scary structure

this house is kinda scary! when I was visiting my aunt at the hospital
I walked by and thought that this thing has to collapse soon. funny
thing though, that house has been around for as long as I can remember
and it still looks exactly the same. guess it's just stubborn enough
to remain

snow again

seems like the weather can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. 2
days ago at the same place we had sun and blue sky. Jesus

Concert Releases!

It's been a while since we (H!F) released new Concert performances.

Don't be mad at us for being late with all these releases, but what can we do. We're pretty much working alone and I'm the only karaoker, again. Haaaaaa, work's just piling up and I don't know what and when to do them. It's prett y bad right now.
But we'll get through it.

SC seemed to have ants in his pants as he was frantically timing new performances as soon as he saw that I had some more free time or will to work on new stuff! Anyway.
There are a lot of new performances coming out soon and we hope you'll all enjoy them. The first ones to go around are these two:

1.) Petitmoni V - Pira!Otome no Negai (H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~)
This song is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. When I first saw it on YouTube I just knew I had to do it. Unfortunately SC didn't want to time it as those parapiraparappo where too much for him. Luckily I had my timer Lailu jumping in - thanks again for your help, Lailu - and thanks to him we were able to release it only 3 days after considering working on it. The colors are just great and I worked on one of my custom fonts again to make those dots in a half circle.
I'm still watching that song twice a day because I so adore it. I hope you guys will too!?
Let us know how you liked it!2.) Matsuura Aya - Watashi no Sugoi Houhou (FC Event '08)
The second song to be released was from a Fan Club Event back from 2008. Asagi, one of H!Fs timers had this project timed and lying around but he couldn't work on the effects for some time and in the end asked H!F if we were interested in doing it. Since I am a huge Matsuura Fan we agreed and released it a few weeks later. Thanks again Asagi for letting me work on it. I really enjoyed it!

Other Concert releases coming soon, so check back here in a few days!

Bye and good night for tonight!

The Only Winter Love

A while ago there have been a two new Mognet releases.
I'm very happy about those as Mognet was basically the group which inspired me to work on karaoke in the first place some 5 years ago. Later I then joined the team and we became fast friends. They also provided me with a platform to work on PVs with German subtitled videos, which I greatly appreciated. Today Mognet is unfortunately pretty much inactive as members left and the initial group members grew up and started a working life.

Oh well. In January we released two winter-themed PVs.

The first one was Yoshii Kazuya's bakka. The title of the song itself is quite funny as Ba(k)ka can actually be read as "Idiot", but in this song it's considered meaning "only". The song is simple in its sound but the meanings of the lyrics are very deep, so please make sure to read them thoroughly. We decided to keep the karaoke effects very simple and we played around with the blinking lights of the night to go with the flow of the city. This PV also featured artists of the very famous band KREVA!

Kumama loves this song and so I was very pleased to hear that she enjoyed this! I hope you will too.

The other we released was a song I insisted on doing because I really loved it. We had it lying around for over 2 years until I finally had the time to work on it. We're talking about BoA's Winter Love, a quite ballad where BoA is encased in ice cubicles singing about leaving the love of her life if it's better for it.
Still quite lovely!Please enjoy those two releases and I hope we're soon going to release the other songs we already finished!

Lots of new releases!

There've been lots of new videos out from my karaoke studio, but I was too lazy to update my blog and then I forgot (yes, that's my line of the day) and now there are a lot of them and I don't remember the timeline.

I'm just going to do it with the flow and update in the couple of next entries what was released. Sorry if it's not in the right order!

First thing out I remember was a release for Hello!Fansubs. I'm not really a fan of this particular song but SC and I are trying to get all of them out so I had to do it. What I'm talking about is °C-ute's latest single "Shock", which we correctly labeled "Suzuki Airi feat C-ute - Shock", as that song was purely Airi with some "Uh, Ah, Chu" sounds from the other C-ute members plus 4 or 5 lines of chorus, repeated twice. The song itself was boring but I had fun working the lightning into the Shock word. SC enjoyed the effect, which was what I was aiming at! YAY!Following this release I finally was able to work on Buono! - Take it Easy! I'm sorry guys, that it took us sooooooo long to finish it but I really had other stuff on mind and sometimes a good work just need some time to stew. After taking my break I finally regain some of my creative ideas and I was able to finish this off in only 2 days of work!
We played with the background colors of these gorgeous shots as well as parts of their "costumes". I loved the outcome and I especially love the colors!
Colorful Karaoke Are the Best!! (o^_^)b

That's it from this front. Following up are Mognet and H!F Concert Releases! Stay tuned!!!!!

Updating Mediafire Anime Account!

Just so you guys know I'm currently updating my mediafire Anime Clip Account.
There were a few new vids done in the last couple of weeks.

The last time I remembered updating my account mediafire has been off and I forgot again.

So this time I'm doing it!!

HA!

my yummy package arrived!!!!!

Finally, it arrived! I've been waiting for it! I ordered some goods from a japanese supermarket via my friend Kumama. A month ago I asked her if it's possible for her to send me a package with a few things. I still had 4 manga I wanted to get but I was unable to optain in Europe and I also wanted some Hi-Chew! She promised me she'd send those goodies over whenever I was ready for it and a little over a week ago she said she's sending it over! Today first thing in the morning it arrived and as you can probably see I already had a Hi-Chew gum in Dragon Fruit flavour!!!!!!!!

