[Trans] KAME CAMERA - Vol.1 FUTURE
I decided to break my hiatus after just 2 days (LOL) because I ended up reading Kame's corner in MAQUIA and it's terribly sweet yet deep. This boy knows how to transmit what he feels. I bet that everyone, even non-Kame fans, may appreciate it, so I deeply encourage you to try and read this 24-year-old boy's thoughts: it's a sincere and direct self-analysis. He mainly speaks about his relationship with cameras, what he feels about his image, and what his "ultimate challenge" is.
So, douzo.
KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
VOL.1 - 未来 - Future
「I don't know the future, but it doesn't matter what I'm doing in whatsoever place, I want to stay the “me” who can continue living.」
I take this picture when I went to Okinawa, for a location of the tv program. I had the idea and stuck a driftwood on the empty sandy beach; I tried to take a picture against the light, and the sunlight reflected on the surface of the sea: it was beautiful over any expectation. After that I came up with various ideas and I took many other pictures, but the first one was the best.
I love but hate cameras (laughs). At that moment, I am captured by what I felt and by what I like; it's fun, and I fall in a sort of trance. But on the other side, I want to see more with my naked eye, because I've also got the impression that's better not to put wonderful things on shape. (*1) I think that cameras are scary. It's an occupational disease, I guess. It's fine to have pictures taken of me at work, but I'm still scared if that's done in private life. Going downtown and seeing there are people who have mobile phones or cameras, I end up being cautious. During those days, I close the lens cover because I hate even that my own camera placed at my home points to my direction. The relationship between me and the camera changes everyday.
The picture I used this time is the sea of Okinawa. In my spare time at work, when I was spending some time on the seashore, I suddenly picked up a driftwood and stuck it on the sandy beach. The sun was reflected on the sea and was sparkling, and I thought that was beautiful. In the future I want to feel happiness from simple things, like this way; and I want that the distance between me and nature becomes shorter. Especially the sea, it's an incredibly important spot for my actual self. I go surfing, but simply being submerged by the salt water purifies both my mind and body. When I started surfing at 18 years old, I was simply trying to be cool. Because that's the golden age of the “try to be cool”. “I wake up early, jump into the car, go to the sea, I'm cool!”, something like that (laughs). But if I notice, I was receiving power from the sea.
Maybe I easily feel things above average. I'm always absorbing something, and I end up being able to see many things. For example, even when I'm together with all the KAT-TUN members, I notice many problems and I tend to take responsibility of them. For this reason, this year we passed many things, and the group ai deepened, but [if I want to] say the reason, I don't want to be enthusiastic and say something like “[I did it] for KAT-TUN's sake!”. Because even if I'm always sensitive, if I think too much, I become unable to keep my inner balance (laughs) (*2) But it's exactly because I'm sensitive and have an unbalanced nature, that maybe once in a while the ability to purify myself is necessary.
Recently, I have become more and more a chameleon, I don't understand myself either.
This year was a year of challenges. Talking about individual activities, there was “GOING! Sport and News”. As KAT-TUN's Kamenashi, it was an unimaginable job, but as a fact after trying to do it, the world became wider. On those spots, I don't challenge everything as a KAT-TUN [member], but as a simple human being - as Kamenashi Kazuya. For this reason I bow my head again and again without trying to be cool, I have blisters on my hands, I run without even applying sunscreen. That is nature. But outside the ground, when I am asked “Please, shake hands”, I become KAT-TUN's Kamenashi Kazuya and I care about my hairstyle and stuff. Who on earth am I? (laughs) Originally, on those times, I'm a chameleon that changes nature and face following the situation and the place, but recently, maybe the settlement is more and more intense. Whatever face [I do] isn't a lie, I enjoy it, but if I get used to it even thought it smells of mud, it seems I would become unable to return to KAT-TUN anymore. Recently, I become shy even when I'm often said “You're a fine young boy, eh”. Being mean, I feel like I want to answer “My private life is naughty!” (laughs)
How will future spread? I want to work more as an actor. Not only playing a leading part, I want to collect [different] acting experiences from many points of view. I want to built a house with a wide living room for my family. But having hopes doesn't mean that they're aims too. Because we don't know the future. It doesn't matter what I'm doing in a whatsoever place, I want to stay the “me” who can continue living, and I have that confidence. Because you know, it doesn't matter what kind of place I am in, which country I go to, I enjoy myself. Maybe I can say this because I've been only to blessed lands, but... for this reason, I think I want to go to harsh countries like Africa, and test myself. I'm sure that fate exist, so if I'm able to continue moving forward after having accepted and overcame any kind of destiny without running away, it would be good.
