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8th November , 2009
28th October , 2009
4th October , 2009
09:23 pm - Minami 16
http://www.minamicon.org.uk/
Minami regs open
GOOO! Time is of the essence!
Disregard that. Yet another record selling out :P
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5th September , 2009
12:26 am - Continued
http://www.manylemons.co.uk/gallery/nertcam/cosplay/3D/
Couple more I managed to salvage - there's plenty of others that didn't quite work :P
I managed to order a batch of cheapy cardboard glasses for this stuff, as I'm enjoying it far more than should be allowed, and feel kinda bad barely anyone can actually view them ;) Anyone want a pair? They'll easily fit in an envelope, or if there's a chance I'll run into you in futures near, yell and I shall equip some upon my person for such times.
For some reason they all have Ford logos on...
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31st August , 2009
10:52 pm - Cosplaying in the THIRD DIMENSION
Hunted through recent cons to see if by any chance my snaphappyness led to me getting any two identical parallel shots which could then be put to much experimentation. As chances would have it, it did! So without further ado, grab your red/cyan glasses (what do you mean you haven't gotten any yet? You've had like a couple of days now...) and witness the awe and randomness that is, 3D cosplay!
or something.
( More 3Dery )
Bigger and better versions in the gallery nyah or on dA nyah.
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26th August , 2009
07:30 pm - Now in 3D
In which two monkeys experiment with Python, photos, and some coloured plastic.
( yay. )
Keep those 3D glasses around, there may be another project in the works now...
Edit: because I could.
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20th August , 2009
05:39 pm - AyaCon vids
http://www.youtube.com/user/ManyLemons
Couple of AyaCon vids uploaded, and mostly filmed by the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) takuropop so I could be free to ninja with the still camera (and make a bloody racket with the shutter..)
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19th August , 2009
12:25 pm - Aya Revolution - AyaCon 2009 - Gallery is live
http://www.manylemons.co.uk/gallery/nertcam/AyaCon/2009/
Go forth and browse!
This gallery was brought to you by the word coffee and the time 3:50am.
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18th August , 2009
08:31 pm - First blood..
A small collection of signatures to add to the pile XD As per request, and because it's the smallest directory and needs no further editing, it goes up first.( FAMOUSES INTERWEBS PEOPLES, the guests of AyaCon 2009 )
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17th August , 2009
10:22 pm - A number.
10,141
You heard me.
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23rd July , 2009
07:11 pm - Today's lesson
(Laptop + gravity) / foot = ow
One of the dodgier laptop bags we have only has one working zip, I wasn't paying attention and picked the wrong one. Hoisted the bag by the shoulder strap, it went vertical, the laptop backflipped out and crunched corner-down onto something soft and squishy: me.
The laptop is fine.
It's quite disconcerting watching your big toenail turn dark grey..
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21st July , 2009
05:08 pm - Sphericalness
Them there that Grand International Cosplay Ball type thing be on again this year, 'seems.
Most of my friendslist no doubt all knew this already from a dozen other sources, but there you go :P
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13th July , 2009
10:32 pm - Punch to face.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dead-fantasy-monty-oum/52656
Dead Fantasy 3 online!
I so need to convince people to cosplay from this for an epic fighty shoot. Seriously if I can do some Kasumi/Yuna or Hitomi/Tifa action shots I will die happy.
This is me actually wanting to take photos of Final Fantasy costumes here, everyday happenings this is not ;)
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31st May , 2009
07:06 pm - Panoramaramaramarama
Whee. Hugin is fun! Only one or two malformed multi-headed people XD
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27th May , 2009
05:05 pm - Rest of the Expo photos
http://www.manylemons.co.uk/gallery/nertcam/LondonExpo/may09/
That link again, for now it contains a Sunday's worth of pikatures also.
and even going this fast I'm still way behind most of the other photographers, what's up with that? :P
Also:
LQ Team Rocket skit
LQ Saint Seiya skit
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26th May , 2009
02:58 am - Expo Photos - Saturday
I took some photos; I thought I might share some.
http://www.manylemons.co.uk/gallery/nertcam/LondonExpo/may09/
Saturday's are up, Sunday's pending still.
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25th May , 2009
04:50 pm - DeExpo
Back
Copying photos across now.. 20gb o.o including the masq videos, many of which FAIL.
Most of the photos involve exposure fail of some sort or another
My lovely new 8gb sd card died a horrible death. But I rescued all the photos off it just in time, I think.
Saw peoples, helped out, was awesome. We had a lovely layout for the desk (and, well, had a desk!) and we were generally well organised and efficient. further details later.
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4th May , 2009
02:01 pm - How random
'Video Game Cosplay Yearbook' - http://www.pwnordie.com/blog/posts/15464
The Tentacle returns!
