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Con Report MediaWest 2003
Jun. 5th, 2003 06:03 pmI had a good time. My flights were smooth, my friends warm and funny, and I bought lots of zines. And a piece of art. What more can you ask??
The shopping was pretty productive. I manage to buy something for everyone that gave me a shopping list (not that I've actually mailed any of these goodies out or anything!) And while I bought a good number of Stargate zines, and some odds and ends, I haven't had a chance to read any of them yet.
My roomies and I won 3rd place in the SF/Fantasy category in the Door decorating contest (it was the "so you want to be a Slayer" door.) There was a Stargate that you could walk through that quite rightfully won 1st Prize. My roomies and I did win the "Whose Butt Is It Anyway?" contest. The door feature lot of screen captures of naked butts from film and TV and you had to guess who they belonged to. I recognized the tattoo on Peter Wingfield's butt, and a bunch from Space Cowboys, and my roomies spotted Chris Cooper and the piping from John Crichton's vest, and then we put down Ewan McGregor for many of the reminder thinking he *has* to be in there somewhere.
I had some friends that cleaned up in the Fan Q Awards and there was much rejoicing!
The Stargate Party was a success. People were happy Daniel was coming back, vids were watched and much food and champagne was consumed.
The panels were a bust. I went to a couple of Stargate panels that were moderated by names I didn't know. Turns out they were mainly shippers and I left early on all of them. I'm not confrontary by nature and if 8 to 12 people want to discuss how Daniel is incapable of forming emotional attachments, is very unethical and is responsible for every nasty thing that happened on the show, well, I'm just going to leave. If the only way they can enjoy the show is to slag a character and the actor that plays him, they've got more problems than me telling them they're full of bullcrap. It's obviously a wise choice to leave before one gets splattered by the bull crap, also. And if it wasn't that, it was the moderators telling us why their opinion of something is right and how no one else has a valid veiwpoint. Yawn.
A friend went to a LOTR panel and had to leave early, too. She said there was a big, nasty conflict between the moderators and a group in the audience. They were supposed to discuss each of the characters and the group in the audience thought they'd spent long enough on Aragon.
And people fret about the demise of panels at cons! I wonder why? I think I'm becoming a fan of the Balkanization of Fandom as a way to enjoy fandom -- save for a few DMZs that are inhabited by folks who are not proponents of My Way Or The HighWay ideology.
The Buffy and Smallville panels were interesting and enjoyable, with much Spike and Lex admiration, but of course!
The best panel was on Formatting & Converting Your Fanfic for PDAs, but I missed the first 15 minutes of it. The moderator's website is: http://www.e-fic.com/fries/indexjs.html. A link she thought highly of is: http://www.turcic.com/ All I know is that my brain was full about about 25 minutes, that I've forgotten most of what she said, and that I'd like a new toy.
Art. For you LOTR, XF, Smallville, TS people, look here: http://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/ I wish the artist did Stargate, too. :( This artist does do a smattering of other fandoms, so check it out.
I thought there was a good amount of decent art, and of many different fandoms. It was a good art show, really. I bought a Daniel Jackson piece. I'm happy. :)
I'm not sure where the time went, really. I didn't do as many room crawls as usual, only did the dealer's room twice, didn't attend that many panels, didn't go the vid show, missed many a meal and only read a few pages out of one of my zines. Why did the weekend pass so quickly? What was I doing?? I suppose I must have been socializing. I had a great time, so whatever I was doing, it was a good choice.
So, Kitty, Chris and Bunny -- I have stuff to give you when next I see you (or get to the post office.)
The shopping was pretty productive. I manage to buy something for everyone that gave me a shopping list (not that I've actually mailed any of these goodies out or anything!) And while I bought a good number of Stargate zines, and some odds and ends, I haven't had a chance to read any of them yet.
My roomies and I won 3rd place in the SF/Fantasy category in the Door decorating contest (it was the "so you want to be a Slayer" door.) There was a Stargate that you could walk through that quite rightfully won 1st Prize. My roomies and I did win the "Whose Butt Is It Anyway?" contest. The door feature lot of screen captures of naked butts from film and TV and you had to guess who they belonged to. I recognized the tattoo on Peter Wingfield's butt, and a bunch from Space Cowboys, and my roomies spotted Chris Cooper and the piping from John Crichton's vest, and then we put down Ewan McGregor for many of the reminder thinking he *has* to be in there somewhere.
I had some friends that cleaned up in the Fan Q Awards and there was much rejoicing!
The Stargate Party was a success. People were happy Daniel was coming back, vids were watched and much food and champagne was consumed.
The panels were a bust. I went to a couple of Stargate panels that were moderated by names I didn't know. Turns out they were mainly shippers and I left early on all of them. I'm not confrontary by nature and if 8 to 12 people want to discuss how Daniel is incapable of forming emotional attachments, is very unethical and is responsible for every nasty thing that happened on the show, well, I'm just going to leave. If the only way they can enjoy the show is to slag a character and the actor that plays him, they've got more problems than me telling them they're full of bullcrap. It's obviously a wise choice to leave before one gets splattered by the bull crap, also. And if it wasn't that, it was the moderators telling us why their opinion of something is right and how no one else has a valid veiwpoint. Yawn.
A friend went to a LOTR panel and had to leave early, too. She said there was a big, nasty conflict between the moderators and a group in the audience. They were supposed to discuss each of the characters and the group in the audience thought they'd spent long enough on Aragon.
And people fret about the demise of panels at cons! I wonder why? I think I'm becoming a fan of the Balkanization of Fandom as a way to enjoy fandom -- save for a few DMZs that are inhabited by folks who are not proponents of My Way Or The HighWay ideology.
The Buffy and Smallville panels were interesting and enjoyable, with much Spike and Lex admiration, but of course!
The best panel was on Formatting & Converting Your Fanfic for PDAs, but I missed the first 15 minutes of it. The moderator's website is: http://www.e-fic.com/fries/indexjs.html. A link she thought highly of is: http://www.turcic.com/ All I know is that my brain was full about about 25 minutes, that I've forgotten most of what she said, and that I'd like a new toy.
Art. For you LOTR, XF, Smallville, TS people, look here: http://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/ I wish the artist did Stargate, too. :( This artist does do a smattering of other fandoms, so check it out.
I thought there was a good amount of decent art, and of many different fandoms. It was a good art show, really. I bought a Daniel Jackson piece. I'm happy. :)
I'm not sure where the time went, really. I didn't do as many room crawls as usual, only did the dealer's room twice, didn't attend that many panels, didn't go the vid show, missed many a meal and only read a few pages out of one of my zines. Why did the weekend pass so quickly? What was I doing?? I suppose I must have been socializing. I had a great time, so whatever I was doing, it was a good choice.
So, Kitty, Chris and Bunny -- I have stuff to give you when next I see you (or get to the post office.)