The con may be over, but the post-con stuff rolls on. Here’s my con report over on the blog.
One week until Connecticon!!!!!!
Connecticon is set to occur July 8th to July 10th, 2011 in Hartford, Connecticut at the Connecticut Convention Center! In celebration C-Tokyo will be also doing stuff during the countdown. Connecticon staff has posted the program book (a sneak peek) on the official website so you can get an idea of what’s going on at the Convention!
Want to follow all the pre-con stuff:
+ Connecticon Event on Facebook
+ Connecticon Search on Youtube
+ Connecticon Search on Deviantart
+ Connecticon Search on Flickr
+ Chiba’s Connecticon Pre-Con Videos (Meant to help, may or may not be useful.)
C-Tokyo’s summarizing of the Connecticon Program Guide
+ Part 1: Main Events and Panels
+ Part 3: Board and Console Games
+ Part 4: Tabletop, Boffer, Larp CCG, RPGs
+ Part 5: Guests (Non-Webcomic)
Also, over on the blog where a daily Connecticon Clip of the Day will be linked to fished from all the videos on Youtube. Cosplay Court Case will also be featuring some preview videos and the various machinations leading up to the con (assuming the panel is approved.) Chiba will also be making the rounds of places like Youtube, Deviantart, the Connecticon forums, Cosplay.com, and Facebook as usual.
But wait there’s more!
Just haven’t figured out what that is yet…
Mutton and Mead Festival
Montague/Turners Falls Massachusetts was the setting for the first ever Mutton and Mead Festival, a one day ren faire. Admittedly I wasn’t able to stay too long but I did take some photos and videos and can comment on some things. To see the photos check them out here.
For one thing there was a swordfight on horseback, not too shabby to see. The event drew several of the performers I had seen at the CT Ren Faire, not unexpectedly, and had an assortment of dealer’s. They also converted a building into a tavern quite effectively.
CT Ren Faire 2011!!
The Connecticut Renaissance Faire has returned to scenic Guilford to hold it’s spring faire featuring a Robin Hood style theme. The Faire will be entering it’s last weekend May 21 and 22. On my two visits this year I viewed a lot which I am happy to share. If you can make a trip I recommend it highly.
Katsucon: Belated Report
Another case of where I really should write the report near the time of the actual con rather than wait months. I attended Katsucon for a day this year and saw some impressive stuff. The con venue in a gigantic futuristic hotel was great, and there was just a ton of awesome cosplayers in the house. In the end that’s a lot of what goes into cons, as well as coffee makers everywhere. 
The belated U-Con at UConn report
UCon was fun. >< Really should post I dunno the same weekend right? ><For being a small con it drew a lot of crazy people and cosplayers. Not that many events admittedly but good people hanging around. The small staff does seem to be working each year to improve things and did so from year one to year two.
Cosplay Court Case was out of hand as usual, check out the videos here.
Cosplay Court Case at U-Con, Saturday 2/5/2011 3pm
Despite all objections from law enforcement, Cosplay Court Case returns to U-Con at UConn. It will be held at the convention at 3pm on Saturday, February 5th, at 3pm in SU 330. For videos from last year’s case check it out here. Visit Cosplay Court Case’s homepage here.
U-Con at UConn Approaches
U-Con at UConn is a free 3 day convention at the University of Connecticut set to take place February 4th to 6th, 2011.
Information on the convention can be found here.
The events schedule has also been published here.
Last year was the first year the convention was held and it was as far as I can tell a great success. There was a good amount of attendees for a first time con, in the middle of winter no less, this year’s pre-reg list looks pretty sizable as well.
The Khan Project: A brief expansive exploration of music for some reason.
The Khan Project was a rather silly conception based entirely off of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The villain, Khan sought to avenge the death of his wife on plucky Admiral James T. Kirk leading eventually to Kirk yelling “KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!” That story is well known. As such I sought out any musical artist or musical group named Khan and sampled at least one of their musical pieces. I then wrote down my first reaction to the song using as much brevity as possible, since this was a ton of music to look through. These findings are here! Just as a note I entered the project kind of ignorant to the various types of instruments originating in India and surrounding areas. A similar type of string sound I just assumed to be a Sitar, but there are many instruments that present sounds like that. Without a thorough knowledge I have fallen back on the general term of “exotic strings” to mean either Sitar or something that might sound like it. That may make me sound euro-centric, that is not is the intent in the least.
Manga Manga Manga!
It took me awhile to logic it out, but I figured that while I do enjoy a good action packed anime,there just isn’t enough time to watch too many series, but that a good manga which is less action oriented might be a portable alternative. I.e. Gundam in a Manga, pointless, but a shoujo or just plot oriented comedy might hit the spot.
On my last trip to Boston I went overboard at Comicopia and other assorted bookstores. I decided to sample a bunch of Manga volume 1s and see what happened.
