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Downloads page is live!by Nick - May 27th, 2010 |
Anime Central Masquerade LIVE!by admin - May 15th, 2010 |
Welcome to all our fans and all the new folks we met at ACen! We will be proudly hosting our first ever live event tonight at approx 6pm CST. The Anime Central Masquerade LIVE!
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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!
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Update 3/31/10by Nick - March 31st, 2010 |
Convention News:
Everything is falling into place for ACEN and we are super excited. We have started to see alot of new people searching for ACEN videos and making comments so we can tell that excitement is in the air.
Ohayocon 2010 Review (Just a little late!) by Brandi:
Masquerade and Jonthan Coulton Concert
The main event room was far away from the rest of the con, which slightly sucked, but it was worth the trip to see Jonathan Coulton and of course get great footage of the masq. The masq was set up very well with little flaws happening, which was nice to see ^-^. We loved the MCs Zack and Jim do an amazing job keeping the audience entertained during the whole show. There were a lot of very good skits here..We were thoroughly impressed by most of them J (most of them are up on our youtube page). Also, in the walk-ons there were some pretty amazing costumes.
Right after the masq was the Jonathan Coulton concert!!! So of course we stayed and Nick even talked to Jonathan and he let us film it!! But Nick has to clear all the legal issues first before we can put them up for you guys L but the concert was amazing! And I suggest if anyone has the chance, ever, to go to one of his concerts to do so, you will really enjoy yourself.
Rave
Let’s see… that rave, ok so it was awesome cuz we got to see Greg Aryes and talk with him again ^-^ but it kinda sucked that the room was small and every hour or two they would kick everyone out of the room and cycle in new people. I understand this probably helps to make sure everyone stays hydrated and such but when the line is THAT long they just need to get a new room or new plan >.< Anywho, Greg is an awesome DJ so no problems with the music the videos played were a little creepy but we still had fun!
Hotel
We stayed at the Marriott Courtyard, only a few streets away from the con. It was an amazing hotel! For the first time ever we didn’t have any problems here and they were very nice! They would call a cab for us and help with everything no problem ^-^ and they had valet parking which never caused any problems either. We will definitely be staying there again next time we go. The room we had was very large (plenty for all of us and our excessive crap lol). And the view was nice at night 
but I think the city just looks better, generally, at night. It was a very comfy hotel, with a microwave and a fridge in our room X3 .
Friday
On Friday, it was only Nick and I but we got a lot accomplished ^-^ we learned they layout of the con, grabbed our press badges, gabbed with our friends at the OMGcon booth, went to the Steampunk panel, made friends with some amazing Sailor Scouts ;), interview with the Gurren Lagann girls, photoshoot with our friends CJ and Lisa cosplaying Time Lords from Doctor Who, and finding time to squeeze in food. Needless to say, once we got back, we were pretty tired. So we hit up the hot tub to relax then went back to the room from alittle bit of WoW playing till the rest of our crew arrived J
Saturday
We all really liked the area where the convention was located. It had a lot of room and very spacious for taking pictures and having large crowds. It had many different “settings” to take pictures which helped a lot, though we had to be careful of the time of day for lighting. We all LOVED the food court!! First con ever were an abundance of food is available that you don’t have to travel for!! This was right in the convention center and they had options for everyone ^-^ It was super convenient and a great place to see/meet people. We had fun doing some small photoshoots with the Yes Girls and their crew and also just walking around the halls grabbing people. We even talked to Chris Aryes for a bit about his new voice acting role.
Sunday
Again Food court was awesome; we all enjoyed a nice large breakfast. Sadly 4 of our crew had to bail out early on Sunday but Nick and I stayed for a few hours longer and did a photoshoot with an amazing steampunk group, who then changed for us into their fantastic Guild costumes ^-^ We had fun and made new friends.
Webcomic: Penny Arcade! We LOVE these and if you dont know about them you should. They are behind the awesome Child’s Play charities and PAX. One of these days we are going to try to get to a PAX as I hear they are amazing fun.
Time Waster:
Website: Ipad L???
Anime: Valkyria Chronicles Anime (Sorry, all I could find on youtube was the opening. Its good though!)
DS Lite Contest:
We are coming up on the winner for the DS Lite contest. Less than 60 emails to go! Please go ahead and send us in an email! It just has to be a short single paragraph giving us feedback on what you like or would like to see on the site. Its EASY and you could win the DS!
