December 1, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule and BLOOD News sections.
November 29, 2006
Updated the Band History section. I also updated the main page some time ago. I put a new notice on it. (Sorry, I forgot to post that when I did it).
November 15, 2006
Updated the Lyrics and Gallery sections and the main page. I added the kanji lyrics for [Spleen ~Despair~], and 2 new galleries in the [LES FLEURS DU MAL] Tour August 2006 section.
Thanks Ashley and Jeanne! (^_^)
November 2, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule section and BLOOD News.
October 29, 2006
Updated the BLOOD Fans list.
October 27, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
October 15, 2006
Updated the Lyrics sections. I added the [Spleen ~Despair~] French lyrics translations.
October 13, 2006
Updated the Discography section. I added links to purchase BLOOD's CDs from the CD Baby website.
October 12, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule and BLOOD Fans sections.
October 10, 2006
Updated the Discography section and BLOOD News.
October 9, 2006
Updated the Lyrics sections. I added the [Spleen ~Despair~] English lyrics translations, and the romanji for VENGEANCE for BLOOD 3.
Thanks Ai! (^_^)
September 27, 2006
Updated the gallery section. I added BLOOD in Berlin ~ April 7, 2006 ~ Gallery 2. Thanks Wanda! (^_^)
September 21, 2006
Updated the Gallery section. I added photos from BLOOD's show in Mexico on August 11th. Thanks Liz! (^_^)
September 16, 2006
Updated the Interviews and Live Schedules sections, BLOOD fans list, and BLOOD News.
I added the English version of the August 13, 2006 VisualZero interview with BLOOD. Thanks Florian! (^_^)
September 12, 2006
Updated the gallery section. I added my photos from BLOOD's show in New York.
I feel that I need to add some comments about the photos. Due to the circumstances at the show in New York, these photos are not up to my personal standards. I did the best I could under the circumstances, but I had a lot of things working against me.
I know that it doesn't look like it in most of these photos, but the club was actually VERY dark. Also, the fans were absolutely crazy, and I was being pushed very badly all through the show (I will talk more about that in my report about the show, which I will post soon), so it is surprising that I was even able to get any photos that weren't blurry. Normally, I change lenses many times during a show, but with everyone pushing so much I couldn't do that, because it probably would have been knocked out of my hand and broken. Because of these things, I had to shoot at an ISO of 3200 (which I have NEVER had to do before), which caused noise in the photos.
All in all, I guess they are ok, but I have to say that personally, I am really not satisfied with them. I hope that the next time I see BLOOD, the circumstances will be better for taking photos.
August 31, 2006
Updated the Interviews section. I added a link to an interview BLOOD did in Finland in April of this year. (Thanks Tabitha for posting the link)
August 29, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
August 22, 2006
Updated the BLOOD fans list. I apologize for taking so long to add some people to my list (^_^;) I thought I had added everyone that sent emails to me wanting to join to my list, but when I was going through my email today, I saw several requests from some time ago that I missed somehow. If there is anyone who has sent me a request to join that I have forgotten, please email me and let me know. Thanks (^_^)
August 19, 2006
Updated BLOOD News, and I fixed some of my links that were not working.
August 18, 2006
Updated the Band History section.
August 15, 2006
Updated the Band History section and BLOOD News.
Right now, my guestbook is working again, so please feel free to sign it. I saved all of the current entries in to a text file, so if I have any further problems with it, I can get a new guestbook and copy the entries to it.
August 6, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
July 22, 2006
As you may have noticed, I have been having problems with my guestbook again for some time now. (>_<) I am quite frustrated with it. I changed my guestbook on this site to the one I have now because I had used it on my other websites for quite a while with no problems, but in the last 2 months or so it has only worked once or twice that I know of, so I am currently in the the process of trying to find one that is reliable.
As soon as I find one I think I will be satisfied with, I will put it up, and if I am able to access the one I have now, I will transfer all of the entries on it to the new guestbook (again!).
I apologize for the inconvenience.
July 15, 2006
Updated the BLOOD gallery in the Gallery section, the Links section and BLOOD News.
I also changed my main page graphics, and made a small change to my menu.
When I originally made the new graphics for my site, I didn't want to use the photos I used, but they were the only photos available to me at the time. Since I got new photos to work with, I wanted to use them to make my graphics.
Thanks Kiwamu!!! (^_^)
June 30, 2006
I changed my site today. I changed all of the graphics except the splash (intro) page and the counter skin.
I will be changing my counter skin as soon as they get the new one I made uploaded onto the website, and I may change the graphics on the splash page sometime soon too.
I have also changed some of the navigation to make it a little bit easier to get around the site. I also decided to change the name of the publications section to "Media", since I wanted to other things in this section too, such as a link to the BLOOD television interview.
I also updated many sections of the website, such as the Live Schedule, Band History, Media, and Fan Art (which has it's own section now) sections, as well as BLOOD News and the BLOOD fans list.
