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yakalskovich) wrote2009-04-20 03:18 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2009-04-20 03:18 pm
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Picture post: The Mysterious Duffel Bag
Yesterday, my friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nazgulwears came to our usual Sunday session of movies and cooking with a ginormous ex-military duffel bag on her back.
When she put it down in my living room, it looked exactly as if it contained one small murder victim. The cats, naturally, were immensely intrigued by it!
In fact, it contained her kendo equipment! Her armour had arrived from Korea (where she had ordered it made to measure for less than a Japanese off-the-rack armour would cost) last week, and she had brought it along for me to take pictures. Here she is, already wearing her kendo-gi (the thick cotton jacket) and hakama, surveying her armour.
Mephisto is extremely fascinated by it all...
... and wanders over to get a better look from another position.
Here she is, fully armoured up! Note how her glasses fit underneath the men (the mask-grille visor thing) without problem, and how one kendoes barefoot while padding and protecting everything else. She says the feet of the advanced kendo-ka looked awfully damaged at times. But that is how one does it, EOT. Oh Japanese culture, how I love thee at times...
And from the back -- kendo-ka don't have to fear nasty backstabbing RED spies, after all! They are all BLU, though, as per tradition, their clothes dyed with natural indigo and untreated, because it was always that way, see above. My choice of team in Milliways had nothing to do with it. And yes, it s correct that you can look into the do (chest armour) from behind.
Note how the do is so shiny, I can see myself taking that picture, and my entire kitchen, in an oddly distorted way, reflected in it. It is actually made of very thin wood and lacquer in the traditional way.
And now, she is putting it all away again, which takes almost as long as putting it on! Note that the tare (the straps hanging down in front to protect where a bloke would have his family jewels) have some ornament on the inside that nobody ever sees in the normal course of events; the men as well, but you can't see that here. Also, note how blue the Nazgul's hands are from touching all that natural untreated indigo.
Mephi is still intrigued.
Lucifer, of course, should not be neglected. Note the effect of ear-scritching on your average friendly feline. Mephi, though, stands behind that scene (you only see his skinny feet) and gawks.
Portrait of Lucifer as Another Animal (as he gets called when he tilts his ears back that way, because he looks more like a lynx than a cat). I had to shrink it that far because the original was blurry; but I did want to post that often-seen but rarely-photographed, very typical expression of his.
Afterwards, we watched 'Black Hawk Down'; and after that, the Nazgul made a very yummy South African casserole dish containing mango chutney, minced beef, onions, curry powder and raisins; I'm sure she'll post the recipe to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
collected_fudz if we wheedle nicely. In the meanwhile, as my Milli!Teja is in Team Fortress 2 being a BLU soldier (as I said, colour choice entirely unrelated to kendo) and I can't EP or tag out otherwise at the moment, I finished and posted a loooooong backstory fic I had been working on since Friday. Then, we watched 'Me And The Colonel', which the Nazgul spontaneously loved and almost missed her train for. All the while, that small murder victim was sitting in its duffel bag beside my Biedermeier cupboard...
nazgulwears came to our usual Sunday session of movies and cooking with a ginormous ex-military duffel bag on her back.When she put it down in my living room, it looked exactly as if it contained one small murder victim. The cats, naturally, were immensely intrigued by it!
In fact, it contained her kendo equipment! Her armour had arrived from Korea (where she had ordered it made to measure for less than a Japanese off-the-rack armour would cost) last week, and she had brought it along for me to take pictures. Here she is, already wearing her kendo-gi (the thick cotton jacket) and hakama, surveying her armour.
Mephisto is extremely fascinated by it all...
... and wanders over to get a better look from another position.
Here she is, fully armoured up! Note how her glasses fit underneath the men (the mask-grille visor thing) without problem, and how one kendoes barefoot while padding and protecting everything else. She says the feet of the advanced kendo-ka looked awfully damaged at times. But that is how one does it, EOT. Oh Japanese culture, how I love thee at times...
And from the back -- kendo-ka don't have to fear nasty backstabbing RED spies, after all! They are all BLU, though, as per tradition, their clothes dyed with natural indigo and untreated, because it was always that way, see above. My choice of team in Milliways had nothing to do with it. And yes, it s correct that you can look into the do (chest armour) from behind.
Note how the do is so shiny, I can see myself taking that picture, and my entire kitchen, in an oddly distorted way, reflected in it. It is actually made of very thin wood and lacquer in the traditional way.
And now, she is putting it all away again, which takes almost as long as putting it on! Note that the tare (the straps hanging down in front to protect where a bloke would have his family jewels) have some ornament on the inside that nobody ever sees in the normal course of events; the men as well, but you can't see that here. Also, note how blue the Nazgul's hands are from touching all that natural untreated indigo.
Mephi is still intrigued.
Lucifer, of course, should not be neglected. Note the effect of ear-scritching on your average friendly feline. Mephi, though, stands behind that scene (you only see his skinny feet) and gawks.
Portrait of Lucifer as Another Animal (as he gets called when he tilts his ears back that way, because he looks more like a lynx than a cat). I had to shrink it that far because the original was blurry; but I did want to post that often-seen but rarely-photographed, very typical expression of his.
Afterwards, we watched 'Black Hawk Down'; and after that, the Nazgul made a very yummy South African casserole dish containing mango chutney, minced beef, onions, curry powder and raisins; I'm sure she'll post the recipe to
collected_fudz if we wheedle nicely. In the meanwhile, as my Milli!Teja is in Team Fortress 2 being a BLU soldier (as I said, colour choice entirely unrelated to kendo) and I can't EP or tag out otherwise at the moment, I finished and posted a loooooong backstory fic I had been working on since Friday. Then, we watched 'Me And The Colonel', which the Nazgul spontaneously loved and almost missed her train for. All the while, that small murder victim was sitting in its duffel bag beside my Biedermeier cupboard...
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And I think I'm going to tie the do a tad bit higher (it's plastic though, not wood. The really expensive ones are made of bamboo but there is no point ti shell out mucho moula just to have a bamboo one when plastic does the job as well. Besides, bamboo is heavier).
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Ahhhh yes, Japanese culture, how we love thee...