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Cosplay Portfolio - Light Yagami
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Light Yagami was my very first costume, in 2008. I started cosplaying a bit late in my life, but that's a whole new story. Today, I'm going to tell you everything about Light's Cosplay!
I must confess, before all, that I'm not a Death Note fan. I think the series is alright, but I don't find it anything special. And, as a matter of fact, even though Light (Raito, whatever) is a hot guy, I never wanted to cosplay a hot guy in the first place. So, how did I end up doing this as my first cosplay? The answer is that I used to have a friend. That long lost friend was a harcore fan of Death Note and loved L to bits, maybe in a unhealthy way, maybe not. ;p She wanted to cosplay L very much, VERY, VERY MUCH. And she had not the courage to put on a costume and go to a con by herself. So she hired me and another long lost friend to be L and Misa. At first, I wanted to be Misa, since I did not feel comfortable about crossplaying at the time. But the other friend was a "natural" blonde and, thus, she had to be Misa.
We had strange ideas about cosplay then, maybe I'll talk about them in myYT channel in the future. :p
On any case, we did not look very well at our very first event (not even a con): FUPO - Feitos Um Para o Outro 2008. Nobody took our picture, except for Misa (since she was a hot girl and all) and we were pretty sad that nobody recognized us. The only person that said something was a big guy without cosplay that told us our costumes were wrong (thank you!) and there was this moment in which some weird guy took the L by her hand and took her away from us. We were really scared! Because of that experience, I did not have the heart to cosplay till some years later...
I thought I'd never wear this costume again. I used the wig a couple of times when going out at night (my style sometimes required radical hair changes, hahaha) but never thought about rewearing it. However, in 2013 a new friend decided to make a Misa cosplay, with a different design, and we had this crazy idea of going on stage together! We did it for the first time at Anicomics. It was a crazy event, since I participated in the two competitions with different costumes. Anyway, our first skit together was really fun! I wrote the script and recorded it with my friend Al-Marah, who has a semi-professional studio at home and we rehearsed a lot at Hota-chan's new house. The result was quite amazing! We wanted to do some social criticism on the country's situation of the time and the audience absolutely answered to everything we wished! It was amazing to listen to everyone singing "Kill the Troika!" It is a really fond memory I have from going on cosplay competitions <3 This is the only skit we did together that was recorded, thanks to Hota-chan's friend. The quality of the video is really bad because, according to him, it was so hot and steamy at the auditorium that the lenses got water drops on it. Eeeeew.
This skit was a great success and, even though we did not make our own costumes, we passed on to the contest final! In fact, Light's costume was all store bought, at chinese stores, with some pieces that I already had and others that I borrowed. At the time I did not know how to sew or where to start learning and I thought that it would be ok to wear any kind of costume, if it looked more or less like the character. We all start somewhere, right? ;) In Anicomics competition, you could wear store bought costumes, which was great for us and probably the only reason why we went on the contest: so we could show off our not-handmade costumes! xD Anyway, we went to the final. And on the final we decided that we wanted to make a serious, philosophical and strange skit. I had recently heard a song by a local band called Mão Morta (Dead Hand) that I felt that told the Death Note's story in a very poetic way. So we decided to use the song. Very quickly, so it would be ready on the next day, I made a video with the lyrics (and images from a White Stripes videoclip xD). We went to the con really early and rehearsed at the garden next to it. We probably looked like madwomen to outsiders! xD We made a very simple but, for us, very emotional performance, that involved the Death Note and apples. I felt amazing doing this skit, as if all my terrible feelings were released on stage. And I was really happy that, when I looked at the audience, there were some people next to the stage REALLY enjoying the song and the skit! Thanks guys, you made my day! We ended up not winning nothing, but for us it was a great victory anyway!
Light Yagami was my very first costume, in 2008. I started cosplaying a bit late in my life, but that's a whole new story. Today, I'm going to tell you everything about Light's Cosplay!
