My New Blog Banner

It's been a while since I updated my blog's design. Well, the most notable change in my blog is the color design. From plain, to black, to colorful, to white, and now back to a black motif.

But one thing that you'll notice is that my original banner stays the same.


Then I decided to change it.

I've been thinking what motif should I use? What banner design should I make.

The first idea is that I'll make a banner similar to this video. It is entitled "Akai Suzu" by Asaki.



I researched for the words "Ray" and "Soul" in Japanese. I used Babelfish to convert the words. I got some japanese characters (I don't know if it is accurate, some say babelfish is unreliable) and used it for my banner.
I then discarded the concept of sketch-like drawing on the "Akai Suzu" video. So what picture should I put in my banner?

I came up with a picture of mine, blurred and in low quality. I edited it using photoshop, add some effects, then, viola! It came out perfect for the banner.

The fonts used in the banner are just additional fonts from MS Office 2003, so it's nothing so special (Yet it is still an eye candy for me).

Then I finished my latest blog banner.


The banner is not my final banner for my blog. I still want to incorporate the "Akai Suzu" feel in my blog.

Music Feature: Sanagi by Asaki

I'm also a casual DrumMania player (Casual 'cause I'm not very good at it). One of my favorite artist in that game is Asaki. He is notable for his songs like Gekkou Chou, Sanagi, Hotaru, Akai Suzu and many more. The songs he composed were incorporated with Japanese Visual Kei, Classical Japanese, Classical European and Jazz. Most of his songs are very difficult to play.

The song above is the full version of Sanagi which is included in his album Shinkyoku.