Lg.Is, NY I-CON 25: March 24-26, 2006

I-CON is only a few weeks away. And we have no thread yet!

Details so far:

The DB516 table will be in the dealers room this year.

AeroSith will be playing Masquerade again.

We working on a live chess game, with costumers from different fandoms, most likely for Saturday. Anyone interested in participating should email scifichess@db516.com to sign up.

Clive "Dolt" has a fan film presentation on Sat from 2-4, and is part of panel on indie films at 1.

Other plans include DB516 hosting a panel on costuming, and an AeroSith autograph signing on Sunday.

Did I miss anything?

 

Listen to Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction Radio show. AeroSith's performance at the I-Con 24 (last year, 2005) masquerade headlines Destinies' "I-Con 25 Performers Preview" show this Friday, March 10, at 11:30 PM on 90.1 FM, WUSB, Stony Brook, NY. People can listen online. Goto Aerosith.com for the link to the streaming radio.
--Billy

 

I've got plenty of questions, but since our meeting is 2 days away I'll hold off and ask them there.

 

I hope we start on time. Since I have to leave
to close work. . I'll have to jet
between 2 & 2:30pm.

 

Where do they hold the masquerade party anyway???

 

The Masquerade is in the official Con hotel - Holiday Inn Ronkonkoma. The Con winds down at the University at about 8 PM and everybody goes over to the hotel to continue the party . Masquerade is always lots of fun. Media Guests usually judge the contest and one of them acts as Emcee. --Billy

 

Oh good...that's where I got my hotel booked

 

You're at the hotel too, Mike? w00t!

 

Why don't you come up and see me some time.

 

There was an event I forgot to add! I knew it!

Ken Deep will be hosting the Doctor Who: Podshock on Sunday afternoon in Javitis 108.

 

Anything interesting happening on Sunday??? Unfortunately my audition was rescheduled for the 25th and it's the LAST ONE, so there's no missing this one unless I want to wait another year Luckily it's at 3:30p so I should be out by 4ish which means I can make it down there in time definitely for some Masquerade partying and such

 

To quote some famous smuggler, "I got a bad feeling about this..."

The Schedule PDF on the I-Con website lists my program with a mere *7* words, yet manages to screw up four separate things:

1. The time is wrong. My program is 2:30-4:30, and they have as 2-4.
2. It ain't a panel.
3. It just says it's "fan films," no mention of Star Wars anywhere. That's like saying I-Con is a convention--might be a convention of needlepointers from Missouri, but it doesn't actually matter what the con is about, right?
4. My name is not, has never been and never will be Clive Yang-Young.

These people must be smoking crack. How freakin' hard is it to cut and paste "Star Wars fan films, hosted by Clive Young"? I've written in to complain, but at this late date, I'm sure they're not going to do a damn thing and it'll end up in the convention program like this. This is all on top of the screw-up I had to complain about last week, where in the film section, they cheerily noted that I was showing Star TREK fan films. Just watch--they'll tell me I was misinformed and that my time really is from 2-4, now that this afternoon I priority mailed off 100 flyers to Rob so that they'll be on the DB516 table on Friday night. Unbelievable.

I hope this isn't a portent of things to come and that everything will go swimmingly from here on out, but so far, I'm pretty damn unimpressed and I haven't even gone to the convention yet!

 

However, you now have a new nickname!


In the Film section of the I-CON website they seem to have everything correct.


BTW, welcome to the I-CON experiance.

 

Clive,I guess that's why they call it March Madness.
I got the flyers yesterday. I will start handing
them out Friday .Btw, great job on them.

 

Dont worry anout it Yang.

I-CON seems to be completely F.U.B.A.R. to me this year, but somehow they always manage to pull things off. Even if they have to pull things out of their colective ass to do it.

I just hope I-CON hasn't F---ed over the Chess event we were trying to set up for the past several months.

But for some reason I too have a bad feeling about this.

