LA Anime Expo 2010- Cosplays and Valve Meet

Pictures I took during my visit to the 2010 Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I actually had a grand total of 273 photos taken, but a big number were repeats of the same thing, or they were of piss poor quality, so to fit my photos into a barely 10 minute video, I had to exclude almost half of what I have.

Some additional notes regarding the slideshow:

1.) This video is made for friends and family who'd like to see what I saw at the convention, so it isn't made to be the best video on Youtube or whatever. Even with the pictures of poor quality removed, many of the photos are still subpar regardless. Also, you may have to pause at certain points if you hope to see a particular photo.

2.) A majority of the pictures featured here are from Day 3 of the convention, where I stayed at the center the longest and had a digital camera ready at hand. Day 2 was consisted of poor shots with 2 disposeable cameras with pitiful flash, so I was not able to take that many of good quality. Day 3 is that of the Valve Meet as well as the Cosplay Masquerade, so it was the day I anticipated the most during the 4 day event. Day 1 has no photos whatsoever (forgot to get a camera), and Day 4 was a very short day where my friend and I arrived late and only stayed for about an hour.

3.) Day 1 and 2, I dressed as a Spy from Team Fortress 2 with an Ellis (from Left4Dead2) paper mask. Day 3 has me as Scout's Mom.

4.) I arrived 20 minutes late at the Valve Meet, so I was only available for the big group photo shoot and singing plus random shoots thereafter. In other websites and youtube photos/videos of the Valve Meet photo shoot with TF2 characters, I'm otherwise absent, with only the other Scout's Mom present in the shoots. What I have in this video makes up most of the remaining half hour of the Valve meet.

For Valve cosplayers singing Portal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gkjSiYWo64


See if you can identify the characters the folks at the convention dressed as :D.


Songs:

--"The Pretender" by Foo Fighters (which was used for the winner of the Action category of the AMV awards) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymFIqODLUak
--"Playing with Danger" from Team Fortress 2
--"Believe" by Folder5 as One Piece's 2nd Opening theme
--"Tetris C Blachly OC Remix" by Charles Blachly (thanks Chris!)

Category:

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[myapps]

im in some of these valve meetup pics. i so want some.

[ImagenAshyun]

@myapps Which ones are you in? :D

[XXLeft4WhateverXX]

EELLLLLLIIIIISSSSSSSSS YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!­!!!! How do u find the cosplay meetings? I know im a girl, but I still Ellis is awsome. Keith is god.

[ImagenAshyun]

@XXLeft4WhateverXX They're usually either advertised or listed online or sometimes spread by word of mouth. I attended the Valve Meet after hearing of it by word of mouth.

[gamerella3476]

@dalemierdaaaaa and there's no homestuck cosplays also >:(

[gamerella3476]

8:19 GOD DAMN IT! WILL PEOPLE STOP STEALING BRO'S GLASSES!

[gamerella3476]

2:18 spy stol3 bro's gl4ss3s! >:(

[MrGames64]

RED vs BLU!!! 2:07

[TWSSMaster]

I need a constantinople assassin uniform... Nothing is permitted everything is true.

Cough cough,

[KaryuBunny]

Oh man the team fortress cosplays were awesome!

[myapps]

@ImagenAshyun im the blue scout and im in a couple of the pics. 3:32 is one of them

[dalemierdaaaaa]

No Touhou cosplay? shame on you guys!

[demoniccheesepuff]

2:03 scouts: we heard there were dispencers, we only came for the dispencers

[rock7642]

yes majoras mask