Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
a less labored day 1:57 PM
It was around 3:30am when we finally got back to the Edstead. I had dehydrated to the point where I had a headache and felt hungover, even though I hadn't gone to sleep yet. So, I drank a couple glasses of water and a couple of Acetaminophen and I crawled in to bed. But there was no sleeping in on the holiday. The cat being a cat had to wake me up before 8am. Stupid cat.
I did take advantage of the day off to relax, nap, play a video game and watch Finding Nemo on the Disney channel. Nice.
I'll get back to work some time this week.
I did take advantage of the day off to relax, nap, play a video game and watch Finding Nemo on the Disney channel. Nice.
I'll get back to work some time this week.
burning dan 9:26 AM
So, the show was Sunday night. I'd been pulling together clips for the last couple weeks and filled up a chunk of hard drive with encoded DV. I planned on authoring the DVDs of new stuff on Saturday. That didn't happen. Instead I spent Friday and Saturday drawing a thousand frames for an animated opening for the show. I got it finished Saturday night. It looked great on playback. And then I tried to encode it to DVD.
Yeah, that pretty much wasn't gonna work.
So, I regretfully gave up on it and moved on. Discs were burned. Gear was checked and packed. Candy was placed in the Jack-o-lantern. I've got the routine down.
When Ed got up we piled everything into the Ednaught and headed off to pick up Mila. Once we got to Mila's we piled everything into her Kia and went to AnimeFEST. Ed and Mila had checked out AnimeFEST on Saturday night and Mila thought the screen was a bit small in Panel Room 2. It turned out that Panel Room 2 was the same room we'd done HELL in last year.
Unfortunately, unlike last year I didn't get the set up time I'd requested. This year there was some sorta Korean K-Drama video panel going on right up to 10pm and the start of our show. This resulted in the Korean K-Drama video panel having to put up with the extra traffic and the noise from the good sized crowd that was queuing up outside Panel Room 2. I'd like to apologize to the Korean video panel for all of that, but I'd also like to point out that if I'd gotten that half hour setup time before the show it could've easily been avoided.
And it was a good sized crowd that queued up. I started watching the hall for the Fire Marshal to show up. Despite being scheduled at 10pm on a Sunday night we'd outgrown another panel room. So much for a nice intimate show.
Other then S.R.O. and the lack of setup time there surprisingly were no real technical glitches. We ran through the new material, Katie had everybody dancing the Macarena and we ended the whole thing sometime after one in the morning. And we still had a good sized crowd when we finished. If only they'd all run this smoothly.
Let's see. I had Bruce, Katie, Ed, Mila, Avery and Steven Gonzales on the microphones mining the comedy gold. So, there was no shortage of riffing between the audience and the show. Lord knows my ears were ringing by the time we finished.
And that pretty much was how Hell Nurse Katie's 5th Hell went. Thanks to everybody who came to the show, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. And Thanks to Bruce, Ed, Mila, Avery, Steven and Katie for the help. I hope we can do it all again at YuleCon.
Yeah, that pretty much wasn't gonna work.
So, I regretfully gave up on it and moved on. Discs were burned. Gear was checked and packed. Candy was placed in the Jack-o-lantern. I've got the routine down.
When Ed got up we piled everything into the Ednaught and headed off to pick up Mila. Once we got to Mila's we piled everything into her Kia and went to AnimeFEST. Ed and Mila had checked out AnimeFEST on Saturday night and Mila thought the screen was a bit small in Panel Room 2. It turned out that Panel Room 2 was the same room we'd done HELL in last year.
Unfortunately, unlike last year I didn't get the set up time I'd requested. This year there was some sorta Korean K-Drama video panel going on right up to 10pm and the start of our show. This resulted in the Korean K-Drama video panel having to put up with the extra traffic and the noise from the good sized crowd that was queuing up outside Panel Room 2. I'd like to apologize to the Korean video panel for all of that, but I'd also like to point out that if I'd gotten that half hour setup time before the show it could've easily been avoided.
And it was a good sized crowd that queued up. I started watching the hall for the Fire Marshal to show up. Despite being scheduled at 10pm on a Sunday night we'd outgrown another panel room. So much for a nice intimate show.
Other then S.R.O. and the lack of setup time there surprisingly were no real technical glitches. We ran through the new material, Katie had everybody dancing the Macarena and we ended the whole thing sometime after one in the morning. And we still had a good sized crowd when we finished. If only they'd all run this smoothly.
Let's see. I had Bruce, Katie, Ed, Mila, Avery and Steven Gonzales on the microphones mining the comedy gold. So, there was no shortage of riffing between the audience and the show. Lord knows my ears were ringing by the time we finished.
And that pretty much was how Hell Nurse Katie's 5th Hell went. Thanks to everybody who came to the show, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. And Thanks to Bruce, Ed, Mila, Avery, Steven and Katie for the help. I hope we can do it all again at YuleCon.
Friday, September 04, 2009
save analog TV 8:41 AM
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Gundam Creator: "Video Games Are Evil" 7:47 AM
Gamasutra - News - CEDEC 09: Keynote - Gundam Creator: "Video Games Are Evil": "'I think that video games are evil,' says Tomino. '[Gaming] is not a type of activity that provides any support to our daily lives, and all these consoles are just consuming electricity! Let's say we have about three billion people on this planet wasting their time, bringing no productivity at all. Add 10 billion more people, and what would happen to our planet? Video games are assisting the death of our planet!'"
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
video flier...yay! 9:12 AM
OtakuHELL at AnimeFEST 2009 from tohoscope on Vimeo.
And it's what it is. Other then a few notes I made before hand I pretty much put this one together as I went. And it looks like it. I didn't have any real idea what I wanted to do or where I was going and I'm a bit frustrated by what I came up with. So the result is too unfocused. But, I'm out of time. This had to get done and posted.
Why this was any different from doing the video fliers for the May shows I'm not certain. I think most of my frustration is coming from the fact that this one didn't come together like previous video fliers. I think I could've done something more, but I can't think of what that could be.
It's my work methods. They're not serving me here.
