FA:UNITED! 2014!

WOO! CON REPORT TIME! Ok, so to start off, I had a few thing splanned to do for this con :) firstly, I had two panels, Juggling 101 as I always do, but also a new one that i'm amazed nobody thought to do before, character roundtables, then I also ha the talent show to juggle for. I usually go chronologically with my con reports, but I feel like doing those three first :)

Juggling 101 - The panel this year went very well! First year I actually managed to GET a whiteboard out of the many times I've requested one at my panel XD and it helped out fairly well :) I got about a dozen students, and out of them, all but the ones who gave up after like ten minutes went on to at least flash three balls (aka, throw them all up once and catch them all) and I think I counted a full 6 who actually managed to get good enough to juggle continuously within the space of the hour :D so success!

Talent Show - OH MY HOLY BALLS X3 Ok, so I had gotten some action the night before at my hotel room, the first time actually with a woman <3 and it was great btw ^^ but one thing that meant was i didn't sleep til 4am, which the talent show being at noon was the big kick for. I got up from my second alarm, got dressed, grabbed my stuff, and headed for the con, finding the room already all setup and packed with people about to do the show, and hence it began as I was giving my usb drive with music on it to the sound guys, and then as soon as he handed it back, I heard "and next up is IRONGUT!" and I went. "BHWUUUUUUUAT!?!?! 0_0" and so I had to run up onstage, unceremoniously unpack all my juggling stuff, then on zero warm up time and not even a scrap of food in my hungry belly, perform for everyone XD I somehow managed a decent performance, helpe actually by the fact I underestimated how long my music was, and so it ended in the middle of my ring section, and then they threw on whatever funny music was next and I had a fun moment up there of acting all surprised for the crowd XD In the end, it went well enough and then I ran offstage, found some of the balls that i dropped dramatically, then ran off to get some food and drawings in the dealers den XD

Character Roundtables - So for those who are a bit confused on the idea of this panel, it's pretty simple. Everyone shows up, and gets an unlimited (well, it starts getting long at a half hour XD ) amount of time, to discuss their character, IN DEPTH. That means going into who they are physically, psychologically, why they are the species they are, what their life story was, their skills, abilities, location they live in, their current status and storyline, and all those other beautiful details you spent years crafting but never get the spotlight to talk about. It was a resounding success. I got about a dozen pople in the panel, and they were in and out a bit as the panel did last for four hours, interrupted by the fire alarm of course, but overall, veryone took about twenty minutes or so to explain their character and have questions asked by the other people in the room, and it worked beautifully :) I went first with greg, and then waited to be second to last with my others, and then Lurdanjo went and explained all about himself and Mervas and such, and it worked out very nicely in the end. A few people started going long andboring and talking in circles, and when they did I'd give em a little verbal nudge to try and keep them moving on or to wrap up and let the next person go XD but that was really the only moderation I needed to give to the panel, aside from figuring out who was next to go and giving them the nod :) It's DEFINITELY a panel I'll e doing at a lot of cons from here on out ^^

Aside from that, which was ALL on saturday by the way XD hence my saturday was absolutely INSANE XD I ha another little project called the Book of Shark that i was passing around and getting started, and it worked out wonderfully ^^ better than I hoped! You can see all about it here :D http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14318565/

And then the rest of the con was a fairly good con, i got a good hotel room deal in terms of money at the best value inn just next door, vowed never again to eat at Jersey Mikes Subs. Ten bucks is not worth a single layer of ham on a footlong ham and cheese sub, I dont care HOW fresh it is. And I got a fair number of commissions that I am very happy with ^^ especially from I must have given her at least 60 bucks over the weekend XD and it was alll worth it ^^ as for free sketches this year, that was ok, the art jam panel I went too was done REALLY weirdly, in that it was rigidly timed and structured, where you recieved a paper and character refs and then had ten minuts to draw based on just that. No ideas WHAT to draw them doing or who they were or what they liked, just draw X3 lead to a bunch of pics that all were basically Meh across the board simply because of subject matter. Aaaand, yeah! that I think was my con :D

OH! and if you wanna SEE the unfinished pics I got this year at the con, well then here you go ;) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dj3hmny6.....LBGS0CmTamBnma I'd love to hear comments on the pics I got ^^