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furtechSpent a couple of hours (lit.) at AX this year. Got there in time to run (again, lit.) through the dealers room, chat with a couple of friends and see most of the masquerade. I could have used a few more hours there to see folks, but interest-wise that was about enough for me (lack of interesting panels and activities).
Full Flickr set here
I was vocal about how much I disliked AX's move to the Los Angeles Convention Center (from the wonderful Anaheim Convention Center), but things have definitely improved. Most of this is pure luck for AX: L.A. has made huge improvements to the area in the form of the L.A. Live/Nokia Plaza and the eateries around it (lots of good food choices there now). Having panels at the L.A. Live venue was really nice: you could eat a meal and watch the panel/contest/etc. outside. Plus, L.A. closed off the short street between the Staples Center and the Nokia Plaza, so it was easy to go back and forth between the venues. I -really- think San Diego should close off Harbor to everything but shuttles in front of the convention center-- traffic is gridlocked already. This would get rid of the pedestrian traffic jams as people try to cross the street between the convention center and the hotels.
The area around the L.A. Convention center was (I'm guessing) sweeped and felt cleaner and safer than usual. Props to logistics!
Lots of nice costumes, both in the halls and at the masquerade. Check out the Flickr set for more pics. Since I was only there for a couple of hours, I'm sure I missed a lot of neat ones.
The only downsides: I hate the Nokia Theater. I didn't mind the charged admission, but I *HATE* the Gestapo-like security at the Nokia: body-searches, metal detectors, confiscation of bottles and pointy-things. The event is a fan masquerade, not a high-profile rap concert! It took forever to get through those lines and heaven forbid you had a pen-knife or a leatherman tool: I saw one guy dump his multitool rather than have to go back to his car/hotel to stow it. I will avoid going to anything at the Nokia if I possibly can.
The other downside: Allowing a dealer to sell Vuvuzelas at the con. I am growing to red-eye-hate these things. And the dorks who think it's "hur-hur, cool!" to blow them. One idiot was blowing it during the Taiko concert! Nice.
Otherwise, had a decent time. Wish I could have seen folks for more, but I had things to take care of.
Full Flickr set here
I was vocal about how much I disliked AX's move to the Los Angeles Convention Center (from the wonderful Anaheim Convention Center), but things have definitely improved. Most of this is pure luck for AX: L.A. has made huge improvements to the area in the form of the L.A. Live/Nokia Plaza and the eateries around it (lots of good food choices there now). Having panels at the L.A. Live venue was really nice: you could eat a meal and watch the panel/contest/etc. outside. Plus, L.A. closed off the short street between the Staples Center and the Nokia Plaza, so it was easy to go back and forth between the venues. I -really- think San Diego should close off Harbor to everything but shuttles in front of the convention center-- traffic is gridlocked already. This would get rid of the pedestrian traffic jams as people try to cross the street between the convention center and the hotels.
The area around the L.A. Convention center was (I'm guessing) sweeped and felt cleaner and safer than usual. Props to logistics!
Lots of nice costumes, both in the halls and at the masquerade. Check out the Flickr set for more pics. Since I was only there for a couple of hours, I'm sure I missed a lot of neat ones.
The only downsides: I hate the Nokia Theater. I didn't mind the charged admission, but I *HATE* the Gestapo-like security at the Nokia: body-searches, metal detectors, confiscation of bottles and pointy-things. The event is a fan masquerade, not a high-profile rap concert! It took forever to get through those lines and heaven forbid you had a pen-knife or a leatherman tool: I saw one guy dump his multitool rather than have to go back to his car/hotel to stow it. I will avoid going to anything at the Nokia if I possibly can.
The other downside: Allowing a dealer to sell Vuvuzelas at the con. I am growing to red-eye-hate these things. And the dorks who think it's "hur-hur, cool!" to blow them. One idiot was blowing it during the Taiko concert! Nice.
Otherwise, had a decent time. Wish I could have seen folks for more, but I had things to take care of.
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Date: 2010-07-06 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-06 11:33 pm (UTC)Which leads me to the comparison between them and a brief experience that my father-in-law had in a bathroom in Japantown not only briefly broke the language barrier (he doesn't speak English, only Italian) but had him laughing harder than I'd ever seen him do (the man is a very calm, mellow guy, so seeing him laugh hard enough to have tears in his eyes was a glee for me). Part of it had to do with D finding the photo of the guy on the bike with one coming out of..well, a very uncomfortable place, and not the back of his Volkswagon.
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Date: 2010-07-08 07:27 am (UTC)While I can sort of go with vuvuzelas being ok in the right situation, I can't think of many that they'd be "right". Even at the soccer games I kept hearing about how important the team songs are, and that the vuvuzelas totally ruined that.
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Date: 2010-07-07 05:36 am (UTC)its only an anime con xDD
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Date: 2010-07-08 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-07 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 07:43 am (UTC)Here it is:
Any idea what this is from?
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Date: 2010-08-30 10:44 pm (UTC)