~polidread

hey, look at what my little sister made:

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after months in suspended animation,
i came upon the idea to fill my blogspot site
with well thought-of compositions about
the histories, tutorials and progress pix of my cosplays.

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i would have put that stuff in my LiveJournal account,
but not all of my LJ friends are into cosplaying
so i guess they wont need to read about all that
(and my LJ is connected to my Multiply,
so whatever updates i put on the LJ
is almost automatically reflected on my Multiply -
and the people on my multiply are almost
a totally different bunch from my LJ friends altogether)
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i would also put my techniques tutorials in the filcosplay forums,
but then, threads are constantly changing
and updating in a forum format - so any useful info i leave there
are sooner or later buried under other irrelevant threads
or comments - which, if you think about it,
is just a total waste of a good tutorial.

so it brings me back to my first paragraph:
i hatched the idea of putting what i know regarding
cosplay and costume building in my blogspot.

right now it only contains an introduction not too different from
what this journal entry is trying to explain
(but ive also thrown in some personal historical information
for that legitimate "academic" effect)

but i intend to fill it up in the next few months
with the tutorial i made for Psicom's Cosplay Magazine,

and some in-progress pix of my latest LATEST costume project
as well as revues and autopsies of my older costumes...

so sez Polidread !

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okay, so here's the link to my blogspot...

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PS.
im quite simplistic in the names i pick for when i make these things-
and I've decided to always use "polidread"
so if you want to make an online search for me,
use "polidread and you'll get either me or a brazilian musician"

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have fun!

each dead end wall challenges you to climb over it
to go higher than whre you stand.

may your determination lead you to greater satisfaction in your output !

Kishiko Matsui hopes that with her workshop kids can have fun creating Isekatagami. A mother herself, she also thinks seriously about the environment surrounding children:

“I feel that children nowadays are raised in an overprotected environment. But when you carve, you might sometimes hurt yourself with the scissors or knife. Certainly this isn’t good, but if the kids don’t learn about pain, they won’t understand what taking a risk means. I think that it is an important experience in their growing process,” says Kishiko.

this is an excerpt from
Pingmag . com
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(as if i aint a member of two NWA member organizations......)

so the question was,
"What character are you gonna come as for this event?"

my reply was
"i wont be in costume, I'll just be an innocent bystander"

so i did go as one.

unfortunately, lots of innocent bystanders get hurt in
intergalactic wars between good and evil

and when youre just being quiet on the sidelines - Sith Happens big time.

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by the way, ignore the huge negra tarpaulin behind me.

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"who wants to live forever" the song by Queen, from the Highlander soundtrack.

who wants to live forever when all of your real friends, family, and best associates
have gone away long ago and youre still hanging around,
rumbling tumbling clumsily over this dreary boring earth?

being around forever does make some earthy things boring.
the other immortals you encounter can be fun,
but since theyve been around forever too,
im sure they wont be too exciting coz theyre as jaded as you are.

it could be fun to hang around with them- for a while.
after some time you'll grow sick of them and would eventually tire of their company.
and you'd probably wish you can hack their heads off.

hack their heads off !