DragonCon 2009 -- The Ladies of DragonCon

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

Here we are, at the end of our coverage of DragonCon 2009. As such, I give unto you... the Ladies of DragonCon. (Just like the other posts, right click and view image or save for full-size, and if you want to see the shots that didn't make the cut for the blogpost, check it here, on photobucket.) Now, without further ado...

We'll start with a few lovely ladies I met while hanging out with Photognome:












Show us the pasties!








DragonCon, natural environment of certain breeds of goth hottie:






























Hummmmmm.... Ilsa....


















I love how the dude in the back is trying to not be in my obvious hotty shot.


Elf booty got soul










Yes, you can kinda see it...




Barbarian Booty!


this old guy ain't goin' nowhere






















She comes every year...








Everyone loves a make-out shot


lucky bastard, no one tried to hit me...


Clonetrooper: "Yo!"


So, so tall...






Not bad... just drawn that way


Dawn, the comic with the most skew between popularity of comic and popularity of costume


Clan of the Cave Women...






She was having fun, much like the dude in the back, until the law caught sight of it...








As a child, I watched a lot of Star Trek, and I'd like to think I learned a thing or two from Kirk.


Deal me in.


You can't see it here, but she had lights in her hair




Love the light-up corset
















Love the contacts... and hate that damn yellow tartan! (Actually, that's just 'cause the guy in it was a chode)


















check out the shoes




Another happy customer!




















more spanking...


"Costume" becomes a very loose term by Sunday night...





And, in closing, I think this t-shirt sums up my position perfectly:


Yes, yes they are.

DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

So, Sunday night I had me a little brain storm. I'd been walking around taking pictures of people (mostly girls) all weekend... I'd been toting the big machine gun all day, and people kept taking its picture all day... hay, why not put those two together! (As always, pics are shown at reduced size, view-as or save for full image view.)

She started it:




After that, it just seemed like a good idea, and I ran with it. I got somewhat mixed results with this little plan. Clearly, every single human with a Y chromosome saw the brilliance of this notion, but a few girls gave me rather odd looks, as if the girl/gun combo made me some kind of sicko or the gun was somehow... dirty. On the other hand, there were also a pretty decent number of girls who were about to give me the polite impression that they'd had their picture taken quite enough today, thank you very --- oh, you mean with the gun, well that's different!





Most of the women I asked to pose with "this big-ass gun," came back with an, "oh, hell ya!"



Anyway, enough prattle. Lets see how many I got! First up (well, OK, 7th up) I got a few steampunk band members to pose with the thing. From the Extraordinary Contraptions Sephora:


And from Abney Park, Nathan (the only man I asked to hold my gun):


And, naturally, one of the Cruxshadows girls:


Some of the lovely ladies I actually already knew:








But most of them were new acquaintances. Here's a tip, fellas: have a shtick, and a good prop helps break the ice.








I do need to give this gal a special comment. Lots of girls liked the gun... she friggin' loved it! Seriously, she played with it for about 10 minutes, and I'm hardly the only one to take her picture doing so.


She was not one of the girls who needed to be told how to hold the thing.




The man with no name...


Is the man with no gun!




Clearly, some folks found the gun's design less than intuitive:






















She worked hard to get into this pose:


But she just popped up into it:




















The damn thing's bigger than she is!












She woke up, just for this picture:






















Like I said, some seemed to find the gun less than natural in the hand.








Seriously, I fucking hate people who do this in other people's pictures. I mean, is being cool like that really worth the small dick?




It always seems to be the case than when I'm out late doing this camera thing, eventually I run into Photognome, and I will freely admit to jumping on board his wagon and snapping a few pics while he posed the girls. Those pics will get posted later, when the gnome was done I had them take hold of the cannons.










Now, I hate to end on a down note, but I just want to say...

This guy is an ass hole! If you are him, fuck you. I carried my toys all weekend long, and the few minutes I spent in your drunken, stupid company was the only period of fear I felt that my toys might get broken in your clumsy, wavering grip. You are no where even remotely as cool as you seemed to think. If you are not him, but you see him, point and laugh without explanation, just to bug him.

Oh, hell, I don't want to close this post out with that inbreed douche bag... how about Rogue?

DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

OK, kids. This might be a big one... it's time for the SteamPunk post. As you can see, it was something of a popular theme at Dragon this year. I'm going to pick and choose what to post, so there are more pictures in the full photobucket. And full size pics can be yours with a right-click, view-image, bla bla bla.

I've got a notion that Steam Punk is the fandom most likely to be photographed from behind. I don't know that I'll post all the backpacks and details shots, but trust me, I've got plenty of them. And if you want to check, drop me a line and I'll check to see if I've got a better picture of you.

So, to start off, here's the pics I took of the ladies at the big Brass Goggles meet-up Friday night:











Also seen around the meet up:















Everything this dude was carrying had little spring-loaded moving parts.










