Boring pictures from Dragon*con

[justalurkr]

Why are they boring? Because I was too cheap to purchase a digital camera with the kind of zoom helpful in the appreciation of the fine works of art that are Cliff Simon and Kavan Smith. [sigh] So, basically, you're getting the D*C program and all the stuff I spent money on:



The official program, which pretty much houses copious ads and participant bios.



Piece of paper: my membership for next year's con, which costs only $40 if you pre-register at this year's.

Black background/Stargate Atlanta: Logo on the T-shirt representing the local association of SG fans I finally officially joined. They've got monthly meetings in Stone Mountain, GA, which provides an excellent excuse to be in the neighborhood of an excellent bead store (not for nothin'.)

Everything else has closeups below (points down.)



It's shiny and twisty and silver and MINE. [pets the pretty]


First year for the Stargate Offworld track, part of which was a jewelry demo resulting in the above necklace, which features aventurine, brass heishes and garnet tubes that aren't showing up well on the T-shirt background. The Isis medallion was provided by the demonstrator (class + materials = $20) and will, with no disrespect intended, be replaced by something...better.


How can one see a movie called Snakes on a Plane, laugh one's ass off, then pass this by? It isn't natural, the people who can do that.


If you squint hard, you can make out a silver hawk with a lapis lazuli cabachon set in it. I promise that when this is a necklace, I'll hold the camera better.


They put those impulse purchase things (like official D*C shot glasses) right there where otherwise innocent con-goers are buying next year's membership. It isn't fair.

Comments

[eviljr.livejournal.com]

Was that con this weekend? Time flies...was it fun?

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Every Labor Day in Atlanta, there is Dragon*Con. :D

The con is a lot more fun with other people, but nialla42 had some lame excuse connected to money (I swear if she weren't such a princess about living indoors and eating regularly, she'd have ever so much more fun in life) prior commitments and booksale drop (not unlike con drop, but not nearly so much fun to get.)

This year was, if one can apply the word to a sci fi convention, more productive than plain fun. I hung out largely at the Writing Track, seeking words of wisdom that might help with NaNoWriMo and getting a lot more than I expected. There were side trips into Centennial Hall for the SGA panels (we missed Chris Judge!) and to the Learning Center for the Fantasy/Comedy portion of the Film Festival, but mainly I gawped at published authors and took copious notes that I will be v. lucky to be able to translate later. Debra Dixon's one-woman presentations on "Goal, Motivation and Conflict" followed later by "The Hero's Journey" were far and away the most immediately useful, but other people had encouraging things to say.

If the Dixon panels hold any interest for you, the content is covered in a lot more detail in these books:

Dixon's own Goal, Motivation and Conflict (http://www.debradixon.com/gmc.html)

Chris Vogler's This is a link to an example website (http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Journey-Mythic-Structure/dp/0941188701/sr=8-1/qid=1157411608/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3915726-3552747?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Debra Dixon did an extraordinary job of abstracting Writer's Journey, which I'd read, and I'm going to assume she did an equally excellent job on her own work. ;)

Also, I learned That Fan is ubiquitous and eternal: some jackass stood up and asked the SG panel what they thought of the "fulfilling lives" their characters lead in fanfiction. The response from the audience suggests he was lucky to escape the hall alive.

[eviljr.livejournal.com]

very interesting! I had considered going to the con..but I couldn't save for it and going to NJ in Nov at the same time.

Thanks for the info. :)