Just a few videos I have enjoyed with some tasty Cosplay this year. Some of the best creativity I know goes into creating costumes, whether for Halloween or Comic-Con or Movies. I figure it is worth a pause every so often to enjoy the better ones, and the first two in this set are from Mahalo, who seem to mostly be involved with food but have enough clothing awareness to be able to put together quality Cosplay collections.
Just a reminder that Sci-Fi London’s Oktoberfest kicks off tomorrow evening with the Life, but as we know it? event at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (home of Greenwich Mean Time). This presentation investigates extraterrestrial life in science, science fiction, and comedy. They will also be unveiling their new planetarium program, Astrobiology on pretty much the same topic. I should mention you better already have your tickets if you wanted to see TRON on the big screen before the new version comes out, because that one is sold out. The Studio Ghibli All Nighter still has half the seats left, but tickets are going fast. They will be running Spirited Away, Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, The Cat Returns, and Howl’s Moving Castle in that theater; I would pay to see any one of them in a movie theater, all four back to back would be a serious treat.
This weekend is the New York Anime Festival, one of the truly monster events of the Anime calendar. This party is embedded in another one, the New York Comic-Con, but it has kind of become the tail wagging the dog. Musical guests alone include the Boom Boom Satellites, Vamps, Puffy Ami Yumi, Yoshiki of X-Japan, Zazen Boys, and many more. Tricia Helfer and Bruce Campbell will be there for the other con as well. Cosplay, Anime screenings, panels and parties, everything an Otaku could want in one place.
Boom Boom Satellites -Kick It Out
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Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest is coming from Thursday October 14th through Saturday October 16th, and it is bringing many goodies. It will kick off on Thursday night with a special Planetarium program on Astrobiology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (home of Greenwich Mean Time). My personal film favorite may be the UK premier of the live action Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time movie, giving us yet another rendition of this perennial favorite. Another UK premier will be the first ever Serbian feature length animation, in the form of the Cyberpunk soon-to-be classic Technotise: Edit & I. There are an assortment of all-night screening sessions with various focuses as well as a collection of workshops, panels, and gatherings. All in all, an event worth attending.
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
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If you are going to be at DragonCon this weekend, make sure to pick up your Dragon Con App for your iDevice, or for your Android. This is not the first App I have heard of built specifically for a Sci-Fi Con, but I don’t think SkepTrack counts, since it just a specialized App for a specific DragonCon track. And yes, the main App has full browse by track support, as well as the ability to break events out by day, time, people, and more. This may just be the new face of Sci-Fi Cons, and for a full list of all things digital at DragonCon just follow the link. Earlier Con Apps include the famous Tron App from this years SDCC. Also at DragonCon this year, BAR2D2, the droid that gets you drunk. It caries 15 kinds of beer and a variety of fixings, and is programmed to build 5,000 different mixed drinks when you put in your order via laptop; and yes, they are building an app for that so you don’t need the clunky laptop.
Coming up on September 5th at Dragon Con is the Steampunk Exhibition, which looks like it will be a hoot with the best and the brightest of Steampunk engineers and artificers from around the world. On top of that, they are going for a Guinness world record for the largest Steampunk photograph (they better be using an authentic Steampunk photography system). And yes, Steampunk is what happens when Goths discover brown. Of course, there will be a gazillion other things going on at DragonCon, so you might want to consider attending next year (I am pretty sure this year, like most of the last decade, is completely sold out).