The Gigi Enthusiast Service has some nice pictures of Gigi Edgley at the ComicCon 2006.
I guess this is a good time to do one of my “Farscape Con Stories”. For the record, I went only once, but it was a blast. It was the 2002 New York Creation Con, and it did cost me a small fortune to guy the tickets, only to end up having shitty seats in like the 10th row. But I’m not complaining – I got to hang out with some of my message board buddies, and I met Gigi. All in all, I think it was money well spent. :) At some point they have set up a picture session with Anth, Gigi and Wayne. They would sit you in between the 3 of them, and someone would snap your picture. My picture is actually quite bizarre:
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I came out like a total dork, Wayne looks like he is constipated and Anth is screaming for some reason. Some smart ass has decided that he wants a picture with Gigi lying on their laps. She was totally cool with it and she played along. Of course then everyone started asking for that.
Gigi would have kept doing this but each time she climbed up on top of her cast mates, her skirt was riding way up. I guess this made her feel uncomfortable, and Anth told her not to do this. That is what I’m assuming, because I could not hear the actual conversation. But this is what I gathered by observing their exchange. So Gigi politely refused the next 2-3 offers for the non-standard picture.
5 minutes later, she decided to be a good sport and started doing it again. She also took one-on-one pictures with the few of us who were brave (or bold) enough to approach her after the session.
Another interesting fact is that to take candid pictures of Gigi you need a special equipment – it’s kinda like trying to snap a shot of a hummingbird in mid flight. She just never stops moving. All my convention pictures of her are blurry as hell – except for the ones that we actually managed to anchor her down, and make her look into the camera.
A guy who apparently sat 2 rows ahead of me doing the show, and used a super-duper zoom lens, also had some motion blur problems. My pics came out like shit because I had both a shitty camera, and a shitty seat.
But let’s get back to the new pictures. Take a gander at this picture from the ComicCon. The lady who sits next to her doesn’t look really happy, does she? She is most likely there to chase you off as soon as you get your autograph. And you can see she hates every second of this.
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