I’m really impressed with the recent photo set posted by Once Upon A Geek. Over 400 photos of the best costumes of Dragon*Con 2008. Simply amazing!
Very nice! Head on over to Once Upon a Geek’s gallery to view all 400+ photos. So many great costumes, it’s mindblowing.
Forget the Monster Mash…here’s some real monster music.
The members of the Finnish heavy metal band, Lordi, are known as “The Finnish Monsters” and “The Monsters of Finland,” because of the elaborate monster-like costumes they wear during live shows and in music videos.
The band’s monster masks are made of foam latex. The mask for lead singer, Mr. Lordi, was glued together piece by piece and requires 2-3 hour to fit. The other masks are solid helmets, taking about 20 minutes to put on. The band members do each others’ makeup.
But you don’t think about all that when you’re watching their music videos. It’s more like, “Hey, those monsters really know how to rock!”
Here are two of my favorite Lordi music videos, in all their monstrous glory:
Ahoy!
We’re only a few weeks away from Talk Like a Pirate Day, on September 19th, and that means you don’t have much time to learn how to…well, talk like a pirate.
These two videos will help you master pirate lingo in a jiffy so you don’t embarrass yourself needlessly in the face of a world wide cultural phenomenon. No pressure there.
The first video was, in fact, made by the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day so you know you can trust them. The second video is a little iffy. I mean, the guy looks too clean cut to be teachin’ ye how to talk all pirate-ty.
Either way, these short tutorials will help you pass as pirate material so ye aren’t forced to take a walk off the auld plank! (I watched both videos and I’m talkin’ like a pirate already. You can’t place enough value on a YouTube education!)
Check back soon for more information on Talk Like a Pirate Day, including my own pirate costume and prop photos.
Looks like another great year for Dragon*Con attendees. The 2008 convention in Atlanta, GA ended yesterday and tons of photos are appearing online.
You can browse Dragon*Con photo galleries Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and Here.
I imagine most people have come home exhausted and are still trying to organize their photos. We’ll post more about Dragon*Con soon!
This Trekkie just found out:
Trekkies everywhere are mourning the loss of the Star Trek Experience, the only live Star Trek attraction in the world. Today marks the end of its ten-year run at the Hilton in Las Vegas.
Over the weekend, thousands of Trekkies beamed into Las Vegas for a final encounter with the Borg and to drown their sorrows in strong Klingon drinks served at Quark’s Bar and Restaurant.
It doesn’t help that there’s as strong online rumor that the exhibit will become a theater for pop star Michael Jackson. Ouch, that’s harsh. Couldn’t they have just made Michael part of the attraction? Oh well.
Someone put together a touching tribute on YouTube:
Operations Manager Chad Boutte left a final transmission from the Enterprise bridge:
“Hailing frequencies open. We’d like to thank all the fans and friends of Star Trek, whose constant and amazing support we’ve enjoyed throughout our tenure at the Las Vegas Hilton. As we boldly go into the futures that await, know that we take your love of Star Trek: The Experience with us. We share the memories of time spent in the most unique place in the Galaxy, and we carry those memories into our futures with us.
Live long, and prosper. Hailing frequencies closed.”
[Via StarTrekExp.com]
Perhaps all is not lost, Star Trek fans. All of the props will be returned to Paramount, and with a new Trek movie debuting next summer, it’s likely the franchise will reboot into a future with many more Experiences to come.
Have you ever thought of your computer’s fonts as living entities? Me too. When I’m lying in bed at night, I often ponder what the fonts would look like if I were to meet them in person. Thanks to this College Humor video, I don’t have to wonder any more…and maybe I’ll get some sleep. Check it out:
As good as Comic Sans looks in costume, I now know he’s not the font for me. Ransom is definitely more my style!
Someone named Simon has an incredible gift for making costumes out of Legos. We’re talking about a full body suit, how amazing!
He also made a very impressive Lego Darth Vader costume:
Head on over to gizmodo.com to read the full story and see the rest of the photos. Great job, Simon!
