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[February 12th|1.43am] |
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Katsucon is only a day away. ^^ EEEE I'm so excited! I have so many new costumes to dawn. Luckily I only have 2 things left to do costume wise:
Serge the inner seams of Sakura
Finish Rachaels Kikyo wig
Other than that, I have to clean out my car to pack me stuffs in it, and buy some snacky snacks for the trip. Luckily I packed all my bags and costumes 2 days ago. ^^
What sucks though is that I'm working tomorrow night, 6-10pm, so I'm going to get home late and I'll have to go right to bed to get up and out the door by 7am on thursday. Thats bad news only because I need to make sure I get everything done in the morning before I go to work. I'm not stressed now, but I bet I will be in the morning. >
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| Katsucon Schedule as of now... |
[January 30th|12.51am] |
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So katsucon is extremely close now and luckily I have all my costumes done. But there is still little bits of stuff that needs to be done. Like buttons and styling wigs. I'm also waiting for things to come in the mail to complete my costumes.
So here's my costume list for Katsu:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/AkaneSaotome/Kastucon_costumescopy-1.jpg
And my schedule as of right now is as follows:
Friday:
10am - Sailor Moon Bakery Shoot
12pm - Sailor StarS unifrom shoot
3:30pm - Outlaw Star Shoot
7:30pm - Sailor Stars Mooniness (basically running around :p)
also at some point before the the mooniness madness I'll be entering Sakura into the hall costume contest, hopefully. *crosses fingers*
Saturday:
11:30am-1:30pm - Sailor Senshi Wedding Shoot
2pm on - Open for anything. I'll be wearing Sakura maybe before the masquerade for a shoot with animeangelblue(Is this a good time for you? If not, maybe before the wedding shoot?)
And I'll probably be wearing Judy during the masquerade since I never go to it. lol
Sunday:
I got nothing. Probably lounging around in a comfy costume or nothing at all. ;p
So thats it! If I'm missing anyhting please tell me! I always forget stuff. ^^
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| Ear gauges... |
[January 28th|7.12pm] |
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I'm so excited because I was looking around on ebay for a lot of 0g earrings in various colors and instead I found these awesome silicone ones the color of your skin. Because as some of you may know I have gauged ears and its really hard for me to make earrings for my characters. But these are tubes and one side is blocked to hide the huge hole in your ear. And they're squishy!:P
But the real reason why I'm excited besides the fact that they'll hide my gauges, is that your able to pierce them with regular earrings. So now I won't have to figure out a special way to make my earrings anymore. \o/ Yay!
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| Arisia 2008... |
[January 19th|10.08pm] |
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So I went to Arisia 2008 because they wanted anime judges for the masquerade this year. I was like why the hell not, and responded to the message.
It was such a huge mistake. Come to find out me and Rachael(The other Anime Judge) were only going to be judging the anime participants. As if it was a totally different masq.
The day started with having a meeting at 10am for an hour. So I woke up early and got there just in time. I didn't wear my costume in because i figured I'd change after the meeting and I didn't have enough time to put it on. Turns out they only needed us there to be introduced for a whole 10 seconds. Then we were able to leave unil 6:30pm.
I was mad just because of that. I mean what am I going to do at a sci-fi con? So I was incredibly bored for the next 7 and a half hours before we had go do craftsmanship judging. So me, Rachael, and her friend Lo went walking around, had lunch, and then played cards for a good 2 hours. We only knew about 5 other people there. And I met a guy that just latches onto people and stalks them. (My friends have personal experience with him ^^;) So I tried to stay away from him. Also their dealers room was split into many different hotel rooms. It was really sketchy. It was like the ones they were staying in too. I only went into 2 "stores" and was too weired out so I just didn't finish with the rest of the room. Arisia is definitely a hallway con.
We eneded up going to 2 panels as well. How to distress costumes, which was alright but the guy had a voice that could put you to sleep. And a Steam Punk vs. Cyber Punk panel. That panel blew. they had no pictures or physical objects to show what each thing was. They just kept using refernces from movies and books. And if you have no idea what either one is, you would have no clue what they were babbling about. They also kept dissing anime and how its its own media and crap and that steam punk and cyber punk can't come from it. I felt like i was supposed to say something because i was the anime rep at the con, but i decided to let others argue the point.
We went to the judging at 6:30 and no one knew what was going on. They had no idea where we were supposed to go. The green room staff gave us such an attitude as if they were better than us, just because we're anime judges. It was horrible. And the head woman didn't even show up in the green room at all and wouldn't answer her cell phone. We ended up only judging 4 people. That's it! 4! and 2 of them were young fans so they automatically get awards at arisia. There was really no point in us being there, they already had a craftsmanship judge and 4 presentation judges. So basically we just sat and watched the masquerade.
