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davemerrill) wrote2013-10-01 10:48 am
davemerrill) wrote2013-10-01 10:48 am
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AWA 19 '13 (take your pick)
And we're back from AWA. Bottom line is that it was a good show, with a big jump in attendance, and attendees that seemed to be having a good time, and staffers that wound up having to deal with a lot of last minute problems, some of which were avoidable and some of which weren't, some of which were absolute nonsense. But for all the crazy and the drama behind the scenes, the attendee on the street or on the walkway between Cumberland and the Galleria seemed to be having a great time. I did not take a lot of pix.
Over at my folks' house the hummingbirds were out in full force. It had been raining on Wednesday but the sun came out on Thursday and weather was great all weekend long.
We had the largest crowd for opening ceremonies ever.
SHFS had fewer hitches than last year - we did have a few goofs, one of which we caused, another of which we caused, and another of which was the hotel's fault, and we had one guest show up and ask where her table was because she's a guest and she always gets a table, where is her table. Not that she bothered to actually take any steps to make sure she had a table, it's just assumed that since it's happened in the past it's going to happen this year. A recurring theme of this year's AWA, you might say.
I did a few panels, they were all well attended, here's people learning about Knack Animation.
Here's a goose dressed as my brother.
Tina Belcher took time off from her job at Bob's Burgers to make a rare public appearance!
As did Cyborg 004. The appearance part, not the burgers part.
As per usual I spend most of the con running around doing stuff. This year there seemed to be a lot of me making sure people had stuff and people were found and people had places to sleep. If I'm going to be doing this stuff I need a personal assistant or somebody needs to buy me a smart phone that works in Atlanta at less than $2 a minute roaming charges. My hotel room was over in the Sheraton which is not convenient in any way for pretty much anything. It was a transitional year, let's just say, but the staff sucked it up and put on their big boy pants and in my opinion, knocked this one out of the park.
Over at my folks' house the hummingbirds were out in full force. It had been raining on Wednesday but the sun came out on Thursday and weather was great all weekend long.
We had the largest crowd for opening ceremonies ever.
SHFS had fewer hitches than last year - we did have a few goofs, one of which we caused, another of which we caused, and another of which was the hotel's fault, and we had one guest show up and ask where her table was because she's a guest and she always gets a table, where is her table. Not that she bothered to actually take any steps to make sure she had a table, it's just assumed that since it's happened in the past it's going to happen this year. A recurring theme of this year's AWA, you might say.
I did a few panels, they were all well attended, here's people learning about Knack Animation.
Here's a goose dressed as my brother.
Tina Belcher took time off from her job at Bob's Burgers to make a rare public appearance!
As did Cyborg 004. The appearance part, not the burgers part.
As per usual I spend most of the con running around doing stuff. This year there seemed to be a lot of me making sure people had stuff and people were found and people had places to sleep. If I'm going to be doing this stuff I need a personal assistant or somebody needs to buy me a smart phone that works in Atlanta at less than $2 a minute roaming charges. My hotel room was over in the Sheraton which is not convenient in any way for pretty much anything. It was a transitional year, let's just say, but the staff sucked it up and put on their big boy pants and in my opinion, knocked this one out of the park.