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.

DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes

OK, so I've gotten all the long-winded narrative out of the way, but I've still got a bunch of pictures I'd like to post, and will do so via a few themed galleries. But I'm not even going to try and blog every single picture I took, so here's a link to the big photobucket with all my DragonCon 2009 photos.

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 so, people dressed up as Super Heroes (in no particular order, unless otherwise obvious):

The Watchmen



























Batman


































The Rest















Dear god, this girl was drunk. I was terrified she was about to go head-first off the poo lion.