Bronying out...
I had a blast last night at a Brony party. It was held at a local MakerSpace in Seattle's International District, thrown by a couple of friends of mine who are using the space for all sorts of organizational things.
Brony are adults who like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I'm sort-of an honorary Brony. Lauren Faust, the producer and lead artist for the current series, was also the lead for Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, and her sense of color and scene is unmatched by any other artist currently working in animation. MLP:FiM's backgrounds and gradients are jaw-droppingly good, and yeah, I'll admit that when it comes to the megatons of crap on TV, an MLP:FiM episode is an 18-minute burst of relaxation. I don't addict to it like some people, but I'll admit to preferring it to another episode of Dexter. I hope someday to be able to draw with Inkscape backgrounds as good as Lauren's, and use them for a long-simmering website idea I've never felt confident enough to try and do. The vector style has hit a dead end, and I think some of Lauren's art styles would fit in well to push it in a good direction.
Omaha, Storm, Kouryuou-chan and I ate pizza, watched "Dragonshy," "Sonic Rainboom," and "Party of One." The last of which was obviously a Ren & Stimpy homage, and it was hard not to laugh as Pinkie Pie lost all touch with reality. When she started interacting with rocks and bags of flour, the backgrounds changed to those surreal washes Krikfalusi used whenever Ren started losing his mind. Poor Pinkie Pie, I never realized how hard she struggled with her schizophrenia. And Rarity should just forget the lipstick: she does not tart up well.
I ran into FallenPegasus, who lives with Bronies and a little girl who's a serious MLP:FiM fan herself so he got dragged along. He showed me his new phone, and I experienced a moment of technolust. Now I have to look into getting my hands on a new Nexus.