"Angel landed"

Alice Japan 17th, 18th November

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A caution first. I can't show the face of Aya Fujiwara's in this work, because she can't go public. The production company didn't even want to have her mentioned in this diary, but I begged and going ahead. If you must see her face, please check it out on the video.

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I finally flew. Sky-diving that I had always wanted to. In a shooting for a girl called Aya Fujihara. You might say do it in private time but I didn't have a friend who would fly with me. I can't comment in details but in order to shoot Aya, there were too many restrictions so I asked "Please let me do what I want" and this became possible. (Don't misunderstand. Aya is a kind of girl who would do her job without a single complaints, and it wasn't for some stupid restrictons)

The sky diving this time wasn't tandem (not the one stuck with an instructor like child turtle on mother turtle). The instructor was holding me from the side just in case I lose conciousness during the fall and can't open the parachute, but I can still enjoy falling down with parachute open alone. So it's side by side with death. But I guess it's safe becasue the parachute will open automatically, I think. Three of us, Aya, Hiramoto the actor, and I will fall.

Aya apparently likes to associate animals to people, and the director for previous video was an "insect". After the shoot, the guy was promoted to a "human", but I was an "ant" and Hiramoto was "racoon dog" =).

The contents of the video wasn't gonna be interesting with just sky diving, so a soap drama set as "The princess and animals of the forests" was thrown in. The finish is a jump from 3000m sky by Hiramoto and I in respective fur suits. =)

After getting instructions, we jumped. The sesna had a capacity of 6 so three of us can't jump in one go. (The person doing the jump, two instructors, an air-camera man, and our camera man). First, Hiramoto. Just before the jump, when opening the door, he almost felt and he was scared to death, but made up his mind and fell shouting "Princess!"

The jump was following the basics, and he opened the parachute by himself. Next was Aya. She couldn't make any voice in the training so I was little concerned, but the jumped following the basics and it was good. The last was me. Seeing the two jump, I was scared and the door opened and I was realy to jump, I couldn't be any more frightened. "Anything goes!", "Princeeeeees!!!", and I jumped.

I could see the ground and the sky in tern. The moment I realized I was spinning, I couldn't think anything. Then I found out the instructors who were supposed to hold me weren't around. "Hmmmm, I might die". I looked at the altitude and it was time to open the parachute. "What shall I do....". The next second, the instructor flew in from nowhere (really!) and opened my parachute! I was saved!

Later when I was watching the video, I did look like an "ant" rotating in the sky.

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There was a hidden theme in this shooting. What will I be after two days of shooting from an "ant". Will I be promoted to a "human" like the last director. I was looking forward to hear her opinion and distances. And what was I? "You are still an ant", she said. =) I told her that it hadn't changed, then she said "No, you were simply so small, and I had to look out not to step on you, but you are now working ant" =) I was still an "ant".