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More from Comic-Con: Pictures and Video

I was really looking forward to using my new camera on the trip to Comic-Con and I was able to grab a bunch of great pictures.  There was so much to see and photograph, and you can check out my Flickr sets for many of the photos I took.  One of my favorites is this one of Belle Chere as Red Sonja.  While at Comic-Con I posted my photos to several groups (this is one of the great powers of the social networking features of photo-hosting sites, being able to tag and share content from live events can instantly give you a worldwide audience).  Very quickly this photo became viewed by the hundreds, and then thousands, favorited, commented, etc.  What's even cooler to me is that someone commented asking if that was Belle Chere.  I had no idea who she was - but before long Belle Chere herself posted a comment saying "That's me!" and asking if she could use the photo on her site.  Turns out she's a well-known cosplayer and works by day as a theatrical costumer.  Pretty awesome - if you'd like to see more of her amazing costume work, check out her webpage here.

In addition, I spent some time hanging with Greg Benson of Mediocre Films and helped him to shoot some stuff.  We filmed a bunch of stuff walking around, but the first thing that made it up to his YouTube channel was this prank about throwing away handbills:

I loved this prank and had a hard time suppressing my laughter as we shot it.  Greg was actually drawing a crowd as he did this.  The next day, the video had something like 40,000 hits - I was amazed, but Greg said that with those numbers, for him, it hadn't gone viral, it wasn't really hitting and people weren't passing it around.  It was fascinating hanging out with him and learning some of the nitty gritty of YouTube videos.  The other video I filmed was the famed "stripper bus" that was transportation for the cast of The Guild on the day of the panel:

Fun stuff.  Greg is a YouTube star and I love his stuff.  He has two channels on YouTube - Mediocre Films and Mediocre Films2 and I recommend subscribing to his stuff (you can also be a fan on Facebook here).

Shirting Comic-Con

It's been a few weeks since Comic-Con in San Diego but honestly, the dust is just now kind of settling for me and so I'm finally adding some blog entries about it.

This was not my first outing to a "Con" but it was my first trip to the grand daddy of them all.  So one of my first considerations was making sure my geek cred was intact.  And that starts with the difficult task of choosing what T-Shirts to pack.  I remember Gus Lopez, super collector and creator of The Star Wars Collector's Archive, telling me about going to a general fantasy/scifi Con and debating whether or not to wear a Star Wars shirt.  Was that too geeky?  Perhaps he shouldn't wear anything sci fi... well, as it turned out, it really didn't matter because, as he put it, at this particular convention "the people dressed as the Borg were about the most normal looking ones there!" (I think there was a huge S&M / LARP contingent at the Con he was talking about, so the costuming was pretty outrageous.

[Like the Snow Crash shirt? You can get it at ThinkGeek, it's called CosaNostra Pizza ]

Sacramentjoe - new web series about Sacramento

Check out 'Sacramentjoe' - a web series I created with Joe Styron.  We just finished and posted episode 1 to YouTube.  Hope you'll subscribe on YouTube, and we'd also love it if you would connect with us on the various social networking sites:

http://myspace.com/sacramentjoe
http://facebook.com/sacramentjoe
http://twitter.com/sacramentjoe

Here's the trailer, and below that is episode 1.