The stage at Ozine Fest 2010, during a rare empty moment.

[This is Day 2 of my Ozine Fest 2010 report! Read day 1 here! All pictures are by my friend Ksolaris, as you can tell from the watermark -- not that it's stopped some very high profile scrapers from swiping her pics and posting them on their Multiply without attribution before. And what's with those uniformly crappy captions?]

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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.

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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.

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If I hear the word costripper one more time you know where I'm putting this leek.

I’m talking to the cosplayers in the crowd, the so-called ‘costrippers’, the ones who dress up because they enjoy it, not because of the contests or attention-seeking.

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