Anime!

This blogger will be checking out the anime costumes at Sakura Con.

This weekend I head on to Sakuracon for the 5th time in my life. I go for the same reason other people take drugs, go to DisneyLand, or see Salvador Dali movies repeatedly. I see things that I wouldn’t normally see in polite society, nor would I want to. I get my creative muscles massaged with the sensory overload of candy-colored images flying by at the speed of light. The kind of inspiration I get from anime conventions is quite unlike what you’ll find in art museums or interpretive dance shows (the irony of which has been hacked up and subjugated for a hilariously inflated art market, but that’s another post altogether). It’s loud, brash, and commercial, but it also tries to be different.