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ART - Installations by Dominique Pétrin.
Have you ever tried walking into an 8-bit wonderland? An animated gif? Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist Dominique Pétrin creates these fantastic psychedelic, immersive installations that seem to swallow you whole when you walk into them. l Via Juxtapoz.
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POP CULTURE - Funny and twisted illustrations by Ben Chen
Funny and twisted illustrations of Ben Chen, filled with references to famous pop culture characters! Note that many of his illustrations were published as t-shirts at Threadless. l Via Ufunk.
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You’re just like…
Thank you to everyone who came to GGC 2019! You all made this the best GeekGirlCon ever!
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An animated cloud appears on a black screen with the text: “GeekGirlCon #ShareYourWorld” as fast electric music plays.
The screen fades to GGC Attendees and Agents ride up and down the escalators and the camera follows them onto the con floor.
Another cloud appears, with pink and white text “Day 2!”
Animations of books, hearts, swirls, headphones, and stars appear across shots of panelists, views of the convention center windows, people in costume, the let’s play area, and the main stage.
A person in a space dress and fez encourages a young child dressed as Howl to walk on stage. Another child dressed as Poison Ivy curtsies.
Sped up video from the Exhibitor floor.
Video brass band in full cosplay plays in slow motion (the music video stays the same). Text on a pink background reads: “Special Guests!”
A drummer dressed as Adora beats a sideways drum.
Now the band performs outside and text reads “Rock On!”
The video fades to black with pink text across the screen: #ShareYourWorld Thanks For Sharing Your World At GeekGirlCon
Below, on a pink background it says, “See You Next Year!”
A little video from Day 1 of GeekGirlCon 2019!
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An animated cloud appears as poppy electric music plays. Text appears: “GeekGirlCon #ShareYourWorld”
Shot fades to a zoom in on a screen with the GGC logo. A cloud says “Day 1!”
A person in an apron sits next to a sign that reads “Custom Post-Gender Lingerie Electric Elastic electriceleastic.com”. The person says as video of people going up and down the escalator and across the con floor plays, “GeekGirlCon is…
inclusive and open and welcoming and safe.”
Footage of scientists talking to children in the #DIYScienceZone “And those are really things that I strive for in what I create and the atmosphere that I want to identify with, so this seems like the perfect place.”
A word bubble reads “And so much more!” As animations appear over footage of people at activities and panels.
The video fades to black and text appears on screen, “#ShareYourWorld Come & Share Your World at GeekGirlCon. Visit us Sunday, November 17, 2019”
#GGC19 #ShareYourWorld
Cosplay at the 1966 Tricon:
Top:Unknown Future-Fashion Costumers
Second:Lois Lavender
Third: Unknown Cosplayer as one of “Mudd’s Women” (again, surprising to see a Star Trek cosplay literally the year the show came out)
Fourth:Don F. Glut as Spider-Man.
Fifth: Paul Turner, Bill Rotsler
Sixth: “Birds,” costumers unknown
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Operation: Damn, He’s Good
TFNation is proud to present another voice acting guest for the 2018 edition, and we roll over to the live-action movie universe and the media that spun out of the Paramount series. Join us in giving a warm welcome to voice actor André Sogliuzzo!
Lending his talents to the character of Sideswipe in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sogliuzzo has also been behind the scenes for the well-received video game Transformers: Devastation, portraying the likes of Scavenger, Thundercracker, and one of the unnamed Seekers found in the game. Most recently, he has featured in the animated series Robots in Disguise, as the voice of Scavenger Clawtrap.
You may also recognise him from a number of other video game franchises, such as Skyrim, Everquest II, and Scarface: The World is Yours. For fans and followers of animated series and cartoons, you will have found Sogliuzzo in G.I. Joe: Renegades (as Major Bludd), Avatar: The Last Airbender (as Hakoda and King Bumi), Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Stuart Little TV series, and will soon be heard in the upcoming Spyro ReignitedTrilogy.
He has also been a regular actor for the Star Wars franchise, appearing as various characters in the Knights of the Old Republic games, and as Commander Cody (and others) in the version of the Star Wars: Clone Wars series directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, plus a number of voices in the recently concluded Star Wars: Rebels.
André Sogliuzzo will be present for all of the TFNation 2018 weekend, signing autographs, available for photo opportunities, and ready to meet fans of Transformers, voice acting, his work, and the franchises he’s been a part of!
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One of my geek culture holy grails, which I have never been able to find online, in an age when I’ve been told anything is available online: when Doctor Who was initially shown in the US on PBS in the late 1970s and early 1980s, they included introductions to each episode by Diana Rigg, filmed in a studio, describing the episode you were about to see. They were very similar to the ones Diana Rigg gave before Inspector Morse or Poirot episodes later on.
Diana Rigg was visibly drunk in them, with the testy, annoyed expression of someone who didn’t want to be there. But either because she was drunk, or didn’t care, or (most likely) given a bad script, her introductory summary of the episode had absolutely no resemblance to the episode you were about to watch. It was like every episode of this era opened with a drunk and annoyed Diana Rigg telling you a strange, rambling, detached story of her own, that was in no way like the episode you were about to see. It wasextraordinary.
One of her more lucid summaries was that the Cybermen were returning to their own home planet of Voga to destroy it before it could be used against them. I suppose that’s…sort of…like the plot of “Revenge of the Cybermen”, in much the same way that taking your friend out for a nice drive is “sort of like” ramming your friend with your car, in that the same three things are there in both stories, but they’re doing different things.
