Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:10:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 I gotta get ready http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/11/15/i-gotta-get-ready/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/11/15/i-gotta-get-ready/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:10:38 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191231 Hmmm… These days I’ve been sick>_<  And I’m going to Japan in the end of this month. So I have to recover by then!

Right now I’m working on my new comic series “Made in Japan vol1″ ^_^ This is going to be very different from my past books and I’m very excited to work on this.

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They’re sample pages from Chapter1.  I need a lot of photos for this book. So When I visit my family in Japan, I have to dig my old photo albums!

]]> http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/11/15/i-gotta-get-ready/feed/ BigNazo monsters http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/11/02/bignazo-monsters/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/11/02/bignazo-monsters/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:15:43 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191224 On the way home from Central Park, we stopped by National History Museum to use a bathroom.

Before the entrance a lot of kids were crying and shouting “Scary scary!!”  We wondered what’s going on inside this museum?!

We happened to encounter crazy monsters there!

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What a…?!

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Are they going to eat my head?!

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He’s kind of cute.

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Kyaaaa!!! We can see his eyes!!!!

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Happy Halloween everyone! Kuririn and I went to Central park to see “changing-color-leaves” We thought today was the day to check out!

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We almost forgot that we’re living in NYC! Walking around in CP made us just happy and relaxed…

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Hey! It’s MOMIJI tree!!! Yay! My parents have this red tree(Momiji) in their front yard.

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We were wandering around almost 2 hours!! When we came back home, our legs were just like trees! Ha!

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Autumn has come! My Leaves of trees in my neighborhood started changing colors. Yesterday it was raining crazy… so most of leaves are gone now>_<

This weekend Kuririn and I are planning going to Central Park. I hope we’re not too late to check out beautiful trees!!!!

]]> http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/29/yellow-leaves/feed/ Halloween party at Botanic Garden http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/26/halloween-party-at-botanic-garden/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/26/halloween-party-at-botanic-garden/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:48:38 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191203 Brooklyn Botanic Garden always holds amazing events!!!

Today I was invited to do book signing and demonstration at their Halloween party Ghouls & Gourds! Most of them were too young for my books. But they seemed to enjoy my demonstration a lot!

I was just happy to be outside and have a great time with a lot of families, teens and adults!

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They’re amazing!!! It reminds me of my puppeteer days! I used to walk on stilts and act. But I wasn’t good at dancing with it…

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I showed up as a Panda Bear like last year. Some of kids remembered me! Yay—

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I drew some Halloween-theme-illustration. I had only 15 minutes to do!

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A lot of adults started gathering the tents. That was great!

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And of course kids wanted to wear my Panda head. I let them wear during my demonstration. They’re sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuute!!! Aghhh.. too cute..

This is my favorite outside event. I could meet a lot of picture book authors who I barely have a chance to talk^_^

Okay… so now I should go back to work. Soon I’ll show some of sample pages from my new comic “Made in Japan volw1″!!

]]> http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/26/halloween-party-at-botanic-garden/feed/ Family Gathering http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/20/family-gathering/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/20/family-gathering/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:42:53 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191196 It was great to hang out with Kuririn’s family in NYC! Jimbo visited from Germany and his parents visited from Wisco.

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Kuririn’s dad and Jimbo didn’t wear coats at all!!!!! Wisco-guys are strong! What about kuririn?

He grew up there too…

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We’re checking “European Painting” area. I studied Art History when I was an exchange student in MO. But I lost the knowledge… Aghh.. If you want to know more about Art History, ask Jimbo! He knows a lot!

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We’re trying to make his face. At the time a gentleman was watching us and said that Kurirn made a better face. Man!

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Yesterday Kuririn and I were playing a song from Flaming Lips for Jimbo and Maria.

But I totally forgot cords…  Kuririn gave me a guitar lesson for a long time. I’m such a bad student.

Well at least we look cool here.

]]> http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/19/i-was-trying/feed/ 1997 and 2009 http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/18/1997-and-2009/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/18/1997-and-2009/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:25:28 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191186 Last week Kuririn and I took his family to Statue of Liberty. His parents are back’n Wisco! and his brother Jimbo is on a plane to Germany now.

In 1997 I visited NYC by myself and I went there too. On the way to the island, I took a photo of myself.

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This is me in 1997

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This is me in 2009(now!)

Hmm… I look younger now?!

]]> http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/18/1997-and-2009/feed/ Karaoke– http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/10/karaoke/ http://misakorocks.blog.com/2009/10/10/karaoke/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:40:51 +0000 Misako Rocks! http://misakorocks.blog.com/?p=5191180 Last night we went to Karaoke in Manhattan. I haven’t been there since my Japan trip!

This Karaoke Bar/booth has Japanese songs besides English. So Maria and I were rocking out in Japanese!

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I think I was signing a really old Japanese pop song! CAT’s EYE!

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While Jimbo was singing WEEZER, I was being his drum!

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I look crazy—-…. I was being a backup singer for my baby Kuririn!

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We took him to some NY spots! And we visited my favorite toy shop FAO Shwaltz!

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Me, Jimbo and a cool Guard! yay^_^

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Kyaaaaaaa >_<

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Kuririn looks like one of these lego toys…

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Me and Jimbo tried to play this big keyboad!! Which showed up in a movie “BIG”

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And Oh my God.. I can’t explain how much I’m moved to play this muppet!!!! I asked Kuririn this for my Christmas Present.

I think I’ll go back to FAO Shwaltz just to play with him again…

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