Thursday, July 28, 2011

Breathtaking

Beauty is
being in harmony
 with what
you are.
 --- Peter Nivio Zarlenga



From Johnny's Beijing photo shoot on Thursday, July 14,
 published in today's edition of The Bund magazine
(let it load, then click on the cover and scroll through
to page 51. Do it. It's even huger there.
And the entire magazine is gorgeous!)
Special thanks to Jenn Kittler for finding the link,
and to dapperderp for first blogging this photo
and then making it available on Weibo.
(Click the Weibo photo again after it loads
for the full-size version. Wow.)



Yes! Johnny is performing
this Saturday, July 30, in Sun Valley, Idaho!
Check his website for more info!



Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!



At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!
Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!



Johnny tweeted recently:
"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.
Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold
takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"
THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.
You know what to do.
Please buy the song from Johnny's website,
or just click the "Buy" button on the player
at the top of the blog!



Hey, Welcome to My World also is available
as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!


copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

China: Finale.

The end is in sight:
Friday, 07/22/2011, 5:29 p.m.
Eric says: "Johnny and Sasha Cohen
after AOI dress rehearsal #999,999,999."



Kayso Johnny and Eric made it back safely on Monday from the Never-Ending Trip To China, so that was good, and whilst they were collapsing and trying to adjust to literally having two Mondays in a row but not nearly enough sleep on any day in recent memory, we all continued to be dazzled by the endless treasures of Weibo. And as I was perusing yet another thread of glorious Weibo picspam Tuesday at around 4 a.m. because my life is weird but it works for me, I randomly checked my email and discovered that OMG ERIC JUST SENT ONE LAST SURPRISE BATCH OF PICS!!! Upon which my first thought was, "OMG ERIC JUST SENT ONE LAST SURPRISE BATCH OF PICS!!!" followed closely by, "Why is Eric AWAKE?"

IDK. But I think we can all agree that we're really grateful that he was, and that all his pics have been amazing, and that we really appreciate that he was actually awake enough to even include captions in this batch. So thank you AGAIN, dear Eric, for going so far out of your way for Johnny's fans. ♥

And so here is the final chapter of China: The Iceman Melteth, Or: Journey To Seriously-It's-Like-5000000-Degrees-Celsius-I-Think-We're-Gonna-Need-A-Bigger-Fan Land.

(Notes: (1) As always, for full-size view, please click any photo to open it in a new window, and then click again to enlarge. (2) Captions by Eric are in quotes. (3) No flying pink pandas were hallucinated, harmed, or otherwise involved in the production of this blog. But possibly in the production of the photos. IDK.)



Friday, 07/22/2011, 10:28 p.m.

"Leaving the last show in Shanghai."



Saturday, 07/23/2011, 8:34 a.m.

"The sweet Chinese Angels
saying goodbye to Johnny."



Sunday, 07/24/2011, 1:11 p.m.
Busy last day.

"Johnny with the beautiful
Japanese Angels."


9:06 p.m.

"An amazing moment in time
that not many get to see."


9:19 p.m.

"Johnny's final walk to the ice in China
to perform Bad Romance."


9:25 p.m.

Johnny on the Jumbotron at the last show.


10:39 p.m.

"Sasha Cohen and I at the meet-n-greet.
In the background is Shizuka Arakawa
figure skater from Japan."
Shizuka won the gold at the 2006 Olympics--
the first Japanese skater ever to do so,
and the only medal won by the Japanese team that year.


10:46 p.m.

"Johnny and some of the cast
at the meet-n-greet with the $ponsors."


"Last pic of Johnny from Taipei."



Bonus video! Johnny's final two performances
from Artistry On Ice in Taipei.
First, "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien."


And next, Bad Romance.
Both of these videos were taken by ヤグファン, or "Yagudin's fan,"
and uploaded to YouTube by maplecherrychoco.
Johnny liked this one so much
he even tweeted about it last night:





Bonus gifs!!
These two gifs capture the moment
when Johnny receives the "Where's my Mr. 8.5?" artwork
from a fan in Shanghai. LOL.

