[Trans] Kame Camera - Vol.25 Addict
Highlights:
-The title ("Addict") was in English in the original interview :D
-Kame's method to get over jobs that are too difficult.
-Things he is into recently.
-A nice present he received ^^
Thanks to scorch66 for the English betaread~
KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
Vol.25 Addict
「People and things I have been really addicted to become a part of me and clear a path through my life.」
I’m also into interior design. Mixing natural things and hard things is the present mood. I place on the table fresh flowers or plants and regularly change them. This is last year’s Christmas season ornament.
I think I possess a strong “addiction syndrome”. I end up becoming completely absorbed at one go by things that I encounter and have touched my heart. Talking about something recent, Watase Seizo-san’s “Heart Cocktail”. Kitamura Kazuki-san brought it to the filming place of “Youkai Ningen Bem the movie”, and as soon as I borrowed and read it, I was caught. I like the 80s feeling that flows throughout the piece of work. Differently from now, there are no mobile phones or internet. The power of imagination is stimulated by a sort of “hidden mood”. It’s a manga, but like novels there are more monologues than lines, and the passion buried in the heart is romantic. As an influence of that, recently I am listening to songs by Yuming [T/N: Yumi Matsutoya] and Yamashita Tatsurou-san. It’s not that they appeared in the manga, but it’s because I can taste that atmosphere I like so much through them.
I have talked about “Heart Cocktail” in many places and some days ago it turned out that a “Going!” producer is Watase-san’s son! After hearing of me, Watase-san drew me a drawing as a present with “To Kamenashi-kun” written on it. There’s a boat made of a leaf on a calm sea. A woman is sitting on it… It’s an extremely beautiful, romantic drawing. After displaying it in my bedroom, a sweet mood runs through that corner. (laughs)
Once I get into it, even if the boom cools down, the boiling point is constant.
Maybe the encounters with things and people I get into are destiny. “Touch”, that came to a second boom inside of me, is the same. My name was taken from the character Kazuya to begin with too. When I was a kid, the anime was being broadcasted and as a baseball boy I was obviously completely absorbed by it. Recently I was reminded of it after a long time and I’m watching the anime DVDs, and I think “as expected, Minami-chan is cute”. I suppose there might be girls that hate Minami because she’s unfair in making a noncommittal choice between Kazuya and Tatsuya, but… including that unfairness, men end up thinking that she’s cute. Putting this aside (laughs), maybe it’s thanks to watching “Touch”, because of its daily effect of pumping up my imagination, that I was able to hit a home run without problem during the “Going!” project. Is this destiny too!? No, on the contrary, because I was always thinking about the homerun, I was experiencing a life immersed in baseball without being conscious of it, and maybe that’s why I also wanted to watch “Touch” again.
In other words, what I get addicted to depends on that moment’s personal mental status, and I suppose it incorporates both my work and my private life. At least that’s how I am. Since I am the type that starts doing anything from the image or [being caught by the] appearance, I have the feeling that without being conscious of it, I naturally choose and get addicted to people and things that give me the stimulus I am in need of.
For this reason, stuff I get addicted to keeps changing following that moment’s mode, but it doesn’t mean that my interests disappear. Even if the boom passes I keep liking them forever in the depth of my heart, they become part of me and remain there, like they can ignite once more at any other time.
Exactly because I am a person with an addiction syndrome, I also know how impossible it is to measure the power of the moment you can become completely absorbed by something. For this reason, in regards to work, it happens that I decide to get addicted to it. Even if at the beginning it’s an extremely harsh job, if I shape my body and mind into their best condition and focus with all my might, I get over the hardship and get addicted to it! A “zone status”[*] is reached wherein I am able to completely lose myself in that job. When I become like this, I can do whatever I want. While forgetting about the time and enjoying the work, I can do a good job, I can create a good product, and after gathering all of this, my path will clear in front of me. For this reason I think: how can I meet more people and things I can get addicted to, and how can I increase the time in which I am completely absorbed by them? I think that both myself and my life will continue to change following these addictions.
NOTE
[*] Zone status: a status in which you can raise your concentration power to the limit, to the point you don’t notice the surroundings and sounds around you anymore.
Kame’s fixed point of observation
This month he talked about stuff he gets completely absorbed by. Also, he fervently talked about something he got into during last year’s Autumn, the overseas drama “Gossip Girl”. “I was suggested it by a female friend and I started watching it without expectations, but both the fashion and the interior designs are interesting. I thought that the girls are cute (laughs). At first I was into Blair, but then Serena stole my heart… Right now my feelings for her are the same as Touch’s Minami-chan: I like them both, I can’t choose! (laughs)”
By Maquia
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Kame is damn lucky! XD Also the drawing sounds beautiful.
I have to say that his "zone status" is quite scary ._. I sort of envy it (I wish I could do the same), but it's also self-destructive. ._.
