Conventions
The GMX Suite Party
Oct 7th
“Aw shii!” one of the thugs said. “You a stormtroopa?”
“Ah dog, and he’s got Leia with em. She fiiine.”
On the third floor of a Nashville Radisson, in the triple doored executive suites, I drank luke-warm beer in the company of Cloud, Desmond, and a slew of other dorks.
A man dressed in a stormtrooper outfit made of the same glittering material as a discoball dominated the techno-thumping dance floor, along with the afro-buns of his companion Leia. Meanwhile BAR2-D2 drifted aimlessly about, offering beers and mixed drinks that fellow nerds were too awed to accept.
We stayed until around 2am, then found a Wafflehouse and discussed life, love, and politics.
A week from this day, we will be bound in holy wed-lock. What a delighful life we live.
Dragon*Con 2009 Steampunk Favorites
Sep 11th
photo by anna
As promised, here are some pictures of my favorite costumes. Or at least, my favorite Steampunk ones!
photo by brian
photo by matt & kristy
photo by matt & kristy
Dragon*Con 2009
Sep 9th
photo by howard
Picture this: amidst the dreaded Atlanta heat in a beautiful downtown hotel, a night is spent drinking with the most curious company: a Jedi, a pirate, an elf, a burlesque dancer, a transsexual Jesus and his Swedish fish bearing maidens, and a heavy (via the PC shooter Team Fortress 2). The massive, open-air space of the hotel is filled with thousands upon thousands of aimlessly migrating Deanna Trois; Legolases; Links; and generic, chainmail bikini clad women. Creepy men scramble about with expensive camera’s, begging for pictures.
Meanwhile, clad in other cosplay outfits, all in various states of undress, drunken shouting and swearing nerds are carted away multiple times through all hours of the night on stretchers. They’re pushed by white uniformed men who blend seamlessly into the crowd of Storm Troopers and Team Fortress Medics and Umbrella Corp Employees…
Reality bends into a strange, yet beautiful, surreal dream.
This is Dragon*Con. The largest Sci-Fi/Fantasy convention of popular media in the country. An estimated 50,000 people attended, swarming all of Atlanta with glorious fandom. My lovely soon-to-be-wife Freya and I attended this year for the first time, and are forever sold.
Though we didn’t bring our camera, I have been compiling some flickr users’ pictures of our favorite costumes. Stay tuned for more!