http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...5242o1_500.jpg
Checkered suit [kind-of-sexy]

(I'll come with up with better themes as time rolls on)

Children playing with Charles Eames toys ; photographed by Allan Grant for LIFE.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...583xo1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...583xo1_400.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...583xo1_500.jpg


[travelinghost.]

"La E in giro"
 

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...9k79o1_500.jpg
La E in giro - mE

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...9k79o1_500.jpg
La E in giro - IEea

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...9k79o1_500.jpg
La E in giro - Amore

all works orchestrated by Nahuel |Bossanostra|

continuing the 'street performer' theme...
 

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...pwi0o1_500.jpg

The 'Mirror Man', as mysterious as he is magical, refracting blinding pain into your eyes, while simultaneously delighting children of all ages, ambles around in Los Angeles in October of 2009 (date of photograph above).

[kurositas.]

PS ... not sure if this structure is related to the (costumed) guy above:

alright, I'm tired of having these links/images just burning a hole into my notes, so I'll post all the examples of 'Superhero cosplay' I have at the moment.
Some are bad, some are good. I don't care to determine which are which. Enjoy.


http://9gag.com/photo/6844_full.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...5vu7o1_500.jpg
Fubiz™ - Jonathan May


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/...47f897e222.jpg
The above is a capture from the Superhero Challenge, which saw runners in
superhero costumes running for charity in Brighton on April 26th, 2008.

http://9gag.com/photo/6960_540.jpg

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...56dc5748_m.jpg
Galeria

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...9q81o1_500.jpg

"celebrity who cosplays": Diora Baird (it's a new feature I don't think will last, but anyway, enjoy it while it does)

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7...dtwitter01.jpg
as a "catgirl" - if you don't know about this very, very niche theme, then good for you.
It's very big in Japan, though.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7...dtwitter04.jpg
snapping a shot of herself as the green-skinned alien in Star Trek (which she somehow was cut out of the story last minute)


[popoholic.]


previous portrayal: Kim Kardashian.

I'm not entirely sure what this is, but my mind says 'children's show'
 

...most likely catered to Japanese tykes

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...5dbb3548_m.jpghttp://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...366f9c10_m.jpg
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...5a951e26_m.jpghttp://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...46b33c47_m.jpg

I dunno if it's cosplay, but it is Kirsten Dunst in a teeny tiny frilly skirt and thigh high stockings, which is close enough for me--
Kirsten Dunst Turning Japanese Music Video : HollywoodGrind : Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors celebrity scandals Hollywood gossip blog

Edit to add pic:
http://www.buzzpatrol.com/wp-content...sten-Dunst.jpg

OMFG!!! It's SILENT E!!!!

and a somewhat new installation
 

...that I've now given a name, "kids who cosplay": Care Bear Baby.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg

How-to create your own, courtesy of Instructables' member, 'scoochmaroo':
“What do you do with a baby-sized Teddy Care Bear?”
“You skin it and make a baby-sized Care Bear Skin Coat, obviously!”

PROTIP: This endeavor becomes eminently less awkward if you actually have a baby for whom to make a baby-sized Care Bear Skin Coat.


[instructables.]

previous portrayal: Kids playing with Charles Eames toys.

Bad Xazy! Bad, bad, BAD!

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...8ifto1_500.jpg

This handout photo provided by Consumers Union, shows the costumed character
'Banker Man' “devouring” actors dressed as tourists on Capitol Hill in Washington,
on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, to advocate for a Senate financial reform bill.
Consumer advocates handed out fliers calling on financial firms to “stop feasting
on consumers with outrageous fees and hidden costs.”
-- (AP Photo/John Harrington, Consumers Union)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...vkibo1_500.jpg
Emperor of Japan Hiro Hito in Disneyland, 1975.

Hirohito 3 [educational.] + [excerpt.]

http://i39.tinypic.com/s2v9jb.jpg
Donald Duck embraces the opportunity to meet Christina Aguilera.

(please do not follow up this post with that other image of the above two together. Not only is it photoshopped, but this is also a safe-to-view-at-your-place-of-leisure-at-work-and-or-around-the-kids-sort-of thread, so that kind of image won't fly.)

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/da.../misa_misa.jpg

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/da...dium/yoko3.jpg

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/da...dium/yoko1.jpg

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/da...um/2h6syrt.jpg

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/sh...&size=big&cat=

http://www.japanforum.com/gallery/data/509/2ryq0ls.jpg

I can't beleive this thread is still stuck on the third page; I'm really slacking.

And thanks, Zeraph, for helping to move it along. You also saved me some effort by posting that second girl (though I have no idea what her character name is).

First one though, is a cosplay of Misa Amane.

- - - - -

might as well post this one

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...lnx8o1_500.png
Vintage Smokey the Bear

and just keeping with that idea, until the next page rolls over...

http://i43.tinypic.com/2i110mq.jpg
Vintage Polar Bear


[buzzfeed.]

