Thursday, 22 September 2011 Cosplay from Dragon Con 2011 quote [ None ] Yeah, I need to hit dragoncon next year... And I might need to take some extra tissues [art] [by afrasr@4:50amGMT] [+10 Good]

Viking_Biochemist said @ 5:12am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Underrated] I love it when people make a bunch of amazing shit.

arrowhen said @ 8:41am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2] Yeah, me too. I've recently started putting together a costume for a Renaissance festival coming up a the end of October, and it's really given me a lot of insight into how much work and craftsmanship goes into even the simplest of the costumes you see in a video like this. What I'm making is some ring mail (a type of armor which probably never actually existed) comprised of 20-odd pounds of fender washers riveted to a canvas undergarment with copper roofing nails. I'm going for a low-budget 80's fantasy movie vibe, accentuating the homemade armor with ready-made leather bracers and a big-ass leather belt. I naively thought that the metal would be the hard part, but after twenty minutes of fucking around with a ball-peen hammer I had that down pat. As it turns out, though, sewing is fucking hard. Apparently, most people who make clothing use something they call a "pattern" which, when combined with careful measurements, tells them where to cut and where to sew. What they don't do is take apart an old shirt to get a vague idea of how pieces of fabric are supposed to go together and then alter that on the fly to suit their needs. Long story short, I've come to realize that after two fucking hours of snipping, folding, pinning, looking in the mirror, adjusting, readjusting, re-snipping, re-pinning, and finally resigning oneself to the awful finality of committing one's design to the sewing machine, it's possible to feel ridiculously goddamned proud of something as deceptively simple as creating an arm-hole that's shaped the way you want it to be.

arrowhen said @ 8:45am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Funny] Apparently, HTML is also fucking hard.

tickaz said @ 9:20am GMT on 22nd Sep When HTML is fucking hard, just stroke it 'til it cums. Then it will be your bitch.

azazel said @ 9:16am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Interesting] Sewing gets better after a while -- it's a skill like any other, after all. I'm reasonably experienced with it, but there's some fucking magic with patterns and a sewing machine that my mother can do that just leaves me speechless. Your way is... maybe not the best, but it should make the next project easier none the less. As for the ring mail... I know from my earlier days of LARPing (which I came to realize was horrible because it sucks sleeping in a tent in the forest when it's raining and your idiot friends wants everything to be as "realistic" as it can get, even going so far as to complain about a sleeping bag, all the while running around with less-than-realistic weapons or even names for that matter) that we contacted some spring manufacturer and had them punch out about 15k rings for us to use. Wasn't terribly expensive, either (I could afford it when in high school, after all). The actual company is still in business, apparently, but I suppose shipping from Sweden wouldn't be cost-effective.

willrogers said @ 12:57am GMT on 23rd Sep That reminds me of a friend of mine who is a historian and Ren Faire geek, but of the badass variety. He makes entirely realistic and historically accurate clothing and armor through painstaking study and effort, but the coolest thing is that he is an expert on period sword fighting styles. He is a scary good sword fighter.

Oberoten said @ 2:34am GMT on 23rd Sep So for us Swedish geeks here... What company? :) I expect that shipping to the north of Sweden is a bit cheaper than overseas. - Obe

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:35am GMT on 23rd Sep Ah! I remember you asking about that! How to separate the heads from the nails etc.

KingPellinore said @ 10:34am GMT on 24th Sep That's why I lace my Metamucil with glitter and confetti.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 5:26am GMT on 22nd Sep Great costumes, great editing.

eskimonoise said @ 6:50am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Underrated] I would have preferred it if I could have had a slightly longer look at each costume. I have trouble focussing when the image switches too quickly. Oh wait, there's a pause button, ignore what I just said.

arrowhen said @ 8:05am GMT on 22nd Sep Pause, schmause. I want to see a detailed step-by-step progression for how every costume was made.