THANKS AGAIN, KUMAMA!
So yummy!

I also had some instant curry for the "hard" times when I'm broke or too lazy to get money from my bank account and starve myself for half a week. ;-)

YAY~ *chews on a cherry flavour Hi-Chew* yumm, though I still like the blood orange ones best!

good morning everyone

time for breakfast!!! Yeah, I know weird breakfast!
I've been up since around 2am, but have been lying around in the dark in bed till around 6am listening to some audio books. Then I took a bath and made myself presentable again.
Since my stomach was really making aweful noises I decided to make breakfast. I decided on some salted rice and I still had fish with cheese crust left over which I also made for breakfast.
It was really great!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive. Also, there've been a few new videos released. I'll update this blog as soon as I have more spare time.

freezing Cold

Happy Valentine's Day!

Yep, so true!
I still wish everyone a very pleasant day with your friends and family and your loved ones!

cold

seems like i've catched a cold, again. that also means that I have
time to update my blog again!!!

Last week was really busy as I had friends over the whole week. It was
fun!!! We drank a kot (Pictures following in the next entry). I was
able to finish some long forgotten translations and I backup-ped my
karaoke folders, which basically was a good idea because my external
hd seems to hate me right now.

more following soon!!!
As I'm going to take some rest now - good night everybody!!

itadakimasu!!!

i'm currently with a friend at an all you can eat japanese Restaurant.
this was my last dish. God, I'm stuffed!!!

yummY

I had something really yummy today. Looks good right?
Marinated steak, some left over pasta from yesterday in a slightly steemed teriyaki sauce and white rice. I was trying to work all the left over ingredients into it. Looks like I made it! And it was so good. *is still drooling over how good it was*

Cut my hair

I've had long-ish hair for a while now and finally shortly after
Christmas I cut it really short!!!
that's the shortest since my High School days!

Latest 2 releases

Oh, sorry for being late on this post.

Yesterday I heard that I was not going to take part in the exam which would have been tomorrow. Oh, well....

Here's what we released last week:
The first one was the last single this girl released under UFA, before leaving the whole Hello!Project thing. This video was released under H!F somewhen Saturday before last? Or so. I don't really remember and it's not like it's important.
I really loved this song when it came out and was happy to work on effects. I tried to make them a little billowy and cloudy as it fit with the background. It's actually not one of her best song by far, but oh well! Here's Abe Natsumi's - The Screen.


The other video we released is a really "old" one. At least, it's old-ish. The song is called bakka by Yoshii Kazuya; With a cameo from KREVA who's posing as a retailer here, a really popular japanese artist. I can't say that the song is terribly exciting. We used subdued effects with sparkling lights, as the main character of the mini-drama is running around at night in the entertainment circles, or whatever it's called.
As unexciting as the song might be as exciting are the lyrics, which are really great. I also liked that it's a christmas themed song, so please enjoy this Mognet release way after christmas. It still actually fits a little as it's snowing like crazy around here!

Releases are available through the torrent trackers at Mognet and Hello!Online, respectively.

Exams!

Hey everyone!
Sorry for being lazy with my posts but I'm currently in the middle of my exams.

2 down and 3 to go.

Unfortunately I'll probably have to redo one of the exams, so far. I was stupid enough to change perfectly fine answers and change them the wrong way around. *sigh*
I could still bash my brain against the next hard surface, but it wouldn't change the outcome anyway.

Today I had my final English CLT exam. It's actually half of the IELTS exam for students to take with only the writing and readings tasks being done. It's kinda strange that they don't let us do the listening and speaking parts too, but maybe that comes at a later stage? I'm not sure yet.
I kinda have a good feeling about this whole exam thing so far. Hopefully it'll go well.

Next exam coming up is on Tuesday. The last for this semester will be on Feb 1st and the first exam of the next semester will be in March.

I hope to do well on them too.
Again. Let's wait and see!

Latersssssss~~~~

Oh, and two releases are out, but I'll write about them at a later opportunity.

Snow on campus

Keep the love coming!

One never can have enough releases, right?
Well, that's why there is another one coming along in a few hours. SC just informed me, that our newest (well, actually it's been hanging around for a long time but I totally forgot about it after some time and it surfaced in my christmas holidays) release will be our first-since-a-long-time concert performance.

and it's quite old too.... H!P '08 Winter ~Wonderful Hearts Nenjuu Mu Kyuu~. Takahashi Ai & Tanaka Reina will spread the love. ;) please enjoy!

Mano Erina #2

There we go again!

Here is another of our new releases (H!F) for you to enjoy. We decided to release the second Mano Erina song we had prepared. We're sure to be doing a few others of her songs, so just be patient with us.

For now there is this one: Mano Erina - Hajimete no Keiken!
Please enjoy.

As always, Torrents are available through Hello!Online.

Love & Peace = Paradise

Hello everybody!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve Party and everything?

I'm going to keep this simple.
There's a new release out and here it is:
Mano Erina - Love & Peace = Paradise

I had lot of fun doing this.
Thanks to Bambus and OutlawJonas for helping me with the angel wings. Without their help it wouldn't have been possible to do this.
Only comment I got from SC: "the wings are freaking amazing". Well, yeah, they are.
Have fun watching this.
I hope you'll enjoy the upcoming releases too!

Yours,

Tomo

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!