Posts tagged Indigo Lantern
Dragon*Con 2010: The Madness!
Sep 13th
Dragon*Con 2010 took place in Atlanta last weekend. During this, my 4th year of attendance, I had a lot of fun as always. But I gotta say, it had a few moments of FAIL that make me kind of leery about the commitments I’m willing to make for next year.
To start with, I will absolutely NOT be pre-registering as I did this year. Through a series of FAIL, I ended up with 2 badges: the one I pre-registered for and never picked up because they wanted me to wait outside for 4+ hours, and the one I paid cash for and had hanging around my neck inside of 10 minutes. Apparently I’m not the only one who thought the wait was completely not worth it and just bought another badge. I have since read that D*C plans to switch to a barcode system for next year that *should* make things run more smoothly, but I’ll believe it works when I see it. I also had a friend there trying to pick up a Press Badge, and what should have been a simple process became a 60 minute ordeal as no one knew exactly where the pick up was, and we ended up going from the Sheraton to the Hyatt and back to the Sheraton before she was actually able to get it.
It would also appear that the con is getting a little too big for its britches. Hotel security went into lock down a couple of times, only allowing people with con badges or room keys to get into the hotel. From what I heard, the Fire Marshall was threatening shut down due to too many people. Though the con is spread out over 4+ hotels, there’s not enough room for everyone! The wall to wall bodies was not fun.
I also heard that there were a NUMBER of sexual harassment and battery issues taking place throughout the course of the weekend. While this didn’t personally happen to me, I have to admit that I didn’t feel safe enough this year to go anywhere by myself. The number of people was not comforting, and the limited number of staff and con security didn’t make me feel entirely ‘secure’.
I won’t even go into the problems of staying in a con hotel. Of course it had amazing benefits, but the elevator situation was just plain annoying. And walking down 18 flights of stairs wasn’t very fun either.
All in all, my complaints aren’t terrible enough to prevent me from going back, and my level of enjoyment was still quite high. So here are a few choice photos from the weekend for your viewing enjoyment!
Building an Indigo Lantern – The Patch
Jul 22nd
One of the greatest challenges I’ve encountered in this project, aside from figuring out what sort of costume to actually wear since I am not built to dress like Indigo-1, has been the lantern patch. On a recent trip to Atlanta, I asked at a large comic shop if they had any of the Lantern Corps patches in stock besides the ones you see everywhere. It was then that I learned that the company who made them released them in 2002 and no more have been released since then. No wonder I couldn’t find what I was looking for!
So, being the crafty person that I am, I decided to try my hand at making my own patch. Everything else is my own interpretation, so why not?
Here is a photo of my first attempt:
Not too shabby, all things considered, but for obvious reasons, I was less than pleased.
This evening I regrouped, after a bit of preparation, and made some major changes to my process. The result was this:
See how much nicer that looks?
And who says you can’t learn anything from being in a sorority in college 
Building an Indigo Lantern
Jul 8th
Admittedly, I’m not all that familiar with the concepts behind the Green Lantern Corps. Last year it was suggested that a group of us get together and do a Lantern Corps group at Dragon*Con 2010. Knowing nothing about it, I said yes!
Admittedly I have begun reading the back story on the Green Lantern, though I’m not all the way through the corps yet, but decided that I wanted to be an Indigo Lantern. Partly because no one else picked it, and partly because compassion is often my greatest weakness.
So my costume is sewn (my very first time following a pattern, thankyouverymuch) and then the challenge started…
how the heck do you build an Indigo Lantern staff?!?
It took me a little while, and a bit of collaboration, to figure out the concept and what would (hopefully) be the best way to build it. So I began with a giant Styrofoam ball and a bamboo pole.
Earlier this week I learned how to use the Dremel and only broke 3 rotary blades as I hollowed out my Styrofoam and shaped the top of my staff. After I attached it to the bamboo pole with glue (though I apparently did NOT use enough glue), I covered the entire surface with Paper Clay because it dries light and would give me something to spray paint that won’t melt.
This is where I’m at so far, waiting for the Paper Clay to dry so I can paint:
Pretty good, eh? Considering it’s my first prop creation ever?
