Club Jade

Matt Martin shares all the neatest Star Wars costumes from the Comic-Con Masquerade, including our Project Runway winners!

UPDATED to add video of the Project Runway skit!

Remember the Kessel Run puzzle race at Celebration IV? Well, our own James and Dan are back with the Bounty Hunt – this time with three different challenges – one each Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Sign up your team by August 5 to guarantee a spot!

• UPDATE: If you made your hotel reservations through 1800Hotels.com, double-check with your hotel! The company has filed for Chapter 11.

• The Commitment Chapel is now taking reservations. Sure, it’s not legally binding, but it will cost you 75 big ones.
• Want to take home a really permanent souvenir? Don’t forget your painkillers, because there’ll be live tattooing. If you’re not quite ready for that level of commitment, there’s a tattoo show Sunday morning or one-of-a-kind skateboard decks will be auctioned off for charity.
• Need a reason to get a smartphone? iPhone and Android users can look forward to a Celebration mobile app.

And don’t forget postmarks, the Star Wars Stories Project and cereal boxes.

They had a little help from some friends, but we are thrilled for the Club Jaders who helped create and present ‘Bring it On: Rock the Mouse;’ winner of Best Presentation at Comic-Con Masquerade 2009.

Congratulations to Caitlin Shindler (choreographer and costumer extraordinaire).  Other Club Jade participants included Rogue Shindler, Mike Chiesi and Stephanie Chiesi.   Um. You rock?

Io9 has a nice gallery up featuring the cast.

Our own Nori created this stunning Jedi baby ensemble for a forthcoming bundle of joy named Ben. Complete with a teeny knitted lightsaber! Be sure to click through to see the layers and other details.

I had no idea when SF Signal asked me to participate in their latest Mind Meld on tie-ins that they’d get so many actual writers who had written Star Wars (Sean Williams, William C. Dietz, Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Walter Jon Williams.) Plus many other names familiar to genre readers and the blogosphere. And me. It’s a little unsettling. Really cool, but unsettling.

‘Precipice,’ the second brand new Hyperspace short story, is up on StarWars.com – and it’s by our own Chris Cassidy! She tells me that it takes place while Obi-Wan is held prisoner on Geonosis during Attack of the Clones.

So, um, I have no idea how to link this with anything remotely resembling grace, so let me just say that I did a webmaster interview with Lightsabre, and they posted it today.

That was my thought as I was browsing over to Lightsabre this evening… They’ve interviewed our own Chris Gereke.

Our good friends over at Star Wars Blog have captured some great pictures of Club Jade’s very own Rogue and Caitlin in their Star Wars costumes from Comic-Con.

Their entry in the Masquerade featured a send-up of DreamGirls called Rebel Dreams that won Lucasfilm’s Industry Award.

Congratulations!

TFN’s podcast team recorded their efforts on C4′s Kessel Run, talking to several Club Jade folks in the process. (Thanks, James!)