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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

PJ "mini" POP Convention This Sunday!

Premiere Japanese Pop Culture or PJ-Pop is proud to announce its first mini anime event from 12pm-6pm on May 23 (Sun) at the

Dwyer Cultural Center.
258 St. Nicholas Ave
New York, NY

You can enjoy the taste, sense and ambience of Japanese culture at PJ "mini" POP.

Admission is $15.

The event includes:

KARAOKE CONTEST (Bring your favorite CD or MP3's!)
PERFORMANCE BY JAPANESE COSPLAY SINGER RENI!
VENDORS
ROBOT DEMONSTRATIONS
SPECIAL ANIME SCREENINGS
COSPLAY CAFE
PANELS
AND MUCH MORE!

For those who want to sing karaoke:

Make sure you will come early to sign up!
We will let people sing in the order of signers!

Make sure you will bring your CDs or mp3s!!

DIRECTIONS!
Take A, B, C, or D Train to 125 Street.
Walk 2 blocks down on St. NIcholas Ave,
there you will find a new & modern venue called
Dwyer Culture Center
258 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York NY 10027
(Entrance on West 123St
between St. NIcholas Ave & Frederick Douglass Blvd)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

CosPlay Preview To NY Anime Fest 09 Part 1

Good ole Blogger how I've missed you so. Ok so I haven't missed you. I've been very slow to update this blog. I admit I lost interest in it. It happens. But now is time to get it going again. I've waited too long to finally put things back up on here so today starts the photography side of this blog. I've decided to make it into a photography story blog. CosPlay and other convention pictures, concert pictures, and more. So, without further ado, I bring you images of AnimeNext 08 and will have more from other conventions I've been too over the last 2 years. Enjoy! :)

Friday! The beginning of the costumes!

Saturday! The busiest of convention days!

Sunday! Time to close the convention and get ready for next year! But first, more costumes!

For more about my travels through CosPlay check out some of my past posts:

With Anime Festivals Come Cosplay

CosPlay Month Continues

Fangirling Asian Media (F.A.M.) CosPlay @ AnimeNext

Friday, September 19, 2008

F.A.M. Cosplay @ AnimeNext

In honor of cosplay favorites Lara Visconti and Jessica Dawson joining Ningin.com, I am proud to present Fangirling Asian Media Cosplay ‘08!

This year’s AnimeNext Convention in New Jersey gave me the opportunity to really get into cosplay photography and my first chance to enjoy it came with Lara, Jessica, and their friend Melanie! They came to the con as members of Final Fantasy with a full skit to do for the AnimeNext Masquerade. They were great and looked like they really enjoyed themselves on stage and around the convention areas. I believe they received an Honorable Mention in the Masquerade judging so congrats to them!

So, here is a small sample of pictures they were very nice to pose for before we headed into the main building. I’ve also included two of the pictures from their performance in the masquerade. Please forgive the quality. No matter what photoshopping I did I couldn’t get them to look how I wanted them to.

Once you’ve checked out the pictures, see their performance as recorded by minimoon12328 and featured on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETXKvr81hM4

Hope you enjoy!

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Cosplay Month Continues!

I’ve been running a bunch of ideas for blog entries though my work-fried brain and came up with Cosplay Month! Following my first entry of the most popular characters of cosplay I’ve decided to continue with cosplay themed entries up until and including the New York Anime Festival!

Tonight’s entry highlights two really talented cosplayers I’ve found on my daily journies through the world of DeviantArt.com. The pictures were either taken by themselves or by friends.

To start this list off I’ve found someone technically in the profession of cosplay. JoEllenElam aka Lillyxandra is a fashion designer, seamstress, makeup artist, and Zelda addict.

She is known for finding the most amazing locations to photograph her work from the backdrop of pink flowers and bright green lawn for the fairy picture below to the rocky outcrop of a river for a mermaid.

Possibly the greatest Kingdom Hearts cosplayer EVER, Evil-Uke-Sora utilizes costumes designed by herself with wigs and other accessories from friends and the hugely talented photographic ability of some of her fellow cosplayers to bring Sora to life everyday. In the ultimate example of a woman playing a male character to perfection, this 25 year old resident of Munich, Germany seemingly never runs out of ideas for shoots.

As you see below, life can imitate art as Evil-Uke-Sora mimics a scene from the introduction of Kingdom Hearts 2 (left) and one of Evil-Uke-Sora’s favorite cosplay partners, nanjokoji, comes into almost every shoot as Riku. Take a look at how great those Keyblades are!

During the start of a Q&A journal Evil-Uke-Sora put up, she put a link to a picture of her without the costume, wig, and other cosplay stuff. We’ll call these Just Christine:

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With Anime Festivals Come Cosplay…

As the New York Anime Festival is approaching, I feel like it’s time to dust off the old black cloaks, repaint the 6 foot tall broad swords, and once again bribe your brothers or sisters to cosplay the opposite gender so you can go as an Anime couple. With that said, what better way to kick off this blog than to dive into that fun, yet sometimes very disturbing, world of cosplay!

From my experiences at cosplay events, I’ve concluded some characters get much more acknowledgment in the eyes of fans when it comes to taking hours to create costumes, accessories, and props for these events.If anyone feels they will go to the NYAF in costume then perhaps you may try characters not on this list to get more attention or see if you can be a better version of these than other cosplayers.

So without further ado….The Top 10 Characters (not really in order) Cosplayed at Conventions/Festivals are: