A film exploring the many subcultures of Comic Con and the "second home" they've formed for people around the world.
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Documentary: Home Away From Home
A film exploring the many subcultures of Comic Con and the "second home" they've formed for people around the world.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Documentary: Cosplaying The Part
This is Polygon’s short feature on Ger Tysk. Tysk immersed herself in cosplaying, from making props to dressing up and now documenting the culture. Ger Tysk cosplays for a living. She builds, sews, paints, sells, and mostly wears costumes based on video game and anime characters. In this vide, Tysk reminds us to respect everyone’s right to self-expression. Read more Polygon.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Documentary: SubCultures
"Take a look inside the fantasy behind Cosplay as SubCultures explores behind the scenes of what makes this community so magical. Featured Cosplayers: Jessie Pridemore, Ginny Mcqueen, Shea Standefer"
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Culture: Body Image and Cosplay
Created by ArtCramps / ThumbCramps
"hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.
also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it."
Monday, April 15, 2013
Cosplay Culture: Body Type
"This is definitely inspired by the Cosplay ≠ Consent campaign (or more exactly, CONsent) and by an older but new to me story on The Mary Sue about a Black Cat cosplayer who had enough of this crap and told them so. It also started as just stick figures to fit today’s April Drawing Challenge, but got more defined as I kept at it. And there’s also the difference between “sexy” and “sexualisation” at play here, from today’s post in Less Tits n’ Ass. It’s a melting pot of many things, and I’m happy with how it turned out, although my original mind image definitely had a Kate Beaton+Adventure Time style, which I could not emulate without references.
Keeping the characters as simplified as possible means I can get away with gender-identifying the actors; I deliberately made the last character androgynous so there’s no real assignment of meaning other than standing up to the douchebags no matter who you are.
Hope you like!"
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
No-Face
Adam Savage from Mythbusters is famous for the homemade costumes he wears to conventions. One year, he went as No-Face from Spirited Away:
Funny thing happened at Comic-con when I wore it. I had a satchel of gold coins in my robe to give to people I was taking pictures with. But the Otaku (who were the most freaked out and happy to meet No-Face) kept putting the coins back into my hands. Took me awhile to realize that it's because it's bad luck to take coins from No-Face. I got chills. The cosplay that happens at the cons is like a new kind of theater that only the participants understand. I love diving into that world.
It's really pretty incredible watching him perform as No-Face in the second video.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Video: Almost Famous
Curious where the term cosplay comes from ? Check out this TV broadcast has an interview with the creator over around the 1:50 mark.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Cosplay Culture
"Costumes are the new trenchcoats. Cosplayers are the new goths and it’s like the aftermath of Columbine all over again. Yes, what happened in Colorado was a tragedy, but it’s not the kind of thing that will happen every day and it’s no reason to punish an entire group of people who like to dress a certain way or have certain interests."
- Liz Ohanesian
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Video: Realm of LARP
The Journey Begins: Realm of LARP
Source: NerdistChannel
“Geeks are people who are just…really passionate about things.”
Nerdist Channel have created a rather professional-looking web reality series that closely follows a group of people engaged in a LARP quest. They each have varying experience in LARPing, have characters of differing intelligence and most of all are having so, so much fun.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Link Round-Up: May 23, 2012
Women will always have one advantage over men in Doctor Who cosplay.
Boston.com has posted a gallery of photos from the Waltham steampunk festival 2012, at which steampunkers donned clunky goggles, brass-buttoned coats and Victorian-era corsets to celebrate the weekend-long Watch City Festival in Waltham.
The Boston Phoenix has posted a gallery of photos from Boston Comic Con 2012
Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire Attendees [Part 2]
Space Marines Tower Over Maker Faire
Star Wars Her Universe Princess Leia Girls Hoodie
Friday, May 11, 2012
Video: Is Fandom A Way Of Life?
Fandom Is A Way of Life
Check out our latest video from London Super Comic Convention where we asked convention goers ‘Is Fandom A Way Of Life?’
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Video: Krampus
Krampus is the Christmas Demon of Germanic folklore whose job it was to punish the kids on Santa's Naughty List has been featured here before.
The Krampus is a holiday fixture that’s popular in the Germanic countries. Created to really enforce the whole “better watch out” Christmas ideology, the Krampus is the pure evil that must exist to balance out St. Nick’s pure goodness. Legend has it that when the Krampus discovers a bad-apple kid, he grabs the tot with his tongue, throws the kid in a sack, and takes them back to his home for dinner.
And while most people assume he is a better-left-forgotten relic of less gentle times (or less gentle places), he appears to be having a resurgence this year, being featured everywhere from Buzzfeed to FearNet to The Awl to NPR. He's getting a piece of the Christmas merchandise blitz and of course he has his own website. There is Krampus music and he even speaks in his own defense. And of course, he has a 'Folk Death Metal' band named after him.
But the biggest Krampus Kontroversy is the result of television's food maven Anthony Bourdain, who wrote and had animated a cautionary Krampus story for the holiday edition of his show, which was rejected by his bosses at the Travel Channel. Fortunately, you can still see it on YouTube. Happy Holidays!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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