I must confess, before all, that I'm not a Death Note fan. I think the series is alright, but I don't find it anything special. And, as a matter of fact, even though Light (Raito, whatever) is a hot guy, I never wanted to cosplay a hot guy in the first place. So, how did I end up doing this as my first cosplay? The answer is that I used to have a friend. That long lost friend was a harcore fan of Death Note and loved L to bits, maybe in a unhealthy way, maybe not. ;p She wanted to cosplay L very much, VERY, VERY MUCH. And she had not the courage to put on a costume and go to a con by herself. So she hired me and another long lost friend to be L and Misa. At first, I wanted to be Misa, since I did not feel comfortable about crossplaying at the time. But the other friend was a "natural" blonde and, thus, she had to be Misa.
We had strange ideas about cosplay then, maybe I'll talk about them in myYT channel in the future. :p
On any case, we did not look very well at our very first event (not even a con): FUPO - Feitos Um Para o Outro 2008. Nobody took our picture, except for Misa (since she was a hot girl and all) and we were pretty sad that nobody recognized us. The only person that said something was a big guy without cosplay that told us our costumes were wrong (thank you!) and there was this moment in which some weird guy took the L by her hand and took her away from us. We were really scared! Because of that experience, I did not have the heart to cosplay till some years later...I thought I'd never wear this costume again. I used the wig a couple of times when going out at night (my style sometimes required radical hair changes, hahaha) but never thought about rewearing it. However, in 2013 a new friend decided to make a Misa cosplay, with a different design, and we had this crazy idea of going on stage together! We did it for the first time at Anicomics. It was a crazy event, since I participated in the two competitions with different costumes. Anyway, our first skit together was really fun! I wrote the script and recorded it with my friend Al-Marah, who has a semi-professional studio at home and we rehearsed a lot at Hota-chan's new house. The result was quite amazing! We wanted to do some social criticism on the country's situation of the time and the audience absolutely answered to everything we wished! It was amazing to listen to everyone singing "Kill the Troika!" It is a really fond memory I have from going on cosplay competitions <3 This is the only skit we did together that was recorded, thanks to Hota-chan's friend. The quality of the video is really bad because, according to him, it was so hot and steamy at the auditorium that the lenses got water drops on it. Eeeeew.
This skit was a great success and, even though we did not make our own costumes, we passed on to the contest final! In fact, Light's costume was all store bought, at chinese stores, with some pieces that I already had and others that I borrowed. At the time I did not know how to sew or where to start learning and I thought that it would be ok to wear any kind of costume, if it looked more or less like the character. We all start somewhere, right? ;) In Anicomics competition, you could wear store bought costumes, which was great for us and probably the only reason why we went on the contest: so we could show off our not-handmade costumes! xD Anyway, we went to the final. And on the final we decided that we wanted to make a serious, philosophical and strange skit. I had recently heard a song by a local band called Mão Morta (Dead Hand) that I felt that told the Death Note's story in a very poetic way. So we decided to use the song. Very quickly, so it would be ready on the next day, I made a video with the lyrics (and images from a White Stripes videoclip xD). We went to the con really early and rehearsed at the garden next to it. We probably looked like madwomen to outsiders! xD We made a very simple but, for us, very emotional performance, that involved the Death Note and apples. I felt amazing doing this skit, as if all my terrible feelings were released on stage. And I was really happy that, when I looked at the audience, there were some people next to the stage REALLY enjoying the song and the skit! Thanks guys, you made my day! We ended up not winning nothing, but for us it was a great victory anyway!
Since this all went so well, me and Hota-chan could not resist to sign up for a skit contest at Anifest 2013. For this skit, we worked together on the script. We decided to make a parody of a comedy show that used to air on national TV in the 90s, called "Herman Enciclopédia". So, the concept here was to sell a Death Note to the audience, demonstrating how it worked. And we demonstrated it by killing off some people we hated at the moment (case in point: the president)! =D We ended up winning the First Place at the contest! There were only two groups competing, though, and we received some negative feedback after this. Actually, people did not laugh as much as we expected, but it was still very fun: using Death Note as a comedy routine is hilarious and we loved it! I could be as silly as I wanted and interpret my own Light Yagami: a silly ass, kind of fabulous, a bit dumb and sarcastic. Not canon at all, but that's my feeling towards the character.
