cos culture magazine NOVEMBER 2015
C O S P L AY ONLINE:
Lovi na Yavari
of geekxgirls.com + the faces behind:
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cosplay online: featuring share my cosplay.com
cosplay online: featuring lovina yavari of geekxgirls.com
tutorial: how to achieve a wood grain finish in cosplay
shot by adam : superhero photography feature
Cos Culture Magazine is owned and operated by NH Creative Inc. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Nikko Marie FRONT Cover image: Lovina Yavari as Tank Girl Photography by FireMate Photographic
back cover image:
Harley Quinn Photography by Adam Sternberg of Shot by Adam
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ISSN 2368-2582 Lovina Yavari as Tank Girl Photo by FireMate Photographic
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fr ea kx - ow n er CC Mag: What is Share My Cosplay? SMC: Share My Cosplay is something I started for every cosplayer out there. It’s a fun safe place, where cosplayers who spend so much time creating such amazing costuming feats, can have their work shared for the world to enjoy. There are a lot of sites out there similar to ours, howver the One thing that we feel sets us apart from others is that we pride ourselves
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in making sure that we do our very best in providing full credit to the cosplayers and the photographers. We’ve also purposely grown our team over the last year so we can provide extensive content to our readers. Our extended team is made up of cosplayers & photograpehrs, and we send them to all the major fandom conventions out there to see cosplay up close and document them for our readers and fans to enjoy.