. After that we
went to the Christmas Market I already posted a picture of. And boy,
do I hate the German name they gave the series. Biss means bite. The
whole title says "bite at noon"... >O< ~~~ ewwwwwww

Christmas market in front of our town hall

Shugo Shugo

Hello there!

Just a short note. Another of my H!F PVs was releaed today. This time it is the second and also last single release for the group in that constillation. Shortly after this was released the gruop as it was broke up and was reformed later with new members. Most of the old members switched to s/mileage.

We tried to make it fit the last Shugo Chara release in from of color and style and I think we succeded in it.
I hope you'll enjoy this cheerful video as much as we did and do.

Nanchatte Renai!

Time for some new releases! Well, actually it's one release~ in four diffrent versions!

We're finally able to present you with our latest release in a string of a couple of releases following in the next few weeks. I know, this one was taking a lot of time, but I had some trouble with the effects and then my test weeks interfered, but at last we were able to bring you the 40th Morning Musume Single - Nanchatte Renai!

We decided to release it today because 7th gen MoMosu member Koharu Kusumi is graduating today to persue a career in modelling (well, just a few weeks earlier Umeda Erika also left for the same reasons, funny, right?) or whatever. And yes, if you didn't catch on, I really don't like Kusumi. Nevertheless, this was a really good single and Koha had some very decent parts in it. It has a catchy dance tune with small rap parts in it and easily makes you feel happy.

Well then, I hope you'll enjoy this release.

We provided all 4 versions (dance, close-up white, close-up black, and the normal ver.) in a Batch torrent in both Xvid and H264 on Hello!Online.

Be sure to leave some comments in the Torrent comment section.

(My opinion of Koharu doesn't reflect on the groups opinion of her.)

St. Nicholas Day

Happy Saint Nicholas Day!

Did you all put your boots outside and Saint Nicholas left you some chocolate, nuts and tangerines and/or oranges? Yes! Well, then you're very lucky!

I'm not even sure all of you know what St. Nicholas Day is, so you might want to check it out online. Personally I didn't get anything this year, but don't worry, Servant Ruprecht or Bellzebub (or however you want to call him - we call him Grampus here in Austria) didn't visit me either.

Oh, well.
Time for some updates....

Hey Guys!

Right, I'm back!
Sorry for the lack of news, but I had a few (actually a lot of) tests in the last 3 weeks and had to prepare and revise for most of them. Since my test time is now officially over for this year it's time for some new sub releases~~~~!

Since having finished the last of my exams on Wednesday I've been quite busy finishing new and old projects for various groups. There's going to be quite the release spree when I'm done with everything, but for now, let’s focus!

I've been neglecting most of my work adding up at Hello!Fansubs because I really didn't want to work on any squeaky girl songs for the last few weeks, then me having a I-must-play-WOW-or-I-am-going-to-parish-moment followed by an do-I-really-need-to-study-I-can-just-ready-5-books-in-3-days-issue. Anyway, since I've done all those things (and god, the books were so awesome) I'm now back to working non-stop on karaoke stuff (which can't be healthy either, but who cares?) and it's getting along quite well!
But what we're actually going to release I'll have to keep it a secret and tell you about it just before it gets released ;) so bear with me. Let's just say, that I kept SacredCultivator in a near-constant state of encoding.

Today I started finishing some of my nearly-done karaoke MVs for Mognet. We're actually going to get some Christmas songs out this year; I'm so happy! I hope it's going to be 4 MVs but I'm not sure, yet. We'll see when the time comes.

Okay, I'm off to get some more playing done, because I'm behind a few days now and I want to see if my friends are on to go on some mischief.

Bye, bye!

Drakelings

A few days ago I got one big surprise!
I'm currently hatching Sholazar-Eggs and on Thursday something rare hatched. A Green Proto-Drake!!! O_O!!!!

Normally those Drakes don't hatch very often and it's hard to get one of them just by killing stuff. So I'm very very lucky AND very happy!