(If the gif won't load for you, please try this link.)


The caption from the source:
"Eric say: 'That’s so funny!' Johnny: *blushes*"
(If the gif won't load for you, please try this link.)



Very, very special thanks once again
to Beauty Bear Eric Alt
 for his incredible kindness in sending
all these exclusive photos from China!!!



Yes! Johnny is performing
this Saturday, July 30, in Sun Valley, Idaho!
Check his website for more info!



Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!



At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!
Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!



Johnny tweeted recently:
"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.
Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold
takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"
THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.
You know what to do.
Please buy the song from Johnny's website,
or just click the "Buy" button on the player
at the top of the blog!



Hey, Welcome to My World also is available
as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!


copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

Monday, July 25, 2011

China: Shanghai Noon.

Er, Noon-Ish. Whatever. Who Cares? I Don't
Even Know What Day It Is. Let's Go Shopping!


Wednesday, 07/20/2011, 9:51 a.m.
Getting ready to hit some stores in Shanghai.
Eric says: "Johnny doing the happy dance
because he LOVES to shop ..."



Yes! They're on their way home! After two weeks and four amazing Artistry On Ice shows in packed arenas, Johnny and Eric left Asia this afternoon and should be landing on the East Coast ... also this afternoon just about 30 minutes before they took off. So they get to have Monday twice which I'm hoping means they can sleep twice as long when they get home because I think they're perhaps slightly exhausted. I'm guessing this via my sharply honed intuition from the latest batch of emails from dear wonderful Eric, who sent a final set of exclusive pics with captions that mostly read like this:

I'm so tired ...

So T I R E D ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.........

And variations thereof.

So, whilst our heroes wing their way home across 6,725 miles of land and sea, here is one last look behind the scenes in China courtesy of Beauty Bear Eric, who did an outstanding job of feeding Johnny's fans some really great photos despite achingly slow Internet and the challenge of days and nights that became an increasingly sweaty blur of rehearsals and hotels and shows and fans and airports and OMG WE'RE HAVING DINNER WITH SARAH JESSICA PARKER AND HER STYLIST SERGE NORMANT OMG and more shows and hotels and airports etc. etc. ...

... culminating in this Facebook status update from Eric about six hours ago (as of this writing):

Japan. 1,0000000000000 hours flight and then home.

Eric, thank you SO much for taking the time to share these pics with everyone. We love you!! And that skater guy too!!

(As always, please click any photo to open it in a new window, and click again for full-size view. Some of these are huuuuuuuge ...)




Wednesday, 07/20/2011, 11:11 a.m.
Shopping in Shanghai.

IDK where they are or what he's wearing,
but he seems like he just stopped in his tracks
at the sight of this fabulousness in the mirror.
Which is completely understandable.



Wednesday, 07/20/2011, 12:32 p.m.
Still shopping.

Hmmmmm ... should we try more stuff on?


Yes. Yes, we should.



Thursday, 07/21/2011, 8:14 p.m.
Fan meeting at the hotel in Shanghai (I think).

Here they come!
(You can see Johnny to the far left
waiting for everybody.)


Autographing anything and everything
set in front of him ...


... including this cool thing ...


... and then enjoying this piece of fan art.
Eric writes, "This actually says,
'Where is my Mr 8.5?' ... lol."


Johnny with the lovely creator
of the "Mr 8.5" artwork.


Johnny and his very happy fans!



And finally: My absolute favorite
of the Shanghai shopping photos.
OMG. Love this.



Bonus video!!
Two more Bad Romance performances!
First, from the show in Shanghai.
(If the video won't play for you, please try this link.
For a playlist of all the Shanghai videos
on Tudou, click here!)


And second, from Taipei.
Love how the crowd screams and roars for him!