I still haven't figured out this character's name, but this is what she is drawn to respresent:

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...d530e1fd_m.jpg
Unbelievably sexy, even for an anime girl.
Post edit: Aparently, the character above is called 'Yoko Littner', hailing from the anime "Gurren Lagann".

More here: "Yoko Anime"

Okay, the chicks in Zeraph's post are stupid crazy hot. Hot pants and thigh high stockings FTW.

I may have to watch Oneechanbara again tonight.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...4fjqo1_500.jpg
【3次微エロ画像】　可愛いコスプレイヤーの画像貼ろう : エロ画像速報

http://i39.tinypic.com/2v2co4p.jpg
【2ch】ニュー速クオリティ:【画像あり】外人のコスプレはなぜ美しすぎるのか


the above is supposed to be a play on Morrigan Aensland, a playable character from the video game title, "Darkstalkers".

essentially, a likeness to her...
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5749/morrigan2.jpg

And Everything Was Alright - short subject
 

http://i46.tinypic.com/wrmc7o.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/254yl2p.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/2mg4n86.jpg

The project "And Everything Was Alright" is a short film directed by duo Robert Kilman
and Safwat Saleem. It tells the beautiful story of a lonely bear as it prepares to travel
in space. Discover in the future.

- Watch the video below -





[fubiz.] + [vimeo.]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw...6f9yo1_500.jpg
by Ryan Nicholson's father.

(almost-) author's comments:

“I wanted to share a project with you that I started over the past month with my father. My dad Larry Nicholson was a commercial photographer in Kansas City for many years and I started working through his archive and posting my weekly findings on a website. As you will see my dad shot a little bit of everything from knights to circus elephants. I thought you might enjoy it.”

http://i50.tinypic.com/vxyglh.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/2rw6pm8.jpg



[rachelhulin.]

kids who cosplay: the mad sientist

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...pwi0o1_500.jpg
by Tax_Ninja

author's comments:
My kid designed his own scientist costume for career day (including the "to do list").
I feel like I've suceeded as a parent.


[reddit.]

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecac.../ironman_1.jpg
http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecac...les/suitup.jpg

Very nice, Vizzini! Somewhat like that "Luke Skywalker on Tauntaun" cosplay, one can't help but wonder how much time, detail, and funds are used in all to create these wearable works of art.

It also reminds me of this portrayal, which I found earlier this week:

http://i50.tinypic.com/1zof1c8.jpg


http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs44/f/20...dorumagi11.jpg
New Transformers Costume 2 by ~orudorumagi11 ; Photography by Dallas Nagata ; seen at Kawaii Kon (which was held on April 10-12, 2009, in Hawaii Convention Center)


[smugmug.]

another fine edition of the theme within the theme...
 

kids who cosplay: Voltron's Princess (if you watched the show, you'd get it)

http://i.imgur.com/VzR1A.jpg

If you are interested, there are photos on how they made it.
Now enjoy the might that is Beast King Go-Lion! (Defender of the Universe).

http://i48.tinypic.com/21alqm8.jpg


previous portrayal: the mad little sientist.


[cartoonleap.]

^^^That's pretty damned adorable.

progression of potential
 

seen at ConnectiCon 2008
- - -
seen at SakuraCon 2008

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3172/...df7b78bb1b.jpg
"Pacman Pauses for Power Pellets" by Narisa

- - -
seen at FAC 2010, in Costa Rica

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...aaNe_Kanda.jpg
Waka Waka by ~KiSaGaaNe-Kanda

author's comments:
The other side of our pacmans. We made them 2 sided so that it could
look blue when pacman chased us and the normal colors when we chased pacman

To celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of Star Wars:
 

I had just realized when I sumbitted the above response that I had not yet featured of what I was referring to (here); allow me to remedy that now, and a pretty good time to do so, too, considering this is the Star Wars Anniversary weekend.

Originally seen HERE

I think it will be almost immediately obvious why I've bothered to link this video:


Wikipedia "Caramelldansen" if you don't get it, but, honestly, can't you just appreciate the girl and the bouncing?

Edit: I have no idea why it's double posting the video and a bunch of random code that I can't seem to edit out...

Edit 2: Thanks Jetee!

Those boobs sure can dance...

If only the song was tolerable.

http://i45.tinypic.com/16k51qf.jpg
(perhaps it's better left unstated whatever the source and reason for this was)

I went this weekend to Anime North in Toronto.
Here's the facebook page.
Without being a member of facebook, you can see thousands of cool cosplay outfits.
Anime North 2010

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/629...busstop7ho.jpg
Cosplay in Japan... (play on My Neighbor Totoro)

.. is either one of two things: beautifully-intricate, or exceptionally-creepy (sometimes a coalescence of both) ;
the sure thing, though, is that, as a whole, they don't half-ass the effort.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs48/f/20..._GoreChick.png
THE Jazz, by ~GoreChick

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...clizo1_500.jpg
A member of Greenpeace dressed as death on horseback rides outside
parliament during a demonstration in Copenhagen [in December of 2009; the Global Summit].


