Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:54PM Photojournalism, Ruben Salvadori in Activism, Art, Artists, Criticism, Photography Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:03PM 
This year's Season's Beatings will be known for a great deal of surprises. I'm very proud of Godlike Entertainment from building this, once small event, into an international mainstay.
For three days the fighting game world had all eyes on TeamSpooky's stream. Attention was drawn to a medium-sized, Asian cuisine-themed restaurant in Momo's. For the past six years Godlike Entertainment has been working hard to get the tournament known locally. Then it was known on the East Coast. Then people started calling it "a major."
This year's Season's Beatings: Velocity, proved itself internationally. It may be lost on hardcore fighting game fans, and those who are only passively involved via live streams [a.k.a. stream monsters]. Having players from Korea, Japan and France put Columbus, Ohio on their itinerary -- kind of a big deal.
At least it is for me.
Below are the results, my thoughts, and some photos.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:27PM Just thought I'd make my obligatory, annual post about the best damn fighting game tournament on Earth. Well, at least in my eyes, and I wear glasses, so that's like four! This weekend in Columbus, Ohio the sixth installment of the Season's Beatings fighting game tournament will be held at MoMo's. I will be holding a MadCatz stick in one hand and a DSLR in the other. If you can weed through the 700 hundred-plus, attendees, say "Hi!" I promise I'll greet in return.
*Disclaimer: I owe a great deal of credit to Godlike Entertainment and the Season's Beatings events, because it made me realize where I wanted to go with my writing. It made me value the fighting game community. So that's why this is especially important to me.
[After the break: Weekend Schedule, Live Stream link, and Photos]
Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift 2, FGC, Fighting Games, King of Fighters, MK9, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Season's Beatings, Skullgirls, Soul Calibur, Super Street Fighter IV: AE, Velocity, tekken in Console Gaming, Culture, Entertainment, Fighters, Games Journalism, Ohio, Personal Note, Photography, Video, Youtubeness Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 11:13AM 
Visit La Holla beach, but remember to mispronounce "La Hoya" to "La Holla."Before we get into the details of one of the greatest trips of my life, I think I should send a tremendous thank you and shout out to Jesse Cunningham and Lea Stretch. Without them this trip wouldn't have been as great as it turned out. There are a lot of things that happened on the trip that clearly won't fit in any blog post, but hopefully I can get some of the finer points right.
Below are some photos and bulletpoints of the wild ride that was San Diego...
Emiko, Jesse, Lea, Los Angeles, Mochi, San Diego, vacation in Brogging Milestone, Culture, Dance, Entertainment, Humor, Personal Note, Photography Friday, September 2, 2011 at 10:16PM 
What photo were you looking at when you decided you wanted to make the John Malkovich lion?
So here's the deal, I'm writing up a review of things that have happened to me in the past week. This encompasses my experience with a certain ape-oriented film as well as my San Diego trip. No, I'm not trying to combine the two into one confusing, yet intriguing article. I've actually taken ill in quite a way.
It also doesn't help my recovery, that my body has been enduring quite the heatwave in Columbus. A.K.A. The Humid City With All The Fat Humids. I'm begging you to stay with me here. The next couple articles [this included] will be drug induced [Theraflu to the rescue!].
This being said, I rarely "laugh-cry" and pee my pants while viewing the internet. And it's an even rarer occurrance that I admit to said act via said medium. But, what you see above and the images you'll see below are a new kind of funny that my body involuntarily seizes up in laughter/horror.
Awful, Cats, Dogs, Lions, PETA, Regretsy, Taxidermy, bears in Animal Planet, Humor, Natural Selection, Odd, Photography Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 5:29PM Art, Art You May Hate, Charlie Crane, North Korea in Art, Artists, Culture, Photography Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:12PM
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My personal hero, Sarah Haskins appeared on Rachel Maddow's show today discussing a topic that effects us all...Big-Headism. We've all seen these types of women walking down the street, one hundred pounds and six-foot thirty. But the typically have gigantic heads. I worry for their turtlenecks and winter hats.
Oh wait...these types of women don't exist in real life?
Damn you photoshop and mass male-centric marketing!
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 5:27PM 
There Will Be No Jello TodayDina Goldstein is really on to something here. She has decided to 'reimagine' the typical fairy tales young ladies attatch themselves to...namely princesses. Its funny, its poingnant and starts from a very simple basis; what happens if you apply these character-types in a present day fashion.
more photos are after the jump...
Disney, Fairy Tales, Surreal in Art, Culture, Humor, Photography Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 3:32PM
The photos have finally been uploaded. I didn't edit out the terrible ones, so good luck weeding through and finding yourself! Photobucket uploaded them out of order too, by putting the end of the event at the beginning AND the end of the album. Hope it isn't too confusing. I'll be weeding through them periodically and putting them up on my Flickr page...so more updates to come!
Edit: To view the album click the slideshow or 'View All'
2009, Bashville, Nashville in Bboy/Bgirl, Dance, Photography Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 9:20PM 
I Always Joke About Feeling This Way...
There really is no words that can describe how you feel when you see any FSA photos. But these color photos are now my new favorites. This says a lot considering FSA photography was/is the blueprint for documentary photographers. It is quite difficult to explain what this movement meant for me, photography, America and so on, but man am I jealous.
"Fear For Your Puny Lives!"