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*1) This may be just my wild guess, but I think that he's saying that it's good to impress beautiful things/scenery on the film, he himself gets captivated by what he feels; but that he wants also to use his naked eyes, because maybe it's better if wonderful moments haven't a tangible form, but are just in our memory. So he think that cameras are scary.
*2) Again, this may be another my wild guess, but to avoid misreadings that may shock the fandom, I'll try to put this sentence in a clearer way XD I think he's simply saying that he doesn't want to go hyper and take all the merit, he says it wasn't thanks to him that they managed to deepen their bond and overcome difficulties. Simply, his character makes him noticing problems and trying to set everything, and this may become a no-good point of him. In fact he says that being over-sensitive to the surroundings makes him think too much and lose his personal inner balance.
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After this issue, I declare eternal love to Kame °_° he made me teary-eyed when he talked about his conflictual relationships with cameras, and when he said that Going! Is a challenge for him as a person, not as an idol. ;_; And how he doesn't try to look cool during baseball and he doesn't care. ;_; I admit I had a heart attack when I read the sentence about not going back to KT - and, before someone goes crazy, what he intended to say was “I like baseball so much, even though it's dirty and sometimes may hurt; on the opposite side, being an idol requires to be always perfect, so if I get used to the first scenario, it would be extremely difficult going back to the second one”.
I love how he was honest in this page and I like his way of explaining things (even if sometimes it's difficult to follow him lol). And he moved me when he clearly states that he's a lucky boy born in a blessed country, and wants to challenge himself going to non-blessed countries. He's really a mature man.
Feel free to point out mistakes if you find any ^_^ I found myself a mistake I don't even know how coul I made O_o He says he's a "chameleon", not a camera lens. Sorry T_T
So, douzo.
KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
VOL.1 - 未来 - Future
「I don't know the future, but it doesn't matter what I'm doing in whatsoever place, I want to stay the “me” who can continue living.」
I take this picture when I went to Okinawa, for a location of the tv program. I had the idea and stuck a driftwood on the empty sandy beach; I tried to take a picture against the light, and the sunlight reflected on the surface of the sea: it was beautiful over any expectation. After that I came up with various ideas and I took many other pictures, but the first one was the best.
I love but hate cameras (laughs). At that moment, I am captured by what I felt and by what I like; it's fun, and I fall in a sort of trance. But on the other side, I want to see more with my naked eye, because I've also got the impression that's better not to put wonderful things on shape. (*1) I think that cameras are scary. It's an occupational disease, I guess. It's fine to have pictures taken of me at work, but I'm still scared if that's done in private life. Going downtown and seeing there are people who have mobile phones or cameras, I end up being cautious. During those days, I close the lens cover because I hate even that my own camera placed at my home points to my direction. The relationship between me and the camera changes everyday.
The picture I used this time is the sea of Okinawa. In my spare time at work, when I was spending some time on the seashore, I suddenly picked up a driftwood and stuck it on the sandy beach. The sun was reflected on the sea and was sparkling, and I thought that was beautiful. In the future I want to feel happiness from simple things, like this way; and I want that the distance between me and nature becomes shorter. Especially the sea, it's an incredibly important spot for my actual self. I go surfing, but simply being submerged by the salt water purifies both my mind and body. When I started surfing at 18 years old, I was simply trying to be cool. Because that's the golden age of the “try to be cool”. “I wake up early, jump into the car, go to the sea, I'm cool!”, something like that (laughs). But if I notice, I was receiving power from the sea.
