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.
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.
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.
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!
We are gearing up to head out to Ohayocon next weekend! 3 Car loads of Enthusiasts are attending this one!
Most of our time will be spent at different photoshoots and wandering the halls looking to take your picture. Here is our tentative schedule for the convention so far:
If you have some other great photoshoots or would like to try to schedule a private photoshoot with us click the contact button above and send an email! We will try and set something up.
Really looking forward to this convention. Some highlights we are putting together are: Interview with the “Say YES to Gurren Lagann!” group from Youmacon and some more great photos of The Guild cosplay group.
Hope to see you there!
Update! (1/26/10)
We will be trying some live streaming of Ohayocon for those of you who cant make it via UStream. Im going to embed the show here and we will be tweeting when we are live! I tested it a bit earlier and its not so bad actually. About a 5-10 second delay.
And we are off! Leaving tonight at 7pm for the 6 hour drive to Ohio. Be sure to follow us on twitter for notifications when we are streaming live from the convention!
I got invited out to this photoshoot by a friend and had a GREAT time! What a wonderful group of fun people. We went all over the Chicago area and got some really sweet pictures. Check them out in the gallery!! If you are having a get-together or cosplay event be sure to send us an email! We would love to come and shoot it!
