Dragon Con photographic interlude

[grinninfoole]

I saw many cool costumes at the Con, and I took pictures of a few them.  Here they are. 



On day before the show, waiting in line to pick up credentials, I saw these Futurama fans:






(those little green plush things are brain slugs, which turn you into a mindless zombie.  Only the guy in the black shirt is in character.)

There was a woman in a superbly done Victorian style dress, complete with a hat and walking stick, and when I asked for a photo, she agreed, but only if she could hold her cell phone to her ear :)




 

Then, there was a guy dressed as an Alien (a la the Ridley Scott movie), who had gotten behind the desk at the Hyatt and was menacing the accommodating clerks:




 

Finally, there was the coolest costume I saw at the whole show, a superbly done, terrifically original full-body piece:


















It just doesn't get any cooler than steampunk genie.  I wish my phone camera did it any justice.


There were, as one might expect, lots of women in revealing costumes, though only three or four Princess-Leia-as-Jabba's-slave-girls, including one brave woman in a chainmail bikini with, I think, nothing at all underneath it.  (Ouch.)  I tried not be a skeezy guy who makes the ladies nervous, so I held off on taking any 'sexy' pics.

Comments

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Science fiction cons are always an odd mixture of stripper gathering and Taliban conclave: on the one hand, you have women in very revealing outfits, but that comes with the burly bearded men disputing the interpretation of holy texts in dark caves.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Even the Taliban wouldn't stoop to having William Shatner or Dirk Benedict at one of their cons, though.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Here's a link to the journal of the steampunk genie: http://borogove13.livejournal.com/109739.html#cutid1