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Archive for the ‘Cosplay’ Category
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How to Make a Giant Carrot Ranka-styleby Jess - September 15th, 2010 |
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Wizard World Chicago Comic Conby Nick - August 23rd, 2010 |
Wizard World Chicago Comic Convention was a BLAST! Huge thanks to all the great people that came by the booth for photos and to hang out. We hope we gave you a great experience and you all had fun!
Our roving photographer photos will be up in about a week. All the booth photos are up in the gallery!
Be sure to hit our facebook fan page by clicking the link on your right! Thats where alot of our community interaction is and where you can tag yourself in photos for all your friends to see.
If you enjoyed us at WWC3 please make sure to visit their website or facebook page and tell them what a great time you had!
Big thanks to everyone!
All the high-rez versions of the photos are up in our gallery! Enjoy! If your photo is missing please click contact and send us a description of your costume and what day you had your photo taken. There could be something about the photo we thought was un-flattering and thats why we held it.
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Otakon 2010 photos up!by Nick - August 13th, 2010 |
You can find them in the photo gallery. Thanks to Soulcrash for these! Enjoy
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Anime Iowa 2010 Photos up!by Nick - August 9th, 2010 |
Here is the link to the gallery. Enjoy!
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Ikasucon 2010 Photos posted.by Nick - July 19th, 2010 |
Check them out in the Gallery!
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OMG Con- Country Roads, Take Me Homeby Sam - June 30th, 2010 |
Every so often, frequently when I’m hungry, I get in the mood for adventure. I’ll be on the road, my tummy will rumble and I’ll decide to sample the local fare. A lot of the time I won’t know any of the restaurants nearby and fast food doesn’t sound too tasty, so I’ll turn on the GPS, hit the food option, and wait for the fates of electric maps to take me somewhere. Normally I’ll settle for a mediocre diner or an expensive café, but once in a while I get lucky. My GPS will lead me to a place where the food is unbelievable, reasonably priced and the people serving are as excited to seat me as I am to eat. A gem in the middle of nowhere, I’ll stumble into this place, feel relaxed and accepted and wonder how it was I’ve not been aware of it all my life.
That’s exactly how I feel about OMG Con.
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Jafax 2010 Photos posted.by Nick - June 29th, 2010 |
Check them out in our photos section.
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Vote for me please! =)by Jess - June 24th, 2010 |
Hello to all our wonderful amazing fans!!!
I have a little favor to ask of you. 
I entered a contest on ACParadise.com and I made it to the voting round and it would mean soooo much to me if you would click this here little link and put in a vote for me :3
http://www.acparadise.com/acp/contests.php?cid=51&t=1
I’m nekatsim, the Carrot Ranka. ^_^
Thank you in advance! And wish me luck ~Nyan!
~Jess
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MARCON 2010 Review: Serious Traditionby Sam - June 16th, 2010 |
Columbus Ohio is a popular town for nerd conventions. It was the location of Ohayocon 2010 in January and in June it will host Origins Game Fair, a premiere gaming convention. While considerable in their own right, these conventions will have had to be around for a bit longer to compare with the tremendous Sci-Fi convention we attended May 28th to the 30th. Known for being the longest running sci-fi convention in the Midwest, Marcon (Multiple Alternative Realities Convention) just celebrated its 45th year and we were lucky enough to be there as loyal members of an established organization invaded the Columbus Convention Center.
As the name implies, Marcon fosters a broad number of fandoms, including video game, role-playing, science fiction, zombie fanaticisms and anime. While their prime focus is their diehard sci-fi community, the con respects other interests and we found ourselves not at a complete loss surrounded by earnest Dr. Who-lians and Trekkies. Thursday afternoon the Enthusiasts (with a new van!) set off for this adventure into the unknown, prepared for some zombie killing techniques and Mountain Dew. As it turns out, both of these items came in very handy over the weekend.
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Update 4/22/10by Nick - April 22nd, 2010 |
Enthusiasts News:
Lots of stuff going on lately for us. We have been doing alot of testing and getting the equipment necessary to start doing live HD streaming of events and masquerades at conventions starting with our 1 year anniversary convention ACEN! We are really excited about this and think it will be a hit. You will be able to see everything as it happens and if you miss it, you can watch the archived show immediately. Right now we plan on doing 2 HD cameras for the live stream and 3 for the youtube skit uploads. If we can get some sponsors, ads or support from the conventions we will expand that into a full 5 HD camera live streaming setup over the next year. If you or your company / con is interested in sponsoring us or buying some ad space please contact us by clicking contact at the above link.
