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...and food.
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I was in California last week for my sister’s graduation, and my parents took us to a French restaurant. I ordered some beef Bourguignon, and it was fantastic. It made me want to take a shot at cooking my own for Jenn and myself, so I’m totally getting on that when I have off of work next week.
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Hooray for new Tumblr backgrounds!
One of these days I’ll probably overhaul the whole CSS for a new layout, but for now, it’s just a background.
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Varric and Alistair
Nini I got this picture for you <3Thanks for the picturoo! Hope you had a good time at ACen!
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Photo reblogged from One Archdemon Short of a Blight
Okay, now that I have had a few days to recover from the con, I have an Acen story:
After I was done with the artist alley for the day on Saturday, we were waiting around for a friend of ours when out of the corner of my eye I spot a Varric cosplayer crossing the street. So I turn to get a better look and then noticed the Alistair cosplayer with him and proceeded to have some sort of heart attack. A little embarrassing in retrospect, but at the time I was too busy having a fangirl seizure to care. We found them later and asked for a picture and they were really nice. So, if you see this Alistair cosplayer, thanks for the pic and I am sorry if we were alarming in any way. XD
(We also met a different Varric and a Morrigan, whom were amazing as well, but I wasn’t able to get a picture of them. :c)
Hooray for rebloggin’!
Thanks for tracking us down and getting a picture! Spazzy fan seizures are all in good fun and we’re flattered you like our stuff that much! :D
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Episode 2 of Kidnapped Theatre is up.
Woo!
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Good work, Ubisoft. This is pretty fantas—no, mantastic.
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It’s been so long since I’ve drawn much of anything. I sketched this in my free time at work to get back into the swing of things. Hooray!
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
My Alistair cosplay sword is far more spinnable now since I revamped the pommel, hilt, and grip a month ago. I decided to embarrass myself and be a derp in my living room by doing some flourishes in my pajamas. I guess it can’t get much more embarrassing than the Alistair Twist gif, right?
Uhh…y’know what? Don’t answer that…
Anyway, if I weren’t confined to my apartment, I could probably do more than some figure-8s, but whatever. I didn’t want to turn into Star Wars Kid.
I’d like to improve this whole twirly-thing in case it’s needed in a film…thing we do. If nothing else, I guess it’d look neat in my Alistair armor?
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I totally forgot to post this the other day.
I entered Film Riot’s Monday Challenge this week to get some more film practice in. After all, in art, practice is nearly everything.
This week’s qualifications:
- 30 seconds max
- Demonstrate a cloning effect
- Include a plunger in some manner
I shot this completely by myself, which is harder than it looks, considering I had no idea if I was in focus or in frame when I was acting in it, so it took a lot longer to make than if I had another person on-hand to work the camera or act out the scene. I also didn’t bother using my lighting kit, since that would have been another thing to worry about keeping consistent, so I had to crank the ISO up a lot, which creates a little graininess in the shadows, but all in all, I’m amused by it.
It’s ridiculous and over-the-top. Enjoy the plungery goodness.
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Now that I have a decent camera, some better equipment, and some experience dealing with shots around a fire, I kinda want to re-shoot Support the Wardens…
Looking back, the old one is really grainy and could do with a bit of polish. After all, we did shoot it on my Mino Flip HD, which…well, it does 720p video, but it doesn’t look very good in low-light conditions, as you can see, not to mention it has a fixed lens that you can’t swap out, and Nick did every shot handheld from the same angle. It could do with some variation and a tripod. We were also trying to push it out the proverbial door for the Bioware YouTube Costume Contest. If we were re-shooting it for more personal reasons and didn’t constrain it, it’d likely be much better.
Perhaps sometime this summer? Or maybe it’d just be better to make an entirely different video? Would anyone like to see it re-made?
Thoughts?
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I love sifting through convention pictures a month after a convention and actually finding some decent ones.
Photo © LJinto on Flickr
Here’s Jenn and me in our Snake and EVA gear from Metal Gear Solid 3. In addition to our Meredith and Alistair costumes, we’re bringing these to Dragon*Con at the end of summer to wear on that Friday. I’m probably going to bring either my XM16E1 or my RPG-7 in addition to the M1911A1 Custom in the picture.
Whee!
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So this happened this weekend…
Let’s see how long YouTube keeps this video online with so many John Williams snippets within it. XD
