So I finally got around to uploading my photos from the New York Comic Con 2009 on Flickr. It's taken so long because I couldn't get a dedicated weekend to spend the time necessary to go through them all, but with this weekend's stormy weather, up they went.

Anyway, you can see the entire set here:
http://tinyurl.com/nycc09

To give you an idea of the reason it took so long, for two straight days...
- I went through and converted all the pictures from RAW to JPG, adjusting the images as needed before converting
- Then I added my signature frame and copyright tag to all of them
- Then once that was completed I went through image by image and deleted any I didn't like or that were too blurry or had other problems (down to 512 from a little over 600).
- Then I batch uploaded them to Flickr on private settings (only I can see them) which took two tries as the first batch had a problem and quit after 230 were uploaded. Total upload time was something like 15-20 hours (flickr uploadr is SLOW! but nessecary) as the batch was something like 2.9 gigs worth of photos.
- Once everything was all on Flickr I created a set for them and organized them in the set
- I then went through and added a first layer of tags that were universal to all the pictures (New York Comic Con 2009 etc)
- I then went through and did a second layer of tags for any pictures featuring Cosplayers and one for panels
- I then enetered a third layer going picture by picture, sometimes in small batches adding specific tags and descriptions for each photo's contents (i.e. naming characters, panelists, people, places etc.)
- After all this was done, I removed the privacy option and added them to the global flickr area so anyone could view them

In other words it was a pain in the butt and took literally all of Saturday and Sunday to do, during which time my internet was slowed to such a crawl that anything bandwith intensive like some Call of Duty on xbox, was out of the question. (The good news is I finally finished Lost: Via Domus {what an ending!} and started up Bioshock again).

And here are just a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

 

OMG! I cannot believe that I found this. Many who know me, know that throughout time I've ranted about some very random things. One major movie rant I've always talked about is a movie called the Peanut Butter Solution. It is by far the craziest movie I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot. Most people don't believe it exists when I tell them about it. That's also because no one in their right mind has ever seen it.

My understanding is that it was a Canadian made family horror/comedy movie. It released in 1985 and features music by Celine Dion. You see? Already frickin wierd.

Anyway, the movie is about a kid, who upon going into a burned down haunted mansion catches an illness (or something like one) called, "The Fright", which causes all his hair to fall out. This is remedied though when a pair of homeless ghosts teach him how to make a magic formula called, "The Peanut Butter Solution". This will make his hair grow back, but he is instructed to not use too much peanut butter or else it will have negative effects.

Sure enough he uses too much and his hair grows at a crazy, fast, never ending pace. It is also magic hair, as we eventually find out, as his evil art teacher from school captures all the children in the town and forces them to make hundreds of paintbrushes every day from his hair. Which also, I should point out, allows the painter using said brush to paint anything in their imagination, and you can then walk into the painting! WTF!?

The story is resolved in the end when some friends of the kid trick the evil art teacher into walking into a painting of the same haunted mansion from the beginning where he sees "The Fright" and loses all his hair, which saves the main kid somehow. The end.

Amazing right? I don't know what inspired me finding this, or who the amazing soul is that took actual real life time to convert this masterpiece of nonsense over to a digital format. But here it is, in all it's glory, the entire 90 minute movie, "The Peanut Butter Solution". Enjoy.