Well then, here I am.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish editing all my photos tonight. One of my suitcases busted and I had to repack half my stuff for my flight to Japan which is in…5 and a half hours. I hope I can get the rest up soon, I’ll finish editing on the plane. Here’s sample though!
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2010
Otakon is a very large event that draws over 20,000 people to Baltimore City every year. This year there is the adding incentive of a mini-X Japan performance by Yoshiki and Sugizo. Recently Otakon has gone out of its way to avoid scheduling the convention during Baltimore Ravens(NFL), or Baltimore Orioles (MLB) games because the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2010
Hear Japan has long stuck to its “Japanese bands only” guns, there are plenty of Japanese musicians outside of Japan but the site has always promoted and sold music strictly from the islands of Japan. Breaking that trend is the Visual Kei band [geist]. It would come as no surprise to see a Japanese language [...]
Posted in America on Apr 21st, 2010
Tonight Otakon announced that the founder of Visual Kei/avante garde clothing label, h.Naoto, will be appearing at this year’s convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Hirooka Naoto debuted the original h.Naoto line in 2000, just one year after starting his first job out of college school(a position at S-Inc).
He will have a showcase booth in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2010
When Otakon announced their contest to guess the first guest of this year’s convention, I instantly guessed Yoshida Brothers from the clues. They’ve been relatively known to the American market for some time now, but probably got their biggest exposure as the music for Nintendo’s initial wave of Wii commercials.
This year’s Otakon will be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Otakon has announced via their website that they will announce the first music guest for this year’s convention on Wednesday.
Before then though, they are holding a contest to see if you can guess who it is. They provide clues.
* The act has multiple members.
* The [...]
Posted in America, Uncategorized, baltimore on Aug 9th, 2009
I got to sit down with Kanon Wakeshima after her performance at this year’s Otakon in Baltimore Maryland. We had limited time, but managed to touch on several topics.
Posted in Concert Report, baltimore, concert on Jul 24th, 2009
Report and [geist] photos; Lee Miller
Kanon photo: Dave Wujcik
There was talk that the show was to take place in the 14,000 seat First Mariner Arena, it was a bit of a disappointment when Saturday afternoon’s Kanon Wakeshima concert (with [geist] opening) was scheduled in “Hall D” in the Baltimore Convention Center. Its certainly an OK [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
Having only released her debut album in Japan on November 5th, and her debut American single three days before the convention began, Becca is far from the most well known musician to appear at Baltimore’s Otakon which has hosted bands such as L’arc~en~ciel and MUCC. Combined with the being scheduled on the last day [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
I’ve just been notified that I will be able to sit down with Kanon Wakeshima at Otakon for an interview. If you have a question for her, post it in the comments. They also let me know that Sony music has prohibited anyone from photographing her concert. I will be shooting Becca’s concert, though.
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