YAY!

Happy Birhtday Mognet + Releases!

Here's the last batch of Mognet releases missing on this page. These were actually released in co-memoration of our 7th birthday! We worked hard on these videos, which I finished while staying at Kumama's and Stiltzkin's house near Chicago this summer. We wanted to have a release of two of our favourite Bands and we did it!! (We also released a new JTV clip with Morning Musume members in it in a funky baloon game. Check it out! It's really goofy!)

The first to start that day (which was actually Halloween, so the 31st October) was one of Arashi's more recent singles (though actually now it's already old again, but it was new back when we started it somewhen last year?!). Arashi - One Love was the theme song of one of the most beloved japanese Dorama series' in a while: Hana Yori Dango Final Theme, though the song itself was actually for the movie release of the Dorama. It was still an awesome song, even though, and there I have to agree with Kumama, the guy who edited that video actually layed on a lot of photoshop grafics and blurring. Unfortunately the quality of the raw wasn't too good, so bear with us there. It looks all block-ey and blurry.
The other release we did, which is still one of my personal favourites, is by the a w e s o m e group called SAS. Well, most actually won't know that name, so here's the full name of the game... (sorry, had to write that as it rhymes. *lol) Southern All-Stars - kami no shima haruka kuni. I just LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE that band. It's also a really summer-y song and when I worked on that one it was still hot outside! I'm just happy that it finally was done and now I can move on to other songs!
Sorry for the lack of summer Songs this year. We actually had a few other planned, but due to circcumstances we weren't able to finish them - so you'll probably get them next year! HAHA!

Well, that's the end of the update-Spree. I hope everyone is now up to terms and knows what videos to grab!
Make sure to leave comments to let me know what you think of them!

Byeeee!!

New MogNAV release!

Nearly 8 months after Mognet's last MogNAV release we finally bring you another one. I'm sorry that it took so long, but MogNAV was actually founded for two new members who wanted to join Mognet but basically work only on Anime videos. Back then we decided to open up the new section and allow them to release Anime Videos there. Unfortunately most of the up-till-now released MogNAV releases were done by me.

I kinda don't understand these guys. We actually made the changes and allowed them to work what they actually wanted to work - after we saw that for them working on normal PVs was impossible - and now they don't D O anything.

Frustrating, really. Now I have to do work for that particular section too. It's not like I don't have enough work on my hands right now. The new Christmas releases are coming up and I'll have to try to get a few things done. I hope to be able to finish the vids Kumama asked me to do.
Let's just hope that it works out!

Anyway. Here's the new MogNAV release we actually put out on Mognets 7th birthday!!!
And it was Halloween too! Eureka 7 - Days by FLOW (and yes, it's the same effects as the PV just diffrent colors, kanji and positioning!)

Rain, falling leaves and the cold

It's awefully cold here right now and I'm waiting for a friend to show
up. Brrrrrrrrrr!!!! I need warmer shoes!!

Christmas preparations!!!

Christmas is coming along quite soon I one can't start early enough on all the essential details of shopping, clothes choices, dinner menu, and assorted things. (Though normally I start really late with Christmas preps)
Today, after my early morning lessons, I went out to buy some Christmas cards to send away to friends and family around Christmas and beads. Honestly, I bought a bunch of beads.
I'm normally not the handcraft-y person, even though I'm actually quite good at it. I'm just too lazy to bother. This year I plan on doing matching pairs of jewelry for my best girlfriend and me. We both love the color green and red as well als gold and silver; which are the colors I'm aiming at.
I hope it's going to turn out okay!?

My granny and gramps are going to get an electronic photo frame. They both love pictures of their family members and they have like a gazillion pictures on their computer. With that in mind I thought an electronic photo frame with USB 2 support to save pictures on and then showcase them in their living room, where they actually can look at it whenever and not when they start up their computer, is quite a good idea for a Christmas present. My aunt agrees with that sentiment! YAY for me picking the right kind of present!!

