slashhearts

Category: Visual Work

  • M@STERPIECE (OverseasP English Cover): iM@S 20th

    M@STERPIECE (OverseasP English Cover): iM@S 20th

    Composer: Satoru Kousaki (MONACA)
    Lyricist: yura
    Arranger: Satoru Kousaki (MONACA), Ryuichi Takada (MONACA)

    English Translyrics,
    Audio Mixing & Video Editing
    slashhearts (sl△sh)

    Audio Mixing Support
    BlazeP

    created to celebrate The iDOLM@STER’s 20th Anniversary. after having written the english lyrics, gathered and organized more than 40+ participants. scratch track created with Synthesizer V, audio mixed and edited with Bandlab, video (history montage and singer timing) created with Aviutl.

    video montage combines three performances of M@STERPIECE (the movie, MOIW2015, and MOIW2023) with scrolling clips of PVs and live clips from the series’ history, covering all six branches to date.

    Promotional Images

    recruitment poster
    last call poster
    confirmation announcement
    final youtube thumbnail featuring all overseas idols

    scratch track sample, full lyric sheet, and cast listing after the jump:

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  • ditto – newjeans (english cover)

    original by NewJeans
    composed by 250, Ylva Dimberg
    original lyrics by Ylva Dimberg, The Black Skirts, Oohyo, Minji
    produced by 250

    original UST by Mimisan15
    english lyrics and video by sl△sh (slashhearts)
    cover by sl△sh (slashhearts) feat. Mo Chen

    full lyric sheet and more after the jump:

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  • postcard for a coworker’s last day

    personal project for a coworker’s last day. took a couple of her catchphrases and turned it into a framed postcard print as a goodbye present.

    i couldn’t decide at the time which one worked best but looking back at it now years later, i would’ve just stuck to the one that’s in the frame. (the second one was included, just behind the main one inside.)

    made in Photoshop CC 2019.

  • mock-up: joint live music festival concert poster/flyer

    mock-up: joint live music festival concert poster/flyer

    poster/flyer mock-up for a fake joint concert/music festival. (all of the bands listed here were from an old “idolsona” discord server i used to be a part of.) the text in the middle reads: “all units performing! together with everyone from 513 Productions!”

    i had a lot of fun with gradient maps for this one.

    Foil texture by Vinicius “amnx” Amano on Unsplash.

    Made in Photoshop CC 2019. 

  • HE/US by The New Art Collective

    final project for my “Distribution of Literature” workshop during my undergrad senior year at UCSD. overseen by Lorena Gomez Mostajo, we dissected Carrión’s “The New Art of Making Books” and created a visual chapbook with our reinterpretations.

    for the assignment, we had to pick one quote from Carrión’s work to respond to. i chose the following:

    “In the new art you write ‘I love you’ being aware that we don’t know what this means. You write this phrase as part of a text wherein to write ‘I hate you’ would come to the same thing.”

    to which i responded with the below while referencing Saussure’s notion of the arbitrarily structured relationship between a word (the signifier) and its meaning (the signified):

    書く言葉の文字（しょきそ）はただの意味を決められて整然と落書きである。


    (in every single written language, all graphemes, old and new, are simply organized scribbles that we have assigned meaning to.)

    in addition to submitting a design to be featured within the book, i was tasked with risograph printing and booklet assembly. the book itself was printed on A4 card stock, folded in half and bound with rubber bands. the content was printed in black and white greyscale, while the cover was printed in red ink.

    all photos used in my response were taken myself.

    overall project timespan: February 2016 to March 2016 (roughly 10 weeks)
    time spent for design: about one week
    designed on Adobe Photoshop CS6
    special thanks: Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Josephine Leong, Dan-Tran Cong Huyen, Samantha Andico