epiic (SpookyElectric)

Broken Lane performing at Anime Expo

B&W processing is expensive O.o! Too bad my developer tank & D-76 is on the other side of the country and probably long since expired.

Mikomicon Cosplay & Concert Pictures are up. Only one month delayed.
Slideshow mode was broken for some browsers. That should be fixed now.

Too busy to write up much - go check out the gallery, there's some cool stuff in there.
Con Summary: Con was good, but hot. Wish I woke up earlier and could stay later to beat the heat. Still, got a lot of good photo time in, just had to deal with 90-some degree heat.
Also, CVS Fails: They cross processed a roll of E-6 35mm film as C-41, which for some Holga shots, worked nicely. But for my SLR ones that I wanted correct colors, I had to fiddle with curves to revert the effect - one such image.



Fanime... shortly after Yaoicon probably. Gotta work on cosplay.

Anime Expo 2009 Cosplay Photos

( Misc. Highlights )

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Next will probably be Mikomicon then Fanime.

I read about an outdoor movie night this Friday in Little Tokyo from super_no_1. I'm not so into Leiji Matsumoto, but may go an an excuse to grab dinner around there. Anyone want to grab something to eat together before hand?

I've uploaded a small collection of photos from recent small summer events: Summer 2009

anime_chef's icecream / beach gathering:



A few weeks later, tsuzusushi invited me to take pictures of her, chiharu_octavia & krispy_kream in their Professor Layton costumes. Unfortunately, when we started shooting, I had already been up almost 18hrs. I also wasn't very familiar with the game.

There are better focused pictures of chiharu_octavia too, but I wanted to keep with the Holga theme. A video was made as well - I played the roll of the tripod.
Now that I've played the first game through, we'll have to try again when I'm awake.

Following weekend was _shiya_wind's birthday.


Latest outing (no pics yet) was yoshikochan's anime marathon party. It was a fun event (thanks for organizing it).

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Next Event

I'll be at Mikomicon definitely on Saturday, probably on Friday (depending on how work goes) and probably not on Sunday. My primary goal for the con will be taking pictures. So feel free / encouraged to ask me to take pics.

More Pictures

I joined teddybeartensai's 365 photo blog: locketheart ♥ daily photos. (just mine) Basically the idea is to take a picture every day. I've been tempted to engage in such a project for awhile - I think it could be valuable, but it's pretty daunting. I expect there to be a lot of pictures of food.

SpookyElectric's Comic Con International Cosplay Photos

As a reminder, there's a slide show option. Just four costumes - Tabris (Kaworu) (Chromosome XX ver) from Eva (so many shots...), Linali from D.Gray-man, and Sniper Wolf & Otacon from Metal Gear Solid.

SpookyElectric's Otakon 2009 Cosplay Photos
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...and perhaps my favorite pictures for in-characterness:

Bak (D.Gray-man) is the founding member of the Dark Order's Creepy Photographer Brigade. ( + )

Next are ComicCon pics (few days? probably less than a week), then probably Fanime then AX.

Hey...remember that con a few weeks ago in San Jose? I have more pictures!

( more Neo Angelique... )
Next set to get through will be wintressrain as Lilith from Anima Mundi

This past Saturday was a pretty lousy day, where something that was supposed to be less than 2hrs, ended up taking essentially the entire day due to everything imaginable not working right and then some. Sunday however was an excellent day. tsuzusushi came by for a late breakfast. We hung out a bit after. She was looking for pictures, so I took some. (the one I thought cutest, and a few others to the left / on flickr) Then yoshikochan came over, we had lunch, worked on cosplay (mostly electric waves girl from Furuba for her, Nyx for me), had dinner. Made decent headway I think for the time I spent on it. Though I probably should have spent more time.

It seems pictures on my site had a weird pixel aspect ratio issue. So for some people, my pictures ended up looking stretched when opened in some software. The resize & label script has been revised with an extra step which solves that problem. (Not sure what caused it, but saving it as a different format & resaving as JPG fixes it) So, all future image should be fine, but if there are any already posted pictures that you had problems with, let me know, and I will re-save them for you.

No Neo Ange pics yet. Too busy. Enjoy tsuzusushi and her friends' Star Trek: TNG in the mean time.
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Related to being busy, my company is looking for unpaid interns. Position is slightly technical - requires some basic understanding of HTML, but not much beyond that. Does require working in West LA, not telecommuting. If you think you might be interested, let me know, and I'll get you more info.

Also related to being busy, wintressrain is looking to coordinate some cosplay sewing parties before AX. First being this fri and/or sat (her post). Then possibly again around the 20th. Location would be in Corona. If you're interested, I guess post in her LJ, or let me know.

My desktop looks like this because I've been too lazy to change it, only stretched across too screens (also not feeling like taking a screen shot). My older desktop is more interesting.

wintressrain was bugging me about Fanime pictures. Waiting for stuff to recompile, I did this to hold her over.

(Shininess is playing around in post, not optical filters. I don't think this is a good picture. But I wanted to try out that Star Trek look, and this had suitable in-frame light sources. Not sure it makes any sense here. But might be cool for something sci-fi-ish, if anyone is interested in that sort of look.)

