{"id":345,"date":"2011-10-25T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-10-25T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T21:38:30","slug":"con-recap-gmx-v3-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/con-recap-gmx-v3-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Con Recap – GMX v3 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

So first off, I realize I have been writing reviews of conventions, but I have not really let people know who I am and how that affects my view of the conventions I attend.\u00a0 I am an\u00a0artist<\/a>, a\u00a0dealer<\/a>\u00a0(selling art and costumes), and often a guest at many conventions.\u00a0 I spend most of my day at a table, signing art or putting elf ears on customers.\u00a0 This means I miss most panels that I am not on and often cannot stay up as late as others when partying late into the night (although, what I miss in time, I try to make up in intensity).<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s GMX I am all of the above.\u00a0 As a featured guest, I only had a few panels, but we had a setup in the dealers room and art in the artist alley.<\/p>\n

That being set up, here is my experience of\u00a0GMX v3 2011<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Arrival went smoothly.\u00a0 We got our badges and bracelets and set up at our tables.\u00a0 All the con staff was really friendly and helped us get set up and ready for the show.\u00a0 When I walked by registration it seemed the line was moving quickly and everyone was in a good mood.\u00a0 Even by two o’clock on Friday, the halls were starting to get crowded.<\/p>\n

The dealers room was large and had a good assortment of goods, guests, and vendors.\u00a0 The artist alley was a little small – just Paul and I, two web comics (Fruit!<\/a>\u00a0And\u00a0Trouble Ticket<\/a>), and an energy drink vendor.\u00a0 Traffic was slow at the end of the hall and the wall was leaking water behind our booth (which we didn’t want to bring up to the hotel in case they moved us to an even worse place).<\/p>\n

As it got close to closing time we had to judge the art contest, which was a lot of fun, and it was really great to give back to the con community by providing critique to aspiring artists. The art contest panel was\u00a0Paul Bielaczyc<\/a>,\u00a0Sam Flegal<\/a>, and me.\u00a0 After that it was time for a quick dinner and then back for the late night festivities.\u00a0 Last year we had a great time at the Frolicon Friday night \u201cDead Celebrities\u201d party, so we couldn’t wait to see what was in store for us this year.\u00a0 The\u00a0501st<\/a>‘s party was both nights and on Friday it was jam packed.\u00a0 After having a cup of some strange purple concoction, I had to step out of the room because it was packed tighter than a spaceship full of tribbles (yes, I’m making a Star Trek crack talking about a Star Wars party, the 501st guys might take me down next time I see them… well I’d be worried if stormtroopers could aim worth a damn).<\/p>\n

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So first off, I realize I have been writing reviews of conventions, but I have not really let people know who I am and how that affects my view of the conventions I attend.\u00a0 I am an\u00a0artist, a\u00a0dealer\u00a0(selling art and costumes), and often a guest at many conventions.\u00a0 I spend most of my day at … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,51,27,25],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","tag-convention","tag-gmx","tag-show","tag-steampunk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}