Translated from: http://www.sodagreen.com.tw/main/weekly/weekly106.php

Week 106

Publication date: 2009.10.15

Compiled and edited by: Ah Chun + Xin Yi + Fu Xiu

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Article on Photo Modelling

About the modelling —

Of course this was the first time all of the workers [on this project] had met sodagreen. The stylist’s intuition was to give sodagreen a completely new feel, and proposed retro rock as a suggestion, letting sodagreen give the impression of rock stars. Everyone was given straight fringed* retro hair, everyone in black tones of the most basic elements of rock and roll, the male band members natural and not made up, Xin Yi** got exaggerated eyelashes and eyeliner***, with 60s retro clothes. Combined, this became sodagreen’s rock and roll flavour.

About the photography ―

Photographer Donald, who has been taking photos for 20 years, his first assignment was with the band New Order on tour. Selecting a few characteristic scenes, an entire graffiti wall,  a river bank, an old walled enclosure, an authentic overpass……we also boarded a boat and took photos along the river Thames, it didn’t matter where, the photographer’s instructions were always the same: “be cool and relax”, always made sodagreen’s poses relaxed, he let sodagreen feel that this time doing the photography shoots is the first time we felt relaxed and not exhausted.

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*That’s “bangs”, my North American friends

**I like how Xin Yi gets her own category, which I suppose makes more sense than saying “and the sole female member of the band…”

***Though according to Yellow Bridge Dictionary 眼線 also means “police informer”. Hmm.