I'm currently looking at scarfs as a present for my best friend. He's quite the fashionista himself and often forgets to wear a scarf to ward off the chill. I'm still not sure about that present though.

For my little cousin I bought a Christmas DVD with Winnie Puh. As she's a fan of Puh I thought that's a good idea.

The only person I don't know what to get is my aunt. Last year I bought her tickets for a musical she wanted to see. This year is a little harder to decide. We're going to two concerts at the end of November and she paid for both cards. Hmmmm, so tickets for another show are out of the question. She does enjoy books, but I'm not sure what she currently reads or is interested in, which makes a decision in that direction pretty hard. She doesn't really need anything actually. She always tells me that as long as she's healthy and in good spirits she doesn't need anything else. That's a good way of living, but hell on someone looking for a present!!

Well, I’ll think about it a little more. We still got another 7 weeks to go!

Greets!

Pre-Birthday Releases!!

Leading up to my actual Birthday last October 16th, Mognet released a few other videos in September. I was actually quite happy to have them out of my work queue and about time to release for you guys to enjoy.

L'arc~en~Ciel - Daybreak's Bell, actually a project first started for my own group Kizuna by a dedicated fan of Gundam 00 named Esaldo, who actually planned on doing the effects himself but later didn't want to anymore *sucks in breath to finish that sentence*, was released at the start of September. It turned out quite good and even Esaldo like the outcome, so I'm happy. Well, I don't know what more to say, as I'm not the L'arc~en~Ciel fan myself and their videos have been quite boring as of lately.
Please enjoy it! *lol*
The other video we released in September was actually one we had started 2 years prior of the release. It was actually nearly finished, but due to being another Kizuna-first video and initiated by a good friend of mine who was still a little grumpy about some problem we had with the last project he initiated, it was delayed. But after some time, and a lot of good-will, finding new raws and actually having to rewrite some effects because of the new video resolution it was finally released at the end of September. This marks our second release by that group: AKB48 - Keibetsu shite ita aijou

Both videos are available through torrent (at least they were). If you need someone of us to seed it please write a short notice on Mognet's forums. Thanks!

Mognet Summer Releases!

Well, that couldn't be all now, could it?

You're right! Of course there were more videos released than those three. Give me some credit. I might not be as active as I was at the beginning of the year but I'm still not THAT lazy.

Anyway. It's time for some more releases now, right?
(now that I finished breakfast I can actually go on...)

It seems like the farthest behind I am on keeping you up-to-date with Mognet releases, which we'll remedy right now.

The next video after releasing Rip Slymes' Galaxy back in May was our July release with is one of my all-time favourite hip-hop videos eva!! This group was actually a sideproject by no other than Namie Amuro, which is Suite Chic, where she explored a more hip-hop-ish music style then her normal R'n'B music. Anyway. She collaborated with A.I. another well known hip-hop artist to perform Suite Chic - Uh Uh... feat. A.I.
In September we released another two videos. On the one hand we had Shounan no Kaze - Ougon Soul and on the other we had THYME - Fly Away. Two very diffrent songs, that's for sure, but still, both had a certain charme to them. (On a side note: That THYME song was actually another anime opening. To be exact, it's the first Opening of the anime Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora)
All three releases are available via torrents. So please, make sure to grab them, okay?

BoAjjang Release Spree!

BoAjjang finally released all my works I had done for them late last year and early in the summer months this year. I posted about them when they were finished. You can look them up here and here. The vids released were Lee Hyori - U-Go-Girl, TVXQ - Rising Sun (korean ver.), SHINee - Love like Oxygen and Namie Amuro - Wishing on the same star.

Well, but that wasn't all. In April this year and at the beginning of October I finished another three releases for BoAjjang. My total count is now at 10 videos. YAY!

