Otakon report
Aug. 12th, 2008 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofthethreadBack from Otakon. There were snags but I had some fun and it was a welcome break from the real life problems of late. Hi to those I saw in Baltimore. *waves to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
animeangel, animeangelblue, blackjackie999, djranmas, hikaruchan, leisemelody, lionboogy, luv_blindly, natalie526, neoangelwink, ngmaster, ryoko, stillvisions, the_masayume, tristencitrine, umister, vikki, yeu* And sorry to those of you I missed at the con. I was hoping to run into everyone at some point but it just didn’t work out.
Highlights:
-finally got to wear my Kaleido Star costume withneoangelwink! :-D
-photoshoots withstillvisions of our Kaleido Star costumes and my 19th Century Count D (Thanks for taking pictures, Kevin!)
-ran into a fair number of friends, including some I hadn’t seen for over a year, and met some new people
The not-so-great:
-waited in the registration line for 2 hours Friday morning since I decided to go to the con so last minute that pre-registration was already closed. ._.;
-still don’t like the BCC as a location
-the weather wasn’t as bad as ’06 but I was still pretty hot in all the layers for 19th Century D and Sarah; eventually left Sarah’s fur underskirt in my room so I could be more comfortable while watching the masquerade.
-painful shoes; the soles of my feet still feel weird a couple of days later!
What the hell?!:
-My right shoulder got sunburned from the 2 hours outside in the registration line in D’s peacock dress. o_o; I don’t think I’ve ever gotten sunburn before; I usually just tan.
-My father and I got caught in a hailstormaround the Delaware/NJ border on our way home! o_O; Pouring rain with hail the size of large pebbles and almost no visibility.
I kind of wish I’d just gone to the con again on Sunday morning. My father wanted to leave early to beat traffic on the way home (he said it gets very heavy in NJ around 4) but we left at 11 and it still took us 5 hours because of the hail and rain. (The trip to Baltimore only took 3 ½ hours.) I already had a headache that morning and it just got worse with the noise from the storm plus I got carsick from being cooped up so long. x_x; Was fine after getting home and catching up on sleep.
No pics to post yet. I’ve found some on ACP but no Kaleido Star pair shots and I look tired in a bunch of those. ^_^;;
Checked Flickr and didn’t find anything obvious although I was surprised to find a pic of a 19th Century D from a foreign con with the same colors as my costume. The only references for that outfit were black and white so I basically made up my color scheme up as I went along. My version got showcased on cosplay.com several months back so I guess they might have seen it there and liked it. I’m not mad… but it was pretty weird to be looking for Otakon pics and suddenly see my color scheme for the 19th Century outfit on someone else. o_o
EDIT: Ooh, found a pic of my 19th Century D. There are random people in the background but the colors came out nicely and I'm actually smiling! http://www.flickr.com/photos/10302049@N05/2746606532/in/set-72157606628590513/
animeangel, animeangelblue, blackjackie999, djranmas, hikaruchan, leisemelody, lionboogy, luv_blindly, natalie526, neoangelwink, ngmaster, ryoko, stillvisions, the_masayume, tristencitrine, umister, vikki, yeu* And sorry to those of you I missed at the con. I was hoping to run into everyone at some point but it just didn’t work out.Highlights:
-finally got to wear my Kaleido Star costume with
neoangelwink! :-D-photoshoots with
stillvisions of our Kaleido Star costumes and my 19th Century Count D (Thanks for taking pictures, Kevin!)-ran into a fair number of friends, including some I hadn’t seen for over a year, and met some new people
The not-so-great:
-waited in the registration line for 2 hours Friday morning since I decided to go to the con so last minute that pre-registration was already closed. ._.;
-still don’t like the BCC as a location
-the weather wasn’t as bad as ’06 but I was still pretty hot in all the layers for 19th Century D and Sarah; eventually left Sarah’s fur underskirt in my room so I could be more comfortable while watching the masquerade.
-painful shoes; the soles of my feet still feel weird a couple of days later!
What the hell?!:
-My right shoulder got sunburned from the 2 hours outside in the registration line in D’s peacock dress. o_o; I don’t think I’ve ever gotten sunburn before; I usually just tan.
-My father and I got caught in a hailstormaround the Delaware/NJ border on our way home! o_O; Pouring rain with hail the size of large pebbles and almost no visibility.
I kind of wish I’d just gone to the con again on Sunday morning. My father wanted to leave early to beat traffic on the way home (he said it gets very heavy in NJ around 4) but we left at 11 and it still took us 5 hours because of the hail and rain. (The trip to Baltimore only took 3 ½ hours.) I already had a headache that morning and it just got worse with the noise from the storm plus I got carsick from being cooped up so long. x_x; Was fine after getting home and catching up on sleep.
No pics to post yet. I’ve found some on ACP but no Kaleido Star pair shots and I look tired in a bunch of those. ^_^;;
Checked Flickr and didn’t find anything obvious although I was surprised to find a pic of a 19th Century D from a foreign con with the same colors as my costume. The only references for that outfit were black and white so I basically made up my color scheme up as I went along. My version got showcased on cosplay.com several months back so I guess they might have seen it there and liked it. I’m not mad… but it was pretty weird to be looking for Otakon pics and suddenly see my color scheme for the 19th Century outfit on someone else. o_o
EDIT: Ooh, found a pic of my 19th Century D. There are random people in the background but the colors came out nicely and I'm actually smiling! http://www.flickr.com/photos/10302049@N05/2746606532/in/set-72157606628590513/
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:12 pm (UTC)I totally gave up on Daddy D's first robe, that black velvet was just too hot to wear over pants and I never did get shots of it with his labcoat the way I hoped. Plus the white and gold embroidered pattern on the under sleeves never showed up through the sheer over sleeves the way I'd hoped either, it was sort of a failure.
And the christmas robe for D, I'm so not going there again. I feel it clashed too much even though I used teal instead of true green it just looked weird to me, especially in too shiny satin. I never bothered to line it either.
And the dragon robe is never to be worn again. Every time I wear it I end up having to repair something so I've just given up. It's not hallcosplay worthy and I never enter masquerades so it has to live in my closet.
I find very few uses for his gray velvet duster as well. That was also left unlined simply because velvet is so hot to begin with. There aren't enough winter cons here for that sort of thing.
I think the only D robe I really want to wear right now is the white and green sakura one from the art book, and it's not even finished!
... could you help me decide on a new less bulky robe for Sofu to wear? I'd like to have one hall cosplay robe for each of them. Daddy D's blue and purple satin one isen't too bad. And the sakura one for D will be really nice to walk around in. It's only Sofu who can't fit through doors right now. ^^