Reid Harris Cooper

Yay for King Con!

2009-11-08T03:12:17Z

First Day of Broolyn's KING CON was amazing. Brilliant, exciting, chaotic. Tons of people came through, the panels were all wonderful, there's some amazing new books and just some fantastic folks.

Many photos, many sketches, my comics and some toys and stickers and buttons.

Looking forward to tomorrow and then finally do real reporting.

It's now 10 PM. I have had dinner and I now exhausted. Lying down, watching the rest of Strikeforce, then sleep.

Fight Fans!!!!!

2009-11-08T02:38:18Z

Watching Strikeforce on CBS. Can't believe the opener was Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva vs. Fabricio Werdum. Card also has Jason Miller vs. Jake Shields and of course main event Brett Rogers vs. FEDOR.

This is a crazy awesome card!

Not sure I agree with Werdum beating Silva, but Silva actually looked like he was pleased with the result.

There's one fight on here between two guys I've never heard of.

They just taslked and I also can't understand a word they said. They were speaking English. They need translators.

Super excited for Miller vs. Shields, personality and sex appeal from both!

Heading to the King Con Comics Attention

2009-11-07T13:07:53Z

Don't have much time here, as I just finished breakfast (pancakes, bacon, fruit) and need to get dressed and out of here, but quick notes.

Last night was a Pre-Event for the Con where they showed off the Act-I-Vate Experience flick (soon available on their website). It was a fun and social time and good times for all. I took a few shots even, so those are forth coming.

I'm helping out at the con, starting with registration. If you live in NYC and are doing nothing this weekend, come on down (or up if you live in Lower Brooklyn).

Specials heads up to radiumhead and dferguson (because they're right there in Brooklyn)

KING CON
Brooklyn's First BIG Comics Con
The Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
R train to Union Street is easiest, but you can get there from other trains
Guests Inclue: Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, Al Jaffee, Neal Adams, Peter Kuper, Rick Parker, almost all of Act-I-Vate and many more
$7 daily/$10 weekend
Tons of Panels and Signings... no overlap!
Check the website!

Low on business cards and out of that paper stock

2009-11-06T21:45:54Z

I don't have time for the whole manilla and glue deal... so I'm using my postal stickers to make business cards.

I feel kind silly about it, but not totally. I mean someone can slap it somewhere and never lose it. Like say the cover of their business card holder.

Right?

I Love The Internet!!!!

2009-11-06T21:22:12Z

Direct from Korea!

Korean Versions of
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
RENT
and
Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Best collection I found is by fox6355.

This is beyond awesome. Most of the stuff is actually from full stage productions, but there's also this rock band on TV version.

Constantine does Wicked Little Town

2009-11-06T21:09:28Z

Posting just cause...

Watch Instantly Netflix Reccomendation

2009-11-06T20:57:09Z

The Specials is available to watch right there on your computer/PS3/XBox 360... whatevers!

Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden Church, Jamie Kennedy, Judy Greer, Paget Brewster, Melissa Joan Hart, Jordan Ladd with small cameos from Taryn Manning, Chase Masterson, and Jenna Fischer.

Written by James Gunn.

Super heroes, super hilarity. Totally worth your Hour and 20 minutes.

I never thought I wanna go to Michigan (not just Detroit)

2009-11-06T05:09:30Z

A recent episode of RITA ROCKS, a very fun sitcom on Lifetime starring Rita Wilson, Richard Rucolo and Tisha Campbell-Martin ended with images of a small tour of America.

It showed the Largest stove in the world, The Uniroyal Tire, and a HUGE Beer Bottle. The beer bottle is located in Gaylord, Michigan. Gaylord has a big bottle neck? Oh come on!

There's also this hotel/bed & breakfast in Idaho that looks like a Beagle.

One day I will somehow do a tour of America to all the weirdest things... basically a Roadside America trip.

A Discussion and Photo Essay on the Smile of Reid

2009-11-06T04:42:30Z

Photos of me smiling or looking jovial are few and far between. Especially photos I take of myself or when I know the button the camera is about to be snapped. I actually will feel a mild bit on my pain in my left cheek if I smile too wide, as if there was nerve damage. It's been an issue for a long time. Almost every self portrait or even photo of me by someone else I look stoic and serious or at best in terms of a smile, I'll smirk.

photo description for visually impaired: various small images of my face in different points in my life from age 17-24 or so

It's not that I don't want to smile. As a kid I'd smile big and bright. I was happy, I loved life and I would show it. A big smile, a hearty laugh. I was just one of those kids.

photo description: a photo of me as a little kid, smiling wide and happy

Truthfully though I don't like my imperfect gapped teeth. Between the age of 10 and 25 or so I had my front gap bonded even.

photo description: professional modeling photo of me at around 16 with a nice tight smile

I only had that bonding removed because it had become yellow. By that point I'd come to accept my mouth and didn't want to get braces or redo a bonding every 10-15 years, so I decided to just stick with it. I've become comfortable with over the years. I can caught smiling, usually best when caught off guard.

photo description: me from around a year and half ago with a huge smile at an art show, not looking at the camera

I'll look at that and not look at the imperfections of my mouth. I just see a guy who was obviously in a great mood at that moment and really enjoying life.

