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(10/29/14 2:14am)
As a veteran cosplayer and convention goer, I've had my fair share of building costumes for myself and others. However, the thought of making a costume, let alone any necessary accessories to pair with it, is daunting for beginners. It is easier to buy it all if you have the money, but what if you don’t? You’re stuck making it. In this article, I'll show you a quick and easy way to approach prop and accessory making.
(04/02/14 9:35pm)
It’s a safe bet that nearly half of EMU’s population has read Marvel or DC comics either growing up, or even today as a college student. Comics are a huge part of our history in America and more than that, the comic industries are among the most popular hobbies of the current generation, cherished by people both young and old. This is especially true now that superhero movies have really taken off.
(02/02/14 8:25pm)
Word association. I say convention, you will probably say or think one of the following: comics, superheroes, weird, costumes, nerd. Or maybe you will assume that all conventions are like Comic Con or a knock off of it, but when I tell you that the majority of the conventions are anime based, you may write me off as a cosplay freak, or you might be genuinely confused.
(01/09/14 12:33am)
Eleven years after “Lilo and Stitch,” Disney gives us another movie about sisters, where the central focus plays upon the relationship between the two girls, rather than remarking on the cliché love story nearly every Disney princess movie adheres to.
(11/17/13 11:23pm)
With the Earth shattering, highly intense, mind blowing action packed film of “The Avengers,” leading up to “Thor 2: The Dark World” you might say that high expectations are set for the sequel of the original “Thor,” as is for any movie sequel.
(11/06/13 11:57pm)
For some, San Diego Comic Con is the convention of all conventions for cosplayers (people who dress up in costumes). But for many, Youmacon 2013, located in Detroit, sparks a higher interest.
(10/06/13 10:30pm)
How do we differentiate between real love and the expectations that society tells us to have about love? Are relationships truly our own or are they hand-crafted, media corrupt, idealistic values that have been taught to us from the moment our cognitive reflexes kicked in and our memory stabilized?
(09/26/13 12:18am)
Remember those coffee shops you always seem to read about in novels? The kind where the character sits and contemplates the meaning of life while sipping on a chai soy latte and listening to the poetry reading taking place in the back of the shop? Café Ollie is that shop.
(09/19/13 12:48am)
“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people too.”