• Creativity, Originality, and Cheese
• Star Wars Connections
• Behind the Scenes of Lord of the Rings
• Fantasy Full Body Make-up With Liquid Latex
• Klingon Beauty
• Scully 101 (Forensics 101)
• Duel of Etiquette
• Horror in the New Millennium
• The Man with the Golden Wit
• Art Made Weird

Edward Scissorhands resembled a statue as he prepared for his walk across the stage. Optimus Prime climbed into his multi-piece 9-foot costume. Pan danced around in merriment.

The audience was riveted as Daffy proclaimed “I am Duck Dodgers in the Twenty-Fourth-and-a-Half-Century!” But the Masquerade was not fully launched until a brigade of imperial storm troopers and a battalion of rebels marched through the ballroom. C3PO threw off his Jedi cloak in a tantalizing strip tease, and voila, …

Steven Sansweet, fan relations guru for Lucasfilm Ltd., presented Star Wars Connections, a preview of Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones.  Sansweet said that Star Wars II will start connecting Episode I to the original trilogy.  He promised that many fans’ unresolved questions will be answered in Episodes II.

“This movie is going to be … wow.”
—Samuel Jackson
Star Wars II will be about relationships.  Sansweet broke down some of the relationships, and showed how those associations move between the movies.  …

J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings has been loved by millions of people around the world for many years.  Peter Jackson is directing the film adaptations in production now.  The Fellowship of the Ring will be coming to theaters near you on December 19, 2001.  The Two Towers will follow in December 2002, and The Return of the King will premiere in December 2003.  The three films are a joint production of New Line cinema and ThreeFootSix …

Macia and Jocelyn offered their bodies to the demonstration of the applications of Liquid Latex and Airbrush make-up.  They are models for the photofantasies.com artists.  The demonstration was filled to capacity so, it took me several moments before I got into the ongoing demonstration. I caught the question and answer period initially hosted by Dave Ekerle.  He pointed the audience to deviantlatex.com site which he garners his latex.  He recommends 1 qt per person, which is used in three layers …

Dawn?  Ha!  Real beauty was on parade at the 2001 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant.

As a human, I scampered to my seat to avoid the wrath of any of the many mighty Klingon warriors that filled the hall.  Other Terrans surrounded me, but off several isles to my left, the ridges far outnumbered us smooth-heads.

The three judges, Cherelyn Lambeth (Paramount Production supervisor), Autumn Sky Port (Miss Virginia Galaxy, a mere human pageant winner), and Bill Peltier (who was chosen from …

One of the X-Track’s biggest draws, Forensics 101, brings out all the voyeurs of the convention crowd to gather into the darkened room to huddle around a projector to satisfy their morbid curiosity. Dr. Kris Sperry, M.D., showed the audience many of his pictures from one of his previous presentations for Georgia law enforcement, filled with many gruesome photographs to burn into one’s mind.

Each image, complete with personal insight by Dr. Sperry, showed in intense and graphic detail the causes …

There was an open invitation for some serious Jedi fighting taking place at the Hyatt today at 2:30 pm, extended by the Matters of the Force panel.  Well, a few brave souls jumped the hurdles and presented their choreographed Jedi fighting skills on stage in front of a hostile audience.  Before the first lightsaber blow, the heckling and bad sportsmanship began to the tune of ‘boo’.  What a wonderful way to demonstrate your enthusiasm of lightsaber battles.  This panel looks …

Only writers would start a panel with a vocabulary lesson.  Attendees of the panel “Horror in the new Millenium” learned that in modeling, “fessoning” is the art of flipping hair; “apocapee” is when the ‘g’ in song lyrics is dropped (Goin’ to California . . . ); “animorphisis” is the hidden images within a painting that can only be see through rearranging the layout or looking at the picture in the mirror; “crytophasia” is putting together a picture out of …