I'll say though, smiles on other people make me much happier. I have some friends with amazing smiles, toothy, glorious smiles, some with perfect teeth, some with over bites, some with underbites, irregular teeth, gaps, it runs the gamut, but I love seeing their smiles.

As much as I love those smiles though? The best smile in the world is this one!

photo description: three different photos of my dog Domino Gavin Spinner Demon Dominick Cooper smiling.

Fight Fans: Brock has Mono

2009-11-05T22:25:10Z

So, it seems now UFC 108: Carwin vs, Lesnar won't be happening.

Brock Lesnar has mono.

Now how the hell did the 32 year old Brock get mono?

Either "Sable" (yes, Brock is married to and has a kid with the former Rena Mero) has some explaining to do or Brock has been in some weird places.

CSI (Original Recipe with a Burned Fish Twist) fans as well as Adventure Games Fans heads up

2009-11-05T21:00:40Z

I just finished playing out the newest CSI game from Tell Tale Games and Ubisoft, CSI: DEADLY INTENT.

It's throughly enjoyable experience and you like gaming, I highly recommend just getting the PC or Wii version.

For those who just love CSI but don't want to have to play the games, you should be aware that the entire cast is featured in this. Brass, Stokes, Sanders, Dr. Al, two of the women. Langham is the only one missing it seems.

Knowing that, here is a link to Youtube walkthroughs of the entire games 5 episodes. It'll be like watching CGI episodes of the show!

In which I piss off 70% of my Friend's List

2009-11-05T20:49:46Z

I hate all Professional Baseball as a whole.

It is a stupid, needlessly dumb game. It an invention of utter idiocy.

Hit a ball and runs in a triangle circle.

If someone catches your hit ball before you run around, no points.

It's just a dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb (infinity dumb) game.

I hate it.

I also hate the Yankees cause we spend NYC tax dollars on them.

F--- that!

There's not even a cool job in baseball for someone like me.

Announcer? Sure...

I'd be a horrible announcer.

"And here we are, he has the wooden stick and he swings it at the ball looking thing and he misses it. That is what? A strike right? Where'd these words come from? Where are the cheerleaders??!" At least basketball and football have cheerleaders! This game sucks! and it's a line drive to middle as Whathisname catches the ball and throws it to Whoever, passes it to Idontknow a front plate. Coach Uhhh calls for a time out and here comes Foggadeaboutit to replace Thatotherguy."

Camera Repair Update

2009-11-05T19:51:03Z

They don't have the parts in stock. They gotta mail my camera out to Nikon to get it fixed. Sigh. Kodak and HP this weekend it is. I really was hoping to have my Nikon. Oh well...

5 Point Margin Win?!!?

2009-11-04T05:10:39Z

I hope that the fact that he only won by 5 Point Margin it tells him something.

His victory speech doesn't sound like he gives two damns about the people who didn't vote for him though, we'll see...

*sigh*

Things I want to see in this city:

Gay Marriage Legalized
Marijuana Law reform (as reformed as many states)
Graffiti Law reform
REAL money funnels to create jobs and economic efficiency
Corrected public transportation
Less Concern and Government money spent on things like Baseball stadiums
Not wasting anyone's time and money on a stupid victory parade (seriously, just cancel that Mike... unless GWAR or something like that is going to perform. David Johanssen, David Blaine magic act...something like that... something truly NYC...something Native... Unlike him. He's a Bostonite!)

Yeah... I just want to love NYC more, not start to hate it.

Rambling done... probably.

Fricking Flagging Flabbingbast

2009-11-04T05:04:06Z

I don't care about safety!

What is crime?!?

You call NYC crime free?

Do you mean weed? Do you mean quality graffiti?

Cause last I checked? Murder and Rape are still pretty freaking high!

oooh... 1 million trees...

Ooohh... small businesses create jobs? That's been disproved.

Offer Foreigners ESL?

Arghhh....

Oh wow... and bad Spanish too?

"If you think you've seen progress..."

