ComradeNewski

You know, I don't mind anime or cosplay, but I am not a big enough fan to justify MOST of my photos being cosplay photos. I'll continue to take them, but it's getting to the point where I feel like I don't get a chance to do anything unique or creative when it comes to my photography. I mean, today, I was running an Art Auction at Otaku Hobbies during, well, a cosplay gathering. I took photos. Many of which are just damn awesome. Some of them not so much. All of them are here and DA, of course. But, well, several times I just started taking photos of the walls and products because, well, I'm bored with cosplay. I know I can just go out and do

Usually when I post a journal its just brain droppings that go a long way about to talk about something I feel like talking about. Sometimes a major political issue or some sort of influence on "Monster Movies", which I maintain will be just amazing, if I can get past the fact that everyone will end up claiming I stole the idea from "Son of Rambow" or "Super 8." Because anything with Kids making movies is going to be compared to that and not to, well, the real life instances on which its based. Wow. I'm doing it again. Anyway, I'm here to talk about Nezumi Con. Anyway, I was hired as the staff photographer for NezumiCon. Which was great, con

Tomorrow morning, I'll be taking my usual bus through some of the areas hardest hit by the "white flight", areas that were destroyed by real estate agents playing off the fears of idiotic white people. People who wereconvinced to sell cheap and buy expensive suburban homes, all to be safe from the big, black boogeyman. I've talked about this before, how government policies and fear mongering created the high crime ghettos around the Chicago area. I lived several miles west, around 103rd and Kedzie. A few miles east, of course, was Longwood Drive, where the neighborhoods were far more integrated. We lived there for a little bit as well many ye