The live action trailer for the new Dragon Age game has been released so fanboys and fangirls can enjoy seeing fan favorite Felicia Day run around in Elven garb kicking demon butt. Told you. 🙂 – Brian
Cosplay
Cosplay
Elfquest . . . fan movie trailer
by Brian David Phillips •
Awesome and a half! A group of web-series actors and actresses have created their own fan imagining of an Elfquest movie and their teaser trailer looks pretty awesome! This is all with Richard and Wendi Pini‘s blessing. Beautiful! Uh, yes, I could actually identify every character shown in that sucker and it’s been a few…
Cosplay
Cosplay Goodness or Cosplay Goofiness?
by Brian David Phillips •
Regular readers here know I love cosplay . . . I take photos and have been going to local cosplay conventions for years and once our daughter was old enough we started carting her along and now my daughter has been an active cosplayer since she was four years old (she’s sixteen now and will…
Cosplay, Interactive Drama
The Big Bad Thyng
by Brian David Phillips •
I just added more players to the cast list of THE BIG BAD THYNG for this weekend . . . there’s still some time to join us for this interactive drama live action roleplaying game costume party pot luck thingie . . . but please contact me soon. See http://www.interactivedramas.info/tbadthyng.htm for complete details. – Brian
3D/VR/AR/360°, Cosplay, Family
3D Cosplay photos for Father’s Day
by Brian David Phillips •
Here we go . . . Father’s Day this year was something special! I am talking about Chinese Father’s Day here in Taiwan for those who don’t know it falls on August 8 as the Chinese pronunciation of 8-8 is a homonym for Father. First, we went to Alibaba Indian Kitchen for lunch and then…
3D/VR/AR/360°, Cosplay, Family
3D Cosplay at NTU
by Brian David Phillips •
The Phillips Clan, Taiwan Branch, headed over to National Taiwan University this weekend. Kaye went early on both Saturday and Sunday so she could meet up with friends while Lorraine and I went later in the day. The Comic World Taiwan comic book convention was in full swing and in Taiwan that means Cosplayers, lots…
3D/VR/AR/360°, Cosplay, Family
A Bunch of Cosplay Photos from Comic World
by Brian David Phillips •
As regular readers of the Life of Brian blog know - https://briandavidphillips.net/ - my family is full of cosplay fannish goodness. My daughter Kaye has been cosplaying since she was four and I've been taking cosplay photos for a bit longer. This past weekend, Comic World was held in Taipei at National Taiwan University. We went on…
Cosplay
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show
by Brian David Phillips •
Because you really need to experience the joy that is the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show in all its Asian glory . . . Having lived in Taiwan for twenty years (yes, I've been on this happy island for two decades), I have been in situations that have felt very close to exactly what Rick…
Cosplay
Games Convention 2007 . . .
. . . Booth Babes Montage
by Brian David Phillips •
Cosplay
Comic World Taiwan 16 . . . cosplay!
by Brian David Phillips •
Last weekend, Aug. 11-12, 2007, the Phillips family headed off to the Comic World Taiwan 16 comic book and cosplay convention held at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Kaye went with friends on both days while Lorraine and I were there just the Saturday. Kaye cosplayed as a character in the manga/anime Reborn and spent…
Cosplay, Interactive Drama
Fancy Frontier 10 . . . cosplay!
by Brian David Phillips •
Last weekend, July 28-29, 2007, the Phillips family headed off to the Fancy Frontier 10 comic book and cosplay convention held at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Kaye cosplayed as a character in the manga/anime Reborn and spent most of the time with a couple of her friends. The friends were supposed to also be…
Cosplay
Girls of Comic Con 2006
by Brian David Phillips •
** Special Student Series, Cosplay, Interactive Drama
Wildest Dreams . . .