Bonus pic!
Johnny's featured in this week's
NY Mag Look Book!
Check out his interview here.



Very, very special thanks again
to Beauty Bear Eric Alt
 for his incredible kindness in sending
all these exclusive photos from China!!!



Johnny will be performing again
this Saturday, July 30, in Sun Valley, Idaho!
Check his website for more info!



Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!



At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!
Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!



Johnny tweeted recently:
"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.
Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold
takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"
THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.
You know what to do.
Please buy the song from Johnny's website,
or just click the "Buy" button on the player
at the top of the blog!



Hey, Welcome to My World also is available
as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!


copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

Friday, July 22, 2011

OK Seriously We Have Now Gone Beyond "Wow!" Into Some Other Dimension of Awesomeness That Has Yet to Be Named

Johnny in Beijing during the Artistry On Ice
opening number, which, as far as I can tell,
is informally known as "That Matrix Thing."
Thank you so much to @cryandkiss on Twitter,
from whom I discovered this, and to the Chinese Angels
for posting it originally. BTW: OMGIDIE.



This has now officially become an embarrassment of riches.

Every day I wake up, wander off to Facebook, and discover that whilst I slept, Wendy Stevenz has plowed through yet more hidden fields of dreams in Weibo and brought to my attention 8,763,492 new photos from Beijing. Sweet Weirsus we haven't even gotten to the shows in Shanghai or Taipei yet ...

And since we do not yet have new picspam from Eric, who I'm guessing is maybe oh just a tad busy styling both Johnny and Sarah Jessica Parker at the moment, we're going to settle (settle! Yes, in the way that when the Rolls is in the shop getting the leather reupholstered, you heave a sigh and make do with tooling around town in the Lamborghini) for another round of absolutely breathtaking Beijing photos from Weibo. Plus the first few pics we could find from random pre-show moments in Shanghai. Plus new awesome video.

As always, click on any photo (or on its "source" link) to open it in a new window, and then click again for full-size. Promise me you will. Fill up your coffee cup, clear your calendar, make sure your cigarettes are handy for later, and start with the Matrix one above ...

Dear Chinese fans: THANK YOU FOREVER. Love, Binky.



More Matrix.
Thank you to Tatiana Edrenkina
for posting a link to this on Twitter.


From the "Sex and the City" number.




More Bad Romance.








Taking his bows after Bad Romance,
with a whole lotta shoulder shimmying going on. ♥


Love the stuffies!




Pics from Shanghai!

Johnny arriving at the Shanghai airport.


IDK. At the Mercedes Benz Arena?
Love this shirt and his happy.


Shanghai press conference plus new gigantor fan.
Fans who greeted him at the airport warned him
that it was hotter in Shanghai than in Beijing.
He appears to have taken them seriously.


Thanks to the Japanese Angels' Twitter for this one.
Did I mention the fan is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge?


At rehearsal. With fan.


Without fan.
(source)


Bonus Eric!



And bonus video!
A fab interview from Beijing TV!


Outstanding video of Johnny's Beijing performances
 uploaded to YouTube by WASABINASI,
who, in the description area,
wrote simply, "To all Johnny fans." ♥
First, "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien." 


And, of course, Bad Romance.
LOVE how well you can see him throughout these videos.
Thank you, WASABINASI!!



Very special thanks
to Wendy Stevenz
for her invaluable help all week
in finding so many
photographic treasures on Weibo!



Johnny and Eric are in China!
Best wishes to them
for safe travels and wonderful shows!
Need to know when Johnny is?
Check the handy clock in the upper right part
of the blog for the current day and time in China!



Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available
for purchase only on eDressMe.com!



At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD!
Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website!



Johnny tweeted recently:
"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.
Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold
takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"
THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.
You know what to do.
Please buy the song from Johnny's website,
or just click the "Buy" button on the player
at the top of the blog!



Hey, Welcome to My World also is available
as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!


copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved