Dub FX

I had to look up what his real name was Benjamin Stanford (DUB FX) from Australia who started as a regular street preformer. After joining a band he eventually struck out solo and moving to Europe.

His magic comes from an effects petals, beat boxing, live looping of his own voice and singing. <3 His sound is made from his soul making it organic but giving it the touch of synthetics that we all love and crave. We also cannot forget his Flower Fairy (his fiancee) you could see how much she loves him and creates even more energy on stage singing and dancing.

It was at the Empire which I haven't been to since they changed the name and renovated the venue.

 The line up to get into the venue was mighty slow even though it seemed organized, there was only two people searching everyone coming into the show. If they weren't so thorough people would have gotten through faster. They even checked the inside of my wallet! After we made it in you were free to come and go with ease. There are a couple of the things that I have to make note of which I have already started telling people was that I love the fact that there a fans pointing the dance floor. It was so well ventilated I didn't feel like I was going to over heat once. On the other side of the coin though water was $4.50 I don't even want to know how much an alcoholic drink would burn my wallet. The videos that I did get of him on stage were not of the best quality so I will find one via youtube.

Love me or not by Dub FX ( My favourite)

 

He sang "What I got" <3 enff said.

If you ever get a chance to see DUB FX, DO IT. You will be happy that you did.

Animethon 18

Today I headed down to Animethon to catch the costume contest but in the end I didn't make it in since I am currently trying to keep all my paper nuggets in the bank.

So instead wandered about inside, outside, upstairs, back downstairs taking pictures of wonderful costumes. In turn I learned a lot about my own self criticizing self about my art. Whilst meandering through 'Artists Alley' I found that every vendor had someone drawing amazing art. Something that I think I should really be focusing on if I ever want to sell my art form within an actual community of enthusiasts. In the past I have passed through hundreds of genres of art and never really picking a particular genre to send me energy towards. Now making all my art very atypical. Leaving my ego a little broken knowing that I could be drawing something along the lines of that stature. Instead I am not. Enough whining onto the wonderful photos.

 Vash, Kakashi Hatake
, Dynasty Warrior and many more appeared.

There were many things to see besides the costumes and vendors. Animethon has an extensive list of popular animes playing in many of the classrooms on the big screen. Speeches, improv, cosplay, dances, performances, Photoshop tutorials and even Japanese classes. There were even events into the later part of the evening about 1am. I didn't think that it was going to be so expensive 170 for an x-pass but that is three days of fan-bubbling excitement of never ending fun.

Through out the after I ran into a number of famous celebrities come to live, what a great time we live in when it is okay to bring animated characters into the real world. Live action for the win.

The Power Rangers even showed up!

Soul Eater.

As you can see Vash the stampede socializing with everyone.With musical legends and voice over actors/resses there was lots to converse about on top of that there were many panels of awesomeness.

Lelouch Lamperouge and Suzaku Kururugi

Darth Vader talking to the rangers, I think he wants them to come to the dark side.

So to end the afternoon off we watched the game 'Red Rover' where they would call out the characters of the name instead of their real name since everyone's seen it list is so diverse they can pull this game off with little to no introductions.