So, in the end, wearing this costume was way more fun than what I expected at first! Me and Hota-chan really had some great moments together and much was thanks to this group cosplay. :)
I don't expect to ever wear it again, to be completely honest. The costume does not fit my big butt anymore and I don't have any more ideas for skits or even for a photoshoot. So, I guess it is time to let it go and sell it. It was nice while it lasted. ^_^
And this is all I wanted you guys to know about my very first costume! Thanks for reading! <3
By : ladyxzeus
InuYasha
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InuYasha
Ikeda Masashi - Sunrise
Anime - 167 Episódios
2000
4 em 10
Este era um anime que me faltava ver, uma grande falha. Tinha ouvido falar tanto dele que até me sentia um pouco mal de nunca o ter visto. E, precisamente por ouvir falar tanto dele, talvez estivesse à espera de uma coisa diferente. Porque isto foram quase duzentos episódios de absolutamente nada.
Kagome (cagou-me) é uma rapariga muito gira e muito fixe que vai parar ao universo de há 500 anos atrás, onde todos estranham o seu uniforme, e onde toma a decisão de salvar o mundo, recolhendo os pedacinhos de uma jóia sagrada. Para isso conta com a ajuda de Inuyasha, um demónio-cão-pessoa-qualquer-coisa, e mais uma série de gente, humana e semi-humana. E, assim, durante tempos sem fim, acompanhamos a viagem destes aventureiros enquanto lutam contra forças do mal, cada vez mais maléficas e cada vez mais fortes mas que, no final, não são assim tão maléficas e até ficam para ajudar.
Fantástico, né?
De resto, os personagens são puros estereótipos sem qualquer tipo de conteúdo, a história é nula de sentido e sofremos as passinhas do Algarve a ver que, como num círculo, volta tudo à vaca fria depois de cada arco terminar. Diz que é um anime com imensos fillers, mas confesso que achei tudo tão mau que nem dei por eles.
A animação é infeliz, se bem que vai melhorando nos episódios finais. Os designs são absurdos e não têm contexto histórico. Os personagens que são animais não se comportam como os animais respectivos (portanto, para quê fazê-los animais?). Enfim, episódio após episódio, um desfile de horrores.
Nem a banda sonora salva, pois é o mais genérico que pode existir.
Portanto, perdoem-me, mas este anime não é para mim. Adeus.
By : ladyxzeus
The Man in the High Castle
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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
1962
Ficção Científica
E quando a ficção científica é ficção mas nos mostra um universo alternativo à nossa realidade, tão plausível como atemorizante? Phipil K. Dick acerta de novo, mostrando-nos como seria viver num universo em que o Eixo venceu a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Exacto: agora quem manda são os nazis e os japoneses.
São várias personagens que se cruzam, cada uma com a sua história, cada uma com as suas dificuldades. Conhecemos a perspectiva das minorias perseguidas, mas também conhecemos a vida da elite japonesa que domina a parte Oeste dos Estados Unidos. Com extremo detalhe, o autor mostra-nos as diferenças essenciais entre a nossa realidade e a vida num mundo dominado por forças que são maléficas, que são instáveis e que constantemente lutam por um poder maior, por uma força superior.
Os personagens vivem acompanhados e, talvez até, atormentados por um livro, o que foi escrito pelo "man in the high castle", livro proibido que conta como seria o mundo ao contrário, o mundo em que os Aliados venceram a guerra. Este livro e o seu significado, associados a uma série de outros elementos místicos e, pode-se dizer, filosóficos, tornam este livro num assustador exercício de conceitos em que se torna difícil de perceber qual o foco da realidade. Será que somos nós, leitores, que somos fantasia?
Restam as dúvidas.
By : ladyxzeus
O Sonho dos Heróis
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O Sonho dos Heróis
Adolfo Bioy Casares
1991
Romance
O outro livro que me foi ofertado pelo Natal :)
Um homem ganha uma avultada soma na corridas de cavalos, que decide gastar levando-se a si e aos amigos a divertir-se pelos três dias de Carnaval. Conhece uma jovem fascinante, vestida de dominó, mas não se recorda, de todo, do final do terceiro dia. Mas acaba por esquecer isso e começa a viver uma vida normal, casando-se, trabalhando... Um dia, após ganhar de novo, decide repetir a aventura. Quais serão as consequências?
