Writer’s disease: if something affects you, you spend an obscene amount of time picking it apart to find out how it achieved the effect and whether it can be adapted and replicated.
From Elevator Lady.
piratescosplayersweb, originally uploaded by sleepychameleon.Not a great photo of impressive costumes. I think both these guys were here before–although the guy on the right I think was Legolas a couple years ago. They’ve both gained a bit of weight–that’s the TKD talking for ya–but they’re still pretty good renditions.
BTW, Jack Sparrow’s hat retails for some eighty bucks at Disneyland.
Next is one of my PRIZE SHOTS from this convention–Carrie Fisher, signing for Star Wars fans!
Buddy Jesus from Dogma, originally uploaded by sleepychameleon.
After Batman, there’s Buddy Jesus!
Honestly, not much to say about this one. I dig the halo.
Next up: Pirates of the Caribbean!
Batman, originally uploaded by sleepychameleon.
One of the best Batman costumes I’ve seen–fairly decently designed, material looked good, if not “technically” correct (vinyl cape drapes well but provides little practical use?) and it must be stinking warm in there.
He was, however, nice enough to let me feel up the material, and pose several times.
This was at the purple weirdness amorphosity of the SciFi Channel Booth this year.
Last night’s dinner was at Downtown, with a group of seven people, both current and former Berkeley graduates. No one brought a camera, other than cell phones, and we all dressed up a little for the occasion although ultimately it seemed unnecessary. Downtown is a place that we’d all passed by on a regular basis but never actually stopped in and tried out, and one day, S & Y and I decided we’d make reservations and go in two weeks.
Evites were sent out, reservations were made.
The food was pretty good all around, although it seems like the staff could use some additional brain power. They originally made the reservation for the week after, a mistake that was only discovered upon adding two more people to the dining group. And after our meal, we split the check and neatly calculated the totals to be charged to each credit card on a postcard, which the waitress (who wasn’t our server) blithely ignored. When we pointed out that we’d each been overcharged by $10-15 to her, she tried to find the mistake in our math. Umm, table full of Asian kids. Hello? She apologized, took back our credit cards, and then had to return to our table a few minutes later to ask for the piece of paper on which all the calculations were written. Which she had originally taken with her.
Right. Well, the food was good–the risotto and pork chops were done close to perfection, and the desserts were definitely worth staying for, even though there was a gelateria down the street. Not that this prevented some of us from having gelati afterwards!
There’s talk of Chez Panisse next month, and S wants to revisit Butterfly, and personally, I want to take a trip out to Napa to try out French Laundry.
Hmm. This could get expensive.
*Originally reserved for editing…but I’m too lazy to edit. So here it is.
Elvis Stormtrooper and Silent Bob, originally uploaded by sleepychameleon.I gave up on fixtures (bother me if you really want to see the Jack Skellington statue upped). Now moving on to the costumes!
Elvis Stormtrooper himself would probably be one of the subjects of any Comic-Con scavenger hunt. Posing with Silent Bob (and a pretty good one, at that) was just a plus.
Next up: a really good Batman who I kind of stalked and then felt up his cape material at the Purple Wonder of a Sci Fi Channel Booth.
Giant Pikachu balloon/parade float that I think has been at Comic-Con before at least twice. I thought before I arrived there that this would be the place to meet up with groups–”I’ll see you under the giant Pikachu!” One more photo of the little yellow dude here.
But it turned out that Snakes on a Plane had a booth there, and it happened to be a giant snake’s mouth with fangs, and it was also located right next to SciFi Channel’s amorphous purple waste of space, so it was really easy to spot people when you told them, “Iet’s meet up between SoaP and SciFi.”
The only problem being that they were a little too close to where all the non-comicky (i.e. people who were there for the freebies and the movie stuff) crowds were, so getting there was a bit of an issue sometimes.
Obviously, I’m still working on remembering to post every day. Hum.
My father has come and gone and left a small collection of (mostly full) bottled water in his wake.
* I’ve been collecting single sentence summaries of notable–well, impressions, for lack of a better word–for some time now. This one is from today, and I decided it would be a good way to launch the series. We’ve seen my father once before, in “Aged People”.
A life-size-ish renditioning of the Dark Knight, in Legos. The cape wasn’t lego-constructed, but a piece of nylon or polyester that was attached to him. Nearby, a fan blew it gently so that it was constantly in motion.
I’m not sure how much of the feel is conveyed in this photo, but seeing this in person was awesome. I’m no Lego fangirl, but the movement and power of this piece was impressive.
More details of this statue are here and here.
Next up: Pikachu!
I thought this was a chara from one of the Final Fantasy series, but I am told that no, Sora was specifically created for Kingdom Hearts. Shows you how much I know. I was just going by the hair. :P
Thanks to Jenny Chen (and a few others, belatedly) for identification.
