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SO.




BORED.




HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.



Ah let's do this thing again. You know the drill:

First seven words: "There was a little man. His name..."

Now, it's your turn. Please, continue the story.

It occured to me, I never really post any of my cosplay pics, um, anywhere!

While I'm waiting for Virtual Dub to take it's sweet ass time rendering, have a few pics:
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I need to get more photos :(

Sian, Eleanor, Carly, what do you say to a cosplay shoot one day? I really want more photos of you guys (am I creepy yet?) as well as a photo of my Stephanie Lucy cosplay.

Honk honk.

EDIT: Another thing that occured to me! I never actually posted my winning SYTYCV entry here, did I? Well, here it is:

^ the challenge for that entry was to make a video using "Plug in Baby" by Muse that was at least 40 seconds long. Oh, and Eleanor, here is the next challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Xr6UqyT-A - As you can see, we can pick whatever song we want :)

YEAH BABY!!! Top 20 for the second year in a row! No-effects challenge, here I come!

I am about to eat birthday cake, but first, let me sum up my experience at this years Supanova in Sydney:( Read more )

Seriously, that was the best convention I've been to for a long time.
Also, I am making a point of letting everyone know that Jake Lloyd is actually a really cool person. I wasn't particularly interested in meeting him at first, but I'm so glad I did.
I wore my Kasumi cosplay on both Saturday and Sunday, and I'm pretty sure this will be the last time. Yep, I'll probably retire that costume. I fail for not taking photos, but EVERYONE looked amazing!

Can't wait for Manifest <3

Sian's new AMV



Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtuxLk3r6A
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2NIWY8Z3

I made this. I'm sorry.



Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAT2DvG0jLA

EDIT: Haha, what!?:

Honours for this video (2)
#22 - Top Favourited (Today) - Comedy - Australia
#91 - Top Rated (Today) - Comedy - Australia

...it's only been up for an hour!

...but here is some video I shot around Kinglake on February 11th:

It's official: my Ron video CAN be made scarier:

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=16&cols=16&id=e4X6asm8tHI&startZoom=1

God help us all.

Look what finally made it's way onto youtube (Warning for swearing. Do not watch if this offends you):



:D

...but of course, swearing doesn't offend me :P

I made this video because I wanted to see good, wholesome, innocent little Sakura swearing her nut off XD
...no, that was really my only reason.

There are a few gaps since I still haven't edited most of the video, and probably never will. It's only a beta cause I'm lazyyyyyyyyy.

Some of you may have seen this before. My friend Mark, also from Amvience Studios, used this video for the credits in his last AAH video.

Song: "Y'all Want a Single" by Korn
Anime: Cardcaptor Sakura.

Sian made this for me:



<3

I got an email from youtube the other day to let me know that my first Labyrinth video, Chasing After You, has now been blocked in some countries due to copyright infringement. Well, I'm in Australia and it still plays just fine for me. I was just wondering exactly which countries it has been blocked in, so here's a test.



There's the video. If you cannot get the video to work in your country, please let me know. Thanks!!!

Cotton balls quote from Byron.

Guys, this is it. I have a new fandom that I want to vid. BBCs North and South.
I only just finished watching the final episode for the second time. I have seen the first three episodes about four or five times, but always during marathons with friends where we never quite seem to get up to episode four. Seeing it again now really cheered me up ^_^

Here is the video I made for my Pa.

See, now Goku is in character :P



The first time I uploaded this, it had the original audio from the film, however youtube recognised that and disabled the video. I think the new audio is slightly more improved.

Say, you know how everyone thought 2008 was a crappy year and we all hoped 2009 would be better?
Turns out, we were wrong to hope.

R.I.P John Hutchinson.

As far as Pa's go, you were as cool as they get.

I just came back from a funeral for 11 year old Jesse Inzitari, his mother Daniela and his 5 year old brother, Aldo Jr.

Some things in life just don't make any sense.



R.I.P Jesse. You were the nicest, most polite kid and you will be sadly missed.

January 1998 - February 2009

So, Shiirahime over at youtube suggested that I share this here. I did link to it two posts ago, but I figure I may make a separate entry for it as well.

