Great lollipop of the morn, 

make way for a breaking sky.

Darkness shall allude this night

’til stars peak from holes so bright.

Done with Adobe Photoshop 7.0. It seems that I overdid the roses and jewels instead of focusing on the candy. The original is about double the size of this image, but I dare not post a 1000 x 1000px image here.

 Nightmare’s Chess

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Tentacles of light crept through the window beside me. Rays of heat embraced my body while I snuggled deeper into the warmth of my bed. A few extra moments of sleep would be nice.

Footsteps echoed behind me. I turned to face a frozen cave coated with sapphire blue ice. Icicles arched from stone walls, like daggers wielded against intruders. The scene was captivating, yet unwelcoming.

The sound of footsteps grew louder, but nothing, not even a shadow can be seen. I pivoted, eying my surroundings. Only ice filled my field of vision. For a moment, it appears that footsteps could no longer be heard, although chances are, the pounding of my heart muted external sounds with its volume.

Should I walk forward and enter the cave, or turn and run? I was a frozen statue with a pulse that sounded in my ears. Still, somehow, my heavy feet walked into the cave.

The moment I was inside the cave, it became apparent that this was no ordinary cave. Carved on the walls, or perhaps inside the icy walls were figures of humans. The details were amazing, as though the carved figures would come to life and approach me. The view would have been aesthetically pleasing if not for the frightening stares of the figures.

“How have you come to this place?” A high pitched voice of a girl echoed in the cave.

“I—I don’t know. I walked in here…somehow.” I looked at the ground. Thank goodness for the ground being free of figures and views of what might lie ahead.

“Your senses are better than I thought, Fifth victim.” A disturbing laugh sounded, as though the voice had been intoxicated. My heart was pouncing in my chest. Sweat dripped from my hand. I looked around me. One…two….three…four…

There were four figures surrounding me. Four. Where was the fifth?

“You.”

Light flooded into my vision the moment my eyes snapped open. I could still hear my pulse sounding in my ears. It was a dream. A nightmare, nothing else. The same nightmare that has haunted me for a month now. I must have been reading far too many horror novels to have such a dream.

Legends have spoken of the little horrors within Hello Kitty Online. From the form of spooky horrors that haunt moles in their sleep to theives of the game’s sugary goods, they exist and reveal themselves the moment they are no longer beneath the watchful eyes of the players.

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Candy Pink, perhaps an assumed heroine of a story that aids the NPC’s of Hello Kitty Online is a little horror for the citizens of Florapolis and bakers. A self-deluded magical girl sets out to battle against the sweets of Hello Kitty Online, eating food that is larger than herself.

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Is she a villain? A heroine? Perhaps both on the night of a spooky day in HKO. Beware of her coming to steal your trick or treat bags, or worse, cast frightening spells with a wand she took from cupid back in Valentine’s day.

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With good angles, lighting, and camera with the correct settings, various artistic elements draw a photograph to a beautiful piece of art.

Often, videos lack the same quality photographs do although, there are times when they can look amazing.

A cosplay of Megurine Luka on video also includes beautiful lighting.

Video from: Morino8810
Lyrics from : http://avril170.deviantart.com/journal/26561264/

 A slender flame burns at the edge of my heart
Without warning, it spreads into a burning passion
My butterfly, flitting around it chaotically
Scales dropping into your hand

I am wrapped around your finger from the lips to the tongue
Even if this is something that cannot be allowed the flames jump higher still

I want to embrace you, I want you to tell me
That you don’t think this is a mistake
I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me
I want to drown in this moment of captivation

Every moment, it’s harder to restrain myself
If this is love, I want to wear it on my sleeve
The “strange feeling” turns into an unbearable longing
I would follow you to the end of forever

If my heart goes astray I will be easily relieved
as if we had no time to feel tender each other

That dream has never come again
There is no chance in our reality
If we touch, I know we can never go back and that’s just fine…
You are everything in the world to me

Anxiety arrives with the dawn to find me still crying
When you whispered “it’s all right” did I hear tears in your voice, too?

