Comic Con… how to train your dragon…

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No, that isn’t someone in a costume, that is a life-sized dragon… that you could sit on and have your picture taken…

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And then this guy climbed on, while I was taking pictures of the dragon…

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And I have to say, he had fun with it.

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Oh yeah, I have another picture of these guys and gals… for the next post… which will be the last post before the posts where I saw famous people!

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I asked some people to pose for me.

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But I’m sort of shy.

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So sometimes, I just took pictures of people while they were posing for other people.

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But it all worked out.

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And I had a great time.

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And met some really interesting people.

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Okay, that isn’t a person in a costume… but still… baby Groot!

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And I think this is the McJustice League… or something like that.

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Comic Con… awwwwwwwwwwwwwww…

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That was by far the cutest person I saw in a costume that day.

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It was a family affair… sort of… I mean, mom seemed to be opting out of the whole costume thing…

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But I met a cute baby, so, whatever.

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This was one of the more awesome costumes I saw.

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That robot was totally walking all on its own… with just a little help from a tech support guy.

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And the Oscar for best use of swim fins in a robot scene goes to…

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But seriously… cool…

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I call that one: Thinking about upgrading our helmets.

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Gratuitous Wookie selfie!

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Ummm… I don’t know if a pretty dress and some rubber ears even classifies as a costume… but what the heck.

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No… she wasn’t actually wearing those wings. They were attached to the wall. A photo op spot. But she was standing there… so… what the heck, right?

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If that robot had started to move, that guy would have pooped his pants. Okay, we really are getting to the end of this Comic Con thing. One or two more posts about the people, and then, a few posts of the famous people I saw, and how you can see famous people if you ever go to this thing.

 

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Alexander Hamilton… my name is Alexander Hamilton…

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Well no, my name isn’t Alexander Hamilton. It’s a line from one of the songs of the play. I know I have been talking about the play for a while, and now it all comes down to this… one post… well, except for that one photo I posted last night.

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A lot of the hype is due to the fact that I went to Comic Con in San Diego exactly one week before I went to see Hamilton in San Francisco. You have no idea how hard it is to get tickets for either one of these events. I don’t have tons of photos from yesterday. I took these with my cell phone. This was like a big event, and I was focusing on that.

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We walked by this dragon.. which looks sort of like a pig to me… in front of the Asian Art Gallery.

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Which is located very near the City Hall building, which is supposed to be one of the more beautiful city hall buildings, if you are into comparing the beauty of city hall buildings.

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If you don’t know anything about Hamilton, it is fairly controversial.

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Not only do they have African American and Latino American actors playing the founding fathers… you can see how maybe a black George Washington might upset some kinds of pea-brained people… but it is a musical… which features rap music. In fact, there isn’t any actual dialogue in the play. It is all rap music. And it is so cleverly written and well-performed, that it will blow your mind.

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Mollie and her boyfriend have been listening to the sound track for quite a while now. They can sing along with all the lyrics to the whole play. This is why this is so brilliant. Most kids don’t care about history. But if you put it to rap music…

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The Orpheum Theater is very nice.

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The inside is stunning.

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It’s got a crazy ceiling.

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Anyway, a bunch of friends and family got together, and we saw a play. We ate food. We walked around San Francisco.

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And it was a pretty awesome day,, but the rest, I am keeping for myself.

 

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Hamilton was awesome!!!

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But I am really tired… and a little drunk… so I will share that adventure tomorrow.

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Yes, it’s another post of random photos of Comic Con… Yay!

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Ummmm…???

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Okay, now it makes sense.

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He had to have a volunteer walking ahead of him. That is a cool costume.

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Stream-punk coffin backpack… with umbrella… and candles?

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I didn’t buy a single souvenir… not even a T-shirt or hat… let alone a cool coat.

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I didn’t but a single work of art, either… or a comic book.

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I wish I could have bought the life-sized X-wing.

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That would look pretty awesome hanging in my living room.

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I know, we have already seen Taco Belle, but he was having so much fun, it just makes me smile.

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Okay, gotta get ready to drive over to San Francisco and see Hamilton!

 

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It’s Hamilton day!!!… and no, I have no idea what the picture has to do with it either…

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But I had to put something in there.

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Comic Con… I am Groot… and stuff…

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Yup.

