This got me thinking of when I first started Cosplaying. I thought my cosplaying started in 2012, but in all actuality, I really wanted to "dress up" when I was 8-10 years old. I would watch The Rockford Files and Magnum PI and dream of getting some clothes and wear what Jim Rockford and Thomas Magnum wore, but I had not idea that was the first instance of my Cosplaying until a few days when I was thinking about this project. I did do some kind of costuming, but only on Halloween, but what really got me into the Cosplaying scene was a show called Big Brother. The show has people competing for $500,000 and sometimes the houseguests have to wear costumes as a punishment/"reward" from a competition. Ian won the right to wear a dog suit and be a dog for 24 hours. This got me really jealous and really thinking that I really like wearing dog costumes, and costumes in general. (When I get jealous of something, I tend to not watch it, so I still haven't seen the full video til this day. I still haven't seen Wilfred!) To view, skip the cheerleader part and go to second 27 to view the dog portion! After that moment, I started researching costumes, primarily dog costumes, and I found a replica of the one that he wears, and I bought it on the spot. It doesn't fit me anymore, but I have it, so when I can wear it again, I can. I then decided to research more about costuming, and then found the word Gijinka/personification of animals and the word Cosplay and it went off like a rocket. I have a skunk, a rabbit, 2 dog, an Umbreon, a wolf hoodie, a wolf shirt with a tail and a wolf hat with ears, and many other. This past winter, I started my first "human/demon" Cosplay, outside of what I did when I was way younger, and I am currently getting a few other costumes, which are called Kigurumis. I am also now getting into the convention scene. I went to my first convention this past January, and I will be doing my first panel at PokeCon at IUPUI and I will be volunteering my time at Indiana Comic Con before Spring Break. I think that this has a lot of potential for me and I am very excited to continue dressing up and being myself. I want to get into costume acting or voice acting, since I can dress up and my myself. Like stated before, the picture is of 2 sides of me. One is of Matt. I need to have a "human" side for school, work, life, bills, etc... and I have the dog/Cosplayer side. It is a side that I can let loose and be myself. I am able to have fun and let everything go. That is why I dress up!!! I will be in costume during class, but you will have to wait and see which one I will be in. Woof!!!!!! (NOT THE HOODIE!!!)
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I really love it how technology loves to fucking play tricks on you. I had a full 2 long paragraphs about what we talked about in class, including my fears and what the Contour project was about, and when I "updated" it, it said that it posted, but when I looked, only the title was there. I was so angry, I was like, I am gonna vent about my anger towards technology and how sometimes it fucks up. Like Beth did with her anger with the Crow/Woman painting, maybe I should make something that will help my anger come into my work. Sometimes anger and frustration provides the best work someone can do. I am done some great work, with frustration and anger. I took an Illustration class at Ivy Tech and, like I said before, I hate drawing and when I had to do 3-point perspective and do sketching, I was LIVID. I still don't understand 3-point perspective, so I did it with me having to redo it and give up a few times. I got an A in the class.
To comment on what we did in class, before I was rudely interupted , or deleted. I have many common fear like everyone else, dying along/being alone, feeling inadequate, not meeting expectations, failure, etc... We talked about either how to overcome them or let them shine and have your work do even better. Like letting things go and surrender, like what I did for my Illustrator class. I also hated the Contour drawing, but I think having a person, that is my friend, to draw, made it better, as we were giggling throughout it. I did get one picture of myself that will evolve into my identity assignment. Sometimes we all need to rant and it felt good rating over technology, as it has been fucking up on me as of late, so ranting made me feel better. ^_^ I really love it h
The first thing we had to do in class was to close our eyes, open our coloring book to a random page, and we had 2 mins to color it. I broke the rules and I wrote a letter, sort of. I just wrote some things about myself and some random things that came to my mind. Like I said earlier, like a broken letter, I hate drawing/coloring/etc... so I "broke" the rule, but you never said we had to 100% color in it, so my form of coloring is writing in that instance. Breaking rules is sometimes necessary to get our point across or to live our lives.