This is an interesting music video for the song Carmensita. Musician Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend, actress Natalie Portman, have a great time dancing and singing in their Bollywood-style costumes.
It’s definitely a parody of low-budget Bollywood films, with over the top acting, dancing, tongue-in-cheek subtitles, and brilliant costumes.
Check it out:
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It’s not the sort of thing you want the kids to see…a handcuffed Snow White being dragged away from Disneyland by the cops.
It gets worse. Cinderella, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans last Thursday after a labor dispute involving three Disney-owned hotels.
Following an hour-long march, thirty-two protesters, many wearing costumes famous Disney character costumes, sat in a circle on a busy intersection outside the park holding hands before being carted off in plastic handcuffs by the police.
Tourists in Disney T-shirts and hats looked on with bewildered faces as the costumed picketers we’re hauled away.
“It’s changing my opinion of Disneyland,” an Australian tourist commented.
Indeed, the “Happiest Place on Earth” was less than a fairytale that day!
[via CNN]
There’s been a lot of fuss in the news lately about the Bigfoot corpse found by hunters.
Turns out it was just a costume.
There was a big press conference held in Palo Alto, CA.
Tom Biscardi, owner of SearchingforBigfoot.com owner paid an estimated $50,000 to Georgia residents Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer for their frozen “corpse” and the rights to the news story.
Meanwhile, many websites, such as MakeupandMonsters.com did their own detective work and compared the corpse photo to a popular Bigfoot costume.
They noticed the face and nose were exactly the same as the costume. It wasn’t until many days later that the Bigfoot corpse was officially declared a hoax.
Why did they do it? The hoaxsters simply wanted “to give the psychos something to do over the weekend.”
The popular online dating service eHarmony.com has published a troubling article about “Photos that Make you Look Undateable.” [link]
Their advice? If you want to find love:
1. Don’t post a picture of yourself in a bar.
2. Don’t post a picture with your Ex obviously cut out.
3. Don’t stand next to a celebrity or something expensive.
4. Don’t wear a costume.
Huh?
We get that some people really like to dress up in costumes even when it isn’t Halloween. However, while your friends may understand your penchant for dressing like the original Superman at Comic-Con, most people perusing your profile won’t.
Since when does a little cosplay interfere with finding love? And if someone is turned off by your cosplay, why would you want to date them anyway? Is the goal to get as many dates as possible, or to find someone compatible? I think we have a Quality vs. Quantity issue going on here.
eHarmony says, “When you’re putting yourself out there, it’s best to save the fun photos for later on down the road.”
So… the key to getting dates is to be fake and boring. Nice.
Cosplaying is interesting. It’s one thing to dress up as a character you like, but cosplaying generally involves having to act like the character as well. Cosplayers pride themselves on having the most accurate, authentic costume possible, and when cosplayers start making up their own characters, things start getting a little crazy.
One interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed is something I’m going to call crossover cosplaying (this is not to be confused with crossplaying, which is crossdressing cosplaying). It’s when a cosplayer, usually for a humorous effect, combines two characters from two different canons. Sometimes a character from one canon is simply placed into a different canon, without being combined with another character.
Obviously, this type of cosplaying veers away from the canon image that is so highly respected in cosplaying, which is why this is done more for fun and laughs. It also requires more creativity in designing the costume than normal cosplay, because the cosplayer first must decide which characters to combine, and then figure out how to make a costume which represents both of these characters in the way the cosplayer desires.
This isn’t a very popular trend yet—in fact, crossover cosplayers are kind of considered the oddballs of the groups! Some cosplayers feel that crossover cosplayers are just mocking the cosplaying phenomenon, but I think they’re just trying to have fun with costume design and characters they love.
Let us know about some crazy crossover cosplays you’ve seen!
Many of you have probably heard about the new Invisibility Cloak that scientists are developing.