. . . coming soon
by Brian David Phillips •
Check out one of the "trailers" for the upcoming performance of Wildest Dreams, the senior graduation play for my students in the English Department at National Chengchi University to be performed Dec. 14 and Dec. 15 at the university (be there!) . . . the play is about a group of friends who play role…
Cosplay
Cosplay this weekend!
by Brian David Phillips •
There is another cosplay event this weekend, Feb. 4-5, at National Taiwan University in Taipei. We are planning on going. Kaye, Susan, and Gareth will once again be dressed as characters from Naruto and I will be using my new 3D rig for the first time at a major cosplay event to see how it…
3D/VR/AR/360°, Cosplay
New 3D Rig goodness . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Well . . . we now have a new rig for digital stereo photography . . . two Sony V3 digital cameras on a twin-rig, external flash with sync, using a LANC Shepherd Pro to control the cameras. Been wanting one of these rigs for some time. Got the LANC Shepherd Pro from Rob Crockett…
Cosplay
Rainy Day Cosplay . . .
. . . Comic World Taiwan 11
by Brian David Phillips •
As previously posted on Forumosa . . . Cosplay and Comic Fandom Convention this weekend at NTU. The weather sucked for the cosplay . . . big time. So, most of the cosplayers went indoors to the CW proper. We ended up not even going the first day but went in the afternoon of the…
Cosplay
Looks like no cosplay for us this weekend.
by Brian David Phillips •
There’s a typhoon pounding the island this weekend. We couldn’t go to the big cosplay event at NTU today as we had guests over for lunch and wiled away the afternoon chatting with them (as one of them will be headin’ stateside for a year, we wanted to get a chance to visit). The typhoon…
Cosplay
Game Show and Cosplay Convention Cuties . . .
. . . fleshbot discovers
by Brian David Phillips •
Looks like fleshbot has discovered cosplay . . . Game Show and Cosplay Convention Cuties . . . lots of photos in the links. Speaking of cosplay, there will be a big one in Taipei this weekend at National Taiwan University . . . hopefully it won’t be too rainy so we can get some…
Cosplay
Cospho Up Commission . . . back online!
by Brian David Phillips •
Good news for folks in Taiwan who are interested in the joys of cosplay! Zordius and his wonderful Cospho Up Commission is back online! He’s using a dynamic page set at http://cospho.dyndns.ws/~zordius which will get you to the site. Hopefully, if enough of us bug him about it, he’ll bring back his English calendar pages…
Cosplay, Fansigns
Hypnotic Hypnotist Fansign . . .
. . . from the Con of the Dragon . . .
. . . with a plethora of fansignish goodness!
by Brian David Phillips •
Some of my hypnotist friends went to DragonCon (Sept. 1-4, 2005) in Atlanta and decided to say hello to me in a vey very special way . . . with a fansign! From left to right Aaron (hypnofocus), David (idav5d, front), Lane (S.LanePierce, rear), and Susan (prismfire). I am told David (my friend and very…
3D/VR/AR/360°, Cosplay
3D titbits . . . er . . . tidbits . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
I LOVE stereoscopic 3D photography and film. Really, I do. Well, here are some bits that I wasn’t expecting to find surfing the great webspace . . . 3D Living Dolls . . . 3D photos and the like of ultra-realistic sex dolls. The Stewardesses . . . a classic pornographic film comes to you…
Cosplay
Cosplay this Weekend!
by Brian David Phillips •
A query via email that’s worth repeating as the info may be of use to others here on our beautiful happy island . . . with personal info removed: Hey Hello to you too. Hi, ___, nice to meet you. 🙂 I came across your website while looking up CosPlay in Taiwan. May I ask…
Cosplay
Cosplay . . .
Comic World Taipei 8
by Brian David Phillips •
Last weekend, the Phillips family along with Gareth and Michael Cheng attended the cosplay at Comic World Taipei 8 held at National Taiwan University. Kaye and her friend Gareth went dressed in Quidditch uniforms from Harry Potter that Lorraine picked up during her Cannes trip this year. Kaye Phillips, Michael Cheng, Lorraine Phillips, and Gareth…
Cosplay
Rumble Roses . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Picked up the PS2 game Rumble Roses . . . a bit of a guy title with hot babes wrestling one another . . . good stuff . . . take a look at the cosplayers at the UK premiere . . . Rumble Roses Premiere . . . even more good stuff.
Cosplay
Cosplay . . . DragonCon 2003
by Brian David Phillips •
Some great DragonCon costumes . . . DragonCon 2003 . . . cosplay!