{"id":62,"date":"2009-09-06T23:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-07-01T00:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:13:51","slug":"another-copsplay-meet-up-and-other-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Another Cosplay Meet-up in Central Park and other events."},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a few more events before NYAF in the city so I decided to drop by them.<\/p>\n

On August 23, 2009 there was the NYC Japan Street fair.\u00a0 I showed up because the NYAF was going to have a booth<\/span> there and have the Maid Cafe members there. Since I’ve met a few of them before at previous events I dropped by to say hi. I only took a few shots because it was way too crowded to stick around. Most of them were shot using the Lensbaby<\/span> Plastic optic.\u00a0 In the photos you’ll see the mass sea of people.\u00a0 I waited and tried twice to stand in the middle of the road\u00a0 while the traffic was being held up.\u00a0 But I kept on almost getting run over by idiot drivers that wanted to run into the 42nd street traffic and they had take the widest turn to get to the right of the road for some dumb reason.\u00a0\u00a0 It really made no sense the road was 3 car lengths wide its not like there was any traffic on the road.
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I also went to a cosplay<\/span> picnic\/meet-up on September 5th<\/span> in Central Park, NYC.\u00a0 I caught wind of the event and did some searching and found it on Facebook<\/span>. (<\/span>Here<\/a> if the event link still works)\u00a0\u00a0 As with<\/span> most cosplayers<\/span> there are a few reliable ones then there are some that do something completely else.\u00a0\u00a0 So the group that met up early waited for a long time and the other half that was supposed to meet never showed or bothered to contact us.\u00a0\u00a0 We started to wander in the park and there was a wedding going on, then moved into the park losing people in the Rambles due to stopages.\u00a0 I heard the Robin and guy dressed as a someone from the Spanish Inquisition were asked to take take pictures with<\/span> the Bride and Groom.\u00a0 By the time we got to the final spot the group split again to see if they could find the other group.\u00a0\u00a0 So I decided to go home and drop equipment weight.\u00a0 When I got back some of people that were coming late came and everyone that went out searching eventually made it back not finding the other group but they picked up more people on the way somehow.\u00a0 Then I had a chance to take some photos. <\/span><\/p>\n

We had a bunch of people drop by.\u00a0\u00a0 One guy stopped confused and asked if\u00a0 there an Anime convention going on.\u00a0 I spotted some old Japanese dude trying to film the group through the bushes.. I just thought it was funny as everyone else that walked buy just came up to take photos.\u00a0 The couple that took pictures with the cosplayers even walked by and one of the girls ran up to give one of the flower girls chocolate pocky.\u00a0 We even had an Inflatable Shark vs Tail object fight going on for awhile then the NYPD drove by with lights flashing on a walkway, we put the fight on hold.\u00a0\u00a0 Turned out to be non-related as they stopped to see what was going on and continued on their merry way.\u00a0 But still it funny seeing the NYPD\u00a0 driving down the road .\u00a0 Oh and the Shark eventually did lose to something as he was permanently deflated.\u00a0 So that was most of the day.\u00a0 Now time to recover from hauling crap all over the park.
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There were a few more events before NYAF in the city so I decided to drop by them. On August 23, 2009 there was the NYC Japan Street fair.\u00a0 I showed up because the NYAF was going to have a booth there and have the Maid Cafe members there. Since … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}