Events and Events

On Thursday I was at an art exhibition named PhotoWorks: A Collection of Independent Photographic Works.

Keiran Broderick was displaying some of his photos at it, his collection was titled Stolen Moments which displayed random people on buses and trains. There was free wine. :) It was nice talking to people and meeting Mechanic Geisha. Kieran was thrilled with the turnout, there was many interesting photography at it like ordinary people living their daily lives in nudes, photos of Sandymount strand and interesting photos of smokey effects not sure how it was done, I think it was the lighting.

Then on Saturday a few of us from Eirtakon helped out at an ArcadeCon event ArcadeMania. ArcadeCon is an exiting new anime, sci-fi, movies, music and gaming convention held in July in the D4 hotel in Dublin. They ran an event in an arcade in town and done a cosplay competition, it was a great turnout and many cosplayed. :) It was nice talking to the committee as they seem very delighted and it was wonderful taking to Joe who wants to be a professional cosplay prop and model maker. I love meeting people like that who are as much passionate in cosplay as you are. Joe will be doing an armour workshop at ArcadeCon, I look forward to it. I plan on staffing at the con to help out. I am very excited. ^^



Convention season is approaching with Q-con kicking off in the end of June, then ArcadeCon and Brocon in July, then Nomcon in August. Will be wrecked but will enjoy it. :) Then Eirtakon 3 months later.

I need a miricle to get me through the day

On Friday I had great fun. I had a photoshoot again as my favourite character Rei Ayanami in Waterford which is a 3 hour journey from Dublin. I shot with Trev from Deise Photography.

Trev contacted me on Folio32 he showed an interest in my cosplays especially the Rei one. I really enjoyed myself shooting with him. He took some photos in his house as he has a studio there. I was posing with a samurai sword and posed like a cute doll in a treasure chest box. The highlight of the day was going to Tramore it's Irish original name being Tra Mor which translates to big beach because it is a very big beach. Trev took photos of me as Rei while it was very windy and rained abit, but I found this very exciting, my wig blowing and I tried to act like Marylin Manroe holding my skirt down. It was hilarious posing at the sea shore and I had to run quickly away from it as the sea hurried towards my feet. Trev was a nice guy to talk to and he showed a great interest in cosplay because it is new. He hopes to develop a photography business so I wish him the best of luck with it and hope to shoot with him again in the future. If you are ever come to Ireland I would recommend paying Tramore a visit, it really is a lovely, summer seaside town.

Also I was at an Experience Japan meeting and they want me to promote cosplay at it every year. Just to explain Experience Japan is a a major Japanese cultural festival held in Pheonix Park (Europe's largest urban park) in Dublin every year. I done a cosplay talk and showcase at it last year and it went down very well. I am so glad cosplay is getting more recognised here in Ireland and my aim is to promote it. :) I am delighted. I will also be doing an education cosplay panel at it too. I am thinking of cosplaying as Rei in her cute white short yukata if I can get this cosplay down for the 17th of April.




Also Lara who I know from the Irish Lolita group is organising a cosplay fund raise event for the Japanese victims of the tsunami in in Dublin this Saturday. I will also be cosplaying as Rei in her school uniform at this. If you are an Irish reader and interested in coming along, details are;

Meeting at 12 at the top of Grafton St. I assume the Stephens Green shopping centre end. I will get a fried to take photos of these events and will put them in my blog, for you all to see. :)

Well that's it for now, still loads of photos to upload a few of simplytied preview photos soon enough, I was really happy that I received positive reactions from these photos, William would be happy. For once it is actually great to be busy. :)