A form of "coloring" or "drawing", for me, is making videos. Whoever said that I had to actually color with a crayon or a color pencil, I can color or draw my moving my video camera across path I want to tape. It can also be considered "coloring" or "drawing" by editing the video to make pleasing to the eye or
One thing that was said today during class was about feminism and not liking a book for a reason similar to that (I have never read the book, so I am not sure exactly what it is about). I wanted to comment on feminism. I am all for woman pride, and I feel, in my heart of hearts, that woman are stronger mentally, physically, emotionally, and everything else and they can do many things that men can do, even better, but I do feel like feminism should always be about "all about woman" and "woman are the best ever". I feel that we should all live in a society where we are equal. Where we could get any job we want and qualify for, not based on gender. In today's society, I feel like we are heading in the right direction, but I do think that men should feel like they are superior and woman should try to prove themselves. I feel like we should live together in harmony, do what we want (within reason) and how we want and live in equality and not feel like one gender is better than the other. I have been brought up by women, all my life, since I never had a real dad (my real dad died when I was 4 and I never really had a relationship with my stepdad, until really recent: about a year ago), so I have been taught about woman pride and being independent, which we all should be independent and dependent of each other. Why can't we all just get along???
Also, when I said I wanted to create dog ears and a tail for my altered book, I was questioned as to why I wanted to do that and if it relates to the other assignments and if it is a progression in my creative mind. I want to do it because I am a cosplayer and I love dogs. I am not a sewer or a designer of costumes, I mainly buy them, so "making" my own would be an accomplishment, I am assuming it is related to the other assignments, as the other assignments and the altered book involve the 4 "S"s of creativity, and I will always have progression in my creative mindset. I feel like it will be a "transformation, but I don't this will be an over all transformation, as I will improve my creative mindset till I die, so it will be a progression, but only the start of it. I will do what makes me happy and will be something I will think back. I want to do costumed acting or what my Ivy Tech teacher always tells me (guerrilla marketing) , so this will just be a start in career of that. To my altared book, what if I:
1. made dog ears and a tail and cosplay as a dog 2. made a cosplay suit out of the book. 3. made a fun game for people to play. 4. made a reality competition out of it. 5. sang in the shower with it. 6. made a montage video of me ripping each page of it and explain why I hate books. 7. flushed it down the toilet. 8. took it to gaming convention and have each person write in the book, what they favorite thing about the convention is about. 9. make a Pokemon mask out of it. 10. give it a burial at sea. 11. eat a page a day. 12. made a cake out of it. 13. tye dyed it. 14. made a tie out of it. 15. made a laptop out of it. 16. gave each page to someone random and keep a tally of who throws it away. 17. did math problems on each page. 18. made a video of me painting each page. 19. made confetti of it and threw it at a wedding couple, instead of rice. 20. made hearts out of each page and gave it to every woman I saw. 21. made stick men and made a stop motion movie of them. 22. made a toy car out of it. 23. give it to a dog and see what they do with (my dog ate my project). 24. sell it on ebay and make money off of it. 25. give it to my worst enemy. 26. bury it in a time capsule. 27. do a science experiment with it. 28. send it to mars. 29. give it to my mom for mother's day. 30. cover it in eggs. 31. color/doodle all over each page. 32. make a golf game of it. 33. plaster it on my face. 34. tattoo one page on my body (never gonna happen). 35. tie it up in knots. 36. put duck tape all over it. 37. make a collage out of it. 38. make a scrapbook out of it. 39. plaster it onto a balloon. 40. melt it down and make a painting from the residue. 41. make the Survivor or Big Brother logo from pages of the book. 42. make a flipbook of it. 43. jump with it on a trampoline. 44. go to a waterpark with it. 45. take it on a date. 46. put a hole in it and play darts or cornhole. 47. make a video of me reading from it. 48. make a hat out of it. 49. make a limbo bar from it. 50. make a house out of it. 51. made a smoothie out of it. Today we did an exercise that we had to talk to someone that we haven't gotten to know before and it was fascinating. I got to talk to a night woman named Tori/Tory/something like that. She and I had a lot in common, loving dogs, indecisive in making food choices, and hard workers. After we got to know each other, we had to introduce each other in class. I did this in speech class in the spring of 2009, so I understand how and what to do for that. Then we discussed why we did this exercise. I thought we did that exercise, because it helps us talk about each other and to "get outside our comfort zones" or do something that we never done before. This exercise includes that 4 "S's" that we talked about in class, so it was a great exercise for this class. It taught me that I can retain things better than I thought and it helped prove that I am a sort of good listener, which I always thought I wasn't.
We also discussed our doodles. I know I was the only one that hated that assignment, because it bores me. I was never a drawer and never a doodler. I cant retain anything when I draw in class, so I have to focus in class to make sure I understand what is being said. I like to make movies and do cosplaying, so maybe that is my form of doodling. I wish I could be a person that could doodle and like it, but I am me and I will always be me. I can change aspects about myself, but I will always be who I am. I like me, sometimes lol. |
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