Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Momocon and Cosplay Photography Pictures

So! Over the course of spring break, I managed to kill two birds with one stone. As well as going to a cultural event, I also managed to complete the photography assignment. The event that I went to was Momocon '09 during March 14th-15th at the Georgia Tech student center, which is primarily a convention focused on anime, manga and games, and more even more generally, an embracing of Asian (particularly Japanese) and otaku culture.

A group of friends and I went-two of us on both Saturday and Sunday. We made some bentos (which is basically a box lunch in Japan, usually arranged in an artistic or kawaii [cute] theme) and dressed up in our cosplay outfits (aka costume playing...this is normally the dressing up of a character from a book, show, ect.) The majority of our visit consisted of browsing the dealer rooms (where we ended up finding plushies, manga, soundtracks of animes and CDs of Japanese bands, Chinese garb, costume supplies, ect.), artist alley (the rooms where people sell prints and commissions of their fanart), karaoke (both of American and Japanese songs), and hanging out with various other cosplayers. At the end of the last day, we went to a Chinese restaurant in Atlanta called Mandarin Palace.

So, as for the photography, my theme for this is cosplay. These are only a few of some of the pictures that we got, but also some of the best.




















This is Sai from Naruto Shippuden.




















From left to right, Akasuna no Sasori and Uchiha Sasuke, also from Naruto Shippuden.















From left to right...Uchiha Sasuke, Subaku no Temari, Subaku no Gaara, Subaku no Kankuro, and Uzumaki Naruto from Naruto original and Naruto Shippuden.




















From left to right, Yagami Light and L from Death Note.




















Teru Mikami from Death Note.




















And finally, a picture of a couple of Turks. Me as Cissnei from the games Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis, and Reno from the Final Fantasy VII games overall.