In Real Life: Baroness

Baroness (from G.I. Joe) by by Lindze A’la Mode

Wouldn't wearing a uniform in public make it difficult to conceal your affiliation with a known terrorist organization?  Yet another question that never occurred to me as a child.

Video: Gru Interview

"Gru's First Television Appearance!" by TheEllenShow

"The star of the new film "Despicable Me 2" was here for the very first time! It's not every day Ellen interviews a cartoon character in person."

Couple: Alien and Predator

  

Alien and Predator in the Park by Abi T Xeno and Pedro T Pred of Alien Loves Predator

Photographed by Mektography

In Real Life: Runaway Tetris Block

Source: Unique Daily

"Come back! I NEED YOU."

In Real Life: Nathan Fillion steals the Princess

Nathan Fillion Stabbing Link and Stealing Zelda

Source: Imgur via Reddit

Sorry Link, but your Castle is in another Princess.

In Real Life: Life and Loss After the Empire

"Life and Loss After the Empire" by James Stanbridge

Prints available for purchase from the artist. 

"It's a long hard life without a paternal Galactic Empire to give your life meaning and purpose. Dressing up and going to work just isn't the same without battle armour to keep you warm.

 

These are not the jobs we're looking for."

Video: Iron Man at Oxford Street

"Iron Man @ hmv Oxford Street, London" by hmvgetcloser

"Iron Man and War Machine paid a visit to hmv Oxford Street! Friday 22nd October, 2010 - hmv 150 Oxford Street, London."

In Real Life: Comic-Con Candids

"Candid in the Chaos" by Mathieu Young

Good cosplay can be a full-time job, just as exhausting as the role of being an actual superhero, if not more so, since you're more photographed. At last year's San Diego Comic-Con, Young decided to shot a few candid shots of attendees taking a much needed break from the rigors of convention life. His photos reveal the other side of cosplay life.  The side in which cosplayers take much needed breaks to ponder the logistical complexities of a much-needed pee break.

Link Round-Up: February 25, 2013

Just another day at a convention…
Source: ThisFeliciaDay

Q&A interview with cosplayer Angelica Dawn

Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe offers this tutorial on re-creating Aurora's Circlet from 'Once Upon a Time'

Sith Robber Strikes Four 7-Eleven Stores

Star Wars Vader and Mini Troopers Socks for places you just can't cosplay.

Humor: What happens at the Con

What happens at the con stays at the con.

Source: Free-Embodied

Humor: University Gandalf

True story: Gandalf appears at University of Minnesota during exams,
going around telling people ominously “You shall not pass.”

Source: Facebook.com

In Real Life: Superhero Outing

"I know a good dad when I see one"

Source: Imgur via Reddit

In Real Life: At the Arcade

The Daily Dot wrote about a heartwarming story where an Iron Man cosplayer recorded the above message for a boy with down-syndrome. Head there for his reaction and response.

Kids: Spider-Man

Little Spider-Man corners President Obama

Source: Barack Obama Tumblr

A photo sweeping the internet last week shows Obama feigning fright as a child dressed in a Spider-Man costume pretends to ensnare him in a web. The photo, taken by White House photographer Pete Souza, was posted by the president’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.

In Real Life: Snow Trooper

Photographed by Jim Mossey

“Come to the Dark Side,” they said. “It’ll be a blast,” they said.

Link Round-Up: October 30, 2012

The Cleveland Orchestra bass section dressed up as the Avengers

Source: The Intense Humming of Fun

22 Last-Minute DIY Halloween Costumes

Big Bird is getting a lot of press these days. Recently, Buzzfeed revealed Sesame Street Workshop issued a cease and desist order on Yandy.com for selling costumes of “sexy” versions of their characters without permission.

Ever wanted to be the seventh samurai? How about Death from The Seventh Seal? Or Rosemary and/or her baby? This Halloween, Criterion is holding a costume contest.

Medieval Fantasy Beer Helmet

Oswin and the TARDIS

Some Of The Ways A Halloween Costume Can Suck

Tompkins Square’s Annual Halloween Dog Parade

Writer/photographer/cosplayer Molly McIsaac says “Cosplay is Not a Permission Slip” for bad behavior from fellow humans.

The Worst And Weirdest Store-Bought Comics & Games Costumes For Halloween 2012

In Real Life: Engineer DJ

The Engineer at the Prometheus Blu-Ray launch at The Beats Store in New York.

Video: Spider-Man in Poland

Sylwester Adam Wardega (aka “SA Wardega“) dressed up as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and traveled around his hometown of Warsaw, Poland to cause a great deal of mischief for his Spider-Man 2012 video. You can watch Sylwester’s older Spider-Man video below that shows his first attempt at being the Marvel web-slinging hero.

Link Round-Up: September 5, 2012

Bert and Ernie in the flesh (from Sesame Street)

Via: Reddit

Flamethrowers, Fighter Jet Seats Share Wheelchair Users' Personalities

Historians have discovered samurai dog armor. They say it was largely ceremonial.

ModCloth is selling some very Poison Ivy-esque tights.

Steampunk Portraits by Matt Carr

In Real Life: Bane

"Bane" Protests in New York City

Courtesy of United NY, [ Via]

Community activists United NY staged a costumed demonstration in Manhattan on Thursday to protest against Mitt Romney's economic policies on the final evening of the Republican National Convention. The 13-foot Dark Knight Rises villain was at Bain HQ in Manhattan Thursday with labor rights organization United NY to demonstrate against Mitt Romney's economic policies.

The action made more explicit a connection first observed by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh: the homophonic relationship between Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Republican 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and Bane, the Batman villain of DC Comics and The Dark Knight Rises. While Limbaugh's extremely tenuous connection of the two was designed to criticize a perceived liberal bias in the then-unreleased Christopher Nolan film, United NY paired Bane with Bain specifically to compare the fictional villain to Romney's real-life company, which came under heavy fire this week in Matt Taibbi's new Rolling Stone piece "Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital."