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So Drifter, are you in Japan or SG all along?
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support = join ?
you shall be given a high rank of lieutenant general. you shall lead an army crop. later, i will give you your army of 200 clones.
He can't even takecare of himself here
support = join ?
you shall be given a high rank of lieutenant general. you shall lead an army crop. later, i will give you your army of 200 clones.
is this a new game? the formation of an army to fight who? who are the foes? who are the boss? who are the targets?:*:...raising an army of 200,000 is no joke!!! you can bring a country down!
Raiders vs Alamaking
Drifter vs Alamaking
Debonerman vs Alamaking
Fishypie vs Alamaking
Bus No. 64 vs Alamaking
TFBH vs Alamaking
Scroobal vs Alamaking
OA vs Alamaking
AK can fight so many people together. you people very lousy. cannot defeat him.
AK: i am your ally against no.7
ALAMAK!!! WHY SO MANY FOES HERE??? I thought I was bad...ALAMAK!!!!
You are wrong lah. Your sifu can change network as he wants lah
THE MODERN SIFU uses high tech and nanotech...ok must learn from my SIFU how to networking....
THE MODERN SIFU uses high tech and nanotech...ok must learn from my SIFU how to networking....
Kopi!!! I must share a piece of good news with you!!!
hahahaa...this Narong is the King Of Quotable Quotes..But he has improved alot...good for him. I think he ate too much expletives cookies already...saturated liao. Kong Hee Huat Chai !!!
you want to join the coalition of the willing ?
you shall be given a General rank. you shall lead the vanguard clones to attack kukibird's idol.
only the bravest of the brave dare to join the coalition.
me old dad's soldier?? i very scared of fighting....i think this forum got too many generals and warlords liao...
T0nychat vs All Straight guys!
OMG is this Drifter??
TOKYO, Feb 5, 2013 (AFP) - Japanese fashionistas leaped to the defence of Tokyo-based Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee on Tuesday after he was arrested for selling books containing pictures of male genitals.
Kee, who has snapped megastars including Lady Gaga and Super Bowl sensation Beyonce, was arrested Monday on suspicion of obscenity after selling the books at his Tokyo gallery.
The 41-year-old photographer could be jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to 2.5 million yen ($27,000) if convicted.
Pornography is widely available and produced in Japan, but under domestic law genitals must be obscured, a process usually done through pixellation.
"I am stunned by the news of Leslie Kee's arrest," Yamamuro Kazz, a leading fashion journalist and magazine editor in Japan, wrote on his website.
He questioned police motivation for the arrest because Kee's works were available at a gallery event, a forum only open to people familiar with the artistic nature of it.
"The legal interpretation of whether genitals were exposed or not (and whether the work is obscene or not) is totally irrelevant to the intention of an artist," he said.
"Under their narrow interpretation, works by Terry Richardson and Robert Mapplethorpe are all considered obscene," he said, referring to prominent US photographers.
Popular model Ai Tominaga tweeted "I am shocked. I am shocked for Japan", and was joined by others online who expressed similar dismay. Twitter user @onda_natsue said the arrest showed how unsophisticated Japanese culture is.
In 2008, Japan's top court ruled that nude pictures by Mapplethorpe were not obscene, in a verdict hailed as a victory for artistic freedom in the country, ending a decade-long battle over the censorship laws.
The plaintiff, a Japanese publisher, filed the lawsuit after his copy of a Mapplethorpe book was seized in 1999 when he tried to bring it from the United States for personal use.
TOKYO, Feb 5, 2013 (AFP) - Japanese fashionistas leaped to the defence of Tokyo-based Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee on Tuesday after he was arrested for selling books containing pictures of male genitals.
Kee, who has snapped megastars including Lady Gaga and Super Bowl sensation Beyonce, was arrested Monday on suspicion of obscenity after selling the books at his Tokyo gallery.
The 41-year-old photographer could be jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to 2.5 million yen ($27,000) if convicted.
Pornography is widely available and produced in Japan, but under domestic law genitals must be obscured, a process usually done through pixellation.
"I am stunned by the news of Leslie Kee's arrest," Yamamuro Kazz, a leading fashion journalist and magazine editor in Japan, wrote on his website.
He questioned police motivation for the arrest because Kee's works were available at a gallery event, a forum only open to people familiar with the artistic nature of it.
"The legal interpretation of whether genitals were exposed or not (and whether the work is obscene or not) is totally irrelevant to the intention of an artist," he said.
"Under their narrow interpretation, works by Terry Richardson and Robert Mapplethorpe are all considered obscene," he said, referring to prominent US photographers.
Popular model Ai Tominaga tweeted "I am shocked. I am shocked for Japan", and was joined by others online who expressed similar dismay. Twitter user @onda_natsue said the arrest showed how unsophisticated Japanese culture is.
In 2008, Japan's top court ruled that nude pictures by Mapplethorpe were not obscene, in a verdict hailed as a victory for artistic freedom in the country, ending a decade-long battle over the censorship laws.
