KKon Part II

Big surprise seeing Kaveh down there for both days! I hope I can score a picture of him he took of me the first day, ultra sexy high quality camera and mega wireless professional lights for the win. You know, I forgot my camera the first day and today I forgot the battery so I had to make due with my camera phone. Image quality ranges from decent to ultra fail, while on the other hand the costumes are all in the win zone. Gabe Cherise and Brittany, you guys look great! Tomorrow will be spent animating all day so I ended the Kon with a double serving of assorted food bentos. Good stuff!



Oh, and my all time favorite will always be the Red Ranger there. I've spent the past 3 years looking for a blue ranger costume to wear for Halloween for the rest of my life, but I guess I'm better off finding someone or having myself make one D:

KKon Part I

First time going to the con not as a volunteer and I STILL ended up helping some of my friends behind the tables, man I just can't quit you KKon ha ha. The night ended with a fateful meeting between me and Nurse Lopez. Morbidly attractive to some of the Kon-goers I wonder if they ever found out that she was a trap. I asked him if his Wife knew, he simply ignored the question and chased after victim. Round 2 incoming.

Birthday loot

I used to open my garage once a month and it'd be swamped with people from the Hawaii Smash Bros Community. Kapolei to Hawaii Kai, up from Kaneohe, everywhere inbetween and even players from out of state. It consisted of 1 very small garage, 1 table full of BBQ goodness, 5-7 TVs running, and 30-40 gamers doing what we do best, having fun gaming it up with friends from all around the state, shoulder to shoulder mano a mano. Nowadays, it's only been open once every half a year at a time...so sad D: Last week was special though, it was a triple birthday party...more than enough reason to open up the garage!

Last time I had it open was when the blackout struck, can you imagine 40 gamers suddenly without anything to game on? Ha ha it was CRAZY!

Anyway, since this being a blog, I'll be damned if I don't have anything to pointlessly blog about. So Birthday loot and videos (to be edited in later)!

Gyorome Alien Invasion

These little Gyorome aliens are getting a new ally, the monstrously gigantic MEGA-GYOROME! Will he be an asset in their plans for world domination?

Oh! Mikey

I was never a big fan of skits until I came across the Fuccon Family! Who are the Fuccon Family? Why, they're a family who just immigrated to Japan and try their best to fit in...did I mention that they're mannequins?

You don't even need to know that much Japanese to be able to see how funny these skits are, perhaps thats why I'm enjoying these a lot more than I should be able to. Check out the youtube page, hilarity will ensue.


::Quick and dirty rough translation::
[After the bedroom scene]
Mikey: Morning! It looks like today is going to going to have fine weather...uh about what happened last night...
Mama: Yea- Yeah! It really does look like today is going to have fine weather, huh Mikey?
Papa: You're right! Its definitely going to be a great weather, right Mikey? Yeah, today sure is going to be great
Mikey: So could I ask about what mama and papa were doing last night...


Mikey: Last night-
Mama: Mikey! You shouldn't ask what we were doing
Papa: Yeah, you shouldn't be asking thins like that.
Mikey: Eh?
Mama: We were huh su- sumo. Doing sumo!
Papa: Exactly! What we were doing was Sumo Mikey! After all Sumo is Japans national sport, Mama and Papa were learning about it in bed.

Lightmark (Semi-related to pixalation)

When those light painting Sprint commercials first came out I was really amazed and impressed with the effort and creativity. It was a new spin on the Pixalation animation scene, fresh creative and personal. Then somewhere along the line they began to create VFXs that mimic'd and very soon after replaced the old method which destroyed all all the asthetics of what makes light painting, light painting. It became souless, from being a culmination of effort, planning and creativity from many talented individuals into a one man digitalized After Effects filter.

From a burucrastic standpoint its fantastic (and terrible for artists everywhere) and I understand. And so I became what everyone else ended up being, jaded ha ha.

Then this site came up, turned me upside down and smacked me in every which way until I began to like it again. Instead of turning the landscape into a light show, these guys choose to accent and fuse light into the scenery to create a new experience. Good stuff.

Memorization made easy

Lecture classes are the greatest, what with random unrelated trivia and amazingly boring rote memorization. My professor is cool, but the slides can be so dry I might as well be in the boring Savannah desert. Seeing as I endlessly doodle and ponder about nonsensical things, I might as well apply it to the real world! Here's part of the ART176 study guide I made which I sent to a few classmates. Lulz abound, and as an added bonus midterms become hilariously easy.