We are pleased to welcome our Special Costume Guest, Charlotte’s own DJ Spider! Spider will, amongst other things, be one of our Celebrity Judges for our Costume Contest on Saturday, June 3rd.
DJ Spider has been described as “vibrant”, “surprising”, “kick-ass”, and “Omigod, is she really that tall?”
DJ Spider has been cosplaying and costuming for over ten years, but her choices are usually a little off the beaten path as she chooses to dig deep into comic book archives on mainstream characters and recreate costumes that are not often seen, or generally ignored because of the retro-awfulness of them. Having grown up with comics from the 80s and 90s, she has lots of subject matter to choose from! She has created over 100 costumes, including characters such as Wonder Woman, Dazzler, Zatanna, Rogue, and Big Barda, and still has a wishlist of hundreds of characters yet to do. She has been a guest on a number of podcasts and panels to discuss cosplaying and costuming, and is one of the admins for TheSuperheroCostumingForum.com. You can find her at local conventions like HeroesCon, Charlotte ComicCon and ConCarolinas, as well as national events such as DragonCon, ConVergence and SC ComicCon.
DJ Spider is also actually a DJ as well. Primarily a goth/industrial DJ with a healthy dose of 80s, 90s, dance, EDM and electro, DJ Spider has spun a variety of formats over the last 20 years, she is ridiculously honored to have been voted “Charlotte’s Best Party DJ” for 7 years (2006-2011, 2013) by the readers of Creative Loafing. Currently she holds a residency at Digital Noir in Charlotte, NC, , and does a number of guest spots around the US as time permits. As an avid costumer and admitted geek, she’s also been able to combine her DJing with her attendance at conventions, where “instead of glowsticks, they use light sabres!”
To sum up, she is: DJ, cosplayer, costumer, geek, social media junkie, foodie, crafty type, and goofball. Kind of a wacky version of Suzie Homemaker and Martha Stewart, if she came wrapped in spandex and spiderwebs. Occasionally NSFW.
TWITTER:
@thatDJSpider
DJ PAGE:
DJ Spider (Music)
COSTUMING PAGE:
DJ Spider (Cosplay and Costuming)
PODOMATIC:
DJ Spider’s Podcast
FLICKR:
DJ Spider’s Pix
TUMBLR:
PINTEREST:
DJ Spider’s Pins