[spokesman.]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...7wfjo1_500.jpg
One, and-a-two, and a three: Bill Murray dressed as Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, and
Buddy Holly at the Crossroads Guitar Show in Chicago this (past) weekend.


[popeater.]

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/7756/91122a09.jpg
Kasumi, aka 'Misty', cosplay


*context

http://i50.tinypic.com/2r7bj94.jpg
Skeletor (+ his mini-minions)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks...vqipo1_500.jpg

relevant quotable (from a woman):
"I wonder if anyone has ever pitched the idea of a horror version of 'Say Anything'…
with a bunch of Lloyd Doblers stalking a girl…actually that still sounds like a awesome love story."

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...64e87ab9_m.jpg
Yes, This Is The Best Final Fantasy VII Cosplay -- kotaku

just in time for Fanservice! Wednesday...

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8348/310eff40s.jpg
I think the above is cosplay using the Sailor Moon series as inspiration.

kids who cosplay: The Princess and the Space Cadet

http://27.media.tumblr.com/qJ3uX5G0P...bgXpKI_400.jpg

previous portrayal: Voltron's Princess

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...f4a3b9f5_m.jpg
ComicCon 08

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...8dpno1_500.jpg
(I find television "cosplay", if it could even be deemed as such, so very rewarding, in its nostalgicness)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/...649717afd8.jpg
Comic-Con 2010 ; as a part of a set, by Port of San Diego.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/340/comiccon.jpg
The Girls of Comic-Con [online gallery]

my favorite of the bunch:

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/855/girl50.jpg

The Justice League

http://i36.tinypic.com/24zg6bq.jpg
Batman is none too amused... that he had to allow The Riddler to join.

{ as seen at Comic-Con '09 in San Diego. Photo by: Zoomia }

Fanservice! Wedsneday feature: (because I've neglected it for a few weeks, and I have five minutes to spare)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6...6f9yo1_500.png
Duo

http://29.media.tumblr.com/pYleFrsZD...2cf7o1_500.jpg
“PON DE LION” on the job

fanservice! Wednesday feature

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx...pavwo1_500.jpg
Sacrificial by `girltripped on deviantART

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...75auo1_400.jpg
Sailor girl (I'm too tired for puns today)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7...ku4po1_500.jpg
as seen at San Diego Comic-Con 2009 - STEAMPUNK

{Photo By: Howie Muzika}

iiiiiiiiiii

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7...6698011213.jpg


photo courtesy of settie's previous link ; as seen at 'Anime North' (2010?)

kids who cosplay (I'm changing the tentative title to 'TYKES'): "precious droids"

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7...583xo1_500.jpg


previously: a high-flying guy, with his rainbow-riding gal

I don't know for certain whom the character is supposed to be, but to just get it done with, I'll guess Rei.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6...ny5ro1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7...navao1_500.jpg
Foreign mascots are not as playful as American ones?

Chad Vader does his best to identify all the cosplayers at Dragon Con.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7...a80do1_500.jpg
42.


{as a part of a gallery on flickr, curated by Appleping, entitled "I Love Panda!"}

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6...iacgo1_500.jpg
"bartering" - the SDCC

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/...7f664cbf_z.jpg
Punisher Girl - Comic Con 2010


{Photo by: Mike Rollerson}

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9...ycuties611.jpg
nvrmnd. [gratuitious girly gallery]

[coedmagazine.]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Homemade TRON costume constructed using faux leather and EL Film strips.

http://i52.tinypic.com/ogf6yu.jpg
Homemade Tetris costumes; Halloween 2010. Photo by: Glen Murphy.

Guy Constructs 13-Foot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Costume
 

http://i55.tinypic.com/29wmlbd.jpg
[asylum.]

http://i55.tinypic.com/spzp0h.jpg
Double Trouble Photo by: Soldatov Vladimir Vadimovitch

"C'mon everyone, do 'The Bender'! This move is called 'The Bender'."
 

Why is this topic so popular (in terms of pageviews) yet no one seeks to make a single solitary comment
about the near hundred dozen (exaggeration) photo portrayals you are bear to witness? Middle?

http://i55.tinypic.com/160afzc.jpg
A couple dressed as characters from the television series Futurama participate in the annual
"Moto Halloween Party 2010" in Cali, Colombia, where motorcycling enthusiasts dress up in
costume and ride around the city to celebrate Halloween. -- (Photo: Jamie Saldarriaga / Reuters)


-- I don't know why I like to torture myself, and put it out there, but somehow, I've learned to forget how to not try.