Neo Angelique shoot up in a week maybe.

While waiting, you should practice Spiderman para-para.

SoCal Cosplay Spring Pictures

Picnic was fun. Arrived with wintressrain and dramaelf. Spent most of the time with them, tsuzusushi, krispy_kream, chiharu_octavia, legally_scarlet, hyper_sam, daoutlaw, and Jared/Erudito. And not nearly enough time with everyone else. And I think some people I managed to completely miss. (Sorry)

I wore my Last Exile mechanic uniform. Mostly since I felt everything else I had worn too much. And with that one I could get a tiny bit more sleep by skipping shaving. I'm amazed how many people recognized it. I think more than when I wore it to cons (~2003-2004).

Being a little burnt out from work, I wasn't feeling too inspired photography wise. So very few pictures. (Despite having three cameras) The cat is dramaelf's.

Trip back was a bit of an unwanted adventure. Plan to take the train kinda failed due to getting the train in the wrong direction. Thankfully wintressrain saved me by giving me a ride back. (Since there were no more trains North from where I got stuck.)

Next up - UCLA cosplay picnic tomorrow, and then something in San Jose all too soon.

( wtf... [warning: camera-nudity below the cut {oro...}] )

Vaguely related to pictures...Fanime!
(is too soon)

Who is looking for picture of what when? (I'd like to concentrate my picture taking to Friday as much as I can. Maybe Monday morning.)

(pics / write-up on SoCal Picnic in a few days.)

Pictures from March Cosplay gatherings in SoCal
Note: I'd suggest slide show mode full screen, since that is set to now use larger images than you get just by clicking on the pictures.
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First, unrelated, anyone know any Shikabane Hime cosplayers? Just got into the series. Want to take pictures now. Basic summary: Cute zombie girls with guns in short skirts working with monks to fight other zombies. OP/ED themes by Angela, who did the awesome Stellvia music.

( Photographer Tag-teaming )
( Picking pictures... )
( Leveling Up )
( Crop... )


Side note - decided to make Katsucon Gallery "live", though it probably still has at least 25% more images than it should.

Side, side note / workstuff: Internet Explorer sucks. Including IE8.

I wouldn't be surprised is the word wastes billions of dollars supporting that piece of junk. Lost resources that could have been better spent on innovation. So, those of you who use it, stop, and let us developers spend our time on more useful things. ( Alternatives... )

PS: I plan to be at the park today (Saturday) & *maybe* Sunday. Probably arriving noon-ish. If I go Sunday, I'll be cosplaying that day, not Saturday.

Rant below. Summary: what to you guys think are my strong / weak points?
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Also... related to pictures... for Katsucon, a couple of you have asked me about pictures. Do you have any details about what days you'll be wearing what? (actually, that applies to everyone, not just those looking for pictures.)
And who is going exactly? I think _shiya_wind, animalboything, catwithoutagun, firelilycosplay, geronkizan, greylikeness, inuashley813, owldepot, piratess__, lazyartistgirl, nikolain, slave_to_anime, teddybeartensai, yumikoryuu, shiroin168, picaaa, solartempest, sephtastic, marhiihaa, envirion
And maybe hikaruchan, infinitywulf, muzek, amecandy, or not?
As for me, I'll be wearing Cross of Saturday. I'll also be wearing Suigintou, Shigure, and maybe Tamaki, but I'm not sure when. Depending upon how the location is I may be looking for Suigintou pics.
If any of you want my cell # to meet up at the con, let me know.

And related to camera gear... optics as fashion.

And related to image processing, there is a preview version of Bibble 5 (raw processor - similar in nature to Aperture/Lightroom) out. It's pretty buggy and very incomplete. I wouldn't recommend bothering with it until the next preview release. I suspect I won't have real full Bibble 5 until at least the summer :(
(No, I'm not interested in Aperture/Lightroom keys. I'm anti-software piracy, and I need something that will work in GNU/Linux and/or FreeBSD.)

A bunch of pictures are on my site
( Some highlights under the cut )

(no, that's not a composite, it's a single shot)

Also...
Fanime: Anyone have room space available?
Katsucon: Any of you looking for photos? (particularly non SoCal people)
Random: Got to play in real snow yesterday. Yay. Kinda hurt my left knee on the last run. Boo.

Bunch of photos on flickr
( Some ramblings & highlights Inside... )
...and the last photo I took that day:

ALA pictures someday...

PS: I think I'll be visiting FD Tuesday or Wednesday ~lunch-ish->afternoon, if anyone is interested in meeting.

There was an LA Strobist meet this past weekend. I've been itching to shoot something/anything recently, so it was nice to get behind the lens. (On that note, anyone around here looking to be photographed: I'm interested. Cosplay preferred, but not required.)
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If you're curious to see more photos from the meet up, most are tagged on flickr.

( Random musings on the past few days... )


Also, related to the music referenced, find that and more cool stuff here. If you want to download them, I suggest you try out BugMeNot rather than create your own account on the site.

Many pictures posts from people recently. Here's mine.

Full Mikomicon Cosplay Gallery Here

( Con Report / Select Pictures )

Cosplay Pictures from Otakon 2008
( Stories. Tons of text. Some Pictures. )