This is Aimee Steinberger's journal. It's filled with sketches, costumes, kimono and photos of cats and flowers.

If you'd like to see my artwork you can use the "art" tag here on my LJ (I always post my artwork to LJ first...) or you can view my portfolio and resume on my website.

I am currently an animator and assistant director at Rough Draft Studios on various projects including the new season of Futurama. I previously worked for Warner Brothers, Film Roman on the Simpsons and Disney in various animation artist positions.

I don't really add people unless I know them personally, thanks for your understanding! Feel free to watch or add though as you like! :) Most of the posts are public, including art posts.

My book, Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan, is out through Go! Comi! You can also find it on Amazon and your local bookstore or comicbook store. It's a story of my two girl friends and I in Japan. :)
If you've read Japan Ai and would like to leave me a comment about it I'd really appreciate it! (or you can email me.)

DAY 24
Happy Christmas Eve everyone!
I wanted to make a drawing for Tony for Christmas, so I did this. (though I probably should have drawn Tony himself on trapeze!)
on DA

Tomorrow, at long last, I pick up my sakura tree. It was the last one they had at the nursery, too. Little tree, we are fated to be. I will try really hard not to kill you. (if I'd missed this one I would have had to wait till spring, and what torture would -that- be. haha.)

Also, there's going to be a big truck full of morea bicolor, lavender, wisteria, camelia, crape myrtle, star jasmine, whooly thyme, rosemary, california lilac, primrose and a lady banks rose.

My mom, dad and brother will be here in a few hours. and my mom is bringing me some of Mommy Vi's bearded iris bulbs. XD This spring I'll add in a prunus mume (flowering apricot/plum), clematis, fleabane daisy, Cypress Vine, passion vine, agastache, penstemon and white poppies (hopefully the non-felony kind).

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS.

PLANTS IN MY YARD.

Day 23 (early)

( From Far Away )

SOME NEW STUFF FROM JASON:

( Rose Tyler - The Stolen Earth )

WELL. IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN. I know I'm not going to have time to complete any more costumes this year,... so here's the Year End Review.

Le Chevalier D'eon,Blade of the Immortal, Gurren Lagann, Firefly
Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Disco Doctor Who, Bosozoku Aimee and Circus, Wolverine
Black Butler Sebastian and Circus vr, Rose Doomsday and Updated 10th Doctor, Rose Stolen Earth, Kitsune.

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STUFF I DID

- overall I had a lot of fun this year even though I didn't do a ton of complex costumes. I think perhaps the highlights for me was Costume College with Judy (pretending to be fancy 18th century ladies), dressing up in Sleeping Beauty and going to the Atlanta Aquarium, seeing how happy Mitch was in his Kamina costume, and scaring the minds of Doctor Who fans everywhere with a sequin-covered TARDIS that dances.

- Used a crapload of rhinestones to make my first fancy Disney Princess Dress.
- made a bright purple jumpsuit O_O
- put my husband in a confetti dot see-through shirt and convinced my coworker to moonwalk as a TARDIS
- didn't compete at all this year and only performed in one masquerade as a lark.
- went to Costume College for the first time in a long time, really enjoyed it. Decided I wanted to do more historical
- finally wore my bosozoku unicorn wig.

STUFF I DIDN'T DO:

- didn't do ANYTHING for Halloween.
- really really meant to do my ELF costumes this year. Bought all the stuff, did the muslin, made the hat. Didn't finish.
- did a TON OF WORK on my Vampire Hunter D costume that I'm really proud of. I learned a lot. But got overbusy and put it off. This year, for sure. I don't actually have that much left to do on it.
- meant to make my Doctor Who Madame de Pompadour costume for Dragoncon, but there was just -no way-. I'll have it done by Gallifrey.
- meant to drape my own Robe a la francaise pattern... but I need someone to partner with, so I haven't done it yet.
- meant to make Mitch a Prince Philip costume and/or Phantom of the Opera.
- really want to get more photoshoots with Doctor Who, Sleeping Beauty and Chevalier.
- lots of other stuff. :P

Fave on DA ( Oiran New Year (larger under the cut) )

I'm really happy that this year I'll get to go to Oshogatsu (Happy New Year) in Little Tokyo this year. Come out on New Years Day!

There will be:
Taiko drum and Koto performance
Caligraphy Demostration on Japanese Kites
Japanese Swordmanship Show
Japanese Folk Singing & Dancing
Mochitsuki (pounding of sweet rice)
Origami demo, Kite Making, etc.

Also the LA Kimono club will be there and will be doing a Miss Kimono LA contest. The contest sign up is 11 am, and most of the Little Tokyo celebrations start at noon. I'll be there to support kimono club in furisode ( probably this blue sakura one...) and I'm hoping to dress up one of my friends in furisode, too.

Kimono group photo session will be at Noguchi Plaza in JACCC before 1pm.
La Kimono Club Oshogatsu info.
Little Tokyo Oshogatsu info

DRAWING FOR TODAY, Thumbelina (~ on DA)

"Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on
silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again."
- Bill Morgan, Jr

to all my friends having snow right now, I hope you're able to enjoy the beauty despite the often extreme annoyance that comes along with it. (I know it's causing problems for a lot of people right now... sorry y'all! Hang in there!) We -never- get snow here and I never got snow growing up either, except when there was a hurricane... so it's magical to me. :)

ming85 posted this great photoshoot from the NYtimes. (click for more) Parts of it remind me so much of the onsen Mitch and I went to 2 years ago. Man... it was so awesome. The water so warm, but snow everywhere, even on our eyelashes!


here's one of the photos from the onsen we went to... I can't find a photo of the pools right now because we moved and my backup cds are in a pile somewhere, but the format of the pool was just like the one in that photoshoot above! The night we got to the onsen... there was no snow at all. We woke up the next morning and it looked like THIS:

A tall lolita sent me a message today asking for some advice... But I ended up typing such a long response, that I thought I'd post it here so other girls might find it useful, too...? This post will be useful for girls who are taller, larger and/or have larger feet (regardless of whether they are into lolita fashion or not...)

( How I shop for clothes and shoes under the cut )

Day 20

( a couple weepy comics under the cut )