Joe_Luma said @ 8:10am GMT on 23rd Sep Made, schmade. I want to see a detailed step-by-step progression for how each costume was put on.

theolypse said @ 5:27am GMT on 22nd Sep I'm only looking for a girl I know.

theolypse said @ 12:24am GMT on 26th Sep They didn't use her footage. :(

Persephone13 said @ 5:33am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Informative] I swear, this whole site is obsessed with Alisa. Alisathumbs everywhere. lol

sanepride said @ 5:40am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Insightful] Who?

kruxfelt said @ 6:49am GMT on 22nd Sep

rezties said @ 6:52am GMT on 22nd Sep I like her enthusiasm.

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:04am GMT on 22nd Sep http://www.alisakiss.com/alisachan/index2.htm Last updated May 4, 2004 [5:02 p.m.]

Milkman666 said @ 7:22am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Insightful] NSFW

tickaz said @ 9:27am GMT on 22nd Sep Goddam I hate girls that show everything but; it's a fucking tease. I'm almost tempted to PAY ACTUAL MONEY to see the goods and I'm a man who can proudly say I've never (technically*) paid money to see a vagina in my life. * I have paid money to enter "venues" where the viewing of vaginas is available, but that hardly counts.

strangeffect said @ 10:23am GMT on 22nd Sep Operating theaters?

eggboy said @ 10:51am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Funny] I read that with both words in seperate quotation marks.

max_damage78 said @ 12:14pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2] *cough cough*

jutetrea said @ 1:32pm GMT on 25th Sep Nice! Although these seem an older subset... I rarely get obsessed with hardcore a couple clicks away but for some reason I find myself interested

Persephone13 said @ 9:12pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Interesting] alisa is a 'tease artist', and does 'glamour nude' not porn. Even in the member's area, there's no spread pussy, no penetration of any kind, simply nude posing. Up until about a year ago, she would even strategically cover up her pussy. Most of what she does is based on cosplay, and those willing to pay money simply because she's gorgeous. I made my comments earlier about her because she's also got quite a few SE page thumbnails on here as well, but pointed out to me that they're all from when she was a minor (they're all just cosplay clothed shots, though).

structured_spirits said @ 10:27pm GMT on 22nd Sep To be fair about the underage thumbs, it's not as if they were selected because she was underage, but rather that at the time most of the SE thumbs were added, those were current pics. In addition, she was doing the anime tease stuff before cosplay was very popular like it is today.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 6:05am GMT on 23rd Sep SE was around during the 90's?

Aidentas said @ 6:15am GMT on 23rd Sep Yes. It was called Matt's web page, and it was the biggest website in New Zealand. Even Lomu...

Naruki said @ 2:05pm GMT on 24th Sep Wasn't it the only website in New Zealand?

EPT said @ 8:29am GMT on 22nd Sep Bah! Her 'Rocky' is from the floorshow, not the lab!

KingPellinore said @ 12:24pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2] So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab.

pleaides said @ 1:19pm GMT on 22nd Sep WINNAR!!

benjamander said @ 3:41pm GMT on 22nd Sep I can't come that far.

KingPellinore said @ 3:48pm GMT on 22nd Sep I see you shiver with antici...

michaelofoz said @ 8:12pm GMT on 22nd Sep say it!

KingPellinore said @ 9:55pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Interesting] ...pation.

f00m@nB@r said @ 1:10pm GMT on 22nd Sep http://twitter.com/#!/AlisaKiss

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 5:54am GMT on 22nd Sep I was going to ask for the thumbgirl. So, any more info than that?

jimnasty said @ 10:32pm GMT on 22nd Sep www.alisakiss.com but how about this instead? www.flickr.com/photos/88401055@N00/sets/72157594282071244/

f00m@nB@r said @ 11:48pm GMT on 22nd Sep mailto?

jimnasty said @ 9:06am GMT on 23rd Sep i dont understand your question...

f00m@nB@r said @ 1:29pm GMT on 23rd Sep nm.

