Re: Otakon - what a weeekend!

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"Arnold Kim" <arnoldkim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Hey guys, just came back home from my first trip from Otakon. Great
weekend- will definitely do it again next year!

And another one is corrupted by the big city convention...

^====^


Stayed at the hilton- however, security's pretty tight there, not
recommended you fit in more than the maximum of four people per room
there. Convenient, though, because of the walkway between it and the con,
plus some of the panels were actually held in the hotel.

Badge pick up line was insane on Thursday. It looped around the con, and
then the line snaked around a few times after that.

It was pretty bad, which is unusual for the past couple of years.
The pre-reg line was nearly gone by about 9:30 last year, but this
year I didn't get into the line until then, and only because I met
my friends who had gotten there earlier (yes, I jumped the line,
typical for a criminal like me!). Fortunately we had until 11:00
to get the badges, which we did with about a half-hour to spare.
Not sure why it was different this year, unless it was that more
people than usual chose to show up Thursday this time.


There were some great cosplayers there- I particularly liked the girl
outside who did Witchblade (anime version) and the guy who went as an
actual Death Note, free for people to sign and add whatever names they
want. Myself I went as Col. Mustang, with my fireball floating over my
right hand:

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/52c36f5447e88085c93d1a80854922f73bfa9a53.
jpg

And he apparently impressed the US voice actor for the Colonel, too.
Arnold did do a very good job.


I did get to meet up with two fellow RAAMers- Captain Nerd and Stephen
Rudman- had a great time watching Evangelion 1.0 together and hung with
Stephen a bit on line for the 18 and over wristbands. Pleasure meeting
you guys, look forward to doing the same some time in the future!

Other than that, I attended some panels (most memorably Travis Willingham
and Kikuko Inoue), went to the rave, bought a lot of crap, had a great
time...

Will totally do it again next year!

Arnold Kim

Excellent! Did you catch any of the AMV stuff with the Capt'n, or has he
requested you not mention it ever again?

I actually missed his video, because of a very awkward layout of the con on
Friday morning. There was an escalator leading directly to the lower level
where the AMV overflow was being shown, and for some reason beyond me, that
was off limits that morning. So apparently we had to leave through one
lobby and enter through another one, and we had a tough time making our way
around (it was our first morning there, after all). By the time my friend
and I made our way around to the screening room, we had already missed his
video.

It was only shown the one time, and that was at number 11 on the
playlist. It did get a few polite hand-claps, and at least no one
left during it, or at any rate, I didn't look back to see if they
did...

Seems like (according to a friend who saw it with me) my video was
just too slow, not exciting enough, not nearly enough jump cuts and
flashy transitions. I guess it was a valid description, because I
watched lots of jittery kinetic videos that did get picked for the
actual contest (one of them had a scene change on every single note
of the fast guitar riffs). Even the "Romantic/Sentimental" category
had lots of jump-cuts (I think the longest "romantic" moments were
possibly 3 to 5 seconds long). I guess I'm of the wrong generation,
and just don't know enough about the right style of video production
to reach "these kids today".

And get off my damn lawn, too!


We did meet up for the Eva movie later on, though, so no harm no foul!

Arnold Kim

Yep, it took several iterations of "I'm over here, do you see me?
Where are you?" but we finally found each other, thanks to cell
phones. It was neat placing a face and voice to a name and text
postings, now I know how Arnold and Stephen sound when I read them!

I'm definitely planning on next year, who knows, maybe I'll have
some art ready, or another video...

Cap.

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