Forrest Brown

The West Hollywood Halloween Carnival is the largest Halloween event in the the country with over 400,000 people attending. I’ve wanted to go the last couple of years, but this was the first year that I was actually able to go.

The carnival takes place on a section of Santa Monica Blvd that has been closed to traffic for the event. There’s several stages setup for different bands and performers and also lots of food vendors. But the reason most people go it is to see all of the other people in wild, strange and amazing costumes.

Here’s a few of the photos I took of some of the more interesting costumes.

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My Halloween Costume.

Recently I went to the Tokyo Game Show, a huge video game expo at the Makuhari Messe convention center. The major video game companies were there to show off their latest videos games.

Booth Babes

Like at many conventions and expos, most of the companies at the Tokyo Game Show believed that Sex Sells (especially to video game nerds) and most of the booths were staffed with lots of pretty booth babes.

CosPlay

One of the other interesting things was all of the cosplay going on. Lots of people in some pretty interesting and elaborate costumes.

This past Sunday was the Tokyo Marathon and the course went right by my apartment so I went out to watch. It was in amazing amount of people going by. I heard that there were 30,000 runners. The race started at 10 in the morning and at 3 in the afternoon there was still a pretty steady stream of people going by my apartment, which was about 3/4 of the through the race course.

Probably the most entertaining part was that there were quite a few people running the marathon in costumes.