And here are the shots from Thursday. (Courtesy of Kei Tsubasa)
If only I could find shots from the gathering now besides this one... (Courtesy of Nicholas Pahl Skinner)
Friday, June 4, 2010
More Philippines!
Alright, more photos of us in our Philippines cosplay! (Courtesy of Eurobeat King)
And here are the shots from Thursday. (Courtesy of Kei Tsubasa)
If only I could find shots from the gathering now besides this one... (Courtesy of Nicholas Pahl Skinner)
And here are the shots from Thursday. (Courtesy of Kei Tsubasa)
If only I could find shots from the gathering now besides this one... (Courtesy of Nicholas Pahl Skinner)
Signed Merchandise and Chibi Badge, FanimeCon 2010 Edition
This year, the amount of signed merchandise I got was astounding. For one, I won that drum cover signed by FLOW, Momoi Halko, and LM.C.
The other piece of signed merchandise was from FLOW, and it was my business card for my blog.
And finally, we have the traditional chibi badge, and this year I went with the Ashford Academy cosplay since I was looking damn good in that after the Geass Gathering. I wish I could also upload Ryan's, because he got his in his Philippines cosplay which I'll probably get at AX (if they're there) or next year's FanimeCon.
The other piece of signed merchandise was from FLOW, and it was my business card for my blog.
And finally, we have the traditional chibi badge, and this year I went with the Ashford Academy cosplay since I was looking damn good in that after the Geass Gathering. I wish I could also upload Ryan's, because he got his in his Philippines cosplay which I'll probably get at AX (if they're there) or next year's FanimeCon.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Karaoke Gong Show Playlist
The full playlist is available on YouTube, but I will post all the videos here.
Rin Photoshoot in San Rafael
So while we were loading Tom's stuff into the car, Ryan decided to take a couple shots of him as Rin from Shuffle! in the rain since it was raining on Thursday. And damn they look good.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
FanimeCon 2010 Report: Part 7 - Epilogue
I've been saying this over and over again - it's been one hell of an up-and-down FanimeCon. I had a real good time - from FLOW to winning more charity auction merchandise to representing the Philippines in the Hetalia Gathering. However, there were some issues that you have to go through, and it wasn't con-created drama ala "I'm a better Lelouche cosplayer than you are" - it was real life drama, drama that you deal with everyday, and drama that you don't want to deal with during a convention. When we were young, we didn't have to deal with it; now as we're older, it comes up more often and we have to work with it.
Overall, I will place this as my best FanimeCon solely because of the FLOW concert and the increased attendance in the cosplay gatherings.
Special props goes out to BSaphire and the Cosplay Department - you guys put one hell of a cosplay show over the weekend - as well as Stage Zero - I love you guys all the way - and everyone else who worked to put this FanimeCon together. For that, I give my biggest gratitude.
There is one thing I want to mention: at FanimeCon 2011, this will be the 5th anniversary of the California Conventions Blog. I really want to put on a 5th anniversary panel in addition to everything else that I want to do in 2011 including pushing for a Host Club Main Event.
Well, this concludes my FanimeCon 2010 report. I hope to see you all at Anime Expo in a month (I'm really going this time!) and/or FanimeCon 2011!
私のレポートを 読むためにありがとう。
Thank you for reading my report.
-FanimeCon 2010 Report End-
Overall, I will place this as my best FanimeCon solely because of the FLOW concert and the increased attendance in the cosplay gatherings.
Special props goes out to BSaphire and the Cosplay Department - you guys put one hell of a cosplay show over the weekend - as well as Stage Zero - I love you guys all the way - and everyone else who worked to put this FanimeCon together. For that, I give my biggest gratitude.
There is one thing I want to mention: at FanimeCon 2011, this will be the 5th anniversary of the California Conventions Blog. I really want to put on a 5th anniversary panel in addition to everything else that I want to do in 2011 including pushing for a Host Club Main Event.
Well, this concludes my FanimeCon 2010 report. I hope to see you all at Anime Expo in a month (I'm really going this time!) and/or FanimeCon 2011!
私のレポートを 読むためにありがとう。
Thank you for reading my report.
-FanimeCon 2010 Report End-
FanimeCon 2010 Report: Part 6 - Monday (Day Four)
First off, I overslept but mostly everything was packed and ready to go. The only thing I needed to do was to get the Host Club Info Panel done, but there were some other things that came up.
For the panel itself, there were only 6 people, but one of them was one of the chairs for SNAFUCon, so we answered whatever questions he had about what were going do in October. We did give everything away as we planned, and in the end I felt we got things accomplished.
