More Otakon 2008

No prompting necessary, she got right into several poses. These kids are great models! She made the costume herself... even the guitar! It's mostly cardboard, with some real guitar bits glued on.

Final Fantasy Four

A great set of costumes, all made by the young man 2nd from the right. I posed them in front of a blank white wall in the food pavillion at the inner harbor. Lighting came mostly from a skylight a little to the front of the group. As usual at Otakon, I only asked them to stand in a certain location; after that, they assumed great poses on their own.

Otakon Preview

I'm chargin' up my battery and formatin' my card so I'll be ready for the lively scene tomorrow at this year's Otakon at the Baltimore Convention Center.

I'll let Wikipedia tell you what Otakon is all about:

Otakon is a fan convention in the United States focusing on East Asian popular culture (primarily animé, manga, music, and cinema) and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku. Otakon is traditionally held on a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in late summer at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district. It is considered the second largest and one of the longest-running Anime conventions in the United States.

There was a line, which had been there since morning, wrapped around the Center, with people waiting to pre-register. I saw this young man tonight on my way back to the Light Rail station, just across the street from the Convention Center, and he was gracious enough to pose for me.

Now to badly paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart,I don't know much about animé or manga, but I know a great costume when I see one.