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It’s official — I survived attending both PAX and Dragon*Con. I didn’t throw my health and fitness plan out the window, and I didn’t become Patient Zero for some kind of crud carried from the former to the latter. I’m also safely out of the incubation window for rhinovirus, so if I get sick now, it’s either not a cold, or it’s a cold I didn’t pick up at either convention.
5 More Terrible Places to Take Pictures at Dragon*Con
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 3, 2011
I thought I had mined this territory in the last post. Then I walked through three hotels to get where I was going. I love Dragon*Con and its fans, but in the interest of everyone’s safety and the flow of traffic, here are five more bad choices for picture-taking spots.
I get it. Great costumes are great. Pictures of great costumes are also great. There are many, many great costumes to take great pictures of at Dragon*Con. And it’s really tempting to, in spite of signs that say “No Photography,” think, “I’ll just snap a quick picture. I mean, it’s Princess Leia next to Leeloo Dallas, and Bender is with them! How can I pass that up?”
The trouble is, that temporary stop in forward motion attracts the attention of everyone else who is toting a camera. Before long, the whole hallway is blocked with a series of one quick pictures.
Dragon*Con 2011: Len Peralta Announces Geek a Week Season 2
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 2, 2011
Chanel wrote about Len Peralta’s Geek a Week project — a series of trading cards with illustrations of awesome geeks on the front and bios written by musical duo Paul and Storm on the back — when the original set was reaching its conclusion. Peralta’s follow-up to the series launched on Sept. 2, 2011, and he announced it in a Geek a Week panel at Dragon*Con 2011.
Dragon*Con 2011: Thimblerig Circus Does Things No Human Should Do with Glass
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 2, 2011
Full disclosure: I’ve known the performers in Thimblerig Circus for a really long time. The Moldavian circus troupe (yes, Moldavia, a place that used to be a place but isn’t anymore) has been performing around Atlanta for a few years now, and I’ve been trying to get together with them for an interview for about half that time. I finally got the chance to interview the group at Dragon*Con 2011 during the Yellow Ribbon Party, the former unofficial fan event to support the USO of Georgia that has become an official part of Dragon*Con programming. (The party still supports the USO.)
Why Dragon*Con’s ‘No Badge, No Entry’ Policy Is a Good Thing
by Tracy V. Wilson | August 31, 2011
Creative Loafing is spreading the word about a tweak to Dragon*Con‘s badge policy this year. Basically, if you don’t have a badge, you can’t get into the host hotels, not even into the public areas where, in past years, you could hang out, have a drink and watch the crowd.
Historically, PAX and Dragon*Con have both fallen on Labor Day weekend. This year, the Washington State Convention & Trade Center wasn’t available — or, at least, not all of it — over Labor Day, so PAX moved a week earlier. This means lots of geeks who have previously had to choose between them are jumping at the chance to go to both.
I have a name for these people: Disease Vectors.
One of the nonwork things I’ve been up to lately is doing some serious work on my health and fitness. It’s been about nine weeks of slow, steady progress, and now I’m looking at my first big obstacle … for the first time, PAX and Dragon*Con aren’t on the same weekend, so I’m going to both of them. All in, that’s basically a week and a half away from my normal nutrition and fitness routine, and I want to make sure I don’t get home to find that I’ve taken some giant steps backward.
‘Four Days at Dragon*Con’ Comes to a Public TV Station Near You
by Tracy V. Wilson | March 28, 2011
If you follow the FanStuff Facebook page, you’ve heard a little about “Four Days at Dragon*Con,” the Telly Award-winning documentary from Atlanta’s PBA30 that covers, well, Dragon*Con. Our own Jonathan Strickland was one of the people interviewed on camera — he gives some background on the convention and insight into fan culture. And, in the interest of full disclosure, I met up with Jack Walsh, the documentary’s director, along with some others, to talk through some ideas before filming. But even without HowStuffWorks’ involvement, I’d still think it’s a pretty cool documentary.
FanStuff Guide to Fan Etiquette No. 2: Save Your Story for the Table
by Tracy V. Wilson | February 4, 2011
Once more with feeling: I love fans. I love the crazy levels of excitement that can just take over people who are about to see or meet somebody they idolize. But the trouble with that excitement is that it can take over the people at the microphone at a celebrity Q&A.
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