 

For all my complaining, turns out other people get getting stuck even worse:

A month ago, I found out they're showing an hour-long SW fan film on Saturday night, so I contacted the filmmaker and offered to run his trailer during my program, just to be nice. He sent me the DVD and mentioned that he and his crew would be doing a Q&A after the screening--pretty cool, right?

Last night, I check my email and find two messages from the guy. In the first one, he basically asks "hey, you didn't tell me you were doing a panel; can I be on it?"

But in the second email, sent an hour later, the story gets darker. He had just been informed that because of internal "miscommunication" at I-Con, there are suddenly no passes for him and his crew; they will have to pay to get in. These guys are driving from the very bottom of New Jersey--a 3-4 hour trip to Stony Brook--to supply I-Con with free programming (after promoing the appearance on their website and various fan film sites for months) and through no fault of their own, now have to fork up a full day-of-show rate of $50 each for the honor of showing their movie. If it was me, I'd say F 'em, but amazingly, he's still coming to the Con.

 

...the frell?? Holy crap. What the kriff are the I-CON staff smoking? Did they leave the job up to a bunch of monkeys? No, wait, the monkeys would probably do better.

I know what's wrong--they have a rave troll!

 

It's good to know that all those guys who were fired from FEMA after Katrina found something to do with all their newfound free time.

 

BWAH!

Good one, dude.

 

i think i'm skipping I-con next year. I'm losng my taste for it.

 

It's good to know that all those guys who were fired from FEMA after Katrina found something to do with all their newfound free time.

That really shouldn't be funny.

 

As I write this, you guys are probably mere minutes away from killin' the crowds as Aerosith. Wish I was there, believe me. With Ava in tow, a late night just wasn't in the cards. The CDs and the updated website look great, too, so I'm sure you guys are gonna do great.

For the short time that I got to be there, I actually (surprisingly given the run up to it) had a great time at I-Con. Hopefully next year, I'll get to present again, and can try to arrange to spend the day out there so I can help staff the DB516 booth and such. As it was, the few seconds we had on show floor were spent hanging ever so briefly at the booth, and then it was off to Javits; never got to sift through the other booths, check out any of the other presentations or anything (heck, I never even ate lunch!). I would have liked to have come back over after I was done, but Mish had been looking after the rambunctious little one by herself for 3 hours and that'll demolish anyone, so it was only fair to Mish that we call it a day. I hope the rest of the day went well and that tomorrow goes well!

 

Clive,Not everyone can help or do as much as they
like all the time. Any help is good. Your out
spreading the SW word. BTW, everyone He
had great Fan film show. Minus he evil "One
Season More" LOL!!! Clive, We might have ICON 25
Aerosith DVD Viewing party (when its finished)at
my place. Will talk more about this at next meeting.
You did miss a great show. But , that why we taped it.
This was my 1st X seeing the guys live. It Rocked!!!
Well, i have go now and rest the few brain sells that
i have left from the week (got back from Trip from FL
on MOnday).

I'm out
T-KAOS

 

Hi everyone. I had blast this weekend. But I'm
dead tried. It was so hard to leaving for work
Sunday afternoon. I wanted to stay to the end. I
cant believe I was the first one at table Sat &
Sun morning. Caffenie made me survive
the weekend. After I looked & felt out down and
out the nights before. Billy I E mailed the pix
I took to you this morning. Kenny The pix of you &
Sulu is in your mail box

 

Wow! I-CON 25 was the best of all of them for me so far. It was trememendous fun hanging out with all the DB516 members at the table in the dealers room and doing the AeroSith show. Cant wait 'til next year now.
Does anyone have photos that they can send me? We have no photos of the AeroSith performance (even if for now you can e-mail the few best ones you have). People are asking for AeroSith photos for the site.
Also send me any DB516 photos and Triss can put em up on DB516.com.
Send to davistb@aol.com
Thanks --Billy