Well, what if I don't think I've seen de-progress? My city that I love quickly being killed by a rich fool who has no clue what makes NYC awesome.

I think its time to really figuring out how to move. How? Where? Who? When? How? Not sure... but I'm really wondering if this is the right city for me still.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe my city won't die... but we'll see.

You know I want to be wrong. I want to be proved wrong.

Come on NYC... prove me wrong!

Camera Pricing and Estimate

2009-11-03T20:23:23Z

For those wondering... it's costing me $88.19 to repair the camera.

I'm hoping they can get it done by Friday/early Saturday at the latest.

Based on the damage I felt it better to have them just do the work than see if the warranty will cover it, the damage was more than just simply a lens error, the top where the on/off button was open a bit too, like seperated.

So there's that.

Fight Fans: Paul Dangerously talks Lesnar's sickness

2009-11-03T18:28:00Z

If you follow MMA and/or UFC you know current UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has had to drop out of a scheduled fight with Shane "The Engineer" Carwin because he hasn't been able to properly train at all for almost two months.

Well, Brock's former mouth piece Paul E. Dangerously wrote a blog about it.

For those who don't know Paul E., he's one of the most established managers in pro-wrestling. When Brock was in then called WWF, Paul E. "managed' "The Next Big Thing" and then 'betrayed' him... only to later manage him again. Anyways... it's a good blog, but of course it is, Paul is a good writer. There's never been anything to deny there.

Sharing some NYC Street Art

2009-11-03T17:09:42Z

Grass Rooster
Originally uploaded by Reid Harris Cooper.

This might be the work of an artist by the name of Edina Tokodi.

I only question it as she works in Brooklyn it seems mostly and this was in an isolated corner in the area currently known as Midtown South on the island of Manhattan.

Either ways, it's awesome!

This Day in History

2009-11-03T04:11:44Z

After an uneventual waste of going to a location for help on some paperwork, where they were not doing the paperwork help yet I went to the city. Wow, that was a bad sentence. Okay, let's try this again? I went to a place who sent out a flier saying they'd help you complete government paperwork so that I can "milk the system" (as I'm privileged to) while trying to figure out my financial bearings. Well, this place said they sent the flier out prematurely. Seriously? Prematurely? I've had the flier for over a month and half and got lazy! What's THEIR excuse? Anyways... headed into the city.

I'm relying on my less liked camera, a slightly broken Cannon that's only 7 MP, has no flash and uses Double A batteries instead of an ION battery. The nice little magical powerful Nikon is now at the shop. I'll call tomorrow after 1 PM to know how much it'll cost me. I forgot to bring my paperwork with me, I'm hoping that there can be so retroactive relay on that after the estimate is done, as I have my warranties at easy access (so unsure what made me forget them... oh wait I remember, all the paperwork I had for the thing in paragraph 1).

I headed over to Barnes N Nobles for a bit, didn't buy anything but saw tons of stuff I wanted. Went to Academy after that and I picked up a 25th Anniversary edition of THE LAST STARFIGHTER for less than $10 (cheaper than even Amazon). Then I headed over to Adorama and spent way more money than planned, but got needed stuff. An external card reader that is insanely fast, a new battery charger and eneloops (I think my charger was shot), two 4 gig SDHC cards, and some bottles of Dust-Off.

Just glad to have this day over. Hoping this week is a little easier. Kinda looking forward to next weekend.

Lamenting the lament

2009-11-02T16:33:26Z

Still can't believe my camera broke yesterday. I have to drag myself into the city to have it be mailed out and I won't know how much it'll cost till it comes back. I send it out from an authorized repair center and they fix it for free and send it back fast or something else. I broke a different camera last year (you might remember) and lamented and it came back quick and only ran me the shipping charges, but you never know. Here's hoping!

I've been very lax in my reading LJ Idol this week. So many contestants, so much on the internet, so little time to sit at a computer when I have so much to take care of! I bookmark all the polls with plans to read and comment even weeks after the contest is gone. Is that weird? Yes, but entries should eb less about a contest and more about being truly revealing or really well written construction or whatever. Just being something you wanna read other than just the average entry!

I'm having trouble waking up. Not sure why at all. Just am. I wish I had a way to stay in bed and do the things that need to be done. Yup.

Way behind on TV too. This isn't very important, but I'm down to 265 gigs on my 500 gig harddrive from all the videos I downloaded.

Okay, that's enough complaining for today!

Wait one more non-complaint. Ambush Bug #7 of 6 was funny, but totally not worth a delay of almost a year! Shame... and I wonder how they're going to collect it and have it even make sense in a trade. It was one of those many serial comics aided by being in conjunction with what was happening in comics at the time... but as long lasting story, falls apart fast, no matter how good Giffen's art is or how cute Art Balzatar's is in the final issue.

