Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Comic Con’
Event The Geeks Takeover and Then Take Off
July 29, 2009 - 9:29 pm
Long months after the San Diego Comic Con is over, shockwaves are felt throughout fandom. Buzz will continue to spread for projects that fans are excited about. The negative feedback from fans will require creators to go back to the drawing board and rethink their projects. And new discoveries will enjoy a wider audience. So it goes every year at Comic Con.
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Loading ...Comic Books Featured Gallery I’m Batman Damnit…
July 29, 2009 - 9:28 pm
Comic Com 09’ is a sea filled with bobbing pop-characters ranging from a black Scooby Doo to a white Darth Vader. A 4yr old “I Dream of Genie” to a 65yr old Wonder Woman. And we’re not just talking about your run of the mill store bought Halloween bullshit here either kiddos. While costume design can begin the gambit with a simple sponge paint Poke’mon t-shirt; it’s the 2 years in the making handmade cosplayer’s guise, which truly embodies a fan. Chris “Wayne”, we shall call him, just so happens to be one of those devotees.
I shot some 300 different pop-characters and saw easily over a couple thousand alt personas over the course of Comic Con 09’. But it was this variant of the caped crusader that stood out. I really wanted to know what it took to dress as Batman Beyond in time and character. Here’s what I found out.
4.40 (5 votes)
Loading ...Music Styling for Mr. Popsicle Provided by GWAR
July 29, 2009 - 9:27 pm
“AHHHHH. Yo, man what ya be doin tryin clamber all bloody in me cab like dis?”, exclaims the dreadlocked cabbie in a deeply set Caribbean accent as I plop myself in the back seat. “What happen to ya, ya get al blasted up an runover by a bus or sometin?” ‘Let me explain’, I say as I glance up into the rearview mirror and stare into the eyes of what appears to be a dimly dome lit meat Popsicle.
You see my birthday tends to be that one day of year, much like everyone else; I want to be special and full of great memories. Hanging out with close friends, downing a 5th of Jack on a rickety bar top, and maybe getting a lil’ action if I stumble across a sorority girl with self esteem issues because one arm is shorter than the other. But this year I decided to spice things up a bit. I would spend my special evening shooting a fanciful event full of drugs, homo-erotic sex acts, and murder. No silly, I’m not talking Randy Newman at Sea World. I’m speaking of GWAR at Comic Con 09’.
To be fair, I’m not a huge fan of the music of GWAR, mainly because I couldn’t tell you within in reason just what in the hell is being grunted on any of their albums in the last 25yrs. But aesthetically, it is rumored that this is one of those shows you have to attend in your lifetime. So, I packed a specialized dive bag for my rig, and set off into a cyclone of madness which can only be equated to the last battle scene from “300.” Please excuse the shoddy workmanship of the images, there is a certain inebriant complication of shooting with a camera housed in a duffle bag whilst being hosed down in pseudo-blood by a headless Obama. Enjoy.
5.00 (2 votes)
Loading ...Event Autographitti
July 29, 2009 - 9:27 pm
Kings have signed proclamations onto parchment changing history… authors have signed letters to lovers and moved the world… and Adam West, Batman from the 1960s television series, will sign anything for $30 at Comic Con and may change one fan’s life. The autograph is perhaps the oldest collectible in history. And some strokes of the pen are the most highly sought after at the San Diego Comic Con.
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Loading ...Comic Books Get Your Costume On!
July 29, 2009 - 9:27 pm
Throughout the weekend at the San Diego Comic Con the Costumes are key. Without these dedicated fans, heros, villains and innocuous sidekicks combined, the Comic Con experience would not be complete. Here’s to all the crazy and the brave…may your deodorant be plenty and your seams be strong!
Photos by Dustin Downing
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Event Real Rubber Monster Smackdown
July 27, 2009 - 11:01 am
Punches will be thrown. Kicks will connect. Backs will be smacked. It’s tense before the bout. And stepping into the ring wearing a rubber monster suit does not make it any easier. At Kaiju Big Battel (SIC)… there will be blood. It’s more than wrestling in monster costumes since the smackdown doesn’t just destroy the opponent, this match decimates a tiny model city built for destruction.
