Filed under: Shoes / Clothes | Tags: air jordan, air jordan air force, air jordan IV cement, AJF4 cement
Picked up a new pair of beaters. AJF4 Cement. Not the OG design, but close enough. Don’t have to worry about ruining or creasing 500+ dollar shoes.
Filed under: Shoes / Clothes | Tags: air jordan, air jordan 3 2009 retro, air jordan 3 true blue, air jordan retro, true blue
Picked up the re-release of the Air Jordan 3 True Blues. Suppose to be an Asia only release. I found it online for retail plus shipping. Good retro, seems like it is identical to the OG except of course for the jumpman logo. Now I just need JB/Nike to re-retro the Air Jordan 4 Cement/White and we are good!
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: megan fox, lost, iron man 2, tony stark, olivia munn, slave leia, tron 2, tron legacy, lightbike, san diego, san diego comic con, san diego comic con 2009, comic con 2009
Made my way to attend the SDCC 2009 on Friday and Saturday. From the stats, the attendance soared to about 125,000 people. CRAZY! Too much to talk about. I will outline the biggest highlights for me:
- Megan Fox (promoting Jonah Hex). Got about 3 feet from her. Too many bodyguards
- Olivia Munn (Attack of the Show G4 TV)
- Walt Disney Pictures – CRAZY promotion this year. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, TRON LEGACY!!! AIWL had a traveling prop exhibit. Actual props and sets were viewable at a remote location in SD’s downtown. TRON LEGACY had their awesome promotion with FLYNNs ARCADE at a remote location in SD’s downtown as well. A well setup 80s arcade with working coin ops and 80’s music. At the end, they kick you out through a concept art exhibit and the new Lightbike prop from the new movie! Free tshirts as well. AMAZING!
- Cosplayers! Met the regular usuals that attend all SW events and cons. Miss Christie Marie. She’s a huge Star Wars fan with a custom made Slave Leia costume made for her figure. Thats hot! Check out her youtube video interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_XYTA5SB6A
-LOST – final season and many cast members and the producers showed up to please the fans! I actually camped out on the lawn to get good seats for Hall H on saturday just to see them. DIE HARD. I don’t think I’d ever do this for anything else besides Star Wars.
- IRON MAN 2 – Downey JR, Favereau, Cheadle, and Scarlett Johanssen show up for their panel to promote the new movie for 2010! Exclusive trailer is freaking awesome!!!
Also partied it up at Hard Rock Cafe across the street from the convention center on Friday night. They hosted all the celebs and it was great seeing all of them. I will try to make this an annual event for myself. Cannot wait for the 41st event next year!! Enjoy the very fractional amount of pics I have uploaded :p
Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: 3GS, apple, apple iphone, incase, iphone 3G, iphone 3GS, ipod
Finally updated my phone to the iPhone 3GS. Never had a smartphone before so this is a huge update and upgrade for me. Haven’t had time to put this thing down. Im frequently downloading new applications everyday. I hope I am not going to be rude like all my other friends at the table texting away during a meal or a movie….hahaha.
Also picked up the inCASE slider protector sleeve for the phone. Probably the best case out there for the iPhone right now.
Filed under: Food and Drinks, OTAKU | Tags: droids, R2 Cake, R2 droid cake, R2D2, R2D2 cake, Star Wars
A project collaboration with my 2 cousins and myself on a Star Wars birthday cake. The whole cake is made from scratch. Here are the following steps we took to build our lovable Droid 
Step 1, 7 layers of cake to build the body and dome. Body consists of 2 layers of confetti cake, 2 layers of chocolate cake, and 3 layers of red velvet. Body of cake and frosting made by my talented partners in this project.
Step 2. Attach dome to body of cake
Step 3. Frosting the body of the cake with R2D2 colors of white, grey, and later with blue and gray. Frosting and color matching applied by my talented cousins.
Step 4. Apply details of the R2 unit with frosting by piping. Detailed frosting applied by myself with useful pictures of R2D2 technical details from the web
Step 5. Add additional details with frosting
Step 6. Construct R2’s legs out of rice krispie treats. Treats and base frosting made by my talented cousin. Details piped by myself.
Step 7. Apply leg unit to the body unit. Skewers were used for extra structural rigidity.
Step 8. Apply touch up details and frosting and present!!
Filed under: Movies | Tags: green day, linkin park, megan fox, megatron, michael bay, optimus prime, pat lee, transformers
Transformers, Revenge of the fallen. What the hell did Michael Bay do to tarnish this 80’s cartoon franchise which I grew up with and loved. The first Transformers movie was at least entertaining. Revenge of the Fallen was just total garbage. Not even entertaining. 2 1/2 hours of just huge explosions and tin foil throwing each other around. I think the best part of the movie was the end credits when Linkin Park’s new single cued.
Even Green Day’s single got annoying as they played it about 3-4 times in the movie including the end credits. I cannot wait until somebody comes in and restart the franchise like they did with Batman. Transformers Begins: The Cybertronian Wars
Filed under: Music | Tags: bad, beat it, billy jean, king of pop, michael jackson, moonwalk, moonwalker, thriller
Sudden and shocking. It still hasn’t hit me yet. But as everyone knows, king of pop star Michael Jackson passed. He was my favorite rock idol back in the 80’s. I use to pretend the floor lit up under me like his Billy Jean video. I use to want to do the zombie dance just like Thriller. I still cannot do the Moonwalk correctly. I still remember the 83 Music Awards where he took many awards for Beat It. I had his Thriller VHS video and his MoonWalker VHS video. Still can’t believe it.
RIP Michael Jackson.
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: haruhi, mikuru, nagato, yuki, asahina, suzimiya, anime
Finally, season 2 episode 1 has aired in Japan. After 3 years of waiting, it was well worth it. If you didn’t catch it already, do a search for it on Youtube as there is a good copy floating around with subtitles. Can’t wait for episode 2!
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: fraulen, haruhi suzimiya, melancho, melancholy of haruhi suzimiya, OTAKU, revoltech
Just completed my colection of Fraulen Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya. Mikuru and Yuki came in today. Awesome scuplt and super posable. Cant wait for the second season.
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: revoltech, mighty muggs, haruhi suzimiya, revoltech street fighter, ken, scout trooper, starscream, grimlock, revoltech suzimiya haruhi
All my preorders came in the other day. Good stuff from Mighty Muggs, Revoltech and Figma.
My favorite anime figures came in. One is Haruhi Suzimiya by Revoltech. I remember seeing a demo figure in Harajuku Japan earlier this year and absolutely thought it was probably one of the best ones Revoltech has made for the Fraulen line up
Another Revoltech figure to add is Street Fighter II Ken. He’ll go well with all my other Revoltech Street Fighter figures
Last but not least, Mighty Muggs. Star Wars and Transformers. Really excited about the Scout Trooper and StarScream. They look awesome.