This time around I had lots of fun, as I loved all three songs.The first video I did back in April was Wonder Girls - Tell me. If I remember right it was actually their first single release after Member Hyuna was replaced by Yubin. It should actually be their second or third single in total, but who would know. Korean artists don't really have a detailed "discography" as we are used to by japanese or english standards. I only know of the video "Irony" which was actually their first release ever and which I'm currently also working on. Anyway. If you want to actually see the release you'd have to join the BoAjjang forum to get ahold of the direct download links. BoAjjang doesn't release torrents right now.
The first one of the October releases is actually one of my personal favourites: Epik High - Umbrella feat. Younha
Younha on her own is a fantastic artist herself but coupled with Epik High - this video is just the W I N. The song is melancholic and dark and full of rain. I had fun trying to get the rain effect juuuuuuuust right, and it worked. I always wanted to have water ripplings right beneath the drops. The first few times I worked on rain effects it never worked out. This video is also the first one where I've experimented with clipping effects. It worked out quite well. Thanks to Mei and Bambus for helping me out with the specifics of clipping. Without those two I'd probably still sit on the video because I couldn't get it done.

The last one to date to be released under BoAjjang is one of SNSD's side-singles. It is a selftitled song called SNSD - Girls' Generation. For those of you who didn't know, but SNSD is short for So Nyuh Shi Dae which is korean for Girls Generation. The english writing of the bands name is actually Girls' Generation. So yeah, here it is, the selftitled song!
We actually had a lot of trouble with that song as the raw we initially worked with was crap. I think I said it before but I'll do it again - Korean PV raws are C R A P! I actually had to download 6 diffrent version to find one that wasn't crooked, non-synch, not pixlish and without stupid logo grafics in it.

Anyway, please enjoy these three pvs. Again the reminder that the videos are only available if you register on the BoAjjang forums.

Updates

Amazingly I just realised that, yeah, I forgot to update in a loooooong while. So while I'm currently munching on my breakfast I'll try to get some of the updates done.

First of all, a lot has happend in the last few weeks
A bunch of my vids were released. My birthday was came and went. University courses started again. One of my best friends is getting divorced. My best girlfriend has a new boyfriend. Halloween passed and I was at an awesome party and a lot of other minor things.

Anyway. Let's get started!

Dark 'n claudy weather

Waiting for my tram in the rain. Yuck!!! Aweful weather we have here.
Time's slipping by and I can't really get anything done. I'm also
tired all the Time. Fare thee well, my fellow lazy friends!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween everybody!

I hope you all get some treats today.

I'm sorry, that I'm not very active on my blog lately. I've been really busy with stuff and I kinda got immersed with WoW again, which is bloddy time consuming.

Well, see ya around, I guess!

Beautiful Moon

I'm on my Way to the Movies.

Autumn in Full Bloom

Amazingly autumn is in a full-blown mode with yellow and red leafes
everywhere around the university Campus. Isn't it beautiful???

First freaking snow

Ray of hope!

Sorry guys for not writing anything on my blog. I've been ill the past few days and I still don't feel up to doing a lot of writing and thinking at the same time.

On a short note, though, I just got my shiny new copy of Disney's "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" on DVD.YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY~~

I've been dying to have a copy of it since I can remember and now, finally, I own one.

If you didn't guess yet, yes, I'm a die-hard Disney Animation fan - especially for the old stuff. I own a lot of the movies on DVD, though I'm still missing some, like Fantasia or Lion King. Other than that I pretty much have all of them, except some of the really new ones. Haven't had the chance to come around to buy them yet.

Oh well.
Time will tell.

Now I'm going to enjoy the DVD and wish you all the best till next we meet.

A funny remix while waiting for new posts!

Hello everybody!

Yes, I'm back, and sorry for not writing earlier than that. I've been busy acclimating myself to Vienna again. It's diffrent living here than I did in the US the past 3 weeks.

In the next few days I plan on updating my blog with new pics and material from my vacation in Algonquin, Illinois. Please be patient.
As I seem to have cought a flu yesterday I won't be writing long today.
Instead I'm gifting y'all with a funny video to go and hope you'll all come back again soon!

