• Animu,  Cosplay,  Life

    Anime Expo 2017: Day 3

      We’ve finally gotten our groove down in terms of operational time, three days into the Expo. Day 2 was grueling for how early we arrived and how late we stayed, and we had no idea what we were doing as the armor fell apart during Day 1. Day 3 proved to be the most enjoyable so far probably because…

  • Animu,  Cosplay,  Life

    Anime Expo 2017: Day 2

    I’ve had a grand total of about six hours of sleep since the night before Day One. It feels like the Expo has lasted years at this point, especially since we got to the convention today before the sun even had a chance to poke through the clouds. Day 2 was long but satisfyingly productive. I can barely function by…

  • Animu,  Cosplay,  Life

    Anime Expo 2017: Day 1

    Day one was an adventure – moreso than most other day ones. Admittedly we didn’t do much at all; a test run of the suit and one panel was just about all we had the energy for, given that we literally didn’t finish the suit until 7am the morning of the Expo.

  • Life

    New Years 2017

    As a new year rolls around I found myself going back and checking out the site’s annual New Year’s posts (the Archives tool on the sidebar is useful for this) – I usually make it a point to put something up at the turn of the calendar, if only for commemoration purposes because this place started up on the morning…

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    Southern California Gundam Model Competition 2016

    Ironic now that I’m in a period of time when I’m building models less and less frequently that I actually attend my first large-scale model competition. In fact this contest was the sole motivation for me to finish a kit that was rotting away in my backlog for nearly two years. For those unfamiliar, the SCGMC is an annual model…