Month: September 2012

Photos: 2012 Dragon-Con, Day Three

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Finally, I bring to you the third day/night of Dragon-Con, which is my last, because I was simply hungover, and didn’t really feel social enough to proposition anyone still running around in costume on Monday morning to take any additional photos beyond Sunday night.

That being said, in this last gallery is of course, a good bit of costumes I saw while wandering around the grounds, but as seems to be the case in recent years, the last night is also the night where I get obliterated stupid drunk, and make an ass out of myself.

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Dragon-Con stories: The Divas of Shit Mountain

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I like to think of myself as a pretty easy going kind of person.  I may complain and voice my disdain at Dragon-Con from time to time, but I’m well aware of the fact that a lot of things are out of my control; I just instinctively bitch sometimes.  Like big-ass crowds, common people smelling all rank and BO-ey, the football bros that come and troll the place; all that shit is completely uncontrollable, and there’s nothing that can be done about it.  I accept that.

But if there’s one thing that agitates the shit out of me, are diva costumers.

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Photos: 2012 Dragon-Con, Day Two: The B-Roll

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I did however, bust out my old Sony CyberShot point-and-shoot, because frankly, costume or no costume, I still like taking pictures of shit while I’m at Dragon-Con.  Besides, the duster coat in my Mafia Graves costume had plenty of pockets for me to stash it in, in those instances where I was having my picture taken.

But because it’s an old and dated camera, the quality of these pictures is obviously not as good as the ones I take with my DSLR.  Ironic too, considering almost all of these pictures are that of friends and acquaintances, and they get the point-and-shoot, but I guess that’s what comes with the territory of getting into costume again.  Que sera, sera.

Anyway, a whole bunch of candid shots and kind of backstage nature of our League of Legends group, as well as a few other random costumes seen while in my Mafia Graves costumes. 

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Photos: 2012 Dragon-Con, Day Two

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Day two of Dragon-Con brought forth more and more costumes.  I hate to disappoint, but you may notice the overall number of photographs taken in this gallery is a bit shortchanged in comparison to the first day.  I have a logical explanation for that: I was in costume for a good chunk of the evening.

Day two was when I busted out the League of Legends Mafia Graves costume, in which I was so hard at work throughout the month of August, working on the gun for.  So basically, while I was in that costume, lugging around the gun that felt like it grew heavier and heavier as the night went on, I was without my fancy DSLR camera.

But still, I made my best efforts to photograph costumers, which coincidentally has a heavy lean towards girls I find attractive and/or sexy, and conscious efforts to get photographic proof that I saw the friends, acquaintances and good persons that I claim to know in my general life.

As always, I don’t have a lot of requests, but if you do use any of my images, a link or credit is greatly appreciated.  Photos after the jump. 

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Dragon-Con Stories: Height ≠ Accuracy

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Throughout the weekends of several years of Dragon-Cons, I’ve often noticed people dressing up as characters that are supposed to be big, hulking characters.  Banes, Hulks, etc; characters that are always perceived to be seven-footers, and just plain big as shit.

I’m not going to target the fact that in a lot of these cases, the muscle suits don’t always look that great, but I’m just really going to target those costumers who utilize stilts to achieve the height that they don’t naturally have.

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Photos: 2012 Dragon-Con, Day One

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I know there are people out there starving for some Dragon-Con pictures, so I thought I’d put a step towards the cause and go ahead and start publishing them as I make it through each day, instead of waiting to process all of them before posting.

Day one of Dragon-Con for me was mostly just acquainting myself to the convention again, taking everything in, and then eventually going to watch wrestling to interrupt socializing and picture taking.  Naturally, my focus at the con is heavy on taking pictures, and trying to be somewhat efficient at it, despite the fact that I’m a pretty lousy picture taker, relying on a fancy-schmancy camera to do most of the legwork for me.

So without further ado, here’s my pictures from the first day of Dragon-Con.  Have a little mercy on me and float a link in my direction, if you’re going to be sharing any pictures I’ve taken.

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Dragon-Con Stories: Mass Mass Effect

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Apparently released on the internet within the last year or two, some guy(s) taught everyone who was interested how to make armor fairly cost-effectively and not that difficultly, using EVA floor foam sheets, heat guns and hot glue.  The result of such efficient tutorials apparently led to a very large conglomeration of DIY Mass Effect costumers this past Dragon-Con.

That’s all fine and dandy, but it turned out that nobody really sought out much originality amongst them all.  A vast majority of the male and female Shepards were all wearing variants of black and gray N7 armors.  I noticed maybe one or two who busted out some variants of the armor in white, but it pretty much ended up being the same color schemes of whites, reds and blacks.

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