I mentioned in the comments earlier that I attended
Awesome Con in Washington, DC on Saturday. I went with
my podcasting colleagues to record our latest episode, focused on technology's impact on entertainment culture. We interviewed several convention-goers, as well as Ming Chen and Bryan Johnson from Kevin Smith's SMODcast network.
It's hard to capture the insane, goofy, good-natured fun of Awesome Con. It was a subculture's joyful yawping celebration of itself. It had speed-dating, took seriously the equality of women, and featured hundreds, if not thousands of people costumed in all manner of fantasy gear - I saw Wolverines, Doctors Who, Lara Crofts (boy, did I), Warios, Wookies, elves, and Spocks, to name a very, very few.
I could've stayed there six hours and not seen half of the incredible sights, but here are a handful of pictures of people being their own damn selves.
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| This was taken at the magical weapons check-in station, a mandatory stop for convention-goers. Really. |
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| This costume wasn't even in the top 100 most incredible getups I saw. |
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| Sulu was there. |
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| Love wins out. |
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I went to high school with the guy on the right.
He's on the Prince William County (VA) Board of Supervisors,
and as sweet-spirited a guy as you'll ever want to meet. |
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