Yes, More SakuraCon Photos
Posted on March 31st, 2006
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 4:00 am
Though this set is composed of a fraction of Jim’s shots.
The shots were too good, and so I had to jump the gun. Besides, sooner it’s up, the sooner they can be attached to my write up for Toon Zone.
Everything to the Pirate vs. Ninjas battle to what if Iron Chef Sekai was a young woman is resolved in the pictures linked there. Also, we see the Dee Dees from Batman Beyond singing the OP theme to Excel Saga, Mini Stun-Gun Millie, a VA in cosplay, the Ultimate Battle Between FMA and Bleach, A Guilty Gear Massacre and the Fantametal Alchemist team.
You heard right, Fantana cosplayers who happen to be with a pair of state alchemists. Fandom, you never cease to amaze and disturb me with your wicked sense of humor.
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More SakuraCon Photos!?
Posted on March 30th, 2006
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 2:27 pm
Well, atleast these are the good photos out of the stuff I shot:
Karl’s Flickr SakuraCon 2006 Gallery
I’ll probably talk to Jim from AK on Friday about making a temp Flickr for the stuff he shot, because he shot more, and the shots are of a higher quality. Thus, they should be seen.
By the way, if you are one of the people in those photos, and you’d like your name in the description or tag, email me or leave a comment with the pertinent info and it shall be added. If you’re not one of the people I know in real life or someone whose name I actually learned at the con (so basically, if you’re not the Haruko cosplayer or one of the Dark Horse reps,) link me to or email to me a photo of yourself in plain clothes so that I that I know who you say you are. Weird set of rules? Probably. But I’d rather not have people claiming they are some cosplayer they aren’t. That’s not cool.
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Likely the first of many photos.
Posted on March 28th, 2006
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 7:42 pm
Courtesy of Jim “Cosplay Hunter” Betts.
Making Ends
Making Friends
Courtesy of Me:
Me and Hideyuki Kurata, creator of Read Or Die. He thinks I look like Napoleon Dynamite.
Me and Jessica Boone, best known for being the dub voice of Chiyo-chan.
Seriously, there were probably be more. I’m pretty sure there was a camera on me when I started freestyling over the drummachine and guitar duo that was wondering about. Keep an eye out on Google Video and YouTube.
PS: I was right there when Tycho went to buy Harry Potter Slash Doujinshi for his wife. A weird experience, but interesting nonetheless.
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Country roads take me home to the place where I belong.
Posted on March 12th, 2006
Filed under: Reviews — Karl Olson @ 3:12 am
So, I recently acquired the latest wave of Ghibli films on DVD, namely My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle and Whisper of the Heart. Howl I caught in the theater, so I’m not hot to watch it right away, but I did watch Totoro and Whisper saturday night. Totoro was quite a fun family film, and undoubtly the best film to introduce kids to Ghibli (and animation in general even,) but it’s definitely an upbeat, straightforward family picture.
Whisper, on the other hand, really connected with me in ways I’m not even sure I can properly describe. The characters in that film, particularly Shizuku and Seiji, resonate really solidly with me. I can completely understand the mindset that drives them, that holds them back, that gives pause to doubt themselves, that makes cry and that makes them smile. This is not only as a creative person striving to hone craft like the characters I mentioned, but also as a person who has been through that feeling of having to better oneself for the sake of another. Further still, the musical elements of the film hit me on multiple levels, and the advice Nishi gave to Shizuka hit me in the same way. The overall ability of the film to wordlessly capture both mono no aware (the pathos of things) and the genuine connections that can form between human beings was simply stunning. Unless Only Yesterday manages to ring even more exactingly with me, Whisper of the Heart is probably my favorite Ghibli film ever.
“Country Road, tomorrow, I’ll be the same, you know
I want to go home but I can’t, farewell, Country Road.”
-from the Japanese lyrics of Country Road.