Wow, my brain, she is all over the place
Jul. 21st, 2009 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankyoldmanSo I'm finally IN the workplace, doing my mathemagic thing. Which mostly means just looking shit up. So my mind wanders. Also, I got more Otakon pictures, from yi_sen who is a FAAAAABULOUS photographer. You make shitty lighting and costuming thrown on while drunk look AWESOME.
Sorry to Otakon spam people, especially those that didn't go, but I'm just proud of the work done and how it all came out. I seriously want to epic costume like, my entire life. Hell, if I can't fit into stuff I'd start making things for other people. I just love subcultures where you MAKE stuff. This is why I was fascinated by goths when I was younger (less now, as a lot of that stuff can be bought, but the more industrial type goths are still cool), and adore steampunk these days.
If I could somehow combine my love of making and wearing strange stuff with science? I'd be awesome.
So pics first, skip if you have to:
The Laguna costume is one of those throw on and go types, which I like. You can't see my gay little ponytail I have on, but it matches my hair near perfectly, since I dyed it to match the extension. XD Have realized the same extension could be good for a Lucrecia cosplay, so I am very happy. I adore this Squall and Rinoa, they were such good sports and really cute together.
Epic portrait is epic.
first_seventhe is the best Jecht ever, hands down. ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
drakonlily brings the rack back to Braska (and we did more with the costume when she wore it out to the con, she had head thingies and I hacked some sleeves from curtains).
cosplay.com is a cock, so here's just a link.
I think I was just being a dork here. This was Ianto's katana he had around his house, I borrowed it for the shoot cause it was better than my plastic one. I ended up carrying my Terra sword when I changed into it for realz later.
cosplay.com is a cock, so here's just a link.
You do not understand just how epically Jecht Sev was.
The rest can be summed up with this awesome album of photos.
Also on making things, I'd like to start an etsy, because I keep having people ask if I'd make stuff for them, or have friends of people I've made stuff for wonder if I sell any. Generally, I just like giving gifts, but a little pocket change doesn't hurt. And I won't offer commissions, cause that sounds crazy. Unless you're like friends of mine that suddenly go, "SHIT I'M IN A COSPLAY GROUP NOW PLEASE MAKE ME STUFF" which is fun. And I have lots of stuff to recycle into pretties, so yeah. And I intend of things being cheap cause really my materials cost is near zero on a lot of stuff I make, since my mom has a lot of supplies she's had on hand that she hasn't used in a while and I tend to recycle junk I find. I was sustainable before it was trendy, bitches. So we'll see what I can make this summer, as I won't have time during the fall to make anything.
And I am so hitting my "to refashion" clothes pile soon. Oddly enough, the rush of sewing before Otakon has only made me want to sew more. Vicious cycle? Hell, I'm already thinking of stuff I want to do for next year. That and if I'm going to do AUSA's Big Turk Group, I'm going to do the suit right and hack a black blazer into a zippered black blazer. Plus I need better black pants. If on the off chance they find someone's dad to be Veld (which would be awesome, con dads ROCK), I will totally try and put together an Elfe costume (...or possibly borrow parts oft3h_w0lfy's ^^; if she'd loan it to me). But I'd rather be Veld, I have the hair for it. During Christmas season I'm going to look for the beginnings of one of my dream costumes, Pearl from Legend of Mana, which will probably take me a couple years to put together as it's so complicated.
But yeah. End of the workday! Time to head out and go home and maybe start on that top-to-skirt conversion that I've been thinking about for weeks.
yi_sen who is a FAAAAABULOUS photographer. You make shitty lighting and costuming thrown on while drunk look AWESOME.Sorry to Otakon spam people, especially those that didn't go, but I'm just proud of the work done and how it all came out. I seriously want to epic costume like, my entire life. Hell, if I can't fit into stuff I'd start making things for other people. I just love subcultures where you MAKE stuff. This is why I was fascinated by goths when I was younger (less now, as a lot of that stuff can be bought, but the more industrial type goths are still cool), and adore steampunk these days.
If I could somehow combine my love of making and wearing strange stuff with science? I'd be awesome.
So pics first, skip if you have to:
The Laguna costume is one of those throw on and go types, which I like. You can't see my gay little ponytail I have on, but it matches my hair near perfectly, since I dyed it to match the extension. XD Have realized the same extension could be good for a Lucrecia cosplay, so I am very happy. I adore this Squall and Rinoa, they were such good sports and really cute together.
Epic portrait is epic.
first_seventhe is the best Jecht ever, hands down. drakonlily brings the rack back to Braska (and we did more with the costume when she wore it out to the con, she had head thingies and I hacked some sleeves from curtains). cosplay.com is a cock, so here's just a link.
I think I was just being a dork here. This was Ianto's katana he had around his house, I borrowed it for the shoot cause it was better than my plastic one. I ended up carrying my Terra sword when I changed into it for realz later.
cosplay.com is a cock, so here's just a link.
You do not understand just how epically Jecht Sev was.
The rest can be summed up with this awesome album of photos.
Also on making things, I'd like to start an etsy, because I keep having people ask if I'd make stuff for them, or have friends of people I've made stuff for wonder if I sell any. Generally, I just like giving gifts, but a little pocket change doesn't hurt. And I won't offer commissions, cause that sounds crazy. Unless you're like friends of mine that suddenly go, "SHIT I'M IN A COSPLAY GROUP NOW PLEASE MAKE ME STUFF" which is fun. And I have lots of stuff to recycle into pretties, so yeah. And I intend of things being cheap cause really my materials cost is near zero on a lot of stuff I make, since my mom has a lot of supplies she's had on hand that she hasn't used in a while and I tend to recycle junk I find. I was sustainable before it was trendy, bitches. So we'll see what I can make this summer, as I won't have time during the fall to make anything.
And I am so hitting my "to refashion" clothes pile soon. Oddly enough, the rush of sewing before Otakon has only made me want to sew more. Vicious cycle? Hell, I'm already thinking of stuff I want to do for next year. That and if I'm going to do AUSA's Big Turk Group, I'm going to do the suit right and hack a black blazer into a zippered black blazer. Plus I need better black pants. If on the off chance they find someone's dad to be Veld (which would be awesome, con dads ROCK), I will totally try and put together an Elfe costume (...or possibly borrow parts of
t3h_w0lfy's ^^; if she'd loan it to me). But I'd rather be Veld, I have the hair for it. During Christmas season I'm going to look for the beginnings of one of my dream costumes, Pearl from Legend of Mana, which will probably take me a couple years to put together as it's so complicated. But yeah. End of the workday! Time to head out and go home and maybe start on that top-to-skirt conversion that I've been thinking about for weeks.
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Date: 2009-07-22 09:43 pm (UTC)ZOMG....Lucrecia cosplay....I want to do this so badly. Like jump up and down and squee badly. With raygun earrings. Go, Team Science.
And, once again, the win. WIN. What the heck, I just spelled wing and fixed it, but who cares. you guys rock my socks. <3