danshyu said @ 6:24am GMT on 22nd Sep Was she the one with a butterface? Who went from just posting cosplay picture online to doing full fledged paid softcore porn on her website?

f00m@nB@r said @ 6:53am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Hot Pr0n] http://imgur.com/r/upskirt

GordonGuano said @ 7:49am GMT on 22nd Sep Didn't an SE'er have a wife doing cosplay at Comic-con? They should put up pics so we could compare them. You know, for science.

tronsgit said @ 8:05am GMT on 22nd Sep There were actually a lot of good looking people in that video. Does this mean nerds are the new Hollywood?

tickaz said @ 8:28am GMT on 22nd Sep You mean to say that all of the comic book based movies that have been released in the last decade by hollywood were meant for consumption by a demographic other than nerds?

tickaz said @ 8:35am GMT on 22nd Sep Not to mention video game based movies and OH OH DON'T FORGET The Lord of The Rings trilogy. Or even the abhorrent Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Those were made purely to suck the moisture out of a nerd's wallet.

arrowhen said @ 8:42am GMT on 22nd Sep Not to mention that the myth that nerd=ugly has been bullshit pretty much forever?

tickaz said @ 8:45am GMT on 22nd Sep Well that was just propoganda bullshit invented by the jocks to try to keep their demographic relevant. In the end they failed.

Krutz said @ 3:26pm GMT on 22nd Sep While that is true, as someone who attended DragonCon, you're not seeing (or smelling) a lot of the more "unfortunate" cosplayers. There does seem to be a trend for those who aren't svelte or "pretty" to gravitate towards steampunk, Klingons, or other costumes that don't involve outfits designed to put more appealing flesh and form on display. Though I think DragonCon is among the upper-tier cosplay conventions, outdoing San Diego by quite a long measure. I think it's because of not only the attendees, but the way the con is structured; you can mill around the three large hotels pretty much 24/7 and see a constant parade of costumes.

damnit said @ 7:18pm GMT on 22nd Sep DragonCon is geared towards those who actually custom made their costumes.

Krutz said @ 7:49pm GMT on 22nd Sep Aside from Star Wars cosplayers, I don't know many people who don't make their costumes for any major con. Unless someone is being ironic, nobody shows up in a costume from Wal-Mart.

damnit said @ 1:47am GMT on 23rd Sep Anime cosplay is big business. There are pros and cons. Would you spend money on materials to make a costume than buy one that would cost just as much as the materials you bought for what you'd make?

Krutz said @ 2:34am GMT on 23rd Sep Neither. I don't care for anime. Not to mention that among cosplayers, some of them have this massive attitude problem if you don't know who they're supposed to be. This problem is compounded by (1) anime being a medium that can have really obscure titles/characters, (2) not being able to watch even a majority of it, if you were inclined to do so, and (3) the mash-up and made-up characters. The third item could be a female version of Dante from "Devil May Cry" or something, but quite a few of the unrecognizable ones are homebrew (or worse, OEL webcomic characters from some barely-visited area of ComicsGenesis) whose creators are very annoyed that they aren't as famous as that hack who puts out "Megatokyo." It's like going to a "Rock Musician Con" and not recognizing the guy who's supposed to be dressed as an amalgam of Hendrix/Lennon/Cobain only to get yelled at by the lead signer for "Bingy-Bongy and the Turpentine Howitzers" because you've never watched their YouTube channel.

damnit said @ 3:29am GMT on 23rd Sep I take it back. It's not just anime. All kinds of costumes, as far as conventions go, are big business. For the most part, people dress up to be part of it. There are lots of fugly examples not shown in the DragonCon video above. People get mad props for self-made. But from my experience, most of the really good ones were created by cosplay businesses advertising their work. What really matters in the end is if they can pull it off. Like that hot girl dressed as Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 4.

