The Hall of Fire

Umm.... I was not responding specifically to you Vison. I just wanted to elaborate on Nel's point.

There seems to be this misconception among the offended white westerners in question that the countries in question are "theirs" and that the rest of us are here solely by their grace and thanks to their beneficent generosity. (Sidebar: This becomes particularly comical when the white wes...

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I thought I could embed the vid myself, but it does not seem like it. Oh wells. Awww, thanks Prim for saying I have sparkle. :love: I will mention some Japanese historical stuff, so here is a run down on some of the different historical periods that will be mentioned. Heian period 794 AD - 1185 AD S...

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Sunday We checked out before 9 am and we got the free breakfast buffet!! Woot!!! Afterwards, I dropped my friend off at the kimono fashion show dressing area since she volunteered to be a makeup artist. After that I did a little emergency shopping for a fan so I can have a prop for the fashion show ...

Alright after a ton of RL stuff, getting my computer fixed and trying to find my bookmarks again, I am back with part 2 of Saturday. My next panel was the series' Katanagatari (sword story) and Bakemonogatari (ghost story). I wish I did a Skype chat to plan for that panel. We did do email, but a cha...

Saturday In the morning I got a free breakfast courtesy of my roommate. Spent a good amount of time at an overflowing Tim Hortons The first panel I went to was called “how to open a fan like a samurai”. I did not realize there was such a wide ranging history with fans. Even Samurai used fans as weap...

I will let you know once I am finally done, I am still uploaading pictures. Some of the kimono in the display I linked will be in the fashion show, and it's quite interesting how they look different onces things like a sash is added. Also I have to make a screen capture and I have to wait a day or s...

Ok I here is a link to the kimono display for anime north with historical discriptions. It explains a great deal about how technology and sumptuary laws affected kimono. It answers some interesting questions like, womens under kimono are mostly bright red ( like this ) and have flashy patterns . By ...

Hey, just thought I would update, I am still working on the report. Got really busy, and then got in a car accident. (I am ok). I am slowly regaining my equillibrium. Also, photbucket is being difficult with videos. Also I have waiting for another person to upload a vid. But I have been continuously...

Friday I spent the morning hanging out a bit with some friends. Particularly since the breakfast line was very long. During breakfast people were out and about in cosplay and there was a girl in these crazy planked sandals. How did she walk? I think I spent some of my morning blitzing manga. In the ...

Some of my report is going to take a bit longer for my report as Facebook has been difficult when it comes to posting links, so i have to download the pics and put on photobucket. Anyway, since there was a Progressive Conservative party convention, at the same place, Maclean's magazine (kind of like...

Alright I thought I would start out with my report. Thursday My roommates and I arrived on Thursday night and got settled in for the hotel. The hotel told us about a deal where if we checked out before 9 am on Sunday we would get a free breakfast buffet. I said I didn’t believe it would happen since...

Thanks, I am waiting for better pics to go up, before I do a detailed report. I was very very busy and I didn't get a chance to take as many pics as I wanted. Also a photographer is offering to do an official shoot for us next year. I will be using some of his pics in my report. I have a vid, but I ...

I posted a video on my Facebook. I am working on a photo album but I have to crop it. I am still tired and I lost my voice. (I have been reduced to squeaking.) Over all it was really fun and the panels I did, went well. Next year, I will spread my schedule out a little more, and I won't sell at the ...

Just got home from AN, I will do a report later.

Highlights for today, Greg Ayres ( voice actor), is really cool. He really surprised me with his knowledge of Canada. Helen McCarthy is cool. Her panel on European anime fandom was quite informative. I have scored a free breakfast as I helped a roomate sell 61 issues of Shonen Jump and 12 volumes of...