Secondly we finally got another HD editing station setup for Brandi! She is learning final cut and already working on some videos to start chipping away at the backlog we have. My real life job has been eating a ton of my time over the last month so this should help us stay somewhat current. Alot of people want to see things right away and we wish we could do that for you but until we can make this a full time job it will take us a few weeks sometimes to get stuff up for you. We are working on that part though.
Convention News:
C2E2
Soulcrash just got back from C2E2 last weekend and is working on getting us his video and photos. Im really looking forward to seeing these and Ron always does a great job. C2E2’s press department was great to work with and very responsive. Im really looking forward to bringing the entire crew to this convention next year and according to what Ron has told me its a GREAT time. For those of you needing a fix before ACEN in the Chicago area its a great one to put on your list.
Anime Central 2010
We confirmed with the ACEN press department at C2E2 that we have our press badges for ACEN and we could not be more excited!!! ACEN is our home convention and we are happy that our yearly anniversaries will always be spent here! Im working on putting together our shooting schedule for the con but right now here is what we are looking at:
Megatokyo 10 year anniversary panel (pending authorization from ACEN still)
Spoony Bards Concert *Confirmed!
ACEN Masquerade
ACEN Soap Bubble
And Sewing Is Half The Battle Cosplay Panels
Remember that you can still vote on our facebook fan page in the discussions section to get a panel into our shooting list.
We will hopefully have two teams this year with cameras roaming the hallways looking for your cosplay picture. Make sure to track us down!
In other news we will be handing out badge ribbons throughout the convention. 1 of these will be our 1 year anniversary ribbon and two other secret ones that you will have to check on the site during the convention to find out how to get! On sunday we plan to award a $50 visa gift card to the first 2 people to collect all 3 ribbons during the convention! In the future we hope to be giving out at least 2 ribbons at each convention we attend.
Other Conventions:
Marcon is coming up right after ACEN and we are looking forward to it. Im still waiting on press badges and authorization to do photos and film while there but im sure it will go through. The Wold Steampunk Expo is the same weekend as Marcon and we are working to get Soulcrash up to cover that one. Next year I hope they are not on the same date so we can bring the entire crew to both.
OMGcon is our first convention in june and this one is a BALL. We love OMGcon to death and highly recommend that you attend if possible. They have some really fun events and the staff is amazing. Paducah KY is not that far of a drive and its totally worth it. At the end of june is JAFAX! Up in Grand Rapids MI this is an amazing FREE 2 day con. We had a lot of fun there last year and are really looking forward to going again.
Event News:
This weekend we will be at the Chicago Zombie Pub Crawl! This event is a great time and we highly suggest you go if you are in the Chicago area. Its followed up by a full on Zombie March in June and we will be there as well! BRAAAAAINSSSS! /NOM I will be bringing out my Tallahassee cosplay for this year. 
Project News:
We are still working on getting the cosplay wiki off the ground and hope to have that open to the public in the next 2-3 months. It will be the first wiki of its kind devoted ENTIRELY to cosplay. How to make costumes, makeup, props… everything you need to help you make those awesome wings you have seen, etc. We are hoping that it will help out the cosplay community a bunch and cant wait to see how its used.
Contest News:
DSLite Contest…. hummmm…. maybe I set the number of emails too high? Seems that we are not getting alot of interest in this so I think we will bring the DS to ACEN and try to give it away in some fashion. Maybe for the ribbon gathering as a prize? If you have an idea be sure to let us know!
Cool stuff:
(This will be an attempt to show you some fun crazy stuff and maybe recommend some good anime to you.)
This site is pretty awesome: http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci071003.html , http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci061215.html
We found a link over at Anime News Network that we thought was fun: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-21/gurren-lagann-iphone-app-lands-in-u.s-eva-apps-planned
I totally downloaded iYoko. >.>
Right now for anime we are mostly watching Chugo Chara still and Soul Eater which are both really good. Some of our friends have recommended this one: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3750
Remember to check out our Facebook Fan Page (All the really cool stuff is happening here!) and follow us on Twitter. We are posting all our photos on facebook for you and your friends to tag. We really do ALOT on the fanpage so make sure you check it out!