Today and days prior

2009-11-02T04:49:39Z

This Sunday was not the most perfect of days, actually in many was it sucked, but not totally. I'll get to the not totally, but get the crap out of the way first.

I accidentally dropped my camera and now it is broken has a lens error, so I have to send it out for repair. No clue how long it will take. Blargh... Hopefully it'll be back before next weekend for King Con in Brooklyn. *sigh*

I also somehow (!?!?!) lost one of my SD cards, so none of my photos from Halloween 2009 will ever be seen. That's in itself is okay, as they kinda sucked with the rain and all. I'm not being overly critical or just trying to rationalize even. Those photos were really not special.

Other than that it was really fabulous seeing Jenevieve and Emma. Emma and I walked around all over just talking everything. Sucks so much she's going back home to Sweden tomorrow, but we'll stay in touch. Jenevieve sold two paintings and made a profit by getting paid in Euros! That was awesome.

On my way home I bumped into Colin and the kids (my god nieces) too and then old family friend and my old supervisor over at HBO Fred on the way home which was a nice additional surprise.

On Thursday I went out to Book Court in Brooklyn for a reading of the Act-I-Vate Primer. It was funny and lively and great time. I filmed the whole thing which you can see on my youtube channel.

Here's direct links:
zegas' Cactus performed by actors
simonfraser's Lilly Allen and Cosmo story performed by artist in a wig and Becky Cloonan
John Leavitt and Molly Crabapple's Backstage performed by the writer and artist (with help from Vasili Lolos)
Michael Cavallaro's Loviathan performed by the artist with help from Chris Burnham and Tucker Stone
man_size's Billy Dogma performed by the artist with help from George O'Connor and Joan Reily
Maurice Fontenot's Ghost Pimp as performed by the artist and winning fans of a raffle

On Friday I went over to Pandemic Gallery in Brooklyn for their show Gruesome Demise. Lots of great art and I got hang with my peeps Royce, Matt Sire, Steve Chanks, Natasha Quam, Peter, Russ, Nohj, Jen, Keeley, Julia and Ant and more. I also after somehow missing her all summer got to finally really meet and have a long talk with Emma and that was just awesome. Here's some highlights, the link of the Gruesome Demise leads to the whole gallery.:

The afterparty was over at East River Bar where we all just chilled and had awesome time. I played a game of pool with Emma and was actually surprised that we not only finished the game, but that I actually won pretty well. Pool was my father's game and I never thought I was that great, and I'm not... I have issues with scratching, but I also seem to be able to make those impossible shots as well. The trick shot kind of impossible shots. It was an awesome awesome night and mad props to Matt for getting me home.

For Halloween, I met up with Rich and we headed down the Parade. While we got some Primo Real Estate for setting up, the excitement wasn't so great. The rain was horrible. Many of the costumes were the same you see every year. There no less then 4 Michael Jackson tributes. The rain was sick. The police barricade in front of was set up wrongly and was almost crashed over. People behind us kept crushing us against it. I swear I must of slammed my elbow into someone and busted a rib or a nose, cause I know I did when I got shoved (pulled a rib that is). We last till 8:30 in that mess. I snapped pictures, but most of them came out like shit, nothing special to write home about. You'd think my camera would've died in that rain, but no instead it was fine and breaks when it slipped out of my hand on the street when I tripped.

So at 8:30 we started dragging ourselves out of there and oh my god. The cops had no concept how to do crowd control. It was literally MASS HYSTERIA. Rain was coming down, people we shoving each other in the streets, subway entrances were shut closed to control traffic in some of the worse ways possible. It was just insane. It ook us forever, and I mean forever, but we eventually found ourselves at 14th street and 8th ave. I had called Nick and he was over at some stop on 15th, but Rich wanted to get home. I don't blame him, that was hectic. We weren't going to Brooklyn in that insanity. Emma was fast asleep in her bed (we had talked about hanging that night, but she told me today she was too sick). I decided to meet with up with Nick, just since he was there and Rich didn't want to go back to my place. If he had I'd done that, but I think he just wanted to make it back to his place. So I met up with Nick and me, his wife and their friends and we walked around randomly for a bit before finally separating and I headed home.

That gets us caught back up and back to the opening paragraph of this entry.

Pre Halloween

2009-10-30T21:34:39Z

Something different tomorrow night, but this evening... Disco Punk Glam.

