I have a lot of photo right now and no time to edit because I’ve had to wake up early to head down and I’m back home late. SO tho will take some time but for now here is a teaser. And besides, what better way to celebrate the 4th of July then going to an Anime Convention?
A bunch of people I know are posting photos of what they plan on going as during Anime Expo, then another guy I know posted an image of himself holding his camera for each of the days he will be there. I decided to one up that using different photos of myself for each day.
So this is starting up this week. Time for you all to stress out more to finish your cosplays.
So from what I as able to check out it was interesting. I couldn’t get in because first of all tickets for a badge is a massive amount and it’s hard to get in as press because my site don’t rank very well at all. Anywho, Nivdia had themselves a tent outside the convention center with demos of games. I got to play the new Gauntlet game in the works and something also called Strife. Both of which I liked.
Something else cool was outside there a was truck handing out turkey legs in promotion of the Gauntlet game. They just ask you to take a photo and post it on social media which I did not get the email of the photo taken of me for some reason, oh well, I got some of other people from my own camera. Met a couple of people standing by a bus to promote another game called Sunset Overdrive and looking at the trailer for it, looks kind of fun. Ran into some other friends of mine, two are going to be on a show from which they were asked question of whether the name given to them is a Kings player or someone from the show Game of Thrones. May I’ll post a link on that later.
Well, hopefully more people will start going to this site and maybe I’ll get in next year.
I decided to head down to long back for this event. While many others were at the beach looking for angry bird with money inside (which I’m sure would of been fun) I covered this instead and ran into some friends again, others from before that I would say have now officially met, and hung out with some new people.
Though a small con taking place in a relatively small convention center, there was another con happening at the same time at the same place. Some of the venders also walked around and handed out bottles of their product. The only thing I got really was something called Alkame. Seemed like most other water I’ve had but was nice to drink anyways and helped keep my hydrated. Plus I finished that first before I finished off the water bottle I brought before hand.
Oh, and there was this one girl that keeping seeing me walking back and forth and was thinking to herself something along the lines of, “Who does he look like? I can’t remember the name” then it hit her, Jared Leto. Then she came up to me, talked for a while and asked for a photo. Yeah, of course I’ll join you in a photo, I don’t see why not.
Huh, not a lot to talk about really. Oh well, I still enjoyed myself.
I went down sunday, I wanted to do so on saturday to but one of the people that wanted to join me had a rather busy morning so that ended up becoming a bust. When I got there I hung around outside and hung with some friends of mine there and then went in to get some more stuff.
While inside I meet some interesting new people like Samwise Didier, Art Director at Blizzard and he posts some of his other work on Sons of the Storm. I shook his hand and took him that I enjoy his work. I also asked him it was possible to relay to the warcraft team to add a new foods item in the next WoW expansion to be stuff like tacos or pizza. He said something about murloc tacos which was good.
I also got some little flyers and cards from people for comics like Empire of the Wolf. It was described to be, if I can remember correctly, if Rome was a society of werewolves and uses the story of Romulus and Remus and the mythological story of them being raised by wolves as a base. That’s just crazy enough to be interesting. Also came across a couple of guys with the Doomhammer and he turns out they were promoting their music and they have one of the strangest videos I’ve seen. Wow, I just realized I didn’t talk to all that many people, because last thing that happened was as I was taking off I had a guy stop me, hand me a flyer for something and take of photo of me with it. It was for the up and coming VideoGames Live concert in june. I’ve actually gone to that before at the Hollywood Bowl years ago and I rather enjoyed it. And if you buy a ticket use the pre-sale code “WONDER” as says the flyer I have.
So here are my photos from the event that when on at a place known as Franks and Son’s Collectables. From what I understand is Stan Lee was there earlier in the day but had to leave early because apparently a mistake with someone was make that he and other people we works with did know about till a few days ago was that he was double booked. I got there after he took off anyways and over all my main interest was the people there in costume. And to see some friends of mine that I knew were going to be there, because I know them far to well.
So a friend of mine that created the costume has decided to put it up to sell and with the proceeds made he plans on donating to children’s foundation to help stop child abuse. I know, a little ironic but also makes sense. Now this is the same guy and costume in which I made a mock interview with back during Comic Con ’09 which was used in not just 1, but 2 news reports. His reasoning to sell can be heard in the video below so check it out and make yourself a bid.
So this weekend I decided I should head down to the convention center and check out the event going on. I was there friday for like 2 hours and I also headed down saturday for the afternoon and evening. On sunday (today) I decided to stay home to take care of some other things here. Now something I discovered during the event going on was some recording of the show Heroes of Cosplay and I met Victoria Schmidt and Jinyo Hui who were on the show and told them “you know I keep watching it and thinking, why am I doing this to myself?” I also met The Defuser, Parthenon, and Lemuria from the show Who wants to be a Superhero? in which I didn’t know they would be there. Not as big as Anime Expo but still a lot of stuff going on.
