I've come across many Speed pages and almost none have information on the Speed photobooks other than a scan of the cover, a release date, and maybe a price.
I have not seen any with the ISBN #'s... maybe it's because I didn't go to all 100,000,000 Speed sites on the Internet, but I thought I would include it here for those of you who are like me and want to order them. (^_^;)
Click on the cover to Speed over to Tako Sushi's page where there are scans of the entire photobook!
Information: This is the first Speed photobook. This photobook's background are the streets of LA, in California. Mostly out of the way places like empty warehouse streets and such. There are quite a bit of pictures with tagging on the walls. Other backdrops include walls with posters of movies like Metro and Evita (they even pose like Eddie Murphy and Madonna do in the posters!). There are also pictures of them running towards the camera with a freeway in the backdrop.
One of the most unusual shots was where Speed took pictures next to mannequins with lingerie on! Well, their facial expressions tell it all; though they seem more amused than shocked! =) Hehe
Another unsual shot was behind a warehouse next to some rotting tomatoes. What a weird place to have a photoshoot. (^_^;)
It all ends with them in a restaurant eating and drinking. These shots are some of the best since they show their true colors in the pictures; kind of like how the Luv Vibration video shows us the real Speed. =)
Wow , isn't it funny how I didn't write any comments about Speed in Andromedia when I got it before "Speed, Yes Love! ~make a rising~"??? Yeah, sad isn't it? =P
Well, if you saw the Speed Special on July 10, 1998 you no doubt saw the part where they had some behind the scenes footage. Think of this as an extension of that (although it did come out before the Special). You get to see tons of pictures where they are filming, goofing around while they aren't filming, etc.
It also comes with the complete script for Andromedia! Wow!
I believe it contains slightly more pictures than the first photobook, but way less than the third one! Also, most of the pages have a picture on one half of the page and then just a blank on the other half...odd...I wonder if they were trying to keep the theatre aspect ratio or if they just didn't have too many photos?!? I doubt the latter is true so it must be the first or they just didn't want to include too many pictures. =(
Still, if you're a Speed fan, you should own this photobook... along with everything else they've released! ^_^;
Click on the cover to view a larger version scanned by Percy!
Speed's third photobook!!!
Comes with the following:
Seems the full title of the photobook is now Speed, Yes Love! ~ make a rising ~.
I got this information from Youkoso Takako-Friends.
Well, I got my Speed, Yes Love! ~make a rising~ a few weeks back, but I didn't have much time to update Speed Tengoku so I couldn't share my experience with it. ^_^;
First off, you'll notice that this is their biggest photobook yet! It's thicker than the Speed in Andromedia photobook and about an inch wider and longer than the Speed photobook! Not only is it bigger, but it has the most pictures of all the photobooks!!!
If you didn't know, this photobook basically details their tour from Mie Kenei Sun Arena (July 18, 1998) to their finale in Tokyo Dome (October 9 - 10, 1998).
There are also behind the scenes photos and a section where each of them were given a camera to take whatever pictures they wanted to; this is probably the coolest part of the book.
Also, the photobook comes with a double-sided poster and a sheet of stickers. As far as I know, these are included with every copy of the photobook and are not first press exclusives, but I could be wrong. ^_^;
