If they’re not completely rotted out, I might post them up front to give me vision on incoming trick-or-treaters.
Halloween gg
Tag: league of legends
Riot Graves costume construction: fin
Alrighty then, Dragon*Con is a month beyond us now, and I feel like I’ve caught up on a lot of things in terms of writing, processing pictures, more writing, and simply getting back into the swing of things. That being said, I realized that I never followed through with my promises to myself and to my seven readers that I’d do my best to chronicle the construction of the Riot Graves gun for the costume I wore at Dragon*Con, and subsequently the other costume components.
So, unlike the LeBlanc staff process that I compartmentalized into many small posts, screw that, I’m just going to go straight into covering everything I possibly can, as detailed as I can, as it came to the construction of the Riot Graves gun, as well as the armor pieces and other doodads necessary to put together the Riot Graves costume.
Admittedly, there aren’t going to be nearly as many photos as I hoped there would be, because frankly there were points during the construction where there simply wasn’t time. Either I would be against the clock against chemical pot life and cure times, or after my haphazard minor league baseball trip, I was against the clock with Dragon*Con quickly approaching. I suppose inquiring minds will have to settle with my intrepid writing abilities instead at certain points.
Photo courtesy of Joseph Chi Lin Photography
Dragon*Con 2013 Pictures: Saturday (LoL candids)
But of course I had a secondary camera I had on me while taking part of the League of Legends shooting!
The good news is that instead of my busted old Sony Cybershot I had for a secondary camera, I had something that was able to at least take shots in focus. However, it’s still a plain point-and-shoot, so the flash tends to eat things alive, but at least the subjects were in focus.
Much like last year, since there’s a lot of waiting and standing around, while rangling LoL costumers and taking turns with who’s shooting with the marvelous Joseph Chi Lin, I figure there’s plenty of time to take random candid shots of my friends as well as other LoL costumers. And sweet merciful jesus were there a lot of LoL costumers hanging around this year.
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Riot Graves gun construction: 01
I’ve been a bad builder what with my lack of any sort of updates in regards to current prop projects. Chalk it up to a combination of the coming and going of Comic-Con, family-related matters that needed to be tended to, my own apathy of not wanting to work on things after work, and my own productivity that couldn’t find the breaks or time necessary to take photographs and make notations on each and every step of what I’ve been doing.
Needless to say, I’ve recently gotten back to work on the construction of the Riot Graves gun, because, Dragon Con is now like three weeks away, and aside from the gun, I’ve got a few other things I need to make, and not nearly as much time as I’d like to have in order to do such.
Well, this is awkward
So, like a day after I pretty much anoint what I thought was my favorite Miss Fortune, I come across this Miss Fortune costumer. And it’s kind of one of those situations, like a Ben Stiller-Owen Wilson kind of movie, where a guy gets engaged to a really good looking woman, but like at the night of the engagement, he sees/meets a new woman that really piques his interest, and then the awkward plot of the film is born.
Now I’ll stand by my opinion that I really like the photo of the first Miss Fortune costumer, but I have to say that in comparison of total packages, this one well, blows her away. Eviscerates her. I say with an awkward cringe that it’s not even really a comparison. It’s one of those situations where I guess it’s kind of good there’s a language barrier and the fact that my brog gets probably like six hits a day, with four of them being me, because she probably won’t see these remarks.
But I think it’s pretty much a layup that as far as my little world is concerned, we have a winner of Miss Fortune costumers here.
Aside from the obvious aesthetic appeal on all the obvious accounts, I simply think she just, nails it. The more I look at this particular picture, the more I appreciate it.
My favorite Miss Fortune costumer
Anyone who’s played League of Legends with me probably knows that Miss Fortune is my favorite character. She was my first real main champion, and of all the normal Summoner’s Rift games I’ve played, 60% of my wins have probably come with Miss Fortune. I may dress up as Graves, but it’s because I’m not a curvy female capable of dressing up as Miss Fortune.
Anyway, over the last few years, I’ve had an opinion that in spite of the overall growing talent of the costuming community, I’d yet to see a particularly good Miss Fortune costumer (much like I stated the lack of any really good Ada Wongs). I’d seen a few here and there, but there would always be something about them that I wasn’t particularly too keen on. I’m a really, really picky analyst for some reason, I’m guessing it has to do with the detail-oriented nature of my day-to-day occupation, but when it comes to Miss Fortune costumers, I’ve typically always found a reason to glaze over many of the ones who have made the attempt to portray my favorite champion.
Reality redefined
What an Asian household is like for little Hyun-Soo Choo, now that League of Legends players are going to now be recognized as professional athletes.
Hyun-Soo Choo sits in his room playing the piano, practising The Moonlight Sonata. His head is rhythmically rolling from side to side as he lets his mind get lost in the melody and the slow, methodical strokes of the ivory keys.
Mom: (Screaming from downstairs) Hyun-Soooooo! [Time for League of Legends practice!]*
*[Translated from the Korean – dh]
Hyun-Soo: Ommaaaa (“Mom” in Korean) I don’t want to play Leagueeee!!
Mom: Hyun-Soo! [Right now!]
Hyun-Soo: Ommmaaaaaa…….
Mom: HYUN-SOO!!!
Defeated, Hyun-Soo closes the cover to the keys of his piano and begins stomping his way downstairs, begrudgingly. His mother is waiting at the bottom of the stairs with her hands on her hips, with a handheld dust brush in her left hand. She has a stern and fierce look on her face.