Since I have been talking about doing this for a long time, I know some of you are probably wondering what took so long.
I have been planning on doing this for well over 6 months now, but when I do things like this, I spend a lot of time planning the changes in my head, and thinking about what I want to do and how I want it to look before I ever actually start the work on it, because it makes the work go much more smoothly. I had considered completely changing the layout of the site, but I really like the current layout, so I decided to just change the graphics and some things about the navigation. I had a good idea of what I wanted to do, and I had most of the graphics finished, but then BLOOD released the photos with the new costumes, so of course I wanted to use them in my graphics. Unfortunately, because of this I had to completely change my plans for my graphics. Before the photos were released, I had intented to use red roses in the main graphics for my site, and I tried several different ideas using red roses with the new photos, but I just didn't think it looked right, so I decided scrap that idea and completely start over. I came up with some graphics that I am very happy with, but because they are so different from what I had originally planned, I had to start all over again and remake all of my other graphics too, such as my menu, banners and text images.
I have also been planning for some time to add a new section to my site. I decided to go ahead and change the site now and leave that section out, and then I will add it as soon as I have time, because even if I work on the new section many hours every day, I think it will probably take at least a week to complete the new section.
June 2, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule and Gallery sections.
In the Live Schedule section I added information on how to order tickets for BLOOD's U.S. shows, and in the Gallery Section I added 2 new galleries:
BLOOD in Berlin ~ April 7, 2006 and BLOOD in Vienna ~ April 9, 2006.
Thanks Kira! (^_^)
June 1, 2006
Updated the discography page.
May 30, 2006
Updated The Band History and BLOOD Fans sections, and BLOOD News.
May 24, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
May 22, 2006
Updated the Fan Art in the Downloads section, and Gallery section. I added the BLOOD ~ Urawa Narusis April 22, 2006 gallery. Thanks Ai and Rianka! (^_^)
May 20, 2006
Updated the Band History, BLOOD fans, and Discography sections, the Kiwamu, Kaede, Fu-ki and BLOOD galleries, members page photos and BLOOD News.
Today my website reached 50,000 visitors!
Thank you for your support everyone!
May 4, 2006
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
See BLOOD News.
It will still be a while before I do any major updates to this site, but I will update the BLOOD News and Live Schedule sections with any important information as it becomes available.
April 28, 2006
For the time being, this website is still on hiatus.
I have been working on a new design for this site, but I still have some things to finish. I will be adding a lot of updates soon, which will include some new photos (including some photos from BLOOD's most recent European tour).
April 7, 2006
Updated the Interviews section. I added 2 interviews from the VisualZero website; 7-27-2005 in English & 1-8-2005 in English.
April 6, 2006
THIS WEBSITE IS ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
There are some BLOOD interviews I have been planning to put on this site, but I am currently awaiting final approval from the webmaster of the site where the interview was originally published before I put them up. As soon as I have it, I will put them up. Other than that, I will be making no updates to this site until further notice.
Any news concerning BLOOD will be posted on my J~music Eden website.
April 5, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule section and BLOOD News.
April 3, 2006
Updated the Publications section.
An additional note on the BLOOD photos on my site.
My concern is not that people will use the photos on my site for graphics on their own website. Many people have written to me in the last 2+ years that my site has been up and asked for BLOOD photos to use on their website, and I have sent photos to many people to use on their site. It also has nothing to do with scanning official photo sets. Many people buy the photo sets as BLOOD memorabilia, and never scan the photos. I personally buy them to add to my collection, not because I want to scan them. It is just my small way of doing what I can to help support BLOOD.
My concern is that people will make their own prints of the photos instead of buying the photo sets, or that they will take the photos and create bootleg merchandise (and I know for a fact that people have made bootleg merchandise from BLOOD photos). I will not contribute to this problem.
I am a professional photographer, and I have studied photography extensively for the last 12 years. I also have the most recent version of Photoshop, which is the program of choice used by virtually all professional photographers, and I have an extensive knowledge of how to use. As a professional, I can tell you that it is impossible to make improvements to photos of the size that are on my site and create an image that is the same quality as a professional photo (such as BLOOD's photo sets sold on their website). I don't resize my images in my html. The thumbnail size photos are the actual file size I have uploaded onto my site host.
There is only so much you can do to improve a photo's quality, and the image would have to be enlarged greatly in order to create a normal photo-size print. Every professional photographer knows that when you enlarge an image, you lose image quality, and the more you enlarge it, the more quality you lose. There is no way to avoid it. So even though it is possible for someone to save my photos even if I take measures to prevent this, it is NOT possible for them to create prints from those photos that are of a quality equal to BLOOD's photo sets. It would also be extremely difficult, if not impossible for someone to use the photos on my site to create bootleg merchandise. The photos are small enough that there simply isn't enough detail to work with, but if I were to put larger photos on my site that were of greater detail, then it would be possible for someone to use them for this purpose, so I simply won't do it.