Kaiju Big Battel, an unofficial Comic Con event (open to the public of all ages), attracted crowds ready to witness live creature throwdowns inspired by old Japanese monster movies and TV shows. What might surprise you most about Tokyo-flavored wrestling match is that it is not a Japanese invention at all, in fact, it came from Boston, Massachussets. The ringmaster and creator of the live events and video series is the Boston-bred Randy Borden. He created the original event as performance art as a student. Randy describes its Japanese influence as, “…the cultural feedback loop. Japan takes American things and turns them into Japanese and we take them and turn them back. We go back and forth with things.” In a way, it’s like pop culture eating itself, vomiting and then… well, you get it.
4.00 (3 votes)
Loading ...Film The Real King of Cartoons
July 27, 2009 - 11:01 am
“I’m an anti-social outcast character. I’m also an anti-family values guy and I was tired of all the kiddie cartoons,” says the legendary Spike of Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation. “My hero is Lenny Bruce and I’m put off by the hypocrisy of our society such as getting upset about nipples. Babies suck on those.”
The secret origin of Spike and his mini animation empire is not quite as dramatic as, say, being bitten by a radioactive Bugs Bunny, the beginnings of the fest grew out of boredom. “We put on the festival since there really wasn’t anything to do in Riverside,” Spike says. “The difference between yogurt and Riverside is that yogurt has an active culture. So we did these shows at the schools and it grew from there.”
Fed up with watered down cartoons permeating culture in the 1970s, Spike and his college cohorts put on the very first Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation at Riverside City College in 1977. After that, the festival toured other colleges and alternative screening venues. The reaction was immediate. Audiences were offended… and they loved it. Playing to sold out audiences who recoiled and laughed their asses off. Soon, with the success of the tours, the films started coming to Spike. “I started collecting all these cartoons that were… sick and twisted…” Spike says, “…films like Lupo the Butcher and Bambi Meets Godzilla. It was a way of showing that animation wasn’t just for kids.”
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Event Suicide Girls and Comic Con
July 27, 2009 - 11:00 am
Normally you wouldn’t think the words nerd and model go together, but The Suicide Girls and Comic Con go hand in hand. This is my second year at Comic Con with SG and I can only say that it’s getting better and better every year.
Last year, we had one booth. We were small, but we were mighty: posing for pictures, signing books, and selling memberships.
This year we’ve grown; now we’ve got two booths—one right across from the DC booth. (Location, location, location!) Even better, Suicidegirls.com had a contest for members (http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Everything+SG/303083/) allowing them to pick costume themes for us to dress up in at the booths each day. Ultimately, we dressed up as Tank Girl, Lost Darmites (in ACTUAL Dharma jumpsuits from the show), and Uhura . Rivaling booth babes at their respective booths, our costumes were pretty epic.
There are two misconceptions that I hear on the street and read in forums all the time. That should be dispelled. I think they’ll give you some insight in to the world that is “The Suicide Girls.”
4.78 (18 votes)
Loading ...Event Comic Con: From Preview to Review
July 27, 2009 - 11:00 am
Comic Con is all about the sneak preview, the exclusive, the rare variant, but the ultimate exclusive is the Special Preview Night. But throughout the con so many stories unfold.
4.60 (5 votes)
Loading ...Film Make Room for Tommy
July 26, 2009 - 10:33 am
“No one inspired me, I inspired myself.” This is the proud proclamation of one Tommy Wiseau, the writer, director and star, really the entire brains behind The Room. Maybe you’ve heard about this cult film and the crazy things people do when they see it. Maybe you’ve heard someone quote the movie casually saying, “Oh. Hi, Mark.” Or perhaps you remember the billboard of The Room featuring only Tommy’s pensive and pained expression looking down upon the traffic on Highland Avenue just south of Hollywood. It was in Los Angeles, that this phenomenon was born when midnight screenings of the movie erupted in chaos… much of it planned.
4.75 (4 votes)
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