I was very lucky today. I was able to meet up with Lief and William today, as well as many other Taiwanese photographers at Lief’s restaurant Hud La Noom. I didn’t know it, but William was going to be interviewed and by a TTV reporter, a response to an article done on him in a Taiwanese newspaper. I talked to the reporter, who was sitting across from me, and he asked me about what I did, and I told him part of my life is sharing Taiwan with the world. He was interested right away, and to make a long story short, he did an impromptu interview with me (of course I wasn’t prepared at all, and not being the best public speaker, especially in Chinese, it will probably be strange at best. Of course after having time to reflect later I totally missed an opportunity to accurately say what the site is about in an attempt to reach a new readership). I may be on the TTV news sometime in the future, so if you happen to see it let me know. I always end up missing this sort of thing.

After the meeting at Hud La Noom, we went to an awesome cosplay event at Tainan’s National Cheng Gong University. I was shocked by the number of participants. I’ve decided cosplay is the new Halloween for Taiwanese, but it is better, because people can dress up more than once a year, and they don’t have to worry about getting razor blades in their candy apples. Not saying that there wasn’t any candy there. There was a lot of eye candy for sure. I may even go back tomorrow after looking at the pictures I got. All of the participants are so happy to pose, it is a dream for a photographer.

The ration of cosplayers was definitely tipped in favor of the females. There must be something about having a good reason to go out and wear some sexy goth/cosplay costumes that gets Taiwanese girls motivated to strut their stuff.