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!
