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4th May , 2009

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'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

(Deposit Lemon)

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From:[info]red_pill
Date:4th May, 2009 07:19 pm (UTC)
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we might well have floor space for 2 nights if you want to share. i cant promise it wont be with a bunch more peeps then the room is offical suposed to hold, but it will be, for that, much cheeper. its also the closer hotel.
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From:[info]nert
Date:5th May, 2009 09:13 pm (UTC)
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if it's enough to crash on that'll generally do me ;) what nights?
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From:[info]ailsa_chan
Date:4th May, 2009 07:48 pm (UTC)
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Don't abandon us Nert!
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From:[info]nert
Date:6th May, 2009 11:25 pm (UTC)
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Oh I'll be there, just going to be navigating complex logistics of getting to and fro ;)

I should be down ultra early to help out if possible.. When do you guys normally get there?
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From:[info]ailsa_chan
Date:11th May, 2009 04:22 pm (UTC)
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Friday.

We'll probably be in the hall setting up between 8 and 8.30.
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From:[info]lady_unaspi
Date:5th May, 2009 12:10 am (UTC)
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I'm gonna be there on Saturday! I'm bringing Asakura too if I can untangle the wig. If not, I'll be vocaloid MEIKO all day ;D
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From:[info]nert
Date:6th May, 2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
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I'll have to dig out that plastic knife again then ;)
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From:[info]lady_unaspi
Date:9th May, 2009 04:12 pm (UTC)
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Alas, the wig was way too tangled near the ends! So i've restyled it for my friend Iggie's Isara Gunther costume for our Valkyria Chronicles group at FuyuCon :'3

MEIKO is nearly finished though, just needs a zip and she's ready!

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