London Heathrow

Finally arrived in London, save and sound. I'm slightly tired, but
that's to be expected if you're not sleeping but watching movies
instead. Will report as soon as I'm in Vienna again!!!

Mitsuwa

I am officially jealous now!! We just went to the japanese super
market chain Mitsuwa here in Algonquin and they had Onigiri riceballs
as well as Calpis Lychee!!!!!!!!!!! And it's nearly empty... *cries*
anyway, awesome day today. We drove to Chicago city. I'll post more in
an update later.

The Moline Episode

Hello there!

:D The weekend in Moline was just plain fun. So what did we do?

We actually were in the Quad Cities, so there was plenty to see. The ride took us 3 hours from Algonquin near Chicago to Moline, on the other site of the state, near the border to Iowa.Kumama's Mums house was awesome (I forgot to take pictures >_<'''). It had closed porches, a big yard, an extra guest house (where Kumama, Stiltz and I slept in), a music room (as Debbie - Kumama's Mum - is a music and orchestra teacher), an actual library (I so wanted to take with me XD), and lots more. On the first day in Moline we visited a used book store before Kumama's Mum was back home from school and after she came home and we introduced ourselves (so to say) we went to see some other shops in Davenport, right over the river and already in Iowa. Since Debbie always tries to save up errands she can do with her daughter, we went to a lot of shops (A LOT!!! and I hate shopping TT_TT but I survived the trip).

On the next day we started out really early; woke up at 6.30am and we were out the door at 7.50am. We were on our way to the Farmers Market, right at the riverbank and sample the local foods and watch the river in the morning. It was really soothing and Debbie bought me breakfast and fresh lemonade, while Kumama bought me an egg roll (the food was awesome and nearly every stand had samples we could taste). THANK YOU GUYS!! XD Later that day we went to Chick filet for lunch and visited a bunch of other shops, because Kumama and Debbie wanted to buy some stuff. Stiltz and I were really just going with the ride and we kind of felt like decoration (which was fun anyway). When we finally got back to Debbie's house we did some stuff around her house before we left for the evening to go eat out at the TEXAS ROADHOUSE. A W E S O M E food, by the way. I had the 1/2 size rips with Caesars salad (for some reason it was topped with parmesan cheese) and a backed potato on the side. The salad I finished, but I wasn't able to finish the potato or the rips so we packed it up and took it with us. After we went out to eat (which was actually really cheap for the amount and taste of the food) we decided we wanted to see a movie, so we went to see "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (which I already saw back in Vienna, but I loved the movie and so we went again. The other choices for the evening were "Julie and Julia" or "The Time Travellers Wife". Since I hate chick-flicks and I already read the book about the time traveller’s wife I wanted to see a fantasy movie, again!). After the movie we just crashed and everyone went their merry way (mostly to bed).
On the next sunrise we decided to sleep in and start the day late (as the day before we woke up sooooo early). I actually really just wanted to hang around and maybe watch a movie (I was desperate to see "Mama Mia" on DVD, but I didn't get a chance), but we decided to do something outdoors. So we went on a ride on the Mississippi, saw the typical Casino boats they have there (because playing is against the law, so they use those ships to move around while the Casino is opened in the nights). We also visited the Village of East Davenport, which is littered with old houses, established shops and brands (like Isabella Bloom's clay figurines that are really price-y, because they're popular) and stuff. Unfortunately, as it was Sunday, everything was closed. One would think that when there's a river cat (a transportation service by boat) that brings tourists and locals to the port they would be open, especially on a day, were most people have no work and would actually do trips with their families. Debbie seemed really annoyed with it and shortly after we shipped to the other side of the river to have lunch there in a "jazz bar" and later catch a ride to our car.
All in all, the day was awesome. After that we didn't do much anymore. Kumama drove us to Borders again, as I wanted to grab another book I forgot the other day and then we went off to our ride home to Algonquin.

Well, that's it for this tale. There's more to come soon!