Back in the Day it was All So Much Easier

2009-10-30T19:53:02Z

How is that I (we) functioned back in the 80's/early 90's without cellphones and/or the Internet. I truly wonder this all the time. How did we get by without Google Maps? How did we know where to go without social networking? You kids and your new fangled blacktooths and blueberries and you iDroid and your Fios Runner HiFi Wireless setups have no idea what we went through.

If you're friend was running late and stuck in traffic, you just had to TRUST they were still coming. We had to know where to go to get somewhere we had to pore over a train map or a large book and work it out by sight alone. If we wanted to know about what was happening in the city we had to actually pick up a newspaper and READ it. This was seriously an actual task, not as easy thing where you just go to a website and boom, you can see where/when/what in two seconds and start to make decisions. No, you had tour pour through listings and figure it out.

Then you couldn't just call your friend while sitting in the park, no you had to make notes or mark up the paper and head home and discuss it with them. If they weren't home, you'd have to leave a message...if they even had a machine, lots of folks still didn't even have THOSE yet. So you'd just have to keep trying, hoping they'd be home. There was no cell phone! If they were out at say just another friend's house or just in a park somewhere, you couldn't call them and be "So, here's what's up!" You had to wait... and hope to be lucky.

That stuff was HARD! How did we do it? Baby Boomers, how did you do it? Us 80's kids, how'd we do it?! Even folks in their 20's had it rough. Not like us, but still. These kids today, these 14 year old teenagers with their Mybooks and Facespace and their T-Verizon and Sprint-Mobile have no clue. None!

You think that was hard though? Photography and videoing stuff. NOW THAT! THAT was a chore! We didn't have digital cameras, we didn't have small little camcorders, no no, we had to use FILM and wait a week sometimes to get it processed if you didn't own your own black room. Imagine that? FILM! 24 shots a roll. You couldn't just snap snap snap away and hope you got the best picture. No wasting film like that. You had to just hope you got it right. With video, well Camcorders existed but were super expensive, so maybe you had 8-16 MM and that was a task to edit and then you needed a projector... it was insane. Plus you wouldn't always carry a camera. No, only professionals did that. Not like today where any bugger with a fancy phone could take a photo. Oh sure, any punk might not be able to take a good photo, but that's not my point here! There was no Youtube to share it with the world... there was no Flickr... no...photos were for you and your friends. Not any simple girl could be a "porn" star. You had to get in the business and be crude and live the life and get on a film that got wide distribution for that. Now anyone can do anything... technology is there for it. A 14 year old brat with a stockbroker dad and a soccer mom can make himself a crappy video on Youtube and get 187378363763 hits and make MONEY off it.

No, you have no idea how easy you have it. No idea at all. Now, I'll admit, I'm not totally complaining. Easy is better, easy is nicer. Easy allows me to create things like the following bits and share them with the whole entire world. So yes, you have no idea what it was like... but I like it better this way, much, much, much, much, much better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuI6prCH0ak
(video is Jonathan Coulton doing his cover of "Baby Got Back" live and outside at The Brooklyn Book Festival 2009)

Don't even get me started on MP3 Players! I mean back in the day, if say I wanted to listen to something like Coulton's song? I couldn't just cue it up real easy. I came late into using portable CD players, so it was a portable cassette. You know few of those you'd carry with you? Plus you want a specific song? Nope... cuing was a pain. Mp3 Players. How we enjoyed life before those I'll never know. Of course some people ruin life with not understanding how headphones actually work, but that's a totally different conversation.

P.S. Love that you all love Coulton, but man... he's stealing my thunder!

for therealljidol season 6, topic 2- "up hill, both ways, barefoot"

Butch Walker video is creepy...(still love his songs)

2009-10-30T16:06:52Z

VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip

http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?artist=710231&vid=397225

A young man with a horrible haircut gets dumped by his very cute girlfriend. She takes all her stuff and records, moves out and leaves her key behind. She drives away as he looks down.

Hurt he notices his head and torso (no legs) and puts it in a dress the now ex accidentally left behind (she probably planned to have it mailed). He then starts riding around town with this mannequin. He puts it in the basket of his bike. He even rides by his ex at some point and she just has a look of "wtf?". He doesn't even say hello to her. He's in love with his fake woman. He takes her to a bridge and hugs her. He lies down in the grass and takes a photo with her. Then the video ends with him taking her to bed.

yeah...

New Playstation 3 commercial totally dumb

2009-10-30T15:50:09Z

Telling me there is something wrong with me or I am dumb for not already owning your product because it is the be all end all thing and not having it is insane does not make me want to buy it. It makes me want to never ever own one.

On the other side? Those Windows 7 ads are really good. So were the Vista ads though too. Windows/I'm a PC ads have always been good. Macintosh could learn a thing or two.