Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02083

On the second day of the Granite State Comicon we hung out at our hotel for the morning because the show did not start until 10am. Luckily we stayed at a place that included breakfast so we had some stuff to enjoy before heading to the con. Today we did a coordinated cosplay. I was Peter B. Parker and Eva was a teenage Mayday Parker. She spent hours styling her wig and Allison spent hours creating her hat. I put together a costume with sweats, a pink robe, spider man shirt and two different shoes. I sort of combined the Peter Parker outfits from the two Spiderverse movies. I did run into a few other people who were wearing the same sort of things. They recognized my costume first. I actually got a few people who recognized my costume yesterday, too. One little boy even stopped us to get our photo.

The first thing we did was go to the exhibit hall and get our photos taken by Nerd Caliber again. I liked yesterday’s photos of me much better. I am not sure I liked this costume as much. It didn’t photograph as well. We got one of the two of us together that I liked.

Photo by Nerd Caliber.

I went to a session in the moving about 3D printing with some very knowledgeable guys. I learned so much about what I have been doing wrong and what I have been doing right in 3D printing and also assembling my prints. It was very informative. Eva caught up with her friends while I did this.

When we caught back up I was in the gaming lounge learning a new game that was in development. It was fun and I think it will be good once it is released. I’ll have to look into picking it up. Eva was able to find one of the game designers that she wanted to talk to all yesterday. She picke dup a single player game that they were selling.

we then got in line to see John Rhys Davies speak. John was Gimli in the Lord of the Rings and Sallah in Indiana Jones. he was fascinating to listen to and would go off on these interesting tangents as he answered each of the moderators questions. There was no time for Audience questions, though because he chewed up the time with each response. But he, has that sort of voice that you could enjoy if he was reading the telephone book.

At this point we were getting tired and hungry so we made one last loop through the con at the hotel and then headed home with a stop at Dave’s Hot chicken on South Willow Street for lunch.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02082

today Eva and I drove up to New Hampshire for the Granite State Comicon. This has been our yearly adventure now for several years. Eva loves to do cosplay and she has a group of friends there that she catches up with each year. I am a big nerd and love pop culture and fun stuff like this so I love to go. also, the show was created by some college friends of mine and I enjoy seeing them every year.

This year we were both in cosplay each day. Day one we did separate things. I was Bobby Singer from the show Supernatural and Eva was Ray from one of the SMPs that she watches. We made sure that we went to Nerd Caliber and got our photos taken there. We do this every year and they always take such great photos. This was good because I hardly took any photos this year.

this was Eva getting her photo taken. Below is the photo that was taken.

Photo by Nerd Caliber.

I also had my photo taken. I like how this one came out.

Photo by Nerd Caliber.

We walked around the show floor and then the artist alley. We checked in at the games place and I attended a panel of two voice actors who voiced Deadpool and Wolverine in the cartoons and animated movies. Eva hung out with her friends while I did this.

after the panel we went and had lunch across the street at Shoppers. We’ve eaten there before and the food is decent. It is also right next to the SNHU center which was were the second part of the Comicon was happening.

we popped in over at the SNHU center and there we ran into my supervisor, Ben and his family. Eva loved talking with Ben’s daughter and she was so full of personality. At the SNHU center there were large 3D printed Robots and that was super cool to see. Maybe something I create in the future, who knows.

After that we ran over to our hotel to check in and get changed. We ran back to the con to see the Costume Contest and there two of Eva’s friends won some major awards. We’re encouraging Eva to enter next year. I think she could win.

To finish off the night we walked over to the Rex Theater because I had gotten us tickets to see The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. The special thing about this was that they got several of the actors and the actress who played April O’Neil to come and speak to the people viewing the movie. We got some great insight into the movie and it made it that much more enjoyable to see. Eva even had a great time watching it.