36 posts tagged “cosplay”
The best picture I took all weekend and definitely one of the highlights of my time in Atlanta.
I think I've come down with a case of post-con SARS, so this will be short. Comic-Con, as usual, didn't disappoint. Highlights included catching the panels for Legion (angels with machine guns), District 9 (wassup Peter Jackson), Extract (Jason Bateman hollerifyouhearme), Zombieland (hella violent), 2012 (it's the end of the world as we know it), Iron Man 2 (Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle and Sam Rockwell in the same room? Yes, please, may I have another? Also, that movie is going to be hellatight.com/cantwait) and hearing Kevin Smith talk about the moistness of the Twilight room from last year as well as reenact a hockey locker room circle jerk/bukkake scene on stage. I love that guy.
Hammed it up for a bit as Flora The Good Fairy from Sleeping Beauty with AJ and Judy and it never ceases to amaze me how popular we are in those things. The amount of excitement and joy we get from people while we're out in about is damn near contagious. (Much like this cold I think I have.)
Thanks to a tip from a friendly girl who was waiting in line with me, I got to see the touring Alice in Wonderland exhibit as well. Originally promoted via Twitter, you had to go to an off-site location to pick up a ticket (in this case, a rusty brass key attached to a tag) which gave you a time to return to go on your tour. Rather than talk more about it, how about I just show you pics?
In more ways than one.
Last weekend Zigariffic, Put-a-Lydia-on-It, Kimportant and I steampunked it up at the Dickens Fair in San Francisco. La Legion Fantastique declared it Steampunk Day at the fair and, of course, C.R.U.D. had to represent (even if it was only three of us).
The fair was pretty dope! Lots of things to see, eat, drink, buy and lots of people decked out in their period finery. Tons of folks in character, which meant a) all the gentlemen were tipping their hats to the ladies (awwww), b) all the chimney sweeps were wandering around drunk and reciting dirty limericks and c) the girls and I got hit on... a lot. I didn't catch it initially, but Lydiabolical said that one older gentlemen, after checking out my phonograph gun, stated "Deadly, but not as deadly as a lovely woman."
Seriously, guys, the most action I get nowadays is when I dress up in dorky clothes. This is my life.
Anyway, moving on...
La Legion Fantastique sponsored a costume contest with a bunch of awesome prizes. Lydiamante and I figured we'd give it a shot (they were giving out these pretty cool certificates to anyone that signed up) and what do you know... I won something!
A really cool something, actually! I figure it'll be a key element for my next steampunk costume.
It was pretty awesome in that they "matched" a lot of their prizes with the characters that people were trying to portray. For instance, besides me getting this radio kit, a ship captain got a miniature brass replica of an underwater diver's helmet (the Nemo Award) and a mother/son explorer duo got two tickets to the Academy of Sciences.
None of us had a camera, but I yoinked these photos from one of the Legion's Flickrs, a fellow who went by the name Captain Robur. JoeJohnson has more photos from the day here as well.
Braved the wet weather and went to Steam Powered, the steampunk convention in Sunnyvale, on Saturday and Sunday. For its first year, it shows an amazing room for potential. The hotel it was situated in was very small, but was nicely decorated with a steampunk-inspired bar/set, displays of mannequins decked out in stuff from Gentleman's Emporium and props and vehicles created by local artists. I'd say about 90% of the attendees were dressed in steampunk or steampunk-inspired gear (I mean, if you count sticking a pair of goggles on a top hat with a pair of jeans as steampunk-inspired. I do, so we'll just roll with it.) which was pretty refreshing!
With two programming panel tracks, it was kind of easy to get bored if you weren't really interested in hearing the history of Victorian tea or something along those lines. But, the two panels I did attend (Jake von Slatt's and Greg Broadmore's) were informative, eye-opening and, most importantly, entertaining. The dealer room had everything you'd expect to see at a steampunk convention and I imagine there were a handful of people that walked out with new outfits by the end of the weekend.
Anyway, Judy and I decided that if they have it again next year (and it looks like they are... right before Comic-Con o_O) we'd totally go again. Guess that means I'll be making another steampunk costume? Oh boy.
blah blah blah... here are photos from today: http://flickr.com/photos/positivespace/sets/72157608605294268/
Didn't take any photos on Saturday because AJ, Judy and I were too busy C.R.U.D.-ing it up. And amusing the staff at the Fish Market restaurant down the street.
We got previews from Ed Pingol from our steampunk shoot from two weeks ago and I can't talk straight 'cause it's almost 3am and I should be asleep but these photos make me kind of stupid happy and I'm so glad that everyone lost some sleep and finished their costumes and woke up early and drove hella far and...
I'm gonna shut up now. JUST GO: http://edpingol.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-is-cosplay-part-ii-steampunk-style.html
Getting drunk at the house + having a cosplayer as a roommate = GOOD TIMES.
That's Garrett in my Persona 3 wig.
Melanie in my Halibel wig.
And Mark, who now teaches for JET sorta near Osaka, in my botched LoveCom wig.
Also, I'm drunk off sangria.
Woo!
It's Tuesday!
love this photo. Thanks, Zigeezy!
