April Carvelli
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Meet Tracy V. Wilson from HowStuffWorks at C2E2
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Tracy V. Wilson is a guests and panel speaker at this years C2E2. She is a name that you might not be familiar with, but you probably have seen her work.Tracy and her cohost, Holly Frey, will be talking about the history of pizza — where it came from, why it’s become such a junk…
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Real Life Steampunk from the 1800s
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A gun small enough to be worn as a ring, seems like something out of James Bond. Visually, this ring looks like something designed for steampunk. Amazingly, this is a real gun. In the 1800s mechanization and factories where taking the country by storm. It was the Industrial Revolution and everyone wanted a piece of…
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Geek Girl Chicago’s Controversy in the Cosplay World
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There has recently been an article posted on Geek Girl Chicago by one of their writers that has caused significant controversy in the local cosplay community. Unfortunately the article is very one sided as it has been written from the perspective of the victim. There was no third party perspective and the accused was not…
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Phasma will be Back, But is it Worth it?
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It seems that the big Star Wars news at the moment is that the character Captain Phasma, played by Gwendoline Christie will be returning in the next episode. This was a character with a lot of potential, you saw hope in her first few scenes as she follows orders and has her troopers decimate the…
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Daytona2050 – The “Lemon” of Conventions? Part 2
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Sometimes conventions just don’t work out, other times they just screw up. A two-part followup to the earlier Daytona2050 article
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Daytona2050 – The “Lemon” of Conventions? Part 1
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Sometimes conventions just don’t work out, other times they just screw up. A two-part followup to the earlier Daytona2050 article
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Cosplay Spotlight: Robyn Murphy Costumier
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In my random wanderings across the realm of the Internet, I find some stuff that is just scary and some stuff that is absolutely amazing. One of my recent…
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2050 Daytona – Not Living up to Their Promises
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Every convention has their good and bad, but when a con fails to pay their contracts. No matter how much the fans may have enjoyed it, that is a death knell for a convention.
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Doctor Who Fans Invade Chicago at the Annual Chicago Tardis 2015
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While people were out hunting down deals or still laying in turkey induced comas there was a group of dedicated Doctor Who fans in Chicago at the annual Chicago Tardis.
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Cosplay Tutorial – Top of Hordak’s Staff
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Laird C. Dracmor has been known to create some fantastic characters, props and costumes. His latest project is Hordak and he chosen to share part of the process with us as he creates the topper for Hordaks staff.