Poor thing's been shoved in the attic now, still in one piece though. Bub apparently fared less well and probably won't make another appearance XD
Expo, expo, go AWAY. Or rather, be later on and on a less rubbish weekend. Distinct lack of DLR and not having anyone to share a room with is going to make this trip 'interesting'.. Plus by the sounds of it, from what I keep hearing barely anyone is bothering at all XD
I have a Mifune wig! Well actually I've had it for a while, just need to bother with the rest, and make infinite swords. Hm.
I really need a motivational kick up the backside, I've done zilch on cosplay since Chase, and Tomitake only just about counts for some of the details, and AMV editing? sheesh it's been like two years? two and a half? LAZY. ASS.
Photography at least I'm doing a little bit.. Tried out playing with my polarising filter in Westgate Gardens yesterday and did some tester HDR shots too.. Fun but haven't got much of the hang of either yet.. though the filter should be awesome for shooting through glass. Would've been handy to realise that during the Soul Eater shoot :P
Still, it's hard to practice without anyone to practice on XD So it's all flowers, riverbeds and cathedrals for now.
I'm coding my own camera-downloady VBS script, because I'm tired of all the software I can find being lousy. However even with scripty goodness there seems to be no way to alter EXIF data, I can read but not write, so I can't auto-rotate and reset the orientation flag, nor add copyright info or any of that fancy lark without putting in several calls to other software.. ImageMagick has a COM+ object but that doesn't deal with EXIF and can't losslessly rotate either -_- So I can script resizing and watermarking, but the downloading part is still issueful, and without rotating properly before watermarking it would get very silly.
Short of coding my own, which looks hideous, it's going to have to settle just for copying/renaming and sorting for now. Which it does do wonderfully. The NertCam-12345.jpg scheme can return! It can sort by camera, add the fifth digit automatically.. sort videos and raws separately.. Even has a progress bar. It's beautiful *sniff*
On the downside all the testing seems to have knackered my multi-card reader, gah.
I.. decorated a camera strap? Can that count? Not fond of the red stripey I HAVE A CANON CAMERA EVERYBODY WOOO! default I nabbed a black neoprene generic one from Jessops and duly made it my own. Mixing modpodge, acrylic paint and nightlite paint does indeed work on neoprene, stretchy stretchy! and glowy-in-darky. Yay. Though the new strap is a bit on the xbox side of things so it hangs a little low, and the viewfinder cover doesn't fit on it.. I don't really expect to use that anyway.
On Eli's advice also nabbed a tiny stick-on strap for the lens cap so no losing that hopefully, though it does mean it dangles.
DAMMIT FALLOUT3 DLC #3 COME OUT TODAY NOT TOMORROW.. I have work tomorrow T_T
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26th April , 2009
03:45 am - TTGL Movie
Soo, they took the most epic high-adrenaline show ever, cut out all the rubbish eps, condensed the first half (1-14), and then....! made it less epic.
I'm not sure quite what they've done, whether they remixed the audio or if parts are needlessly redubbed, but some very memorable moments sound slower spoken, with a lot less emotion, the music has less impact and the pacing is just off.. weak. ass. Not to mention there's barely any new animation in there for the most part. As an OAV recap/summary show it'd be great, but advertised as a movie... no.
The battle near the end is all that's really new/worth watching, where more or less everyone gets involved, and we get some actual melee combat from Adiane (!) before it flicks back to Shimon-o-vision, reruns one of the iconic moments with more elaborate but not necessarily better animation, again weaker voicing, and then just goes silly.
I have little problem with it being a clipshow largely, again OAV-shaped preferred, but when they mix in clips from the show with the new animation telling a different story it really glitches in my mind.. some of the same animation is used but fighting different guys.. it makes perfect sense to do, but just breaks the flow if you know the series that well XD
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was terrible by any means, they haven't trashed the characters like the DVD ep6 did, or lamed it up ala the OAV.. You could use it to force on people who refuse to watch a full series for whatever reason, but... they could've done so, so much better than this.
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25th April , 2009
12:25 pm - Squee.
Ebay alerts finally paid off somewhat, with a Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou postcard artbook popping up.. SOLD!
On an entirely separate note, anyone have any experience with getting promotional items printed/made?
Our soc's looking at maybe getting some 4gb USB sticks with our logo on to sell to members, or failing that finding somewhere that'll print high quality stickers to then stick on aforementioned drives without looking like.. well.. like we just put a sticker on something :P Benefit there being cheaper, full colour, and we can pick any old USB stick design rather than the generic ones.. I've got some stickers Kate got from an ebay seller - One Piece ones with "Nert" on, so they're semi-custom printed, but they're really tough and last well, just no idea where to get them from ;)
I was also possibly looking at the custom PVC keyrings or metal pin badges like Ame/Minami have but without even looking I can guess they're probably waaay out of our price range ;) At least if it's something useful we might be able to get away with deposits to go toward the min.quantity payment..
They're going to be sold at-cost anyway, it's a "people want trinkets" venture rather than wanting to make any money.. We've got the acrylic keyrings but MORE! MORE! XD
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