World Class Cosplayer: Omi Gibson

Call Name: Omi Gibson

Status: Cosplay superstar

Real Name: Unknown

Profession: OL in Japan

Most seen as: Metal Gear characters

Also does: Black Lagoon, Justice League, Silent Hill, Transporter, Kill Bill, G.I. Joe, Darkstalkers, Mirrors Edge, Candy Fruit, Mezzo Forte, Death Note, Rumble Roses, Snatcher, Resident Evil, Underworld, Blood+, Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, Tekken, and it goes on and on

Best cinematic vampire get-ups, Pt 1

I have a wierd fetish for the leather-clad ultra-urbane vampire who oozes polish, style, overcoats, and a love of senseless brutal violence, much like the majority of the Russian population. The main issue is that the films that they tend to come from are cult-ish in nature or just didn't do very well at all. But then so is the nature of B-movie concepts with R ratings. Go figure that the formula for bloodsuckers ends up being a monumental moneymaker when its targeted at teenage girls in a movie - natch with low bodycounts, gore and a seeming absence of black leather.

So I include pics here of the best-dressed undead, vamps and a couple of vampire killers who may or may not be vampires themselves.

Like we can't see this one coming

Soon to be at the conventions ね？

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/

Cheap, easy and creepy Japanese Halloween designs

Kakurenbo - or Hide and Seek to Western audiences, is a mainstay on Halloween for the Cartoon Network and rightly so - it's one of the very few authentic horror anime productions ever made. It's about a group of kids in neko (cat masks, usually found in traditional Noh theatre), trussed up in post-modern Road Warrior yukata (summer robe) playing hide and seek (sort of) against wooden, mechanical demons. To lose means to sacrifice your soul to the game (surprise, surprise).

More on it: http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/2005/10/feature/01.php

To throw these costumes together would most likely have to require visiting a Japanese curio shop, most major cities having one. Picking up a yukata would usually be easy. They are usually long but the hemline can be cut. The mask may be tougher, as usually such masks are pre-painted. You may consider doing it the ole paper-mache style if you have the time and inclination. The wigs can be crafted fairly easily enough from regular black straight-hair wigs with enough hair spray or sugar-water does the trick. A dreadlocked wig could also work. The twin brothers' red eyes can be accomplished with some theatrical contact lenses.

Maybe next big thing? Green Lantern Pt 3

We're big into contact lens ideas here, so maybe we'll see these upcoming lens ideas based on the Blackest Night series - eyes that represent what spectrum faction you belong to - green, black, yellow, etc.

Obviously, they'd work best if you had the nifty costume with it, otherwise the context would get lost in translation, but if you're going to splash out for the costume you might as well complete the picture and obscure your humanity completely.