The ninjas would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Halloween this 2009!
When your event planner becomes a baby planner, the holiday tends to get a little quiet so I apologize to the ninjas in Houston for the lack of group festivities in 2009. Nonetheless, we wish you all an insane and safe Halloween this year.
See below for massive albums of pictures from our celebrations in years past. Great memories.
Despite the initial adrenaline rush and excitement of moving to a new city to start a new job and new life, it certainly was an unsettling feeling to know that I would be thrown into a completely new world devoid of anything familiar. However, it certainly didn’t take long for me to get settled in because of the amazing people I work with. They naturally live by the DNC code of an all-star professional and fun-loving social life. Despite the stereotypes of video game companies being nerd farms, Activision’s Vicarious Visions development studio is filled with amazing people. Here are a few pics from last week’s Halloween festivities.
Leave it to Katie to ruin a great picture!
The amazing thing about artists is that they extend their own respective genius to all aspects of their lives. Our Art Director made this costume all by himself. The mask is made of duct tape, paper mache, wire hangers, and sunglass lenses. I was so impressed by this costume that I took a billion pictures of it! Also, it had me creeped out and jumping at shadows the whole weekend!
Donnie Darko Rabbit
And look at this:
Giggy – a Senior Artist – made this entire costume himself as well. It’s absolutetly wonderful! He got into character and ran around scaring people in the office! It was great!
Giggy the Witch Doctor!
Here is Katie – a very talented Junior Animator – as Tom Cruise in Risky Business! All night, she kept on drunk sliding and only busted her ass twice. Amazing.
These guys are all awesome musicians! Jason (Jimi Hendrix) is one of our composers. He’s actually white, but he painted himself black! Dan DiLallo(Slash) is one of our audio designers. Dan Wallace (Caesar) is the Producer for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. And he used to be in a rock band that was more popular than Nirvana before they got discovered. At one point, his band – Shampain (pronounced the same way as Champagne) – played in better venues in the Pacific Northwest than Nirvana did!
Who said girls in games aren’t good looking (I consider Bryan as an honorary girl)?!
My boss is a shredding machine. He is the REAL guitar hero! He was playing the guitar all drunk too!
Shampain lead guitarist!
Small Snippet of the dance floor! This is all at my producer’s house too! Oh man, we were all getting crazy on the dance floor and dancing like complete idiots!
Speaking of silliness… Our HEAD ENGINEER (as in, highest ranking engineer at the Vicarious Visions studio) Aaron cut loose on the dance floor with his girlfriend Angel:
Here they are being normal and not insane dancing machines. All happy couples make me sick to my stomach, but they really are cute together!
Apparently Wolverine knows how to use nunchucks now!
Last ones standing:
All in all, I think Ive got more than enough to start an Albany Chapter of the Drunken Ninja Clan, but I need some of my senior DNC officers to come up and grant me my charter! *hint* *hint*
I miss everyone in Texas and I think about you guys all the time.
Lots of love, hugs, and kisses,
C. Marissa “Ling Ling the Red Dragon” Wu
I hope you all enjoyed the festivities at the DNC Pre-Halloween Party on Friday. I know we did. It was a pleasure hosting everyone that came out.
I created an album with a collection of everyone’s photos. So anybody have any crazy stories?
On Friday, October 25th, the DNC will be hosting our annual Scary and Sexy Costume Party in the Westchase District of Houston, TX.
Festivities start at 9pm.
For more information, questions, or direction requests, email us here.
You wanna know how I felt Halloween Saturday? Go download “It’s Business Time” by Flight of the Concords. LOL. I had the most fun time I’ve had in awhile wildin’ out at Crome with everyone in their fun costumes. For real. Go check it out.
Halloween night was an invigorating experience. Every time the founders of the DNC, Hyper and I, get into anything, its like spontaneous combustion. We just go out and kill it. Last night was no different. We wrecked shop at Sam’s Boat on Richmond. From the DNC Double-Down of bullblasters upon our entrance, the night kept getting crazier and crazier. I’m sure coming in nothing but silk boxers, top hat, and trench coat fueled that a little for me personally, but everyone had a good time! Heck, Chad even made it into the finals of the costume contest.And the most hilarious thing that happened on Halloween night (not pictures) didn’t even happen until after we got home. My brother, Vincent, and I, invariably because of our rather loose consumption of alcoholic beverages, ended up grubbin’ down in the kitchen. That part isn’t unusual. But when my brother started shaking his ass, which he affectionately referred to as his “machine gun bubble butt,” Vince and I started laughing so hard that we were crying for literally 20 minutes. That was hilarious! Ahhh… good times! Anyways, here are some pictures…
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