comic con 2007

i haven't blog lately, and there's so much to put down. here's a extra long blog.

day one

otto took this nice pic on our way to comic con thurs night. i was driving. after driving this car for 5 years, it's about time i put some memories in it. i also decided to finally name my car, charlene (simpsons reference to bart's putter)

Homer: What are you doing!  That putter is to you what a baseball bat is
to a baseball player!  What a violin is... to the... the guy that...
the violin guy!  Now c'mon!  Give your putter a name.
Bart:  What?
Homer: C'mon, give it a name.
Bart:  Mister Putter.
Homer: Doh..  You wanna try a little harder son?  C'mon give it a girl's
name.
Bart:  Mom.
Homer: Your putters name is Charlene!
Bart:  Why?
Homer: It just is, that's why!  Now this, is a picture of your enemy,
Todd Flanders.  Every day, I want you to spend fifteen minutes
staring at it.  And concentrating on how much you hate him, and how
glorious it will be when you and Charlene annihilate him!
Bart:  Who's Charlene?
Homer: I'll show you who Charlene is!  Now start hating!
Bart:  Grrrrrrrr... rrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

with a missing radio we had to resort to my shuffle attached to mini speakers

daniel was gracious enough to provide us with a place to stay over night and what do we garvey people do best?

hit up the bars

otto picked some good tunes and got the people at the bar singing along

this the crazy drunk white guy is matt, matt from bakersfield. he's visiting his bro in sd. matt walked over and started talking to us and buying us shots, but couldn't remember any of our names. matt's a funny guy.

i forgot to pack otto's confirmation papers so after drinks daniel sneaked us into the sd lab at midnight.

so after stealing some secrets in the lab we decided to print the papers.

check out this vintage dell dimension with altec lansing speakers.

day two

it was amazing when we finally found parking and got in. the entire 2nd floor was dedicated to merchants. i was like a kid in a candy toy store. i'm sorry if i seem giddy.

this life-sized bart qee was at the toy2r booth.

customized bart qees

there's a gorilla in there, king kong reference i guess, one of my favorites.

another favorite, bboy bart

i was mysteriously drawn to the square onix



these ff figures were so cool, but most of them were either too expensive or sold out =(

mach 5, and speed racer coming to theaters soon.

vintage batmobile. OOOOOO...


munky king booth?

nice hand painted resin figure, but not worth the 35 bucks.



the tokidoki booth was packed with swarming people trying to get their hands on some merchandise.

new cardboy series cartridges. how cool is that? cmyk!

crazy huge munny made out of chalk board material and encouraged to be drawn on.

nike+transformers? yeah it's as cool as it sounds.


cool, but damn expensive...

kidrobot booth.


complete set of mongers series 2. $6 each and 125 for a case of 24 (set not guaranteed)

there's the man himself, kozik signing 80 dollar boxes. he looks like a dick, but man i like his work.



cartoony star wars figures nicely done.

this one is for scott.



this is a kickass life sized model of some old explorer. vintage but with a futuristic spin. 60s pulp?


rebok+voltron

gotta give the legend bruce lee some lens time.

simple but i would pay to get that.

smoking break on the balcony.




pleasant surprise. sgt slaughter signing autographs at the gi joe booth! old school wwf!

they're coming back. futurama

who can forget mating season dr. zoidberg?


after comic con we headed over to the vtn show and this was a shot of a downtown sd apartment complex. much different from the ones in rosemead. no homies or crackheads to be found.

when we got there he was working on this

and before long he was done. very nice.
[edit]

ottom6n (7:29:43 PM): yo the guy painting the bear his name is touma

ottom6n (7:29:47 PM): touma @ work

the dj was mixing some great 80s and early 90s music. a little of mj a little bbv very nice stuff. but it was hot as hell in there. this was the best tasting bottled of cold water i've had.

after the 3 1/2 hour drive back home what better way to conclude the trip than to eat out with the homies asian style?

that's it for this post. keep an eye out for pic on the vinyl art i picked up. ^_^