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dotsandlines) wrote2013-04-08 09:08 pm
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Post-con breakdown
This will probably not be too peppy, because I have some sort of con plague. My eyeballs are on fire and I'm too tired for 9 p.m. Anyhow:
- The Alley went swimmingly.
- - Gigantic room, for starters. The Pittsburgh con center is a green building, so it's designed to let in tons of natural light. I appreciated that. A lot.
- - Alley head is attentive and awesome.
- - Nobody was a jerk. When people asked for discounts, they took no for an answer graciously. Only one annoying person nearby, and not all the time.
- - We sold the majority of what we had on Friday. Kind of a double-edged sword, because Saturday was correspondingly slow. We even ended up hauling out to my sister's house on Friday night to pick up some more goods that we hadn't bothered to bring (older things, smaller things).
- - Jay won a trophy in the Modeling Competition for badassery in Perler form. I think he can shortly expect some mathematically exact ass-kickings from angry giant-robot-model-builders. It didn't sell, however, because just about nothing in the Art Show sold (see below).
- - Minus: People swarmed into the Alley as soon as we started setting up, because it was also the CCG room, and that was open. We dealt, but I know some artists have issues with that.
- - Minus: Art Show. I guess the previous head quit or something, so it was cobbled together at the last second. It was unclear whether it was open, how we were supposed to bid, etc. Almost nothing got bids. At least a friend's promo piece for the con (intended as con art) did sell, so I'm happy for her.
- The AMV field was super competitive. Holy cow.
- - Including what seemed to be a professionally produced music video. It basically dropped the mic halfway through Upbeat. However, somehow it did not win the category; that went to an adorably throwbacky Dr. Slump video.
- - I didn't win anything, but that's OK. Still a shock that both got in.
- - They miscredited the local band I used in the second video (swapping the song and artist), which gives me a sad on their behalf. I hope someone looks them up anyway.
- - At closing ceremonies, the chair openly bashed one of the categories I was in. (I'm sorry that Comedy sucked, there was only one good video ___name___ and yeah well not my fault.) Suuuuuper awkward. Didn't think some of us would be there? I guess? Fittingly?, it was kind of funny in that super-awkward, modern-sitcom sort of way.
- - I need to not make any more AMVs that reference historical figures. If I do, they will die within six months of the video being shown in public. First Benoit Mandelbrot and now Margaret Thatcher (although neither the song nor the video have anything to DO with MT). It's kind of good that it didn't win anything, because I look like an enormous ass in retrospect.
- - Soooooo much Madoka Magica (4 videos?) and Fate/Zero (3?). This competition convinced me to stream Toradora instead of buying it*, and to try to rent/stream Madoka soon. (* The Toradora video was fine; it just played up that tsundere violence thing, and I'm not into that. I knew it had some, but dang.)
- Cosplay
- - Only did one, DJ Pon-3 / Vinyl Scratch on Saturday. No appreciable changes since last time, except that I ditched the sunglasses and wore a lot of black eyeliner. I think I did cheer up another Vinyl Scratch by recognizing her / calling her out, though. :)
- - I also saw THREE!! Princess Jellyfish cosplayers - a sweatsuit Tsukimi, a casual-skirt-pink-sweatshirt Tsukimi, and a jellyfish-dress Kuranosuke. I squeed at all of them. Sorry. (And yeah, they were cosplayers and not coincidentally dressed that way.)
- Only went to a couple of panels and such.
- - Sashiko embroidery. Panelist was totally lovely. Nice quiet moment in my element, trying something new. Whee.
- - AMV singalong. Entertaining.
- Bought too much stuff.
- - The thing is, Artists' Alley people often go to a ton of cons per year, and so they are completely Over It and strictly working the event. I am still a con-goer in spirit, at least partly. I go to a couple of panels/workshops, I go to the AMV competition, and I love spending money on cool things in the Alley. This might make me a giant dork among artists, but this is just how I am.
And... that's pretty much how it went.
- The Alley went swimmingly.
