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What happens when I dress up

May the 4th 2024

Been a while since I have worn the sandman ; needed to quickly adjust a couple of things including making a new respirator and just to realize I had the …

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Spire Outpost 2023

It took me way to long to find my way to Spire Outpost. Sadly by the time I was able to make it here the Galactic Starcruiser had closed its …

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Tokyo Comic Con 2023

I had to wait 4 years to come back to Tokyo Comic Con and I must say I was both extremely exited to meet the people who helped me so …

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Fan Expo San Fransisco 2023

Part of a research trip, I dropped by SF Fan Expo and I could not have been welcomed better by the 501st team present. It was amazing to meet some …

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Maker Faire 2023

Maker Faire reached out to have the 501st present and asked me if I could make a special booth; something less “printed” more real feel… so I spent about 10 …

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Lego May the 4th – 2023

First time I actually spent May the 4th with the local Garrison, it was a marathon with 4 events back to back in 4 different locations in Shanghai… once upon …

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Celebration London 2023

Celebration is the Mecca for any Star Wars fans – 2020 was cancelled and I could not make it to 2022 since I was still under travel restrictions. I made …

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CCG is Back -2021

It’s been a long while since I had a “significant” troop with the local garrison. Troopers from all over coming together for a weekend. I took the zombie out ( …

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M-A-W back for Christmas 20

It’s been a crazy year, happy I can end it with a charity troop to Help Make-A-Wish- and of course let the wookiee win

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Maker Faire 2020

I was invited to display some of the work and it sounded like a great opportunity to show the other side of the coin— did not troop in costume but …

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Dr.V

My doctoral work rests at the intersection of Fan Culture and Media Studies informed by auto-ethnography and very much Transdisciplinary in nature.

The dissertation highlights the collaborative nature of participation and the increasing tensions it entails. I examine my existing works to assess the evolution of this community, focusing on how social media influences members' experiences and how participation may serve as a form of implicit religion in which online interactions resemble discussions in religious groups, particularly in the dogmatic interpretation of source material.

This emergence of implicit religious structures gives rise to concerning forms of toxicity affecting participants’ experiences.

SciFi-Holic

My life has been a mosaic built from defining moments. The first tiles were laid in the spring of 1980, when I sat in a darkened theater and watched The Empire Strikes Back, and every Wednesday afternoon at my grandmother’s house, lost in the universe of Star Trek.

These experiences weren't just entertainment; they were the philosophical bedrock of my creative career. They were my initiation into the vast expanse of SciFi, a lens through which I now view our current reality.

As we stand at the precipice of what feels like a pivotal crossroad in human evolution, I see the prophecies of those classic screenplays unfolding before us

In a Future Near You

Step into my world: a megacity of nearly 30 million souls stacked into gated towers, humming with a thousand languages that bleed into one another.

Cash is a relic here. My car knows my voice; my digital self shadows my physical one so closely they're nearly indistinguishable.

Every want, every need—conversation, groceries, a meal, a movie—summons itself on demand at any time.

The texture of the physical world has grown thin, almost debatable. Welcome to Shanghai.

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