The only good news was that Chris won Best Anime Presentation for his bleach skit, and Nick and Steph one Best in Class Journeyman for their Fire and Ice cat walk. And me and racheal had nothing to do with the scores. So congratulations guys! You earned it.
But being at Arisia makes you apprieciate Anime Boston a hell of alot more. And that's pretty sad to me, especially because of what happened at last years masq. I will not be returning to Arisia again.
EDIT: In other news though, I finished my cybergoth skirt tonight. Yay! I made my own pattern so I feel good about it. :)
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| Sewing Party! ^^ |
[January 3rd|11.44pm] |
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I'm having a sewing party with Rachael starting tonight into all day tomorrow. She's staying the night. Hopefully I won't have to work. I'm on call so I'll know by 10am. But I have lots to get done I'm so behind because of the christmas season at work. But I finally have time now. I just finished Rachael's Cammy Wig a few hours ago. Yay! \^O^/
What I wish to accomplish tomorrow:
Maria's Wig
Judy's coat
chibi-usa bakery dress
Rei's Shirt
draft out a pattern for my cyber goth oufit I'm making for the raves! Woo!
There's more to be done, but I'm not sure how long this stuff is going to take. ^^;
I'll post progress pictures of everything I got done tomorrow night. if any of you care. ^^
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| My weekend and christmas... |
[December 25th|12.15am] |
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So yesterday I dressed as Haruhi from host club and walked around the mall for 2 hours. I was getting pictures done for a look alike contest since all my other pictures blew. I didn't have a wig in my first batch of pictures so I had to retake them. I also brought a santa hat just to get some cute christmas pictures. They came out really good.
Ah christmas is here, time for family and boredum. I went to my friends for christmas eve after having to work all day until 6:30pm. I got there right as they finished eating. But of course I eat anyway, I feel so fat. >< But my friend got me a tiny real christmas tree. It came with its own lights and decorations, it was awesome! I also got some chocolates, just what I need. <.<
So Yeah tomorrow, or I should say today, is christmas. So to everyone:
And I hope you get everything you wanted and needed. ^^
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| Snow |
[December 14th|12.36am] |
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Let's just say I'm glad I have my snow tires on my car. We got 12" here I think, maybe more. Getting anywhere today was a hassle. It took me an hour and a half to get to the mall for my check coming from chicopee, which normally only takes 15 minutes. But there was also an accident over a bridge and then an 18 wheeler got stuck on the on ramp to 91. And of course I was behind it and couldn't turn around. So basically everyone just sat in there cars and twiddled there thumbs till someone told us what was going on. And when I got home, I was stuck in the house with nothing to do.
I really hate snow. XP
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| Bleh... |
[December 12th|7.51pm] |
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I've been going through alot lately and I've been trying to make the best out of it and keep a smile on infront of people. It doesn't seemed to be working. <.<
I just haven't been myself lately. I don't know what to do. I don't want to go to sleep at night because I know I'll have to deal with what comes the next day.
I'm going nowhere, and I have nothing. I'm 23 years old with nothing to show for it. I don't even want to work on costumes.
Bleh, Life blows for me right now. XP
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| Look-a-like contest... |
[December 2nd|12.54am] |
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So I entered cosplay.com look-a-like contest (Tsubasa Chronicles)since this was the first one I was actually able to enter. But as I was looking through the finalists to vote. There's a few that really look like Sakura. I don't think I even have a chance. :( Oh well. Maybe next time. Voting ends on the 8th. ^^
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| My Costumes for katsu... |
[October 19th|12.27am] |
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So as of right now, I'll be bringing these costumes to Kastucon 2008:
I just really hope I'll be able to get everything done. And I'm also hoping I get this new job so I can buy anything I want without money problems. ^^
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| Katsucon plans |
[October 10th|9.33pm] |
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So I just got asked by breathlessaire on cosplay.com to be in there wedding senshi group since the only one they were missing was Chibi-Usa. I totally said yes. I'm so excited. It's just going to be hard since I have so many things to do, costume wise, at Kastu.
I have a princess tutu photoshoot and as I'm told, a skit in the masquerade. ^^ (Haven't heard much on it, But still planning on doing it) A tsubasa hang out with Jamie, an Outlaw Star photoshoot, and now the wedding senshi group saturday morning.
