Cool Stuff Archive for April, 2011
How Many Scott Pilgrims Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
We’re off to Sakura Con, the Pacific Northwest’s biggest anime con, this weekend. My husband and I will be kept busy-busy schlepping our six kids plus a couple of their friends all over the Washington State Convention Center, going to panels, and admiring all the awesome costumes that blossom over downtown Seattle like cherry blossoms each April.
Friday is always my favorite day of this con, just because downtown is still dense with working professionals who always look a little askance at their yuppie turf being invaded by a bunch of young people (and old people like us, too!) dressed up in an astonishing array of costumes.
We popped downtown yesterday to grab our badges, having learned the hard way last year that if you wait until Friday to do so, you get to wait in line for maybe three hours to pick up the badge you paid for six months ago, because for some reason they won’t just mail out badges like Pax does. So all we have to do is check into our hotel and hit the ground running.
Judging from the percentage of costumes we saw just last night, there’s going to be an awful lot of Scott Pilgrims running around downtown Seattle this weekend. It’s the perfect costume for the slacker guy who doesn’t want to dress up in something “dorky,” but whose girlfriend insists on cosplaying and dragging him with her. Okay, so I’ll be Scott Pilgrim and you be Ramona Flowers, babe. Pretty much win-win for the guy — he gets to toss on jeans and a t-shirt and grab his bass (and who in Seattle doesn’t have a bass lying around?), and walk around with a hot chick in purple leggings and a blue or purple wig all weekend.
I’ll take some pics of the better costumes we see this weekend to post later, so you can see the insanity for yourself. Happy Easter weekend!
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3 Comments »Image of the Day: Budapest, 1914
Budapest, 1914
From André Kertész (Editions Hazan)
I love the way the buildings are framed in this shot, and the interplay of light and shadow. What’s the man doing out there, in the dark? Waiting for his wife to give birth, perhaps, or standing outside his house after a fight, cooling his heels. Or perhaps he doesn’t really want to go home, and is standing out there weighing just how long he can hide in shadow before going inside to face whatever awaits him there that keeps him standing there, on the edge of that circle of welcoming light.
… from Liquid Night
3 Comments »Cool Stuff: Images Festival
The Dallas International Film Festival kicked off today, but if you don’t travel much to fests, you can still get a taste of the best of fests at Mubi.com. Through April 9, Mubi is presenting Images Festival, “The best of experimental and independent moving image culture …”
You can watch a selection of interesting, diverse shorts from Images Festival right here (unfortunately, they don’t seem to be set up to allow embedding, but the above still is from a cool short called Posthaste Perennial Pattern).
Masters of Dialogue
I want to hire these guys to write some dialogue for the script I’m working on … pretty amazing. I wonder what they think they’re talking about.