| 'Convention Update' |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|06:27 pm] |
I won't make it to AX due to schedule conflicts (and peak season ticket rates).
I will however, be attending XNA GAMEFEST SEATTLE to learn more about gaming and what microsoft and its partners have in store in the near future. |
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| 'Emerald City Comic Con 2008' |
[May. 13th, 2008|09:15 am] |
To be honest I was surprised on how small ECCC was, which I'm grateful since I didn't have to run around a lot. Met a lot of talented people, and talked to a lot of professionals who gave me some good advice. I achieved all of my quotas for the con and I'm very happy to have accomplished it on the first day.
Sunday was less cumbersome since I didn't lug around piles of autographed books and comics. Took some good shots but I could've done more if I brought my lens adapter with me. After the con I went with my friend Mala to buy stuff for Mother's Day and Seattle was pretty forgiving with the weather that day. We went to visit her mom at Vashon and dined on some delectable asian cuisine. Its been a while since I ate quail and chicken feet :D
Little stressful, lots of fun, knowledge was gained, and I overshot my budget limit again but it was truly a blessing to have experienced a con like that.
Ok less talking and more photos :D Enjoy the pics!
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As a bonus here's some pics of goodies that I got from the convention in a "how-to" format featuring one of Mal's original SP art.
( How to pack an original Scott Pilgrim art ) |
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| 'Back from ECCC' |
[May. 13th, 2008|02:35 am] |
Just got back from Seattle, I'm plum tired.
I have the convention pictures up at my flickr but I'll post a proper entry once I get the backups up on photobucket tomorrow (and get enough rest to type an entry properly). |
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| 'Onward To Raintown Again!' |
[May. 9th, 2008|10:24 am] |
Heading up to Seattle in a couple of hours.
Expect some pictures when I get back :D |
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| 'Sakuracon 08 + Seattle Trip Report' |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|08:28 pm] |
Overall this year's Sakuracon was, in a nutshell, 'Stressfully Fun'.
Me and a couple of friends stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel. Not exactly the best hotel we've stayed in but we did get a room with cozy sheets for us to sleep under. We got our badges before con-time and started prepping up for artist's alley the following day.
Friday day was alright, sold a couple of prints even though it was a slow day. It rained and snowed for a little bit. I sat with my long-time artist alley partner Mala, who won the Sakuracon mascot contest 2 years in a row before yielding to another artist this year. She made a lot of commissions and her boyfriend Nick was a big help in helping with sales. I mostly sketched, printed business cards and ran errands back and forth while signing and rolling my prints up for people. I rarely do commissions on-site nowadays since I love to take my time when I sketch.
Saturday day got better. The one thing that made my day all throughout con-time was meeting a very interesting person from a specific video game company. I won't disclose any information yet but we'll see how my luck turns out. Same old stuff I did since yesterday but the crowd got more massive as the day progressed. I took pictures of cosplayers and bought stuff from the dealer's room as Nick filled in for me. I forgot to mention that I brought my Heelys with me hahaha, so I was rolling all over the artist's alley when I got bored.
Last day, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rakugaking and zombotto showed up and we hanged around Seattle for a bit. Gave them some 'special' prints and we dined away at the Pike Place food court and went to Zanadu comic book shop. I messed up a bit and gave a couple of wrong prints to them so I still have to send the right ones after I get some proper packaging.
After the con I went to Mala's house, met her parents and dined an array of asian dishes. Dishes like sticky rice, balut and catfish soup. Very appetizing stuff I tell you :D After a lot of life story conversations we headed out and slept and Nick's place. Nick's mom has this bad ass, full-sized Spiderman statue complete with Spiderman bling and he kept me company all throughout the night. We brawled a bit with SSBB the next day and cleaned Nick's bathroom. I love cleaning dirty stuff, its a very zen moment when you see everything sparkling and tidy.
Anyway I'll leave you off with pictures, I got a slight fever today and I hope it doesn't get worse.
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