I view your image threads like works of art. I am a big fan. I especially like your Japanese-themed threads like this one.

I think my praise would be too often and clutter up the great visual show that you put together.

I am on another forum where people are encouranged not to post so people can scroll from picture to picture.

I give thanks for your elucidation, Nepenthes. Perhaps it as so, in the manner you state, though, still... I provide these hundreds of dozens (in combination of all) of portrayals as a starting point to a potential conversation, and if willing, a discussion of its merits / meaning.

I'm just a bit tired of having to provide basic opening questions in the vein of 'what does this mean to you?', but I guess this is the preferred way in how others exchange pleasantries.

- - - - -

back to our show...
http://i55.tinypic.com/2ujgzmx.jpg
Bayonetta (video game character) cosplay promotion; as seen at Otakon 2010.

{Photo by LJinto.}


MORE

har har, bender ^^

Again, another link [to an expansive girly gallery]: Hot Halloween Girls

... and again, it's probably a month, or four, later than I initially wished to post it.


If you are still subscribed to this topic, then by all means, Enjoy.
(and perhaps give me an idea of what you might like to see in the future, leaving all sarcasm aside?)


-- and for what it's worth, this one photo was my favorite. Yours?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb...s2woo1_500.jpg
Gatos Brasileiras (Catgirls)

http://i54.tinypic.com/qqo7yp.jpg
This was Kim Kardashian's most recent Halloween costume.
(for Heidi Klum's annual Boo Bash.)


*previously

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...el9oo1_500.jpg
Steampunk Star Wars Cosplay is Cooler Than it Should Be | Unreality


-- (to note: the above is a take on intergalactic bounty hunter extraordinaire, Boba Fett)

Dead or Alive: Lei Fang

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_BirvUCzeN8s/Sv...nknown_038.png

From Cosplay holic Cosplay Holic: November 2009

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf...e9j4o1_500.jpg
Discovering a Digital Love based in Reality Imagination.


[TheGuardian.]

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...ane_Pencil.jpg
Power Girl

I have little inkling of what this character's name is, or what's her story, but she does seem to be popular in Japan, as well as longstanding (re: retro).
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3...takuunite2.jpg
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+ BONUS

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...m4kwo1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...5e6ao1_400.jpg
WF会場にて。任天堂の科学力は世界一 on Twitpic

http://i55.tinypic.com/oh1coi.jpg
"Mrs. Mia Wallace" -- Model: Dixie -- Photography: (Studio) RetroAtelier


[Girls and Guns]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Cosplay enthusiast Jenn (*XtremeJenn) abseils off a 165-foot waterfall in
Victoria, Australia dressed as Lara Croft. -- (Photo: ~Charbuul)


[kotaku.]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...v9zpo1_500.jpg
Wonder Woman - Cosplay (hand-sewn!) by Emmy aka "Athena" aka FairyPorchQueen
{as displayed at London Film and Comic Con 2010.}


-- (personal commentary: the gallery of the event is awesome.)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li...at6to1_500.jpg
Late(r): The Hungry Baby Bunny


-- (to note: The above kawaii model reminds me of a Nozomi Sasaki-type, though I can't say for certain that it is her. The "peace" sign, though, slants the scale to be more likely than not, a Japanese promotional photoset.)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj...so1_r1_500.jpg
Miss Martyne Woods, of Choctaw descent, represents a tribal “princess.”
She was chosen as Miss Oklahoma in the 1940 Beauty Contest.


-- Printed in National Geographic, March 1941

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...0cbe4eaa_m.jpg
"Baby Panda" - Halloween 2010.


-- (to note: as a part of the almost-forgotten Cosplay TYKES theme sub-listing.)

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk...hez5o1_500.jpg
Robin vs. Mr. T @ Boston Comic Con, 2011

attached commentary: (from:)
Since the allergy season has gotten the better of me during this period of post-con
recuperation, I’ll post my Boston Comic Con recap once I’m feeling better.

Until then, please enjoy this photo of me destroying Mr. T.

snipped and stickied
 

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk...b9cho1_500.jpg
Make Believers cosplay powers, activate! Alexa as Supergirl, Ming as Thor.


{as seen at Boston Comic-Con, 2011.}

http://i53.tinypic.com/2mrtbw2.jpg
El fuerte vs Juri Han by Jose Manchado (Madrid)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk...oo1_r1_500.jpg
Drew Barrymore - Photography by Mark Seliger

I just started getting into this whole scene myself. My first cosplay was Lupin III. I plan on making a Kikuchiyo, from Samurai 7 here soon, gonna start the plans and crap. I will post images when I break my posting cherry, the one that prevents me from posting pics.

---------- Post added at 04:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:29 AM ----------

Oh, and it looks like SSJTWIZTA pulls off a great Lupin III, his avatar is a pic of it, green coat though...