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. I will be adding older convention photos as I have time.
Convention Videos:
Really big thanks go out to Soulcrash for getting all this great video of Anime Milwaukee! Enjoy the first 5!
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Contests and a wall of speaker…by Nick - March 3rd, 2010 |
Random linky of the week: The WOS Experience
Destroy your competition by cranking Carameldansen with this in the back of your truck. Or maybe as a supporting wall in your house.
Anime recommendation of the week: Shugo Chara!
Website to visit: Dany Choo
Awesome figure reviews and fun little photoblog of the Tokyo Storm Trooper in Japan.
Time waster of the week: Ninja Ropes Extreme!
My record is 26.72. Post on the fanpage if you take me down!
News:
A Nintendo DS has fallen from the sky into my hands. I would like to give it away in some type of contest. If you have a neat idea for a contest send us an email by clicking contact at the top of the page. Look to next weeks Wed update for the contest start and what it will be. Fans on the fanpage might get a headstart… >.>
We are working on Anime Boston instead of Sakura because it would be much cheaper to do. I will have more info on that next week. Ronald is heading up to Anime Milwaukee next weekend. He will be filming the masq and taking pictures all over. If you want to schedule a photoshoot, send us an email!
Brandi and I will be heading out to A&G Ohio that same weekend. Really looking forward to it!
Forums are being setup on the site by Brandi and should be operational soon. She has some fun ideas to get some good threads going.
If you are 21+ and live in the Chicago area you might be interested in this show. It’s a Alice in Wonderland themed fashion show. I will be a photographer here so let me know if you plan on attending so I can say hi!
New Ohayocon Skit Videos:
Skit #18 - Two Alchemists Plus a Wrench.
Skit #19 - Guide to Overdone Cosplay.
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Getting all Dressed up for Otakonby Sam - July 9th, 2009 |
As the week draws to a quick close, we are scrambling about to get ourselves ready for Otakon in Baltimore. This one is a doozy. Ranked as the second largest convention in the U.S. in 2007, we’re not quite in Kansas anymore, being used to Anime Central. What’s a measly 12,000 people compared to 22,000? It’ll be four Enthusiasts versus the whole mass of fantastic people attending. If you see us, please come by and wish us luck. It’ll be quite an endeavor.
Friday we’ll be in our Lucky Star cheerleader outfits and on Saturday we’ll be (hopefully) premiering our Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi Bunny Girl Outfits (pictured above, though we will look less chibi). I say hopefuly since we decided to complete these costumes about two days ago, giving ourselves about a week and a half of work time. Cross your fingers that they turn out in time! Sunday we’ll be dressed in boring Enthusiasts shirts, but again, we never turn down a friendly hallow ^^.
Is there anything we must not miss? Care to share a few memories of Otakon? Is there a secret password we should know? Post it in the forums, so we have some idea what we’re getting in to. Looking forward to seeing all of you there!
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Yuki Nagato at the World Wide Developers Conference.by Nick - June 10th, 2009 |
I got this picture from Danny Choo (Check him OUT!) and thought you would like to see it because its awesome.
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1/1 Scale Gundam Completed in Japan.by Nick - June 9th, 2009 |
* WPG2 CANNOT LOCATE GALLERY2 ITEM ID 2469 *
Check out this guys Blog. He has about 20 pictures or so of the completed 1/1 scale Gundam in Japan.
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Lucky Star Boxers…by Nick - June 2nd, 2009 |
According to Anime News Network:
The Japanese character goods retailer Chara-Ani has begun taking pre-orders on Monday for the official Lucky Star boxer briefs and trunks from the textile maker Kokka. The underpants come in medium or large sizes, and in four styles: Konata boxer briefs, Lucky Channel boxer briefs, Konata Face trunks, and Cheer[leader] Girl trunks. Kokka will begin shipping the boxers and trunks in Japan in July.
I gotta get me some of those! 
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Ad Campaign and Improvements.by Nick - May 19th, 2009 |
We are getting ready to release our primary ad campaign on google and youtube hopefully this weekend. I have been hard at work designing it and we are really excited about what we might be able to do once its out there.
In other news our web guys are hard at work on some graphical improvements to the site and we hope to make it a pretty fun place to visit.
I should have the Masquerade #10 & 11 out tonight as well.
