12/4/2011
the opening of Comic and Animation Exhibition at Pier-2 Art center
In Kaohsiung, everyone in the city has a camera–a good camera, in addition to their iPhones! If you put a red dot on a tree and start taking picture with your camera, in a short time everyone with a good camera will follow.We stumbled upon the 2nd annual Cosplay conference at Pier 2 while we were working on a container show and experienced two days of camera clicking.
Cosplay, short for costume play, is a type of role play in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character from manga, anime, comic books, or video games. The rule at this conference is simple, you can snap pictures but you cannot touch cosplayers, and when the time is up you don’t shoot their back or their unprepared poses. In a Cosplay group there is usually one who is involved as a prop carrier, one who does the timing, one who is the photographer, and a couple of close friends. Although the pier is jam packed with people, the atmosphere is more restrained than a mosh pit that happened in a live concert in the States.
Loved this – gives such insight to young, creative expression. Anyone can do this-but, the ones that do it express an individual artistic narrative.