Re: LoGh costume at A-X...
Walter Amos (amos@sedl.org)
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:03:34 -0500 (CDT)
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Jonathon Aaron Collis wrote:
> The LoGH panel got a nice (and short) writeup on fansview.com...sounded
> like it was great!
>
> my question is who made the costume that's seen in the first picture on
> the site (http://www.fansview.com/2000e/070100d.htm) and will you be
> making a "how to.." email like the FPA people have?
Why that is none other than LoGH List maintainer (and AX Karaoke
coordinator) Hank Wong! I didn't know in advance that Hank was doing
this costume or I would have more strongly considered bringing mine as
well. When he showed up he said he was prepared to salute me if I had
been in my costume. :) I got some more detailed photos of the costumes
at this panel, so once I can get them developed and scanned I will post
them on my web page or somewhere. I also took some moderately detailed
notes at the panel Q&A which I will write up as soon as I have time
(right now I am trying to catch up on work plus read all the
accumulated emails since I have been away).
Since some of you may be wondering about my semi-cryptic note before
the con and why I didn't wear my costume, I'll mention the little
"surprise" I planned to announce now. After the panel I spoke briefly
to Mr. Kikukawa about a plan I've been hatching for some time. Next
year the annual World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon") will be
helpd in my hometown, Philadelphia. My ex college roomie is now the
president of the Phialdelphia Science Fiction Society which will be
hosting it and I know 1 or 2 other people in the top staff. Basically
what I want to do is a major promotional push for LoGH at Worldcon, to
begin hooking the literary SF fans into this series to begin spreading
it among their ranks, and to begin building the kind of letter writing
fan base we would need to demand a broadcast of the series on something
like SciFi channel or make a US DVD release feasible (more on this idea
from the panel writeup to come).
My friends are willing to help set up a panel and put LoGH on the con
video schedule, but only if I can obtain OFFICIAL permission from the
rights holders (which would be Tokuma) to show it. It is for this
purpose I wanted to talk to Mr. Kikukawa, and why I didn't wear my
costume (I didn't think it would look good to be discussing setting up
a major promotional push while looking like a crazed fanboy, even if it
is a spectacularly well dressed crazed fanboy ^_~). Mr. Kikukawa said
he couldn't grant full permission himself but advised me on who to try
and contact, and I gave him my address and contact information to pass
along. I also got a little helpful advice on the side from Scott
Frazier on how to break through to Tokuma, which I will need.
Hopefully I can get the permissions I need because I think this may be
one of the best chances we'll get to break LoGH out of the fairly tiny
anime fan circle in which it is currently known.
One hopeful thing for me was that the first half of the video shown at
the AX LGH panel was a LGH background primer and production report,
which is *EXACTLY* the kind of thing I need to be able to quickly
explain the background of the show to people! I am really really
hoping I can get permission to show that at Worldcon, especially since
at the panel it was mentioned that this part of the video probably
wouldn't see any regular video release in Japan (it was a TV special).
FYI for anyone interested in checking out info about the 2001 Worldcon
you can go to this link:
http://www.netaxs.com/~phil2001/
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