DragonCon Costume-a-Palooza
Home again from Atlanta's premiere gaming, sci-fi, fantasy, media, and what-have-you con! As the website "Geeks of Doom" said in a recent posting, "If Dragon*Con and San Diego Comic-Con ever got in a knife fight over who had the best costumers, San Diego would end up wincing in a pool of blood and crying next to a gathering of Twilight tweens." You have to at least say that DragonCon wins by volume alone. Anyway, without much further ado, here's what my pitiful photography skills combined with an old digital camera and (mostly) darkened spaces snagged for your viewing pleasure (or incredulity):
- COBRA Commander having the most casual of casual Fridays ever?
- Zap Brannigan, or at least someone who captures his essence.
- Anyone can be a Jedi, even baked goods.
- Just some nicely-done Flash and Wonder Woman costumes.
- Zark Sark, from "Tron", complete with glowy-lines running through the outfit.
- I have no idea who she's supposed to be, but it turned out well. The photo doesn't really capture the LEDs in her hair, though.
- I always wondered what would happen if Green Lantern and Spider-Man reproduced.
- A Klingon has a plea for his future, and perhaps some advice for yours, should you meet him in a dark alley.
- Here's a group of Fallout 3 cosplayers, with a very nice bottle-cap grenade on display.
- A pink Jedi. What more needs to be said?
- Apparently, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood has a slightly different ending than the one we grew up with.
- It took me this long to include some steampunk in the form of Boba Fett.
- The cast of Harry Potter, with Hagrid checking his own camera's focus.
- Some classic Disney on display.
- One of the best Emperor Ming outfits I've seen (which makes two, if you include the movie).
- Being a hero is about courage. This man is very courageous. More power to him.
- The upcoming film "Number 9" had fans going the extra mile, already. The staff lit up as well.
- And finally, a costume that brought at least two people together. I wanted to applaud after they successfully navigated the stairs without injury.
For more (and from better photographers), there's a Flickr stream for both DragonCon and something called PAX, I believe. :)
But anyway, as I'm still catching up from my travels and fighting off a small case o' the "Con Crud" (I know I shouldn't shake hands with strange Wookies, but it's a weakness), I'm turning over the usual movie-related musings to i09's guide to fall and winter genre film: They've got the releases we of the Warp Drive & Wand set might want to see for September, October, November, and December. For now, we offer the following short subjects:
- Many have heard of the geek-humor band, "Tripod," but I'd never visited their home page before! Very 1st Edition AD&D.
- An amusing clip from the BBC's Walk on the Wild Side. The final line was the payoff for me.
- Updated from a previous entry, a Commodore 64 emulator has been approved for the iPhone. Now if it would only run my old Vic-1525 printer...
- Balancing game fans should dig this next twist on the ol' keep-it-steady: Equanimity is a bit like Tetris on a teeter-totter.
- Here's a tribute to that unsung hero of sci-fi media, the corridor.
- I just ran across a new (to me) webcomic about our beloved D&D nemesis, the rust monster (or at least, one rust monster): Rusty & Co.
- We close with a game that starts a little slow (sorry. Couldn't resist), but Roller Boaster becomes a challenging gravity and momentum game as you try to roll a marble sphere through an ever-altering world of coins, mechanisms, and techno music.