snowfox said @ 5:39pm GMT on 23rd Sep most of the really good ones were created by cosplay businesses advertising their work. Very worth noting. Not only do publishers hire attractive people to dress as their characters, but costume-makers hire attractive people to wander around in costumes. This is the sort of gig that would attract aspiring models/actresses. I can attest that there are many at any large con. This goes for the males as well. If he looks like he works out for a living, it's entirely possible he does and this is a gig to make some cash and get some exposure.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:17pm GMT on 23rd Sep Hehehe, "exposure."

wenchgirl said @ 5:40am GMT on 23rd Sep [Score:2 Good] Star wars cosplayers don't make their costumes? I have an Aayla Secura costume and a Slave Leia costume and I made both of them. :) *proud of self* Carved the lekku from foam and put them together with lots of hot glue and paint, made the rest of the costume out of leather from old coats. The metal bikini I made from thermoplastic which is WAY COOL. The leftover thermoplastic ended up being turned into bark armor for a dryad I was playing for a larp. Yeah I just like talking about and making costumes. :)

willrogers said @ 10:09am GMT on 23rd Sep [Score:1 Underrated] Slave Leia pics?

structured_spirits said @ 8:30am GMT on 22nd Sep Beautiful people in beautiful costumes. The fact that tehy're nerds is like major bonus. I think I'd rather go to dragoncon over burning man at this point.

arrowhen said @ 8:49am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:3 Underrated] I can't think of any place I'd rather go less than burning man.

structured_spirits said @ 9:48am GMT on 22nd Sep Well the real question is are people getting busy at the dragoncon, knocking those cosplay boots so to speak.I bet there's all kinds of freaky swinging and shit going on.

feldenglas said @ 12:06pm GMT on 22nd Sep The answer is "yes".

eggboy said @ 1:41pm GMT on 22nd Sep There needs to be a +1 Obvious. You see The Monarch, they just have and/or are just about to fuck that other person you can see. Can't see anyone else? You don't need to be told to bend over.

Persephone13 said @ 9:16pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Informative] my one and only event that could have ever been considered an orgy was with a group of folks I met at DragonCon, so I suppose the answer is yes.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:28am GMT on 23rd Sep Were you the dragon?

mjteegarden said @ 1:59am GMT on 23rd Sep First time I ever got laid (um, legally) was DragonCon. Second time, same DragonCon. Been more often than not ever since.

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 5:13pm GMT on 22nd Sep ...burning rectum?

dethduck said @ 1:57pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:5 Underrated]

structured_spirits said @ 2:11pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Informative] awesome!

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:27am GMT on 23rd Sep That... was not quite what I was expecting. But it pleases mookie greatly

dethduck said @ 3:47am GMT on 23rd Sep Thank Wil Wheaton for it, picked it up off his tumblr.

azazel said @ 9:18am GMT on 22nd Sep American *cons (gamecons) are really odd, from a european perspective. I'd expand on that, but I'm off for some things that need doing.

structured_spirits said @ 10:03am GMT on 22nd Sep lol, I can guess what that thing that needs doing is.

Krutz said @ 6:35pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Underrated] How "European" are we talking, here? If London doesn't count, how is Essen Spiel?

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:23am GMT on 23rd Sep [Score:2] Worth watching just for the female Dr. Who Ain't no snowfox, but a semi-reasonable, less-hot facsimile.

foobar said @ 4:27am GMT on 23rd Sep I feel funny. Down there.

TheCooler said @ 2:14pm GMT on 23rd Sep I have the strangest boner

snowfox said @ 5:47pm GMT on 23rd Sep [Score:1 Funny] Eh... I'd do her.

Navier-Strokes said @ 4:17am GMT on 24th Sep And I would tape you doing her. Are we a go on this plan?

willrogers said @ 10:08am GMT on 23rd Sep I will upmod any comment with a video that includes Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.

