Otaku Fest II day 2

A day late . What can I say I more relaxed post for a more relaxed day such was the second day.

Less people, less heat, less commotion but in a good way .

At Suburbia they were suppose to have Paprika from 1pm to 3 pm . When I got there around 1.30 something was just ending. Either Paprika only lasted 30 min or they skipped it. We got in exchange some Japan’o'rama and ended up staying at the second part of Sakura Project .

At Atelier 35 people were relaxing making paper toys, the kind you got with the 3 issue of Otaku Magazine.

At K G & O G supposedly we had some movies or such . Saw no such thing, however I did noticed that quite a few of the Alien toys were gone, hopefully for the artist, gone in the “sold” meaning. Also the Coplay’ers got the courage to cross the road and migrated to this location as well.

If anyone knows how the cosplay contest turned out, drop me a comment, I’d really like to know who won.

As for the Sakura Project competetion winners *drum roll* :

3rd place:

2nd place:

1st place:

oh, almost forgot… thumbs up for having Aya Kato albums on sale and Atelier 35 and K G & O G

here’s some more pics from day one , check out my photobucket album for more pics and in better quality.

Temari . Finally, a cosplay’er with attitude!

grand exit for out little Sakura, she she jumped off the stage

Our Ken-chan walked on stage to the Stones “Has anybody seen my baby” …no Yachiru cosplaying girl

all of the gang

we also had a girl doing face paint, the hit of the day one was Gaara’s love kanji

one of the workshops at atelier 35

manga at Kollector Gallery

Otaku Fest II — day one

Good Good Good Good!

Much better than I expected.

First of all the locations: all active, all reach able, all full, all freakin’ sauna hot. All the seats in the viewing are at Suburbia were taken by 1 pm, when I got there and the place became just packed when it came to showing AMV’s from the Sakura Project.

Atelier 35 and had an active crowd with all the places at the SideKicks and Pisica Patrata Workshop taken, walls covers with fan art, local creations and such and free drawing area. Also featuring much welcomed ice-tea (5 ron a cup) and trinkets booth.

The shop with the long name ,aka Kollector Gallery and Ollie Gang Shop, featured some odd toys, 3 Wii stations , offered a few managas for sale aaaaaand…. not so cheap but cool clothes .

Tech wise all the projection worked, we had sound…so thumbs up even if they were not my cup of tea (or my style of anime).

As for the AMVs , I still think they are over rated , however some of them where good and the one where they mixed the humor bits in were funny … be it even in that totally wrong way of mixing old Vacanta Mare sketches with anime.

Cosplay cosplay!!! More than a surprising turn out. Just think how many people could have turned up if they would have given us like a month’s notice … . And we got to see most of the cosplay people on stage with music at Suburbia, which was all in all cute.

oh, my vote for the cosplay event got to Mr. Sandal-Hat, Kisuke Urahara and on another side note : cosplay is not for kids, this is not a pageant!!!

The Viusual Arts Workshop was the only thing that went missing however with all the other stuff going on it wasn’t missed too much .

What a delight it was too see the streets covered with anime people :X

Oh , and one for the “to reminisce about in a few year” some police officers dropped by (at least 5-6 of them) inquiring if we are attending and “emo manifestation” ( !?! =)) ) and picking on the organizers and demanding us to clear the road (and by road I mean the are where you can’t get in unless you bribe some one , cause it’s an pedestrian area…but when pedestrians don’t let cars by in the pedestrian area …well the police chases us off —and if it’s not a pedestrian area then someone give me the legal quote so I can freakin’ put my car there).

Did not stick around for the music side of the evening. The 5 hours in sauna type heat got the best of me.

SO thumbs up for day one of Otaku Fest II , will surely attend day II as well. Many thanks to my school mate, 2D for the company and pix.

Pix on this Blog by 2D

Green’est day with Byron

this is a bit short notice but it free and most of all for a really good cause, so here it goes :

Saturday, 17th may , at Piata Revolutiei we’re having “Ziua cea mai verde” and after 5 pm we have Vita de Vie, Sarmalele reci aaaaaaaaand Byron .

So pretty much an eco fest supported by a beer company and with some of the best music around.

Quote : “

Te-ai saturat de blocurile gri si vrei un pic de verde… Iti vine sa vopsesti totul cu vopsea, insa ai decis ca e mai bine sa fie copaci si iarba. Si vrei ca tu, cu mana ta, sa faci ceva pentru ca sa respiri un aer mai curat…

Indiferent daca esti inca la stadiul de intrebare sau deja ai luat decizia de a actiona, locul tau este alaturi de noi pe 17 Mai 2008… ziua pe care noi cei de la Copacul de Hartie impreuna cu Heineken Romania, am decretat-o ca fiind cea mai verde!

E verde pentru ca-i primavara! E verde pentru ca 15 din cele mai importante organizatii care au initiative de mediu iti prezinta proiectele lor. Ai de unde alege! in Piata Revolutiei sunt prezente, incepand cu ora 13, Agentia de Monitorizare a Presei, Asociatia Verzii, Bate Saua, EcoAssist, Clubul EcoTur, Greenpeace, Mai Mult Verde, Terra Ecologica, Terra Mileniul III, Salvati Delta, Salvati Vama Veche, Tasuleasa Social, ViitorPlus, WWF.

Tot pe 17 mai, de la ora 17 iti canta Vita de Vie, Sarmalele reci, Byron si Krypton.

