animemiz’s scribblings..

DJ Ozma inspired...

This is a pretty late entry, but for my memory purposes. Not that it is any shape and form relevant to Japanese culture, unless you count the amount of Asians I saw this year, as well as the occasional anime costume wearing people, then this is one possible activity that adults in New York City do on Halloween that is different from the kiddies going trick or treating.

The Greenwich Halloween Parade is a procession of people in costume walking from Spring Street to a designated area. This is an annual parade that occurs in NYC, that if applied earlier and with good reasoning – then it is a treasure trove of photographs to be taken.

Brain anyone?

This is my first year as press for the venue, so other than feeling some soreness, it is a good practice for night time photography. So other than following the directions of the NYPD, and surrendering a majority of images for press photos, as well as following with a lot of other photographers, and fighting positions for the best poses/shots.. then my memories of Halloween is going to be something like this for the time being. Much like cosplay, I really am not sure if I have the interest to go dress up.

Some costumes that stood out for me

• The Chile miners, people seen the rescue, so what else can people dress up as?
• Bedbugs, yes NYC has an infestation.
• Outlandish costumes such as naked girls, paint girls, padded guys, woman and her tampon, laundry – are quite memorable for me. I didn’t get an image of the woman and her tampon, but yes I can remember it and chuckle.
• A group of Japanese dressed and dancing to DJ Ozma’s Bounce With Me… that is easily one of my favorite moments of the parade. That song while, very very tacky is memorable in being a highly wtf moment on Kohaku a couple of years ago.

Monkey King

A gallery of my images are all available here for print sale or perusal, so these images.. I share are only a snippet of my memories.

Recently I went to the Japan Society’s Cosplay 2.0 event. There was a contest with gift certificates to Kinokuniya as prizes. Before the contest though, there was some time to talk pictures with various cosplayers though. These are some of my favorite shots from that day. For other shots that I took, they are uploaded on my Flickr.

This was a candid shot that I took, I really liked how Haruhi was sitting. Quite pretty and sexy right?

She is one of the members from Team USA, and at times, I like taking pictures from an angle, so this should be a nice pose.

A candid shot of Tomoko-hime.

Rare Pokemon opportunity! Well that’s what I read when I was skimmming my feed today. GameStop is offering Deoxyses, that strange DNA pokemon to consumers. There are two windows of opportunity to gain versions of this pokemon. Stop by any GameStop on June 20th to the 22nd or June 25th to the 27th to get Deoxyses.