New Years Eve on the Thames by the London Eye Dec 31, 2013

[Dec 29, 2013 – Jan 5, 2014, London, UK]

London is my favorite city (as you may have guessed by all the time I visit there). This time, London from the Thames at night – for New Year’s Eve 2013. Here are a bunch of pictures, mostly self-explanatory:


New Year’s Eve 2013 at the London Eye

Later in the week, after New Year’s Eve, my friends, Paula and Douglas, visited from Winenhoe for a (rainy night) tour of London, including Sherlock Holmes Pub by Charring Cross tube station, Waxy O’Connor’s for Caffery’s and then walked to the Parliament building and Big Ben (which is the innards of the clock) in the newly renamed Elizabeth tower.

Chicago TARDIS 2013

[Nov 29, 2013 – Dec 1, 2013, Lombard, IL, , US]

I didn’t take any picture of any of the guests – except Colin Baker, and that was by pure accident. He was walking down the hall and he decided to stop and kiss a Dalek. Luckily I was right there with my camera. I talked to Nicola Bryant for a bit, but sorry, no pics there…

However, I did get a few great costumes. There were waaaay more than I have here, but this is a great sampling…


All of the doctors – from Chicago TARDIS

CONvergence 2013

[July 04-07, 2013 – Minneapolis, MN, US]

Convergence was packed. It was insane. On Thursday, July 4, practically the entire con attendees descended into the hotel. 5000 people in the reg line from 11:00am till about 7:00pm. If you got stuck in the line, average wait time was 4 hours! Of course I skipped the line until is was barren, like around 8pm-ish.

With over over 6500 attendees, the 40 party rooms were crowded. Um, that’s an understatement. People, people, people just everywhere, all in the same place. The con had to make the hallways one-way only because of the massive crowds. People were saying that they need to get a bigger hotel, but I don’t know of any hotel that works as well for all of the nice lined up party rooms. The best costume I saw was Madame Vastra (took her 9 months to complete) and Jenny from Doctor Who. Click on the picture or link to see the rest:


Madame Vastra and Jenny from Doctor Who – Convergence 2013.

The Curse of Too Many Web Sites 2013

“The Curse of Too Many Web Sites” No, it’s not a movie. It’s just that I have too many web sites that need to be constantly updated. But I am working on two animated movies: Dreadnought: Invasion Six at di6movie.com (feature length) and All Your Base LOL at AllYourBaseLOL.com (short film).

The latest is that, I am late on posting more convention pictures. Sorry about that. I have been working on Dreadnought then I switched in mid-stream and working on All Your Base LOL. So the update on that is, as follows. It’s All Your Base LOL first. It will be Flash animation in the style of “Archer”. It will have a fully orchestrated original score. All five parts will be played by known science fiction actors!

More at: AllYourBaseLOL.com. So far the artwork has been completed for 3 of the 5 actors, as follows:

Lizzie Roper as “Operator” in All Your Base LOL:

Claudia Christian as “Mechanic” in All Your Base LOL:

Terry Molly as “CATS” in All Your Base LOL:

Breakfast Run In – Mark Shields 2013

 
 
 

[April 19, 2013, Arlington, VA – USA]

So, I went for coffee with colleagues this morning and bumped into Mark Shields 🙂

My favorite news – from way back when it was “The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour” on PBS with real pros “Gergen and Shields” for commentary. That was cool 🙂


Mark Shields and me