Omegaphobic said @ 10:32am GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Funny] Scenes like this are one of the few reasons I envy Americans. The very few.

feldenglas said @ 12:07pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:3 Funny] Stick around, I'll tell you about our awesome healthcare.

afrasr said @ 1:20pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:-1 Unworthy Self Link] It's shit like this is why I live in Canada. I can fly down to the Cons, have a ball... and then fly back to Canada for Free health care, hockey and good beer. America is a nice place to visit, but it would be hell to live there

torinaga said @ 10:46pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Hot Pr0n] If you can't find good beer in the US, you aren't looking very hard. Point ceded on the health care.

granitewitch said @ 11:07pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:3 Underrated] Indeed. The current crop of American microbrews rivals what's coming over from Europe. Even the somewhat mass produced ones like Saranac are pretty damn good.

afrasr said @ 1:23pm GMT on 22nd Sep Apparently stuff like this is porn for Madfishmonger.

todde said @ 3:37pm GMT on 22nd Sep If you want really fucked-up cosplay there's always this. I wonder if the Korean and Chinese Nazi dress-up fans would mind if I went to one of their parties. I'd go in an Imperial Japanese officer's uniform with Unit 713 insignia and a couple Korean and Japanese girls (un)dressed as "Comfort Women".

KingPellinore said @ 3:49pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Insightful] Villains always have the coolest uniforms.

danshyu said @ 11:08pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2] Hugo Boss was the man indeed.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:32pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:4 Funny] Hans... are we the baddies?

Krutz said @ 2:37am GMT on 23rd Sep [Score:1 Good] Not always...

buckaroo50 said @ 4:21pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Underrated] ...pation

snowfox said @ 6:05pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2 Funny] Attractive people who are not actually nerds show up in costumes so that a bunch of fanboys will validate them and take lots of photos. I know a number of girls who want to start going to cons just so they can wear slutty outfits and get attention. Some of them are real nerds though, and that keeps the dream alive.

arrowhen said @ 6:13pm GMT on 22nd Sep That makes me angry.

arrowhen said @ 7:39pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:3 Insightful] Clearly the solution is to subject costume wearers to surprise trivia questions about the character they're dressed as and confiscate their costumes if they fail!

tickaz said @ 11:42pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:2] I like the way you think.

willrogers said @ 12:44am GMT on 23rd Sep Snowfox, Shhh! You just revealed why attractive young women also like Halloween.

tom the fish said @ 1:51am GMT on 23rd Sep That reminded me of this old onion article

snowfox said @ 5:35pm GMT on 23rd Sep So much truth is said in jest...

Djonn Doh! said @ 7:34pm GMT on 22nd Sep Just putting this here:

Krutz said @ 7:51pm GMT on 22nd Sep [Score:1 Funny] So she's playing Civ V?

IBM said @ 7:53pm GMT on 22nd Sep I want to go to dragon con.

Krutz said @ 9:48pm GMT on 22nd Sep It's also got one of the best celebrity selections I've ever seen. Hell, this last year you had the usual suspects from Star Trek and so on, but you also got Loni Anderson and Howard Hessman. They even got Ernest Borgnine, and I could have sworn that dude had been dead for years.

Rainbow Randolf said @ 3:16am GMT on 23rd Sep I prefer Ackson's work when it comes to conventions. Seems he didn't go to this one, though, which is a shame. He spends a lot of time with all the people he chooses to shoot and there is some serious camerawork in every one of his videos. He also has an abysmal taste in music, though. This is one of the few videos I did not have to mute.

damnit said @ 3:32am GMT on 23rd Sep I saw Ackson filming some of these at Otakon this year.

Rainbow Randolf said @ 4:39am GMT on 23rd Sep He's a really talented cinematographer.

Wax said @ 8:45pm GMT on 23rd Sep I suffer from ADD, but would like to have at least half a second to actually see a costume....bad editing imo.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:17pm GMT on 23rd Sep So, so, so many YouTube videos would work better as HTML photo galleries. Some YouTube videos would even work better as plaintext.

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