Here he is again, with his big-ass gun:


Booze-dispensing backpacks were extra-popular:


Another shot worked over in the GIMP so I could show her with a flash, but still see the plasma:


She gives me gun envy:



















The meet-up wasn't the only place to find steampunks around the con. Far, far from it....
































Like I said, boozepacks were very, very popular.












Not sure if its steampunk, but she made it herself:




















These two were completely festooned in vibrators. And smiles.








I love her glasses


And I kinda like what she's done with the camera here:




The brass piper of steamtown:






webbed fingers!


WEBBED FINGERS!




bite me...








And who doesn't like a nice group theme?


OK, the guy on the far left likes it a bit too much...




As you'll soon see, I love a woman with a big gun...










And just so you know, Steampunk works for the "Hyatt Back-Porch Girls" too!


Man, next year I outta try and take a few pics....

the Paratroopers are painted!

Hold the phone, y'all.

The Paratroopers are painted.

I say again, the fucking paratroopers are fucking painted!

I'd like to draw your attention to this dusty old post, just to properly set the time line here. Now, its not like I've been working on these things flat-out, non-stop for three long years. Hell, if nothing else this blog may serve as a record of all the things that distracted me from this project, which was itself the very thing I opened this blog to document. Either way, the damned things are painted, and that's a friggin' great reason to interrupt my ongoing DragonCon coverage.

Right-click and View Image or save to see full-size pics.


It doesn't look like much when you lay it all out like that, does it?

Now, there is still work to be done. Like, plants and snow. Ya, three little words there, but its going to take some doing. I'm looking at what products are available, colors and textures and the like. Its kind of a pinch, because for one we just lost one of our local hobby shops (the one most convenient to my lunch breaks, as it were) and for the other, most shops don't seem to stock winter-themed basing materials. Sure, everyone's got basic spring green grass, but once you get off the beaten path you pretty much have to special order everything.



Here's what I'm looking at, aside from a few things from the old stand bys:
From Silflor:
AUTUMN PRAIRIE TUFTS
AUTUMN TONE SYCAMORE LEAF FOLIAGE
From Gale Force 9:
Winter / Dead Static Grass

So, once all that gets in I'll start in the next wave of work, adding all the little dead plants, then covering everything in snow, ice, and slush.

For now, I'm just enjoying the glow of completion. And, since I'm waiting on the mail man, I'm flirting with some 28mm...

Anyway, here's what we've got:

HQ Elements:




1st Platoon:



2nd Platoon:


3rd Platoon:




MG Platoon:


Mortar Platoon:


Parachute Artillery Platoon:




Glider Artillery Platoon:



Glider AT Platoon:


Glider Recon Platoon:


Field Artillery Platoon:

DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 The Ladies of DragonCon

And now, incongruously placed in the middle of my DragonCon coverage, comes the miscellaneous category! As is my want, I'm only going to post the "best of" here, so if you want more here's the full picdump. And, again, save or "right click, view as," to see these full size.

In the land of the burlap people...




















Uuuhmmm..... Red Sonja....
















Its Miller time!


































I had to make this pic out of two, with and without flash, to preserve the cool-ass light inside his helmet.






























Surprised Klingon!


Best. Scotty. Ever.










Zombie, or drunk?














There's just something about the Baroness...


I love Venture Brothers, so here's all the pics I got of them...
























Another Baroness, and I still love it!



























Yuuummm... more Red Sonja...
















OK, if there is anything DragonCon can do without, its professional booth babes. It just seems so, I don't know, fake? Redundant?






















She's wearing a strap-on...




OK, just three more big ass posts to go...

DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

Star Wars -- always dear to my heart, always popular with the costume set. There were also a bunch of Steampunked Star Wars costumes this year, and I think I'll include them on this post.

As is my want, I'm only going to post the "best of" here, so if you want more here's the full picdump.

Also, if you save any of these pics or right-click and "view as" you'll see them at full size.





Slave Leia


























Droids


















Steampunked Star Wars





























Everything Else Strong with the Force:





















Seriously, the dude barely fit out of the elevator!


This man gave the impression of being something of a Florida Gators fan...




They started to pose for me, but I asked them to back to checking their schedules; makes 'em look like they are just waiting on their shuttle.


























OK, so I ended up posting like 90% of 'em....

Steampunk arrested for protest twitters

This is beyond fucking stupid.

Basically, there were some hairy protests in Pitsbourg over the G20 shit, and this dude was twittering police movements to better coordinate protesters. Call that good tactics, call it obstruction of justice, really just which side of the fence you're on. Also, the dude in question is an avowed anarchist and writer for Steampunk Magazine.

Anyway, he's up on felony charges. They also raided his house, smashed up the place, killed his bird, and confiscated critical anarchist materials like Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs.

Links to more:
main write up:
http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2009/10/steampunks-professor-calamity-faces-multiple-felonies-for-twittering/
http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/
UK Article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/man-arrested-twitter-g20-us


And rather than close this with something like, "god I fucking hate pigs," I'll instead point out that twitter and other social tech were critical tools used recently in other protests, like Iran.