I'm going to be running a vidshow for Anime Detour this year. Not an AMV show. A straight up vidshow. Our attendees love AMVs. The rooms with AMV shows are always packed and we have 6-7 of them throughout the weekend. But I often wish they could have some exposure to vids too. So I've decided to give it a shot and see how it goes. Maybe two people ( Read more... )

I want to make a giant post about how completely fulfilling Detour was this year, but the feeling is still a bit too big to put into words. So instead, here are some snapshots of things I want to remember about it ( Read more... )

The Minneapolis Asian Film Festival, in coordination with Anime Twin Cities (the organization that brings you Anime Detour), is showing TWO anime feature films at the St. Anthony Main Theater in November. They are:

Redline - Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 9:30pm (Trailer)

Summer Wars - Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 4:30pm (TrailerClick through to ( Read more... )

I was going to make a big long post about this, but I'm just not up to it. I've thanked the people I sincerely wanted to thank for all the highlights of the weekend and talking about everything that went wrong just feels like beating a dead horse. We live, we learn, we move forward and make things better. So suffice to say that this year was a ( Read more... )

I'm home! I have yet to unpack everything, but as it stands, I have survived Anime Detour 2010. Just barely this time, but I made it. Mostly thanks to all my friends. So, I'd like to say as much.

Thank you to willow_one and hoshizuke, my lovely sub-heads of Programming. For woman-ing the radio when I was unable to, running workshops/panels, headcounting and ( Read more... )

I'm off to Detour for the weekend! My access will be limited, so don't do anything exciting without me, internets.

See many of you there and see many of you on the other side! :D

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Well said, stuckintraffik!

I don't know if I prefer the insanity of the two week clusterfuck that is typical of past years putting together the Programming schedule for Detour, or this drawn out, stamina test of week after week stuff. I think it's less stressful overall, but my motivation is waning and I'm hoping my second wind will come soon. There's still so much to do ( Read more... )

Just got home from another year of representing Anime Detour at JASM's Japanese New Year event, Shinnenkai. The chilrins liked watching Howl's Moving Castle, geekboyonline did all the networking that I suck at, and fishay and I sat at our little "draw manga style!" table, doodled, and chatted with willow_one.

Behold, our amazing collaborative art adventure. Although to be ( Read more... )

Unless the hotel's web site is lying to me, it's looking like the smallest programming room I have to work with for AD 2010 will still seat 175 people. Main Programming? 1,540. On average, a programming room with fit some 362.

I may have just died of happiness a little over here. Panelists, rejoice!