Maybe I easily feel things above average. I'm always absorbing something, and I end up being able to see many things. For example, even when I'm together with all the KAT-TUN members, I notice many problems and I tend to take responsibility of them. For this reason, this year we passed many things, and the group ai deepened, but [if I want to] say the reason, I don't want to be enthusiastic and say something like “[I did it] for KAT-TUN's sake!”. Because even if I'm always sensitive, if I think too much, I become unable to keep my inner balance (laughs) (*2) But it's exactly because I'm sensitive and have an unbalanced nature, that maybe once in a while the ability to purify myself is necessary.
Recently, I have become more and more a chameleon, I don't understand myself either.
This year was a year of challenges. Talking about individual activities, there was “GOING! Sport and News”. As KAT-TUN's Kamenashi, it was an unimaginable job, but as a fact after trying to do it, the world became wider. On those spots, I don't challenge everything as a KAT-TUN [member], but as a simple human being - as Kamenashi Kazuya. For this reason I bow my head again and again without trying to be cool, I have blisters on my hands, I run without even applying sunscreen. That is nature. But outside the ground, when I am asked “Please, shake hands”, I become KAT-TUN's Kamenashi Kazuya and I care about my hairstyle and stuff. Who on earth am I? (laughs) Originally, on those times, I'm a chameleon that changes nature and face following the situation and the place, but recently, maybe the settlement is more and more intense. Whatever face [I do] isn't a lie, I enjoy it, but if I get used to it even thought it smells of mud, it seems I would become unable to return to KAT-TUN anymore. Recently, I become shy even when I'm often said “You're a fine young boy, eh”. Being mean, I feel like I want to answer “My private life is naughty!” (laughs)
How will future spread? I want to work more as an actor. Not only playing a leading part, I want to collect [different] acting experiences from many points of view. I want to built a house with a wide living room for my family. But having hopes doesn't mean that they're aims too. Because we don't know the future. It doesn't matter what I'm doing in a whatsoever place, I want to stay the “me” who can continue living, and I have that confidence. Because you know, it doesn't matter what kind of place I am in, which country I go to, I enjoy myself. Maybe I can say this because I've been only to blessed lands, but... for this reason, I think I want to go to harsh countries like Africa, and test myself. I'm sure that fate exist, so if I'm able to continue moving forward after having accepted and overcame any kind of destiny without running away, it would be good.
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*1) This may be just my wild guess, but I think that he's saying that it's good to impress beautiful things/scenery on the film, he himself gets captivated by what he feels; but that he wants also to use his naked eyes, because maybe it's better if wonderful moments haven't a tangible form, but are just in our memory. So he think that cameras are scary.
*2) Again, this may be another my wild guess, but to avoid misreadings that may shock the fandom, I'll try to put this sentence in a clearer way XD I think he's simply saying that he doesn't want to go hyper and take all the merit, he says it wasn't thanks to him that they managed to deepen their bond and overcome difficulties. Simply, his character makes him noticing problems and trying to set everything, and this may become a no-good point of him. In fact he says that being over-sensitive to the surroundings makes him think too much and lose his personal inner balance.
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After this issue, I declare eternal love to Kame °_° he made me teary-eyed when he talked about his conflictual relationships with cameras, and when he said that Going! Is a challenge for him as a person, not as an idol. ;_; And how he doesn't try to look cool during baseball and he doesn't care. ;_; I admit I had a heart attack when I read the sentence about not going back to KT - and, before someone goes crazy, what he intended to say was “I like baseball so much, even though it's dirty and sometimes may hurt; on the opposite side, being an idol requires to be always perfect, so if I get used to the first scenario, it would be extremely difficult going back to the second one”.
I love how he was honest in this page and I like his way of explaining things (even if sometimes it's difficult to follow him lol). And he moved me when he clearly states that he's a lucky boy born in a blessed country, and wants to challenge himself going to non-blessed countries. He's really a mature man.
Feel free to point out mistakes if you find any ^_^ I found myself a mistake I don't even know how coul I made O_o He says he's a "chameleon", not a camera lens. Sorry T_T