- - Gigantic room, for starters. The Pittsburgh con center is a green building, so it's designed to let in tons of natural light. I appreciated that. A lot.
- - Alley head is attentive and awesome.
- - Nobody was a jerk. When people asked for discounts, they took no for an answer graciously. Only one annoying person nearby, and not all the time.
- - We sold the majority of what we had on Friday. Kind of a double-edged sword, because Saturday was correspondingly slow. We even ended up hauling out to my sister's house on Friday night to pick up some more goods that we hadn't bothered to bring (older things, smaller things).
- - Jay won a trophy in the Modeling Competition for badassery in Perler form. I think he can shortly expect some mathematically exact ass-kickings from angry giant-robot-model-builders. It didn't sell, however, because just about nothing in the Art Show sold (see below).
- - Minus: People swarmed into the Alley as soon as we started setting up, because it was also the CCG room, and that was open. We dealt, but I know some artists have issues with that.
- - Minus: Art Show. I guess the previous head quit or something, so it was cobbled together at the last second. It was unclear whether it was open, how we were supposed to bid, etc. Almost nothing got bids. At least a friend's promo piece for the con (intended as con art) did sell, so I'm happy for her.
- The AMV field was super competitive. Holy cow.
- - Including what seemed to be a professionally produced music video. It basically dropped the mic halfway through Upbeat. However, somehow it did not win the category; that went to an adorably throwbacky Dr. Slump video.
- - I didn't win anything, but that's OK. Still a shock that both got in.
- - They miscredited the local band I used in the second video (swapping the song and artist), which gives me a sad on their behalf. I hope someone looks them up anyway.
- - At closing ceremonies, the chair openly bashed one of the categories I was in. (I'm sorry that Comedy sucked, there was only one good video ___name___ and yeah well not my fault.) Suuuuuper awkward. Didn't think some of us would be there? I guess? Fittingly?, it was kind of funny in that super-awkward, modern-sitcom sort of way.
- - I need to not make any more AMVs that reference historical figures. If I do, they will die within six months of the video being shown in public. First Benoit Mandelbrot and now Margaret Thatcher (although neither the song nor the video have anything to DO with MT). It's kind of good that it didn't win anything, because I look like an enormous ass in retrospect.
- - Soooooo much Madoka Magica (4 videos?) and Fate/Zero (3?). This competition convinced me to stream Toradora instead of buying it*, and to try to rent/stream Madoka soon. (* The Toradora video was fine; it just played up that tsundere violence thing, and I'm not into that. I knew it had some, but dang.)
- Cosplay
- - Only did one, DJ Pon-3 / Vinyl Scratch on Saturday. No appreciable changes since last time, except that I ditched the sunglasses and wore a lot of black eyeliner. I think I did cheer up another Vinyl Scratch by recognizing her / calling her out, though. :)
- - I also saw THREE!! Princess Jellyfish cosplayers - a sweatsuit Tsukimi, a casual-skirt-pink-sweatshirt Tsukimi, and a jellyfish-dress Kuranosuke. I squeed at all of them. Sorry. (And yeah, they were cosplayers and not coincidentally dressed that way.)
- Only went to a couple of panels and such.
- - Sashiko embroidery. Panelist was totally lovely. Nice quiet moment in my element, trying something new. Whee.
- - AMV singalong. Entertaining.
- Bought too much stuff.
- - The thing is, Artists' Alley people often go to a ton of cons per year, and so they are completely Over It and strictly working the event. I am still a con-goer in spirit, at least partly. I go to a couple of panels/workshops, I go to the AMV competition, and I love spending money on cool things in the Alley. This might make me a giant dork among artists, but this is just how I am.
And... that's pretty much how it went.
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I like reading your con wrap-ups since I pretty much don't go to cons anymore. Glad to hear about Princess Jellyfish cosplayers and I'll be excited to hear about your response to Madoka. I love Puella Magi Madoka Magica probably as much as I love Princess Jellyfish.
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Woo, that's a promising endorsement on PMMM. Thanks!