A couple of Ryan's friend were abandoned after that person left due to some unforeseen circumstance and forgot to tell the two. That leaves Tom out of the loop, so what I had to do was drop him off over at the Fremont BART station and he would ride over to the Richmond station where someone else picked him up. That happened right after the Panel.
I get back in time to enjoy the last part of the convention, including lunch with Scarlet Rhapsody and taking more pictures of cosplayers -
- before loading the car and getting rid of everything that we didn't need. Since I ran out of cash, I tipped the staff one case of Red Bull and a bag full of Cup Ramen. And then we decided to sleep a bit before loading everything else.
As we load everything else up, we find out we can't fit everything in the car. So one of Ryan's friend finds a place to stay and we just take everything that we can...or so we think. Actually, one of the people that was allowing her to stay changed her mind last-second, leaving her abandoned. With no other options at hand, I take it upon myself to make sure everyone got home. I decided to take the train and as much stuff as possible, which later I found out was enough to fit everything.
Ryan beats me to my house before I got home and drops off mostly everything while I bring everything else, including the autographed drum cover and the con t-shirt I bought earlier in the day.
By 9pm, I'm back in Sacramento and done with this 120.75 hour marathon through FanimeCon. Within that marathon, I had less than 20 hours of sleep. I needed sleep, but not before all of these pictures and videos went up.
-Day Four & FanimeCon 2010 End-
For the panel itself, there were only 6 people, but one of them was one of the chairs for SNAFUCon, so we answered whatever questions he had about what were going do in October. We did give everything away as we planned, and in the end I felt we got things accomplished.
A couple of Ryan's friend were abandoned after that person left due to some unforeseen circumstance and forgot to tell the two. That leaves Tom out of the loop, so what I had to do was drop him off over at the Fremont BART station and he would ride over to the Richmond station where someone else picked him up. That happened right after the Panel.
I get back in time to enjoy the last part of the convention, including lunch with Scarlet Rhapsody and taking more pictures of cosplayers -
- before loading the car and getting rid of everything that we didn't need. Since I ran out of cash, I tipped the staff one case of Red Bull and a bag full of Cup Ramen. And then we decided to sleep a bit before loading everything else.
As we load everything else up, we find out we can't fit everything in the car. So one of Ryan's friend finds a place to stay and we just take everything that we can...or so we think. Actually, one of the people that was allowing her to stay changed her mind last-second, leaving her abandoned. With no other options at hand, I take it upon myself to make sure everyone got home. I decided to take the train and as much stuff as possible, which later I found out was enough to fit everything.
Ryan beats me to my house before I got home and drops off mostly everything while I bring everything else, including the autographed drum cover and the con t-shirt I bought earlier in the day.
By 9pm, I'm back in Sacramento and done with this 120.75 hour marathon through FanimeCon. Within that marathon, I had less than 20 hours of sleep. I needed sleep, but not before all of these pictures and videos went up.
-Day Four & FanimeCon 2010 End-
FanimeCon 2010 Report: Part 5 - Sunday (Day Three)
Day Three started with a tradition, but not in a traditional sense. I had to pick up a couple of people including Cosplay Cyborg from the Arena Hotel near the HP Pavilion, so I stopped by Starbucks nearby and got me my traditional Grande White Mocha, extra whip, extra shot but not in the traditional place where I would get it; when I got to the convention center, I found out Starbucks closed and Pete's Coffee opened in its place.
With much time to spare before the Hetalia gathering, we take care of breakfast and more roaming of the Dealers Hall before going down to get Daisuke Ishiwatari and Toshimichi Mori autographs. The line was taking long, so Tom took over as we got down to the Hetalia gathering and I must say, that gathering was HUGE. It was the most fun that we ever had in one gathering, let alone the best gathering of the weekend.
Did I mention that me and Ryan cosplayed as the Philippines?
Since the Hetalia Gathering ran late, I couldn't come to the Persona Gathering but here's a couple of shots from that.
We were planning on heading down to the Cosplay Battle Pose! event at 2pm, but we all overslept from exhaustion and the heat - it got pretty hot and we were baking for an hour, just ask Lucas in his Austria cosplay. They had enough time for me to get my dream battle with Shizuo from Durarara!! and Ryan got his in with Itachi from Naruto.
3pm comes by, and its time for my favorite part of the con: the charity auction! And boy, I come home with some precious loot - a drum cover signed by LM.C, FLOW, and Halko Momoi as well as limited packaged set of "Blame Ebner" pins. There were some neat items going up for auction and I would always start the bidding but that got out of hand - for example, a sketch went for $700...no kidding.
With nothing else to do, I decide to help out a friend of Ryan's and at the same time put my skills in the food service industry to sell some anime merchandise over at Anime Pavilion. It was an awesome experience, and I benefited in the end (but won't mention how).
