Tag: ashley gosiengfiao
Soapbox: Festival Time
by otaking on Oct.13, 2009, under Soapbox
Haruhi, you're doing it wrong. Festival time is definitely not supposed to be the same thing over and over again.
At Cosplay Mania, I wandered convention hall, no longer Cliff, lawyer, obedient son, Filipino citizen. For that moment in time, I had become Lelouch: deposed Britannian royalty, student, revolutionary, enemy of the state.
OtaGonzo: The White Hat Cosplay Charity Event
by otaking on Aug.31, 2009, under Otagonzo
The White Hat Strawberry Yogurt
I was finishing off my cup, watching the crowds at the Shangri-La Mall line up for photos and frozen yogurt, when I realized that this particular cosplay event wasn’t anything like a convention at all. It was a carefully choreographed, well-organized media event that appeared to be a cosplay competition. It was pure publicity for a charity tie-in with a consumer product.
News: White Hat Charity Event
by otaking on Aug.29, 2009, under News
The White Hat Charity Event
I’ll be attending the White Hat Charity Event tomorrow, Sunday, August 30. The main draw for me is the whole ‘yogurt for charity’ thing, really, since I’m partial to Red Mango, which is just down the street from where I live and I’m looking to compare. Oh yeah, and there’s apparently cosplay and some charity thing too.
Okay, let’s be fair. It’s for the Got Heart Foundation, a charity that focuses on empowering Filipino entrepreneurs, a cause I fully support.
Open Forum: Are There Any Cosplayers Left?
by otaking on Aug.25, 2009, under Open Forum
What?! Over 9000?!
Holy crap. Despite Ashley Gosiengfiao’s assertions to the contrary, it seems that based on the comments to yesterday’s Otaku Taiki post, there aren’t actually any real cosplayers anywhere. Or at the very least, cosplay seems to be a very fragile state of being that can be disrupted by the presence of money, professional photographers, or Parokya Ni Edgar, or the absence of competitive spirit, skits, love for the character being portrayed, or by playing a character no one actually knows.
So now we have a dizzying minefield of terms to add to the vocabulary of any unwary newbie (like myself) taking the plunge into the messed-up world of cosplay (which, as previously mentioned, doesn’t appear to actually exist): (more…)