-The title ("Addict") was in English in the original interview :D
-Kame's method to get over jobs that are too difficult.
-Things he is into recently.
-A nice present he received ^^
Thanks to scorch66 for the English betaread~
KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
Vol.25 Addict
「People and things I have been really addicted to become a part of me and clear a path through my life.」
I’m also into interior design. Mixing natural things and hard things is the present mood. I place on the table fresh flowers or plants and regularly change them. This is last year’s Christmas season ornament.
I think I possess a strong “addiction syndrome”. I end up becoming completely absorbed at one go by things that I encounter and have touched my heart. Talking about something recent, Watase Seizo-san’s “Heart Cocktail”. Kitamura Kazuki-san brought it to the filming place of “Youkai Ningen Bem the movie”, and as soon as I borrowed and read it, I was caught. I like the 80s feeling that flows throughout the piece of work. Differently from now, there are no mobile phones or internet. The power of imagination is stimulated by a sort of “hidden mood”. It’s a manga, but like novels there are more monologues than lines, and the passion buried in the heart is romantic. As an influence of that, recently I am listening to songs by Yuming [T/N: Yumi Matsutoya] and Yamashita Tatsurou-san. It’s not that they appeared in the manga, but it’s because I can taste that atmosphere I like so much through them.
I have talked about “Heart Cocktail” in many places and some days ago it turned out that a “Going!” producer is Watase-san’s son! After hearing of me, Watase-san drew me a drawing as a present with “To Kamenashi-kun” written on it. There’s a boat made of a leaf on a calm sea. A woman is sitting on it… It’s an extremely beautiful, romantic drawing. After displaying it in my bedroom, a sweet mood runs through that corner. (laughs)
Once I get into it, even if the boom cools down, the boiling point is constant.
Maybe the encounters with things and people I get into are destiny. “Touch”, that came to a second boom inside of me, is the same. My name was taken from the character Kazuya to begin with too. When I was a kid, the anime was being broadcasted and as a baseball boy I was obviously completely absorbed by it. Recently I was reminded of it after a long time and I’m watching the anime DVDs, and I think “as expected, Minami-chan is cute”. I suppose there might be girls that hate Minami because she’s unfair in making a noncommittal choice between Kazuya and Tatsuya, but… including that unfairness, men end up thinking that she’s cute. Putting this aside (laughs), maybe it’s thanks to watching “Touch”, because of its daily effect of pumping up my imagination, that I was able to hit a home run without problem during the “Going!” project. Is this destiny too!? No, on the contrary, because I was always thinking about the homerun, I was experiencing a life immersed in baseball without being conscious of it, and maybe that’s why I also wanted to watch “Touch” again.
In other words, what I get addicted to depends on that moment’s personal mental status, and I suppose it incorporates both my work and my private life. At least that’s how I am. Since I am the type that starts doing anything from the image or [being caught by the] appearance, I have the feeling that without being conscious of it, I naturally choose and get addicted to people and things that give me the stimulus I am in need of.
For this reason, stuff I get addicted to keeps changing following that moment’s mode, but it doesn’t mean that my interests disappear. Even if the boom passes I keep liking them forever in the depth of my heart, they become part of me and remain there, like they can ignite once more at any other time.
Exactly because I am a person with an addiction syndrome, I also know how impossible it is to measure the power of the moment you can become completely absorbed by something. For this reason, in regards to work, it happens that I decide to get addicted to it. Even if at the beginning it’s an extremely harsh job, if I shape my body and mind into their best condition and focus with all my might, I get over the hardship and get addicted to it! A “zone status”[*] is reached wherein I am able to completely lose myself in that job. When I become like this, I can do whatever I want. While forgetting about the time and enjoying the work, I can do a good job, I can create a good product, and after gathering all of this, my path will clear in front of me. For this reason I think: how can I meet more people and things I can get addicted to, and how can I increase the time in which I am completely absorbed by them? I think that both myself and my life will continue to change following these addictions.
NOTE
[*] Zone status: a status in which you can raise your concentration power to the limit, to the point you don’t notice the surroundings and sounds around you anymore.
Kame’s fixed point of observation
This month he talked about stuff he gets completely absorbed by. Also, he fervently talked about something he got into during last year’s Autumn, the overseas drama “Gossip Girl”. “I was suggested it by a female friend and I started watching it without expectations, but both the fashion and the interior designs are interesting. I thought that the girls are cute (laughs). At first I was into Blair, but then Serena stole my heart… Right now my feelings for her are the same as Touch’s Minami-chan: I like them both, I can’t choose! (laughs)”
By Maquia
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Kame is damn lucky! XD Also the drawing sounds beautiful.
I have to say that his "zone status" is quite scary ._. I sort of envy it (I wish I could do the same), but it's also self-destructive. ._.