Hai sa-ti inverzesti orasul! “

Be there!

“smart” on-line adverts

So I came back from my guy’s place a few days ago and continued what we were doing there… the watching naruto shippuunded bit that is . How i live in a a part of the world with less internet I stream it…so for the past 3 day i keep staring at the same ad under the video insert:

full size image here

… and it won’t go away…the others change…but noooo,not that one , always there :-S

Ok, so I was in a susceptible state to begin with however after 3 days of watching that ad i fell utterly depressed and am more and more tempted to click it.

Now,as far as I know google and mozilla and all the other evil virtual things have that smart advertising thing and show you ads that might interest you based on your search history and so on and so forth. What have I googled to make them thing I might be looking for a cure for depression? “naruto stream” “otaku festival” “cosplay” ? And if they are that smart they should know someone like me if in a state of depression would not look for a cure! Heck, the idea of being depressed is based on not caring and …it just seems that smart advertising just isn’t all that smart is it?

Otaku Festival II

Seeing how exciting this sounds I’d almost ask for a drumroll with the anounucement that on the 17-18 of may in Bucharest the second edition of the Otaku Festival will take place. However considering the 1 week head’s up promotion the organisers are giving I wouldn’t get so excited just yet.

I mean the festival’s website was launched on the 5th , so less than 2 weeks before the event and when googling “otaku” “festival” “bucharest” and other combinations on the theme you do not come across it. What I did come across was a bunch of blog, news and such anouncing the before mentioned even and most were posted around the first of may.

Allow me to doubt the turnout at the event when I bearly found it and trust me I am on enough newsletters to know from minute one. Good thing the Suburbia people caught it. And seriously, someone on some blog was bitching that they are only 15 cosplayers at the contest. Hello!!!! ya’ only give people 2 weeks notice at best to get together a decent cosplay outfit??? That is so not enough to so scavange for bits in bucharest or to order one of the net!!! And someone’s already enterned Matsumoto!!!

Oh yeah, about the festival. It will happen in 3 locations at once Suburbia Club, Atelier 35 si Kollector Gallery&Ollie Gang Shop(that’s gotta be on heck of store with such a name) . Now this would be the second thing that sends my “failed event” sensors tingling . Judging by KYE which had several activities at the same time in the same place and how those guys bearly pulled it off. Hey, maybe I’ll be wrong

As for the activiries : cosplay, as mentioned before, games, AMV’s and weird music ( no I am not being judgemental but we’re talking about J-goths and game boy beeps ) . Better yet look at it yourselves . I’d post it here but so don’ like the format and am so too lazy to copy it.

Live Snooker Stream

and a good one and it works and sweety found it for me

http://de.eurosport.yahoo.com/

don’t be discouraged it’s in german

Bucharest Quest

On the 17 and 18 of may AEGEE Bucharest is organising an event “out of love ” for the city, as they put it. With sign up until the 9 it apperars to be some Sherlock Holmes wanna be type thing. For all those Private Eye wannabes *looks around* which would be a large crowd if we’d be in Scotland or the US if we switch Sherlock for Dick Tracy.

Targeting young active students with time on their hands *can also be read as bored * promises to take us on a quest to rediscover the old world charm of Bucharest and have fun while doing it, based on the extensive market research studies they have done *also know as: we tried it and liked it so the entire world must do so too *

In fact such tours/expeditions/activities have been going on for some time at the Calea Victoriei Foundation and they were advertised in Time Out.

So, yeah… sounds like a decent way to pass a couple of days ’specially since the AEGEE people mentioned pressies for the winners, since it’s a competition style event.

Despite my tone in this post I genuinely appreciate the idea and am seriously considering participating in it and I do hope they get over ran by requests and will organise other such things.

Or at least do give their website a visit and decide for yourselves .
If you’re into the glory days Bucharest , also on the Calea Victorie Foundation webiste, a list of very cool webistes on the subject.

The Knife

When 3 or more people you know mention the same thing over a short period of time means :
a) you shold expands your circle of aquintances
b) it’s hot hip and/or trendy
c)
case in point the knife… in conection to vdk elisa and itsy.

And this kinda makes me wonder… 3 kinda different people I know like it… does it mean I will evetually?! Seeing atm I kinda really don’t … .

I am eagerly awaiting for someone to explain to me why this band is so popular.

Smashing Pumpkings - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Just the song for now :

how does a bass without a string, upside down and backwards sounds?

…better than others when in the hands on Mr. Jacob Glick of Byron. And we got to see that at the Byron “Clubul Taranului” gig.

I can’t remember how long it’s been since I heard a real call for encore, not just the polite type one, the one all set lists have on to start with. So, yeah… a real one, kicking off with : ( this one goes out to my friend vdk,whom recently discovered Byron and in honour of the best band that never existed Feel Good and other songs.

I find it quite hard to say that they played a cover of something for they have so much of their own style it’s more like a tribute to a band than a cover, in the sense let’s-do-it-to-fill-a-set-list, used by most local bands .

Not much real point to bring praise again to Byron, I’ve stated times before I’m enchanted by them. Even now, after my 3rd gig, I’m at the point of not wanting to go to Funk(-Rock!?) Hotel tomorrow@Fabrica , to not lose the post-Byron gig.

Next Byron, may 3rd @ Vama Veche …enjoy all those that can attend