How Sez Sees It

A little over a year ago someone I admire and have so much time for asked me to help him out. He had left the band The Dead Lay Waiting and was setting off on his own. This would end up being collaborations with other talented muscians, new friends and working with all sorts of artists. Today the fruit of his labour is released into the world and we all get to find out what he has been up to. When I was asked to help promote things I didn't ask questions, I simply sat back and waited to find out what he had in store for the world. I am as excited as anyone else for today's announcements and I hope anyone reading this will join me in wishing him luck. Why would I follow someone blindly and help to promote something I know practically nothing about? Because I have faith in this human being. He has been there for me through an awful lot and he is one of the nicest, most talented people I have had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with. I support him because I believe he is

Recently I have found the confidence to enter a world I have always wanted to enter, the world of cosplay. I guess the best way to start is to try and explain what 'cosplay' is to the uninitiated. 'Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure?), short for costume play, is a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character or idea that is usually identified with a unique name. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centred on role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.' (Taken from Wikipedia.) Basically you can take any character you like. It could be from your favourite film or manga or anime or cartoon or comic...literally anything you can think of. The next step is to build your costume. Some people go to great lengths to do this and meticulously put together their costumes over month (and sometim