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Some of the well-costumed people literally spend all day doing nothing but photo ops.

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Old school Doctor Who.

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Let’s play ‘spot the flaming skull guy!’

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Comic Con attracts a lot of people, some of whom just hang around outside.

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Lipstick, check. ID, check. Love potion, check.

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Like I said earlier.

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One last photo of zombie lady.

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Um… a guy made a sign… and believe me, it is worse on the other side… and all he does is follow the religious zealots… with their own signs… around, yelling… uh… counter arguments to the zealot’s point of view. Make of this what you will.

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Comic Con really is in a lovely spot.

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I want that… for driving through Southern California traffic.

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We really are getting near the end of the Comic Con posts… I swear…

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Comic Con… meet the press… (with special guest appearance by a big-name celebrity)… and tips on how to spot famous people among the hordes…

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No, that isn’t a costume, it is a steady cam… which brings me to my first celebrity spotting tip for Comic Con… follow media camera crews. Those crews cost a lot of money per hour, and they generally don’t send them out just for laughs. They know where the famous people are going to be.

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I had fun watching this guy set up his gear. It took a while.

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Okay, this tip will not pan out every single time you try it. They do interview random people in costumes between their big assignments. But I did get to see my second favorite wheel chair-based costume.

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You don’t often get to see a dwarf getting ready to interview a wizard. You know what they say: “Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.”

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That dwarf was not actually that short… he was on his knees… but you have to applaud his dedication.

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A random, poorly-taken selfie, that made it into this post because of the TV interview of two Wookies in the background.

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Yes, that is Steven Spielberg. I saw him. I am saving the real posts about celebrities for the end of my Comic Con posts, but this one leads to my best tip for seeing famous people.

Keep checking the stages set up on the exhibition hall floor for D C Comics, Marvel Comics, and any big name studio that does movies and television. That is where the action is. When I do the last posts… with all the famous people… I will tell you how to take advantage of this tip.

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Okay, I don’t think he is famous… he seems too worried about the placement of the boom mic.

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This guy might even have his own show… but I don’t know who he is, so let’s move on.

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I like that picture because it is out of focus… except for the phone in the foreground… which seems to be focused just fine.

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I don’t even remember what was going on here, or who the people are, but there are female bagpipers in kilts… and a big video camera… so… yeah…

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Does anybody recognize the guy sitting down in the grey shirt… or the girl sitting next to him?

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The cast of the TV show Supergirl. This is the kind of media frenzy you are looking for if you want to spot famous people.

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I have better pictures of them… which I will share… when I give you my best celebrity spotting tips… with the best pictures to back up my claim.

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Comic Con… Deadpool was there…

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See, I told you.

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He was also here… my favorite part of that photos is the creepy clown in the background…

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And here… I like the blue Crocks.

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Sponge Bob and Patrick were there.

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And so was… uh… this guy.

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This was by far my favorite wheel chair costume.

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Well you knew there was going to be a Game Of Thrones group photo op after the Star Wars group photo op.

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I have a sneaking suspicion that the guy dressed as a dire wolf is less interested in Game Of Thrones than he is in meeting women also dressed up in furry costumes. Just a hunch.

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Most realistic warship costume ever!

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And I even spotted Afro Samurai… yes, that is a real thing.

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The lights of San Francisco…

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This is why I stayed up there, in my favorite spot in the hills above Berkeley, for so long, and why you ended up having to look at all those sunset and fountain pictures… (I had to do something while I was waiting for the sun to go down)…

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I wanted to try taking some pictures with my tripod. Pictures of the city lights, from far away, with the big telephoto lens. And I learned something.

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As you can see from this shot of Oakland, even with a tripod, camera shake is still a factor.

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And it gets noticeably worse when I zoom all the way in. I don’t know if it is the wind, or my hand pushing the button to trigger the shutter, or because it isn’t a very expensive tripod.

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But it works pretty well if I am not zoomed in too far.

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Or on things that aren’t quite so far away, like this shot of the U C Berkeley campus.

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But I had fun up there. I love that place.

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I know, I am sneaking in a few sunrise pictures that I took as I sped back to San Diego, to go to Comic Con.

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Yes, I took them while I was driving.

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Yes, I know I shouldn’t do that.

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Yes, I will try to be careful when I do it again.

 

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