What a great costume this would be! I took a chance and contacted the scientists to see if they would let me try one.
The guy on the phone was like, “MyDisguises? Isn’t that the incredibly popular costume blog?”
“Yep,” I said.
“Hey, we love your blog. Sure thing, we can send you an invisibility cloak, no problem,” he said.
I was so excited. I couldn’t wait! And sure enough, several days later, I received a package in the mail.
Wow, it works great! I had so much fun wearing it. I took a bunch of pictures.
As you can see, I had a great time. It’s the best costume ever!
Looks like the kid in this video has an invisiblity cloak, too. I think his mom is one of the scientists, but I’m not completely sure.
I suspect these invisibility cloak sightings will become more and more common in the near future. If you spot someone invisible, please take a picture and send it to us!
Just when you think you’ve seen it all…
Zombie Haiku? Why not? It’s actually quite popular these days. All you need to know is that a Haiku is made up of 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7, and the third line has 5.
I’m inspired to try it myself:
I want to eat you
bite into your tasty flesh
just doing my job
If you’re feeling deadly poetic today, why not post your own Zombie Haiku in the comments below?
Well, we’ve reached the end of our Star Wars blog fest. In honor of today’s theatrical premiere of The Clone Wars, I’d like to finish up here with another type of animated Star Wars film…the parody.
I’d never heard of Robot Chicken before yesterday, because I don’t have cable television. But I’m glad I ran across this hilarious little morsel on the internet.
Cartoon Network’s popular Adult Swim series, Robot Chicken, created this 2007 Star Wars parody using stop motion animated toys & puppets. Funny man, Seth Green, directed the 22 minute episode which was nominated for an Emmy. It’s available for purchase on Amazon.com, but you can check out some clips right here:
If this merely wet your appetite for Star Wars parodies, you’ll be happy to know that there’s another Robot Chicken Star Wars episode in the works!
Many members of the voice cast from the first special, including original Star Wars actors Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams will lend their voices to the sequel.
This time around, the focus of the show will explore the stories of the bounty hunters. Robot Chicken Star Wars, Episode II, will premier on the Cartoon Network November 16th.
We’re continuing with our Star Wars theme this week. I thought it would be fun to show some Youtube clips of great costumes and creativity.
Star Wars (Sweded): A Cardboard Hope
We’ve talked about Sweding before. This video was made for the popular BeKindReWind’s sweding competition, and it’s very well done.
You know, George Lucas invented the lightsaber over 30 years ago. It’s rather hard to believe that our top scientists haven’t been able to make one for real. What’s up with that?
Disney knows a good thing when they see it. So they came up with their own line of Disney / Muppets Star Wars action figures.
The Disney action figures will be sold individually for $9.95, and include Mickey Mouse as Anakin, Minnie Mouse as Amidala, Goofy as Jar Jar, Donald Duck as Darth Maul, and Stitch as Yoda, available for sale inside Disney Theme Park gift shops.
Muppets Star Wars figures will be packaged separately or in a boxed set. Characters include Kermit as Luke Skywalker, Miss Piggy as Princess Leia, Beaker as C3PO, Fozzie as Chewbacca, Rizzo as Yoda, and Gonzo as Darth Vader. These figures are also for sale sale inside Disney Theme Park gift shops.
Just when you thought you were done collecting action figures…
Because there’s no such thing as too much Star Wars…
Are you ready for more Star Wars? With the new animated Clone Wars hitting theaters this Friday, the Star Wars fans are out in full Force. I thought it would be fun to show some fantastic costumes from Comic-Con.
The Official Star Wars Blog has a great article about the best Star Wars costumes in their Comic-Con photo gallery.
So many great costumes! It’s fun to see the traditional Star Wars characters as well as the creative variations such as the pink Darth Vader and Legos characters. And of course, no Star Wars photo gallery is complete without Leia in her metal bikini….
CLICK HERE for the entire photo gallery.
And remember, The Clone Wars opens in theaters this Friday. See you there!
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