Archive for August, 2009

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If you dressed up as a Game Character or as a Comic/Anime/Movie character your picture is already up on Segashiro and/or Controllerpunch! Check it out! All of them! Even Day 1!

Some people might have pictures on both. Some might have none at all…but they were probably too blurry to post. We tried to get everyone. If you have great picture send it in to segashiro@hotmail.com or controllerpunch@gmail.com (whichever you prefer).

Thank you so much for the effort you put into your creations. Congrats, guys!

The teams here put a lot of unpaid hours into the event and into the picture taking and editing and posting! Please comment on the posts and tell your friends about the sites! If people like this, we’ll consider doing it at every event!

Feel free to check out the content on this site! Being a writer in Toronto ain’t easy! I’ll being doing poetry readings at the James Joyce in Annex in 2 weeks.

Links:

http://controllerpunch.com/2009/09/cosplay-madness-continues/

http://controllerpunch.com/2009/08/we-love-animecomic-cosplayers/

http://controllerpunch.com/2009/08/controllerpunch-loves-canadian-cosplayers/

And:

http://www.segashiro.com/2009/09/02/more-fanexpo-photos/

http://www.segashiro.com/2009/08/31/gamercore-cosplay-rules/

http://www.segashiro.com/2009/08/31/fanexpo-pop-culture-cosplayers/

http://www.segashiro.com/2009/08/30/sega-fan-sightings-fanexpo-canada/

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Life After God

The song by the Ataris below is inspired by one of the micro stories in Douglas Coupland’s book: Life After God.
Both the song and the book resonate with me quite strongly. I actually found my copy of the novel on park bench about 2 years ago. After reading it there, I felt a complusion to listen to “My Hotel Year” and when I checked the liner notes, I realized that the song was inspired by the novel.

Check them out, if you get the chance.

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Representational Voting

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I found this image of peace the other day, and I wanted to share it. I enjoy video games and zombies movies but that is where my relationship with firearms ends.

The image reminded me of a leftover one-liner that I jotted down in a notebook back after watching Bowling for Columbine.

I could never seem to fit it in anywhere else and it seemed good enough on its own so I made a backdrop for it. I would wear it on a T-shirt.

Shotgun Design

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One day while driving to Cleveland, Ohio to get White Castle…the radio dial slipped and fell onto a Conversative radio program. The first line that was spat live out of the announcer’s mouth was: “Diversity is Perversity.” Being a minority, I never felt so horrified in my life…

I listened to the broadcast for a few more minutes; calls from gun enthusiasts who were going to take it upon themselves to change the system. Change the system, huh? That’s when I looked into it a little more closely. Read the rest of this entry »