Ad Astra 2009

Last month myself and a few friends attended Ad Astra 2009, an annual event held in Toronto. This is a three day convention that hosts a mix of professional writers, editors, artists, costumers, scientists, and experts on a variety of subjects within the Science fiction fantasy field. It was allot of fun and the turnout was spectacular, this years guest of honour was author Timothy Zahn, other guests included Joanne Ellen Hanson, David Drake, Kent Burles, Melyssa Ade, Nigel Bennet and Tamora Pierce . I've included a few shot from the even below, I'm sure in the future this will become a regular haunt for us...

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Thats me on the left in the white armor.

Some of our group were dawning thier new costumes for the first time.

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The trooper on the left in this shot is not me, Im the one taking the picture, tough to be in the shot and take it at the same time.

This is our entire group with Timothy Zahn ( the guy not wering a costume) he was a super nice guy. We all had hiim sign our books and stuff.

Toronto Fan Expo 2008

What a great weekend, 50,000 fans perhaps more emerged on the Toronto Convention center for what has become the third largest Con in North America. The Toronto Fan Expo is an event that caters to fans of Science Fiction, Horror, Comics, Japanimation ( Anime ) and Gaming. The annual event was bigger than ever this year and many personalities were in attendance, to name just a few Edward James Olmos, Wes Craven, Jeremy Bulloch, Buzz Aldrin, Sean Astin and Laura Vandervoort. I spend the entire three days in Toronto and it just wasn't enough time to take it all in. I've included a couple of shot above, incidentally the guy dressed as a Stormtrooper is me ( for those of you that are clueless that's the one in white ) yes I'm a big geek, what of it ?!?!. The only negative thing can can say about this event is the prices they charge for food, I paid $11.20 for a small box of Sushi and a coke, a slice of Pizza and a coke would run you about $10.00 bucks. It's comforting to know you don't need a girlfriend to get screwed.

Here's a link to the entire albumn, I took about a hundred shot this is'nt all of them but it's all I had time to upload...

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http://picasaweb.google.com/Lunatic.Entrails/FanExpo2008#