This was my backing video for my Princess Tutu cosplay skit at Supanova Melbourne. I won third prize in the costume contest! We were only allowed to do individual skits, but if I was going to cosplay as Princess Tutu, then I wanted to at least have an argument with Fakir. This was my way of getting around the problem! This video was played in the background while I was on stage acting out Tutu's role arguing with my on screen Fakir. Sadly, the very last segment of the video didn't get played at the contest, but that's okay because you can see it here!
The skit was written by myself (with the exception of the "underwear in the freezer" line).
I have to thank my very, very talented friends for helping me with the voices.
They are:

Eleanor (TheOriginalMe) as the voice of Princess Tutu
and
Carly (Androx17) as Fakir and Mytho

The editing is not great. It was edited in about 2 to 3 hours the night before the contest. As the only entrant with an accompanying video, I wasn't exactly going to be judged on editing ability. Sorry! I really only needed this for the dialogue anyway!

Ah, enjoy!

( I put my underwear in the freezer )

Okay, first off, in response to the new Tsubasa spoilers...AHH HOLY JKPOLSNCHJDJ!!!!

Now that that is out of that way.

Supanova! I'm going to copy Di here and make a list of pro's and con's from the weekend:

Pro's:

- Sian and I winning second and third place in the cosplay contest! Admittedly there were only five contestants, but they were all very good!. Sian, you looked AMAZING as Miss Edel! Eleanor also looked incredible as Fakir and, on Sunday, Zuka.
- Getting invited to dinner by the Clow Cards. Yes, really.
- Getting in the paper.
- Meeting Vic Mignogna.
- Seeing Fullmetal Fantasy.

Con's:

- Seeing a heap of embarrassing cosplay photos and videos of myself -_- I don't care how accurate that wig was, it was not flattering! Towards the end of the day, I took the wig off because it was getting too hot.

I got about three times as many photo requests without it!

Also, there were a lot of photos of me showing my teeth. There's a reason I pose for photos with my mouth closed. It's just better that way!

- They cut my cosplay video short. They stopped the video after I went off-stage, but it still had about thirty seconds left. Included in those thirty seconds was the punch line. Ah well, youtube will have to do. EDIT: Speaking of which: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ttoPdmzxg

- The Justin Chon panel. I went there more out of curiosity than anything else. He was in the Twilight film for maybe two minutes, so I had to wonder just what on earth he planned to talk about for an hour long panel. The answer was; nothing. Ahh, he didn't do too bad, but some of the fans were giving him the creeps. I got bored after about 15 minutes and left.

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I actually got into Kinglake yesterday using my licence, which still has my Kinglake address on it. Mum and I had to sneak out of the house early in the morning because Dad didn't want us to go. He had this glorified idea not only that the town would still be on fire but that there would be bodies "still lying in the paddocks". Yeah, no Dad.
I'm so glad we did get up the mountain. I was so relieved to see my brother and one of my aunties. My Mum was in tears. We had to sneak up a few back roads to get to my aunties house since the road to her farm is blocked. Having been locals for so many years, we had the upper hand as we knew of at least two back roads that the cops weren't aware of! She was so surprised and so relieved to see my Mum!
It's actually not as bad as I imagined it would be, although I understand that a lot of cleaning up has been done since Saturday. I would say that about 40% to 50% of the town is still intact.
The best part was being able to ring up a friend of mine who had left the town on Saturday and tell her that her house was still standing and waiting for her to come back home!
Now we just need to arrange to see our other friends and relatives.

Here is my brothers house then:


...and now:



...as you can see, his work truck amazingly survived. He was even able to make jokes about it. His friend and fellow fire fighter Aaron was at the house with us. He was climbing over the truck and he asked Ben "Hey, do you have any keys for this thing?". Ben then joked "Yeah, hold on mate, they're just in the house. I'll just go and get them!".



My trampoline :(

Sadly, my brothers neighbours from behind his house did not survive. Their car is still on the road there. My brother checked the car on Sunday and didn't see anything. Investigators later checked the same car and found the two bodies. That's how badly burned these victims were.

I have many more photos, including the remains of my old house, that I will upload later.