With a couple of hours left before the Gong Show, it was time for that Japanese dinner I've been thinking about. We wait for Lucas because he's finishing up the "Ask Hetalia" Panel and then he can't come because there was a promise to take a Hungary to the B&W Ball. So we head over to Rokko and have him catch up later...only to notice that they are closed Sunday (and Monday as well). So, it's down to Original Joe's for the "traditional" pasta meal with Ryan, and Lucas does catch up to us only to order out. I have myself some drinks to get loose before heading down to the Gong Show.
Man, it was fun. I was at a loss of words of the "quality" of the skits, if there were any though. Come on, I loved it when everyone walked out on "God Knows" or manhandling the guy who forgot the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird."
With much time to spare before the Hetalia gathering, we take care of breakfast and more roaming of the Dealers Hall before going down to get Daisuke Ishiwatari and Toshimichi Mori autographs. The line was taking long, so Tom took over as we got down to the Hetalia gathering and I must say, that gathering was HUGE. It was the most fun that we ever had in one gathering, let alone the best gathering of the weekend.
Did I mention that me and Ryan cosplayed as the Philippines?
Since the Hetalia Gathering ran late, I couldn't come to the Persona Gathering but here's a couple of shots from that.
We were planning on heading down to the Cosplay Battle Pose! event at 2pm, but we all overslept from exhaustion and the heat - it got pretty hot and we were baking for an hour, just ask Lucas in his Austria cosplay. They had enough time for me to get my dream battle with Shizuo from Durarara!! and Ryan got his in with Itachi from Naruto.
3pm comes by, and its time for my favorite part of the con: the charity auction! And boy, I come home with some precious loot - a drum cover signed by LM.C, FLOW, and Halko Momoi as well as limited packaged set of "Blame Ebner" pins. There were some neat items going up for auction and I would always start the bidding but that got out of hand - for example, a sketch went for $700...no kidding.
With nothing else to do, I decide to help out a friend of Ryan's and at the same time put my skills in the food service industry to sell some anime merchandise over at Anime Pavilion. It was an awesome experience, and I benefited in the end (but won't mention how).
With a couple of hours left before the Gong Show, it was time for that Japanese dinner I've been thinking about. We wait for Lucas because he's finishing up the "Ask Hetalia" Panel and then he can't come because there was a promise to take a Hungary to the B&W Ball. So we head over to Rokko and have him catch up later...only to notice that they are closed Sunday (and Monday as well). So, it's down to Original Joe's for the "traditional" pasta meal with Ryan, and Lucas does catch up to us only to order out. I have myself some drinks to get loose before heading down to the Gong Show.
Man, it was fun. I was at a loss of words of the "quality" of the skits, if there were any though. Come on, I loved it when everyone walked out on "God Knows" or manhandling the guy who forgot the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird."
It's getting late, and we need to pack everything and get ourselves checked out, not to mention we still have a panel to do...
-Day Three End-
-Day Three End-
FanimeCon 2010 Convention Write-Up Schedule
I just completed Saturday's today and I will try to get up Sunday's sometime tonight if not earlier. Monday and the Epilogue will go up tomorrow (Thursday) and by then I will post all these links to the Cosplay.com and FanimeCon Forum sites as one instead of batch releasing them. I will also be posting what I have from the Gong Show after the write-up is complete as well as photos of us from other photographers and other various things.
While the report will be short at first, I'm trying to get everything in first before filling in with photos, videos, and details that I have missed.
However, I can't dwell on Fanime as Anime Expo is right down the road, less than a month...
While the report will be short at first, I'm trying to get everything in first before filling in with photos, videos, and details that I have missed.
However, I can't dwell on Fanime as Anime Expo is right down the road, less than a month...
FanimeCon 2010 Report: Part 4 - Saturday (Day Two)
Saturday starts the same way Friday started - getting ready, walking around taking shots of everything I could find. There was also an interesting chat with Rob of Stage Zero during the morning and eventually it came to a video of "Stupid Rob Tricks" -
However, before I head down to the FanimeCon Fantasy RPG Theme Gathering at 11am, I had to take care of some items, like fixing the Gekkoukan patch on Junpei and getting a wooden sword for same character - thank you Chaz for providing the glue guns and to the dealer who sold me one for $10. For my expectations, it was lower than expected but still had fun and I also helped the Cosplay Department a bit since I love BSaphire so much.
By now, it's almost time to see the FLOW Q&A Session so that we can see FLOW again.