The plaintiff, a Japanese publisher, filed the lawsuit after his copy of a Mapplethorpe book was seized in 1999 when he tried to bring it from the United States for personal use.
LOL virtual rank LOL
Getting time to sit down with celebrity photographer Leslie Kee during his utterly hectic schedule to speak in detail about his career was the easy part: getting him to stop speaking requires a trickier sleight of hand.
The Singapore-born and Tokyo-based Kee has a thick resume, photographing such uber-celebs as Ayumi Hamasaki, Zhang Ziyi, Kumi Koda, Choi Ho Jin and Beyonce among countless others for magazines, books, posters and commercials. Recently, his proclivity for taking photos of subjects unclothed and au naturale has sent shock waves through conservative Asia, but Kee sees it as a revelation and hopefully a revolution in an entertainment and fashion industry that lacks aesthetic diversity.
A 21-year-old Leslie Kee traveling at the start of his photography career.
Humble beginnings
Kee was born in Singapore to a prostitute mother who died when he was 13, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother and aunt. Japanese entertainment, especially music idols such as Seiko Matsuda, appealed to Kee and he came to Tokyo as a student to learn Japanese and photography, working two, sometimes three part-time jobs at a time to survive.
“Those were the hardest years of my life. I came from a home in Singapore that subsisted on the roots of sprouts that were cut off to be prepared for the elite class. I was the first in my family to attend college. The hardest part was always wondering if I would be approved for a visa or not,” says Kee.
Kee graduated in Tokyo and got his break by taking photos for modeling agencies who hired him for jobs and introduced him to clients. Since then, the name Leslie Kee has become synonymous with crossing Asian borders in a whirlwind, leaving kitschy, provocative, and buzz-worthy work in his wake.
“Being Singaporean afforded me the opportunity to have the ability to speak Chinese and English, and then learn Japanese fairly easily. So in that way I actually feel privileged, since I can converse with so many people throughout Asia.”
Kumi Koda's eye-catching 2006 album cover.
Challenging the media
The 16-year journey to success for Kee certainly hasn't been a smooth bullet-train ride. But the stubborn quality he possesses has gotten him thus far, and it now gives him the gall to challenge the status quo in the rigid entertainment industry.
“In Japan, it’s the celebrity’s agency that gets to choose which photos are published from a shoot. But I have to make the agency believe that the photos I will choose are going to be the best. Even if it takes 50 years for them to agree, then OK, let it take 50 years. They’ll come around.”
Going up against the almighty talent agency is not the only way Kee has ruffled feathers. In 2006, he published a book called “Super Stars” that featured 300 of his closest friends -- who happened to all be top Asian stars -- in which proceeds went to victims of the 2004 South-east Asian tsunami. In many of the photos, stars were semi-nude, leaving very little to the imagination. The book was subsequently banned in Singapore.
“I was upset for a few days but then I got over it. I can't do anything about the Singaporean laws. It comes down to my cup of tea being different from the government’s cup of tea.”
Then this January 1, Kee traveled to India to shoot a risky nude photo collection for a magazine.
“It was nighttime and we were on a little boat on the river, and you’re definitely not supposed to be nude there. Even my guide was freaking out and I had to tell him to be brave. I took the photo as fireworks were shooting off in the background. The resulting shot was so beautiful, we cried.”
He continues, “A lot of people, in Asia specifically, won’t say what they want to through art because they are so afraid of the media. But the media can’t physically stab you and a hypothetical stab won't kill you, you know? They can't hurt me.”
Japanese entertainer Takeshi Kitano poses for "Super Tokyo".
Presenting 'Super Tokyo'
Armed with a new sense of purpose and an established reputation for charismatic shots peppered with Tokyo kitsch, Kee published his latest book in April of this year as a tribute and thank you to Tokyo called “Super Tokyo”, which benefitted the UN’s Safe Motherhood Initiatives campaign. In it, 1,000 people who represent all facets of Tokyo’s creative industries frolic happily unclothed, with only illustrations of Hello Kitty and the occasional cartoon bubbles to keep it legal under the non-genitalia laws of Japan.
“Doing these books, I have realized that people in Tokyo are a lot more willing to step out of their comfort zones than anyone might imagine. I think they feel freer. So I just turned 40 and I've decided to self-publish a book every year until I turn 50.”
Kee has come a long way from being the young Singaporean artist with a dream to garner enough cachet to take his career anywhere. And yet, he chooses to stay in Tokyo, where he still jumps through hoops, trying to nudge at his industry to lighten up.
“Simply put, I feel there is love here. I will make my grave in Tokyo. I actually wish I had two more lives to live here because I feel that one is not enough!”
Checkout his work in Facebook . This fellow is good !!http://m.facebook.com/lesliekeesupe...r#!/lesliekeesuper?v=photos&__user=1253907413
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