| AC08 Post-Con Report! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2008|09:40 am] |
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WOW WOW WOW WOW :D SO MUCH FUN WHOOO!
Now for the unabridged version-- XDDDD
This year, Anthrocon was another blast, in what I'm calling everyfur's home in Pittsburgh. Wow, what a great time. Attendance felt about the same though there were 3,390 people reg'd... amazing! The dances stood out most in my memory, since those were the places to go and charge up with energy, and then spend that energy on the rest of the con. AMAZING. X3
There were ups and downs this year personally. Sometimes I'd be lazing in the Zoo, kinda outta contact with the people I knew and just watching the con go by. Took me a little while to get over myself and start meeting completely new people, but with help that worked out.
Got to meet up with Kain, Atma, Sharky, Kody, Corvin, Tig and Provo, Sharky's guppy Featherwing, roomed with Wally Wolf, Huge Wolf, Norby Wolf, and met random cool peoples like Renamon (the dragon Renamon who was on a quest to hug every dragony thing out there!), Lupinator who KICKED ASS at drawing with pencil 8D, and saw Dekadens... um... there were so many others--Blue Raptor (who gave me cubes of food for the end of the world, whoohoo!), Talyn who's all-around kicktail, and on Sunday even called Savant and left him a lil' message on his answering machine, all the way from Bucca di Beppo in PA: "HEY SAVANT!" :) Then there was Reveille, Snapai and Rianith, and then the gentleman who was into making blinkies, who mentioned 2DKits.com and... um... fark, there were two furs who approached Snapai and me while we were doodling in the Zoo, looking to exchange knowledge in art. You guys came over where a dragon who had his iBook running a slideshow of his art.... remember me? I remember you, just need to find your info I wrote! Eeep :) and then uh... oh man, I suck because there were a lot more of you and my mind can't recall. But I can eventually remember you all, I can! :)
The one ugly running theme for me was that I couldn't draw all con long. If you've seen my FA, you have likely seen that I can at least draw moderately. (Very, very mediocrely-moderately in fact, compared to all the dealers and artists at con. Lulz.) It's my fault, I'm not gonna drama. Going without drawing for a month before con and then trying to skribble hard fronting like I'm really good didn't get me far this time. But I did practice hard while there and now after con, I have my drawing skills back, and even during-con and post-con doodles to show later. I'm forgetting cool stuff because it's been so long since everything ended, fark... oh yah, artists I got to fanboy over: Seel, Spunkywulf, umm.... *facepaw* Fossil... um, the dude who always does that hilarious art during the Funday Pawpet Show (and I saw Pawpets Gone Wild live, in fact!)--think Poinklets-- there was also Michele Light (I SHOULD have gotten that Tiki Bar fox t-shirt, I so regret not getting it!), Lizardbeth, even saw some stuff from Skifi, grabbed another portfolio from J. Axer 'cuz he deserves supportings like that, and watched Mab from DMFA from a distance, 'cuz she's like, too cool to even approach. Next time I'll grab some more art, had more money to spend than I thought. MIRACLE. o.o
Hee, the dealer's den had dragon dildos and lube for sale. XDDDD No, I didn't buy any of that. Though I was so curious... O_O
The art show rawked. I didn't even try to bid on anything, I knew I'd never make it, or afford it. But man, the overall quality of the pieces displayed was... I ran out of adjectives for this... so highly wonderful to enjoy. It's like going to a real honest like, Smithsonian Gallery of furry art. There needs to be more stuff like this made, which is why I wanna make something really nice for the art show next year.
Got to see a lotta old friends, a few online-only friends (who are now not just online-only anymore! Whoo!) and I learned an important personal lesson that made the con more enjoyable: Have courage to meet totally new people, and you'll be exposed to new fun in new ways, and have a more special time of it. Just by meeting new people, I wanna get to know them some, share interests, expose each other to new interests. I am sorry to everyone too, when I made promises to meet up in certain places and then I didn't meet at all, 'cuz I was sleeping or distracted or just FORGOT... please, I am bad at that--it's better not to agree to meet up anywhere with me, because I'll be late, or likely not be there at all. That's the one really really bad part about me, and it only happens at cons. I'll try hard to stop that bad habit from now on.
There may be a part 2 to this con report, as I inevitably remember more stuff. :D Other than that forgetfulness of me though, such coolness as usual, Anthrocon is the AwesomeCon! See everyone in 2009! |
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