I'm not even sure how I'm getting there. Cause if my BF doesn't go, I'll need to find a way there. I'd rather not drive 7 Hours by my lonesome. Last year I met Mike halfway but I'm not sure if that's an option. And I really hope that when my friend reserved the room he included me. But if I'm not, and its only me going, I'm sure I can squeeze in somewhere. :3
I'm amazed how many people contacted me to go katsucon this year. I wasn't even planning on going this year either. HAHAHA ^^; But Now I'm really excited!!
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| Dying my hair and junk.. |
[September 19th|4.43pm] |
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So right now I'm dying my hair a deep auburn black. It should come out basically a dark purple. It's going to be a differnt color for me. But if I don't like it, I'll just switch back to black. My hair needed to be dyed so badly! It's been bleached and dyed manic panic blue on the tips for anime boston, but I had to dye it back to black when I got home for my stupid job. But over time the black just washed right out. So my hair now looks dark brown, grey and green in some places with blonde coming through. My roots are showing too, cause I haven't dyed my hair in so long. I bet no one could guess my real hair color. haha So we'll see how it comes out.
As for life, its been going well. I had the urge to make another costume and now I'm almost done with Jo from the OVA since it's really simple. My job sucks cause its only weekends now so I get about 100 dollars a week. But right now I have rehearsals for the show I'm in. For those of you who didn't know I'm going to be playing Marilyn Monroe in a singing show called Dead Legends Live at Six Flags New England. All I can say is that it'll definitely cure my stage fright pretty quickly.
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| Paradise Kiss... |
[September 17th|11.26pm] |
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So I decided to watch the anime of Paradise Kiss. Since I read the manga a long time ago. And I fell in love with it all over again. I so want to do a George cosplay, but I want to do the outfit with the black boa. I love it. I'll probably do a miwako at one point too since I already did her sister Mikako.
I cried at the end though. I was really sad. :'( I feel so nerdy getting all worked up about it. haha
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| Weird dream... |
[July 30th|2.21pm] |
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So I'm not going to mention names cause its someone I work with. But I had the weirdest dream last night, it involved trying to sleep with someone, and also realizing I was in a dream and something was stopping us from sleeping together. Then right after it, it turned into playing crane games together and him getting something for his girlfriend. Then there was also some random kid with us, but I can't remember if it was a girl or boy, it had one of those generic voices. But yeah, sorry there's no details but I had to get that out, it was really wierd cause I don't find this guy attractive in the least.
As for everything else going on in my life, I've been caught up in wig making and more costume commissions. Well mainly quotes, but still. I'm in for alot this off season. X.x
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| Anime Boston Masquerade... |
[April 30th|12.14am] |
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First I'm just going to say that there was alot of horrible scripts and acts this year. And the judges were crap. David, I like him and all, but he's a photographer, he doesn't know acting of dance at all, he even admitted it to me before the masquerade started. And Adam, the "hardest working black man in cosplay" doesn't even make his own costumes, and he just bugged people about being a judge until they gave it to him, he was picked 2 weeks before. And man that easy button thing pissed me off. And I agree with many people, that if your a craftsmenship judge, you should wear something that "you" made, to prove why your a judge. I wouldn't want to accept and award from a guy in a sweatshirt either.
There has been many complaints of the people who won awards this year and that's cause the performance judges had no clue on what they were doing. I disagreed on alot of their decisions but they wouldn't even listen. They overlooked many good skits such as the parakiss one, which should have gotten best choreography, I think. But come to find out Adam hates a few people in that skit so he scored them very low. Best script and acting was a joke. That was a horrible script. First of all, you can't portray a character right, if you can even make the costume the way it's suppossed to be. Another thing is that they made us judge the mario one when come to find out it was an exibition skit as well with the yatta and tetris ninjas. Also you shouldn't give an award for falling off the stage. I can see if they got back on, but the didn't, and a few others even left stage as well to help them, while the others were left to finish the horror that was their skit. You just don't do that. And you don't give out an award to little girls cause you have a loli fetish and are obsessed with sailor moon.
I may be a nobody when it comes to these things, and yes I've only won 2 awards at the same masq.. I know what I'm talking about. Winning the awards wasn't the only reason I was picked. I've was a competitive dancer for 14 years, I've had training in improv, musicals, and theatre in general for about 3 years in college, and I've been in the entertainment business for 8 years now. I have a background of performing and acting. And they came to me about 8 months before the con to see if I would come back for a second year.
Just all in all, this masquerade was a flop, and you can never keep people happy with desicions. yet somehow last years masquerade desicions were right on, I wonder why... oh wait I know, it's because we actually had judges that know skits and acting.
But I do want to say that Jeni did a great job organizing it for her first time, I just wish we had more time to choose, then we probably wouldn't have had this bad criticism.
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