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Someone said once
Mar. 24th, 2003 09:52 amthat it was very annoying to see blue-eyed and especially green-eyed Asian characters online. I don't blame them. An amazing percentage of the ones I've seen have been Japanese, usually female, and hardly ever with Caucasian or western Asian blood to explain the colour oddity. Or if they do have Caucasoid ancestry, the only place it manifests is in the eyes. The discussion that erupted out of that comment - I believe it may have been on WORA, but it might also have been on the Bad Descs forum - yielded a comment to the effect of 'just once I'd like to see one of these characters lose a contact lens and walk around looking like David Bowie for a while'.
That being said, I do believe I've found Fang's two favourite Internet shopping sites:
Amazing Lenses, and
9mmsfx Custom Theatrical Lenses.
9mmsfx has some really impressive designs, but they're a bit on the expensive side. This is no big surprise, as their lenses are hand-painted and are meant for serious theatrical use - movies and such as well as everyday stage work. When close-up quality matters a great deal, you shell out $200 a pair. Fang doesn't generally have that kind of money, but he's been documented in the past as having a big collection of visual prostheses. One or two pairs are probably this kind of specialized thing. The rest are the sort easily purchased at Amazing Lenses - similar designs, but done by machine and therefore cheaper. Less detailed, but more within affordability ($20 to $40 per lens). I particularly fancy the slit-pupilled ones, at least the ones with realistic colours.
That being said, I do believe I've found Fang's two favourite Internet shopping sites:
Amazing Lenses, and
9mmsfx Custom Theatrical Lenses.
9mmsfx has some really impressive designs, but they're a bit on the expensive side. This is no big surprise, as their lenses are hand-painted and are meant for serious theatrical use - movies and such as well as everyday stage work. When close-up quality matters a great deal, you shell out $200 a pair. Fang doesn't generally have that kind of money, but he's been documented in the past as having a big collection of visual prostheses. One or two pairs are probably this kind of specialized thing. The rest are the sort easily purchased at Amazing Lenses - similar designs, but done by machine and therefore cheaper. Less detailed, but more within affordability ($20 to $40 per lens). I particularly fancy the slit-pupilled ones, at least the ones with realistic colours.
