9: Classic Tim Burton. Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That. Or Maybe There Is.
I can’t tell you how many times over the last 17 years I’ve gotten all excited seeing an incredibly cool trailer for a film only to have my expectations shattered to see Tim Burton’s name attached to the movie. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate Tim Burton. He’s been responsible for some films I love, but I do generally consider his involvement with a movie as a curse rather than a benefit. I can pinpoint the exact day that I came to this decision about about Tim Burton. It was the evening of June 19th, 1992.
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DragonCon 2009: Costumes and General Weirdness
One of the most phenomenal things about any Con is the vast amount of weirdness that comes out of the woodwork. Seemingly normal people use the occasion to costume themselves as their favorite fictional–or in some cases non-fictional– characters. In my years of going to cons I’ve noticed a distinct turn in this trend. As with this picture of the Flash and Superman, this supports my life long research into whether ANY human being actually looks good in tights.
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“SHOOT HIM!” Worst Photo Idea Ever: DragonCon 2009
Dragon*Con 2009 is officially over and in spite of my best efforts to get updates every 30 minutes throughout the con I’ve tried to pace it by not writing since day one.
I’ve got a brief series of articles that I’ll be posting over the next week or two and I’m trying to not dwell too much on the things that are pretty dull, mainly panels. While panels with celebs are cool to attend, they are pretty much not good fodder for articles. Celebs pretty much have half a dozen cool stories that become public knowledge after the first time they go on Letterman. I think this time I’ll limit things to the photo at hand: Officially the worst photo idea of Dragon*Con 2009 which I simply will call “Shoot Him!”
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DragonCon 2009: Day One - Best Costume So Far, Initial Thoughts, and an Unexpected Gift from Above.
Day One - DK Pick for Best Costume: Sith Elvis!
Any of the literally dozens of loyal readers we have at Deviant Knowledge probably are at least aware of the the annual Labor Day idiocy that happens in Atlanta, GA each year called Dragon*Con. For those not familiar, formerly a smaller and more narrowly targeted affair, it’s now described on their own website as “the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.” This year is my first opportunity to attend and after 14 hours on day one I was stunned by how huge and well run of a program this is so far. I’ve been to many cons over the years: GenCon, Star Wars Celebrations, several Trek, Doctor Who and general Sci-Fi cons and so far this seems to be about the most well-oiled of any of them–of course, hell is bound to ensue as the weekend hits.
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