I’m at the second day of ROFLcon at MIT–here’s the latest!
Live updates from ROFLcon at MIT in Cambridge! Photos, tweets, geekery. <3
A flash-mob pillow fight took over Copley Square for an hour of feathery madness.
The Boston Globe has permission to run one of my photos, but some credit would be nice!
You come away feeling so, so much of internet "fame" is pure dumb luck. You put your content out there and spin the roulette wheel.
I’m heading over to ROFLcon in Cambridge now — bringing my laptop and camera, of course! Check back here for entries and pics throughout the day.
New entries will appear at the top of the page with events in reverse chronological order.
I’m only moving across town lines to Arlington, but I’m pretty attached to my neighborhood here in Davis Square. It is still a bit hard to believe that tomorrow is my last day in my Davis apartment before I become a resident of Menotomy.
For the past year and a half, this neighborhood has been a wonderful home. If you’ve been to Davis I’m sure you can understand why–it’s a vibrant community, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Greater Boston.
(In the end I’ll only be a 15 minute walk from Davis Square, so it’s not as though I’m going very far!)
At the same time though, Arlington is definitely on the up-and-up. There are so many new restaurants in Arlington Center along Mass Ave, I imagine it’d take me at least a year to try them all. Growing up in Massachusetts I always thought of Arlington as a retiree town–to some extent it’s still true, but I’m seeing more and more young people in the area, as the rental prices are really affordable and it’s still close enough to Boston and mass transit to be an attractive option for people trying to get into Boston itself.
I’m really excited to join my new community. Next time you hear from me, I’ll be all moved in!
Many people saw me talking to one of the Banditos and asked me what political cause this rally was for. What's sad is that nobody seemed convinced when I told them this was just for fun. I'm not sure if it speaks to the level of cynicism in our society or just the extreme silliness of the event. Probably both, huh?
I feel bad for anyone who wandered around the Copley area this afternoon. Kids in freaky costumes took over the Prudential Mall, and a bunch of kooks started a random pillow fight on Copley Square and left a big mess of mud and feathers in their wake.
So, of course, I was there for both events.
Anime Boston has been going on all weekend—it started on Friday and today, Saturday, is the biggest day with all the headline events. I was there to take pictures of my friend Ger in her costume (she was Tifa from the video game Final Fantasy 7) and to attend the EXTREMELY awesome concert by The Pillows. But more on that later.
At 2pm sharp on a clear afternoon, an airhorn sounded on Copley Square and hundreds of people of all ages started thwacking each other on the head with fluffy pillows. It was a beautiful sight. And there were tons of people to see it since the event was thoroughly hyped in local media and, at times, it seemed the number of gawkers and photographers far outnumbered the actual pillow-fighters. But that didn’t really matter since it was still a real hoot.
How hard it is to run a link to a source?
[edit2] Final update: All’s well that ends well I guess—after posting some messages on UniversalHub, I got an email from the Globe that something got mixed up in the back-end, and they apologized for the error. That’s a very fast response, I have to say! Really appreciate all the help and feedback I got on this.
