broadcast me a joyful noise

HUZZAH. ryokophoenix's photos from our recent shoot in the Chinese Gardens are up! She's even made hilarious animations out of some of them. I expect there'll be another post when our official photographer gets his collection of shots to us, but in the meantime, Mel's are fantastic :D

Character roll call: Zuko, Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Sokka, Suki, Katara, Toph



(picture takes you to the full post on her LJ)

I have acquired some resizing software that doesn't suck. Ergo: con report!

ryokophoenix took most of these, though some were taken by whoever was holding her awesome camera at the time.

( Lots of photos, natch )

Time spent on Skirt of Doom, to date: 8 hours.

Percentage completed: perhaps 50%?

So...if I do nothing but sew from now until midnight, it might get done. HAHAHAHA.

It figures: I break hiatus and promptly have an immensely boring day. I studied for many, many, MANY hours (the cranial nerves & I might actually be negotiating a truce! it's a miracle!), cut the music for Saturday's Supanova skit, and designed pattern pieces for Mai's coat. That's...pretty much it.

I've also consumed my body weight in tea, with the result that my voice is sounding better than it should considering that it's been weeks since I had a choir rehearsal; I've been amusing myself jumping from tenor-part to soprano-part in 'Will I?' from RENT, which is usually a good test of how flexible my range is.

Tomorrow: Sunday Supanova skit rehearsal, shopping for bits'n'bobs for my costumes, and then I am going to conquer the basal ganglia once and for all. THAT'S RIGHT, SUBSTANTIA NIGRA. I'M COMING FOR YOU AND YOUR HIDEOUS INHIBITORY INTERCONNECTIONS.

Just like last time, I don't really have anything to say, but I am on a 5 minute study break and have been sitting here racking my brains for something to say so that I can think about something that is not carpal tunnel syndrome. I feel SO EDUCATED. And I am not even a year into medicine yet. I do not know how my brain is going to fit it all in! Surely there is a secret ritual during third year in which they take all med students aside and surgically or pharmacologically alter their brains so that they can, just like TARDISes or wizarding tents, contain a whole lot more than they should be able to considering their size.

I end up listening to some really weird music when I'm studying. Musculoskeletal notes seem to go well with intense violin sections, and also my Christmas playlist.

I miss writing. My imagination is getting serious cabin fever :(

ETA: My fingers/creative urges are also itching to get started on the cosplays that ryokophoenix and I have planned for Supanova next year, which are both so utterly awesome that I kind of want to keep them secret and then spring the photos on you all in a RANDOM OUTPOURING OF JOY. Okay, that is a lie. I can't keep secrets. COMPROMISE: one of them is the DANGEROUS LADIES (newsflash: Mai's hair is a fkjdkdhjfhas pain in the posterior and I have no clue how I'm going to do it without spending bazillions of dollars on a styled wig) and I'm not telling you the other, even though I expect you'll hear a lot of bitching about it because we are totally overambitious :D

Warning: lots of photos. LOTS.

( This was a good weekend )

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is mostly hilarious because all of the teenage geeks who scrimped and saved to buy a Super Speshul con pass including a photo session during which they got to put their arm around Hayden Panettiere now get a photo session in which Jared Padalecki makes them look even scrawnier than they already are simply because he is an enormous (hot) freak. (Poor geeks. I hope they get smiled at by Jewel Staite.)

I wonder what would happen if I showed up at the Sunday Q&A dressed as a technicolour Disney gypsy and asked him a question about subversion of mythos as a narrative structure.

I'M GUESSING IT WOULD BE KIND OF COOL.

To be frank I haven't been paying much attention to the events planned for this con, because I have a feeling being part of such a massive attention-drawing cosplay group will take up most of my time, but -- oh yeah! There are guests & panels & stalls & shit like that.