April 2, 2006
Updated the Band History and Links sections.
March 30, 2006
Updated the Downloads section. I added some icons. Thanks Essie! (^_^)
March 28, 2006
Today is the second Anniversary of this website!!!
March 25, 2006
Updated the Merchandise section.
March 24, 2006
Updated BLOOD News, Band History and the Links section.
I have remove some links to sites which are no longer in existence, and also sites which don't have a link to my website. I removed the link to the Kiwamu fanlisting because that site has not been working for some time. You can get to the intro page, but the link to the fanlisting itself does not work.
If you wish to have your site added to the Links section on this site (BLOOD-related sites only please), please add a link to this site on your website, and email me and let my know and I will be happy to add a link to your website.
March 15, 2006
I changed my counter on the intro page. I decided to do this, because my site statistics from my web host are very detailed, and they show that many people visit my site, but they skip the intro page. My counter was not showing an accurate count of visitor per day, so I decided to change it so that it will only display the total visitors to my site.
Since I recently updated my galleries of BLOOD, Kiwamu, Kaede and Fu-ki, I thought that I should clarify some things. If you go these these galleries, you will notice that only some of the photos in these galleries will display in a larger size on a separate page. Only the photos that have been available on BLOOD's official website (on member's pages and as the main site graphics) or BLOOD's other official sites (Myspace, VampireFreaks etc.), BLOOD flyers, and photos from BLOOD 2nd period that Kiwamu sent to me when I made this site are available to view in a larger size. The reason I have done this is because I know that if people can come to a website and get BLOOD's photo sets for free, they will probably not buy the photo sets sold on BLOOD's official website. The purpose of this website is to support BLOOD, and for this reason I will not make these photos available to view in a larger form.
I am also posting this information in the galleries this pertains to.
March 13, 2006
Updated the Interviews section.
I added a transcript of the BLOOD interview on Tainted Reality.
March 8, 2006
Updated the gallery section.
I added new photos to the BLOOD, Kiwamu, Kaede and Fu-ki galleries.
March 3, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
February 27, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule section and BLOOD News.
February 22, 2006
Updated the Band History section and BLOOD News.
February 20, 2006
Updated the Band History section.
February 16, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
February 14, 2006
Updated the Gallery section.
I added photos from BLOOD's recent tour in Mexico. Thanks Qbeto!
February 8, 2006
Updated BLOOD News and About the Owner of this Site sections.
February 8, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule section.
February 7, 2006
Updated the Band History section.
February 3, 2006
Updated the Gallery section. I have added several new galleries to BLOOD European Tour September 2004. I want to thank everyone that allowed me to use their photos. I apologize for taking so long to get them up. Special thanks to Youko for getting permission from everyone for me to use their photos, and to Stella for getting permission and photos from LEMONed.
February 2, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
I also reorganized the Gallery section. All galleries are now linked so that you can go to the large photos in the gallery and look through all of the photos in that gallery without having to go back to the thumbnails page.
January 28, 2006
With the permission of BLOOD and VisualZero, I added BLOOD's recent interview with the VisualZero website in English to the Interviews section. They were questioned about the meaning of "The Last Tour" in this interview, and whether or not it means they are disbanding.
I also updated the Lyrics section. I added lyrics for VENGEANCE for BLOOD 3 (finally!). I'm sorry it took so long. I have been planning to do this for over 2 weeks now, but I have been very busy and I didn't have time to do it until today. I will be adding the lyrics in Romanji as soon as I can.
January 27, 2006
Yesterday I changed the graphics on my splash (intro) page.
Since someone was asking about it, I want to assure everyone that I will keep my site up when BLOOD suspends activities. It is my understanding that they are simply taking a break for a while to rest and relax, and I think that is a good thing. They have been working very hard for a long time now, and they deserve it. During the break in activities, I will update my site whenever any news becomes available, and if anyone submits any photos, fan art, wallpapers, icons, etc. for my site.
I have been thinking about redesigning my site for a long time now, but because my site is so big, it will take a long time to change all of the pages I would need to change. I may take advantage of the break in activities to do this.
January 25, 2006
Updated BLOOD News.
January 22, 2006
I have been having problems with my guestbook for some time now, and I have contacted the guestbook tech support twice about it, but they haven't answered me. Rather than leave my site without a guestbook, I am going to put my new guestbook up on my site. If the old guestbook starts working again, I will copy the entries from it into the new one.
January 20, 2006
Updated the Merchandise and Live Schedule sections, and BLOOD News.
January 18, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule section and BLOOD News.
January 17, 2006
Updated BLOOD news.
January 13, 2006
Updated the Discography section.
January 8, 2006
Updated the Live Schedule and Band History sections, and BLOOD news.
I have been having a lot of problems with my guestbook for some time now, so I got a new one, but I haven't put it up yet. As soon as my current guestbook starts working again, I am going to copy all of the entries into my new guestbook and put it up.
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