Convention, convention, convention
Memorial Day weekend was full of cons, of which I visited two and had some contact with a third.
Normally you'll find me at Baycon, but this year I headed over to the venerable San Jose Doubletree to check out the new player in town; Clockwork Alchemy. It was too small for the space, really, but shows a lot of promise and I'll be interested to see how it grows up.
Since Clockwork was a child convention of Fanime, that meant that the membership for one also counted for the other, plus there was a shuttle from the San Jose Convention Center to the Doubletree, running every thirty minutes or so during peak hours. So, a few of us hoped on and headed over on Saturday when things got slow at CA. We spend hours just in the Artist Alley, and the energy and costumes were amazing.
Finally, Joe Price and I swung by the Hyatt Regency to have dinner with folks on Thursday night pre-Baycon and then again on Monday evening post-Baycon. It was nice to catch up with folks I sometimes only see once a year during that convention. Plus we got all the gossip, which is 25% of the convention experience right there.
All in all it was a fun weekend, I know some people disliked traveling between conventions and having their friends scattered, but frankly I kind of enjoyed this weird floating archipelago of fandom. Hopping from island to island when you wanted a change in your diet felt like being on some weird package vacation to an fannish resort.
As always a full write up to follow in SF/SF
Normally you'll find me at Baycon, but this year I headed over to the venerable San Jose Doubletree to check out the new player in town; Clockwork Alchemy. It was too small for the space, really, but shows a lot of promise and I'll be interested to see how it grows up.
Since Clockwork was a child convention of Fanime, that meant that the membership for one also counted for the other, plus there was a shuttle from the San Jose Convention Center to the Doubletree, running every thirty minutes or so during peak hours. So, a few of us hoped on and headed over on Saturday when things got slow at CA. We spend hours just in the Artist Alley, and the energy and costumes were amazing.
Finally, Joe Price and I swung by the Hyatt Regency to have dinner with folks on Thursday night pre-Baycon and then again on Monday evening post-Baycon. It was nice to catch up with folks I sometimes only see once a year during that convention. Plus we got all the gossip, which is 25% of the convention experience right there.
All in all it was a fun weekend, I know some people disliked traveling between conventions and having their friends scattered, but frankly I kind of enjoyed this weird floating archipelago of fandom. Hopping from island to island when you wanted a change in your diet felt like being on some weird package vacation to an fannish resort.
As always a full write up to follow in SF/SF