Ryan has to spend some time first getting Death the Kid from Soul Eater ready and meets me downstairs. After determining the line wasn't moving and it was past 1pm, we ditch the line in favor of waiting for the autograph session. We finally get into the Dealers Hall, where I find out people are selling Ouran wallscrolls for cheaper price with a new design, but I say to myself "I needed to secure one beforehand just in case." We also visit Artists Alley again and talk to Ejen, the author of Cosplay In America to find out when we wanted to do the interview with him.
Ryan heads down to the Soul Eater gathering while I go stand in line for the FLOW autograph session, the only autograph session available. I had in my hands Ryan's CD and my business card that I always have people sign. According to Ebner, there was to be about 10 seconds between each member if we wanted to get everyone in and while I was there I counted more than 10 seconds for even just one item. I had two and I thought I could squeeze it in if I had no other interactions than just shaking hands but they restricted it to one item. I get Ryan's CD signed and jump back in line to get my cards signed. Ryan shows up from the gathering to take my place to get my cards signed. Since the Geass gathering is about to be on soon, we had to hustle but ultimately we were late to the gathering and by then mostly everyone had left including Lucas. Luckily we got some good shots with a C.C. cosplayer including a kiss shot which made everything worth it in a way.
With the Papa Johns pizza already ordered, we went back up to the room to wait for the pizza to eat. We sit down and relax, eating the pizza and watching some of the sports offerings on TV at the time. Even though I ate the pizza, I still needed food so I had more Ramen and took my food downstairs to Stage Zero to watch the evening news.
Then we get to the FanimeCon Game Show, and I take part in the first ever public-speaking-style game where you have one minute to speak on a topic but your opponents have the ability to take the mic away if you stray off the topic. It came down to a strict game where literally if you had one "um" in your sentence we called it, and I came in 2nd place.
Ryan also got into the speed game and came in 3rd place.
I decided to make this day my "stay up all night" day. In between all that I had more Swap Meet, blowing $40 on the Stacker game when half of the time I got up to the top, Chaz's late-night PBJ run, hentai, more Rock Band, and that tarrot card reader who accurately read my life.
By 3am I crash only to again wake up at 7am...
-Day Two End-
However, before I head down to the FanimeCon Fantasy RPG Theme Gathering at 11am, I had to take care of some items, like fixing the Gekkoukan patch on Junpei and getting a wooden sword for same character - thank you Chaz for providing the glue guns and to the dealer who sold me one for $10. For my expectations, it was lower than expected but still had fun and I also helped the Cosplay Department a bit since I love BSaphire so much.
By now, it's almost time to see the FLOW Q&A Session so that we can see FLOW again.
Ryan has to spend some time first getting Death the Kid from Soul Eater ready and meets me downstairs. After determining the line wasn't moving and it was past 1pm, we ditch the line in favor of waiting for the autograph session. We finally get into the Dealers Hall, where I find out people are selling Ouran wallscrolls for cheaper price with a new design, but I say to myself "I needed to secure one beforehand just in case." We also visit Artists Alley again and talk to Ejen, the author of Cosplay In America to find out when we wanted to do the interview with him.
Ryan heads down to the Soul Eater gathering while I go stand in line for the FLOW autograph session, the only autograph session available. I had in my hands Ryan's CD and my business card that I always have people sign. According to Ebner, there was to be about 10 seconds between each member if we wanted to get everyone in and while I was there I counted more than 10 seconds for even just one item. I had two and I thought I could squeeze it in if I had no other interactions than just shaking hands but they restricted it to one item. I get Ryan's CD signed and jump back in line to get my cards signed. Ryan shows up from the gathering to take my place to get my cards signed. Since the Geass gathering is about to be on soon, we had to hustle but ultimately we were late to the gathering and by then mostly everyone had left including Lucas. Luckily we got some good shots with a C.C. cosplayer including a kiss shot which made everything worth it in a way.
With the Papa Johns pizza already ordered, we went back up to the room to wait for the pizza to eat. We sit down and relax, eating the pizza and watching some of the sports offerings on TV at the time. Even though I ate the pizza, I still needed food so I had more Ramen and took my food downstairs to Stage Zero to watch the evening news.
Then we get to the FanimeCon Game Show, and I take part in the first ever public-speaking-style game where you have one minute to speak on a topic but your opponents have the ability to take the mic away if you stray off the topic. It came down to a strict game where literally if you had one "um" in your sentence we called it, and I came in 2nd place.
Ryan also got into the speed game and came in 3rd place.
I decided to make this day my "stay up all night" day. In between all that I had more Swap Meet, blowing $40 on the Stacker game when half of the time I got up to the top, Chaz's late-night PBJ run, hentai, more Rock Band, and that tarrot card reader who accurately read my life.
By 3am I crash only to again wake up at 7am...
-Day Two End-
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)