I want to embrace you, I want you to tell me
That you don’t think this is a mistake
I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me
I want to drown in this moment of captivation

I am drawn to you like a magnet
Even if I left, we would find each other again
I’ve touched you, I can never go back and that’s just fine.
You are everything in the world to me

Image above from www.eefai.com.  Eefai appears to be a talented photographer with a good camera. The above image presents a cosplay Megurine Luka and Hatsune Miku’s duet of Magnet, created by Ryuusei-P. It’s quite a pretty song in essence.

At the top, a Project Diva version of the song is available.

From the view of a small image, perhaps basic shapes could form a rose. Or not quite…

If enlarged, it’s a messy work in an attempt to transform the Oriental Lychee piece into a rose. The contrast between a larger view and smaller view for a piece such as this is quite great, perhaps the fact that the white is rather blurry affects it.

Original image used:

Image source:Olivia’s Diary

Traditionally, Mooncakes or yuebing, a delicacy eaten during the period of the Moon festival, resemble the above image. The round mooncake is often filled with either lotus seed paste or red bean paste with a duck’s egg yolk inside the mixture.

Today, Mooncakes have changed a great deal in ingredients and shape/appearance.  For instance, the Lychee and Rose mooncake on the right.Lovely image from Foodelicious.

Or perhaps even Hello Kitty shaped mooncakes, which lead to another discovery.

The Hello Kitty mooncakes below come from Feisty Princess Charmaine’s Fundraising.

In support of a young girl by the name of Charmaine, a victim of cancer, a reader of the blog creating hello kitty mooncakes decided to donate all sales to her medical fund in the year of 2009. To this day, it appears that while Charmaine’s health has improved significantly, she is still ill and fairly immobile without aid.

At the moment, we are currently working for charity in HKO to save sea animals. Perhaps was it a coincidence that a Hello Kitty based product lead to a fundraiser for a child suffering from Cancer? Regardless, it is good that Charmaine based on recent entries of the blog linked above has been improving with the help of the medical funds and medical technology today. Information of that is located at http://ourfeistyprincess.blogspot.com/ for anyone who wishes to see.

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After a period of using images that I didn’t own, in other words, images that I did not create myself,  to work with photoshop, I have once again turned to something I made. I finished this piece a while back, before I began Oriental Lychee.  The base image was created with Gimp although effects were made with photoshop. Now that I don’t have quite as much free time, I have gotten lazy and have not worked on art of my own for some time, aside from easy, basic, poor quality artwork that has been rushed and made fully by mouse and basic shapes. Otherwise my blog posts here have been Vocaloid related for most part of this past week.

Perhaps in the next week I will recycle artwork that I have done before, although they all have their flaws, particularly the first few done.

In terms of knowledge of  any series by the name of Darker than Black, I know none. The character that is featured above is not one that I know of, yet the lighting and angle of the photograph is lovely.

The subject is well in focus in comparison, unlike the background. The photograph quality before I re-sized it was rather good. There is a good chance that a DSLR was used.

Image found at: http://razrig.wordpress.com/

As seen in many Project Diva videos, a vast variety of lovely costumes exist. Many of which originated from winning entries in an illustration contest for the game.

Images from: http://www.vocaloidism.com/

Below are a few of the outfits, although the game is not limited to what is seen below.

The costumes chosen above and below are a few of my personal favorites, although many costumes are still out there beyond the six displayed. From steampunk, lolita, to modern or futuristic designs, a vast number of costumes seem to be around.

The skirt of the costume in the top middle row resembles the flowing skirt (pink) in the item mall of Hello Kitty online almost. Another costume, which happens to be worn by Megurine Luka, bears some resemblance to the Parasian gown, without quite as much detail and different colors used.

The shoes are quite visibly different. The design used in Project diva consists of a shorter skirt and tights, unlike the Parasian gown on HKO. Still, the design of the tops, ignoring colors are quite similar above the waist, ignoring headgear. Both are still lovely designs.