notes from underground

For anybody who was at Anime Boston this weekend, the “Line-Con” poster is available for download in pdf format! The images are borrowed from Portal, Final Fantasy: Crisis Core, Anime Boston’s mascots themselves, Garth Graham’s Comedity, and Chris Malone’s Blue and Blond:

In all seriousness though, Anime Boston this year ended up being some of the most fun I’ve ever had at cons… Connecticon still holds grand prize for sheer awesome, but the panel I gave at Anime Boston this year on Digital Anime was very well received and the average quality of the panelists, artists and screenings was as high as ever, despite some tremendous lines. Good times, in the end.

These are silly, but fun to come up with:
Maia Pinion

For anybody who’s interested, I now have a more formal portfolio website available at kadamwhite.com. Yeah, a little narcissistic, but it seems like everybody’s got personal pages in their own name these days and far be it from me to deny an overwhelming trend in my target industry!

There is also now a navigation bar link to the site

Dubbed “the new Katamari” by my housemates for its insane visual style, slightly psychotic gameplay and all-consuming soundtrack, Patapon is the main reason I won’t give my friend’s PSP back to him. Penny Arcade made a very good set of arguments against the game, and I agree with all of the points made in their newspost, but as Tycho blogged later on, “I had to play Patapon for quite awhile before I figured out why I didn’t like it, and then I had to be quite sure I didn’t, and then I had to play it some more for some reason I don’t entirely understand.” It’s that kind of game.

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Character names:
Waltham Madak: Young, Debonair, Adventurous
Prosigonia Priety: Proper, Prudish, Scandalized

The most important people at any social event are the tailors and dressmakers. Discuss.