Este é um livro curioso, pois fala sobretudo da vida diária destes personagens no meio das duas aventuras. Estas acabam por servir tanto como ponto de partida para a história como conclusão para a vida destas pessoas. Assim, ficamos com uma certa ansiedade ao longo do livro, porque queremos saber o que vai acontecer, mas acabamos por esquecer isso e ficar encantados com a qualidade da escrita do autor, mesmo quando ele fala de coisas perfeitamente banais.
O livro acaba por ser, mais do que um romance ou história de amor, uma análise bastante detalhada da vida diária das pessoas regulares de Buenos Aires. E, por isso, torna-se uma leitura muitíssimo interessante, já que - pelo menos que eu tenha conhecimento - não existem muitos autores deste país traduzidos por aqui.
Vou colocá-lo no BookCrossing a viajar, quem quer ler? :)
By : ladyxzeus
Verão Danado
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Verão Danado
Pedro Cabeleira
2017
Filme
3 em 10
Fomos ver este filme ao cinema aqui ao lado. Confesso que fui para este filme sem nenhuma ideia do que poderia ser. O resultado foi puro ódio.
Quando falamos do cinema português emergente, não será pouco natural que muitos de nós não tenham uma referência evidente. Portanto, este filme surge como uma nova corrente no cinema nacional, que não deve ser ignorada. No entanto, se vamos fazer uma coisa, convém fazê-la como deve ser. E o jovem realizador não o consegue fazer. A culpa não está no valor de produção, não. A culpa está na soberba de se imaginar que as pessoas poderiam ter qualquer tipo de interesse neste tipo de história.
Porque este tipo de história acaba por não ser história nenhum. As imagens do campo e da vida familiar do início são ignoradas para viajarmos até Lisboa, lugar onde um grupo de jovens dedica seus dias e noites a grandes festas e ao consumo exacerbado de drogas, com todas as coisas boas que isso traz à vida. O problema aqui é que o autor aparenta querer mostrar-nos todas as trips que teve e como ele e os amigos se divertem, preferindo uma sucessão de festas e bacanais (nem eu sei onde são estas festas, eu já não devo ter idade) a uma narrativa sólida e baseada no desenvolvimento da personagem.
Existem demasiados elementos que são referidos para depois serem abandonados (a tosse, a namorada, aquele pessoal do início, etc.) e os actores parecem não saber o que é suposto fazer. Não duvidava nada que estivessem realmente todos broados. Nem sequer se dão ao trabalho de disfarçar o facto de que não tinham localizações suficientes para filmar, sendo que muitos dos lugares são reciclados da forma mais evidente possível.
Para ver pessoal broado, prefiro ter eu a broa do que estar no cinema durante duas horas infindáveis a ver uma criançada sem contexto, história ou caracterização a foder a marmita.
By : ladyxzeus
David Bowie - Five Years
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David Bowie - Five Years
Francis Whately
2013
Documentário
6 em 10
Tinha este documentário para ver, no meu computador, desde a sua data de estreia. Isto é para verem o quão eu vejo os filmes que tenho no pc se não forem anime! Ai ai ai!!
Este filme, produzido pela BBC a propósito do lançamento do disco de David Bowie "The Last Day", em 2013, fala-nos de cinco anos muito relevantes na vida do artista e a forma como estes influenciaram todos os seus trabalhos futuros, até culminarem neste (pen)último álbum. Com recurso a palavras do próprio Bowie e muitas imagens de arquivo, mostra-nos o processo criativo por trás de alguns dos seus momentos mais icónicos, também com ajuda das palavras escolhidas de alguns colegas, amigos e colaboradores que o ajudaram a fazer este percurso.
É um documentário que não traz muita coisa de novo, sendo que algumas partes foram evidentemente deixadas de lado e existe muito pouca referência aos abusos e vida pessoal do artista (o que, de certa forma, até é uma coisa boa, pois isso não interessa assim tanto). Mas, para mim, o mais interessante foi mesmo a forma como o filme está editado: de uma forma simples e eficiente, torna as entrevistas e a mistura com as imagens de arquivo numa viagem muito interessante visualmente.
Por isso, acaba por ser um filme muito giro, sobretudo para quem quer saber um bocadinho mais sobre este grande senhor. :)
By : ladyxzeus






