ItalianoGACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
People often don’t feel like working when it gets to May but
indeed, there is some truth that this is the season when that mood appears.
I can’t really start my engine even when I want to start work.
Well,
it’s not that I don’t want to work but
I guess I just can’t get into it, or maybe I’m just procrastinating…
Today as well, I went into the photography studio and got prepared but
for the staff who brought one thing after another for me to check,
I couldn’t stop feeling annoyed halfway through.
Well,
everyone’s just doing their job so it can’t be helped though.
Normally, I’ll say a bunch of things once through but
since I got used to it, I didn’t get that annoyed but
I was in a particularly bad mood today, maybe because of the seasonal patterns.
Halfway through the shoot,
the carabiner that I previously ordered from 【JIGOR】,
a silver accessory designer who I’m close to, was completed and brought to me.
A carabiner can be used in a variety of ways but
interestingly, no matter how I searched around the world,
I couldn’t find a carabiner that looked cool.
It took more than half a year for them to produce this for me but
they’ve delivered something that’s even cooler than I imagined.
I’ve heard that the silver accessory industry has been sluggish recently but
according to JIGOR, when I asked them directly, they said that it was rather terrible.
I suppose the silver industry needs a new generation.
It’s not bad to be particular about things but
if you’re too particular, you’ll lose your flexibility,
you’ll lose sight of what’s important, and you won’t be able to even create trends anymore.
I suppose more designers have to recognise
that an era of new changes has arrived in the silver industry too.
I guess this can be said for just about any industry but
at a time when change is needed,
people can be divided into those who can quickly catch onto that and make a move,
those who catch onto that but don’t make any moves,
and those who basically can’t even catch that
and before they know it, will be left behind by the times.
No matter what choice you make, if your timing is wrong
tough consequences will await you.
Simply put, the difference that decides whether hard times visit you or not
is simply the timing when you go into things.
By the way,
I went to Akasaka’s 【天香回味 (Tian Siang Hei Wei)】 for the first time in awhile but
I was shocked by the difference in price compared to KL’s branch.
I looked at the menu, shocked, as I thought, “Is it this expensive…”.
I also went to the oldest restaurant in Tokyo, Ginza’s oden restaurant 【おぐ羅 (Ogura)】.
I happened to be invited by a senpai, and as we started talking about what to eat,
I mentioned that I’ve never had oden in Tokyo so
I said that I wanted to try the most delicious oden there is,
and we came here…
Tokyo is amazing.
I’m also surprised that oden can be establised at this price.
In the past, an uncle of mine who passed away a few years ago also had an oden restaurant in Okinawa
but the huge difference in price is just shocking.
Looking at Tokyo again like this,
the unthinkable has been established.
Even as times change, it is possible to be satisfied like this
There’s still more I need to study.
Anyway, it’s expensive…
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
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