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Reflections of FCN
16 years ago
Where oh where to start...
Friday was an early one as Skyfox and I loaded up the truck, and prepared our journey to Novi, MI. at 5am. After about 2.5 hours on the road, we finally arrived it the Sheraton hotel. Not to our surprise there were the typical furs standing by the front doors smoking, but as we soon piled out of the front seats after parking, found ourselves amused with the fact there were two other meetings going on at the same time.
For example, there was a business meeting luncheon going on in the main lobby area; which I have to chuckle at the sight it must have been to see all these men and women, eating their lunches, and seeing a bunch of fur suiters walking all over the place.
Then not to mention, on the second floor, next to the gaming area, and the sponsors lounge, there was a jewlery show talking place as well. There was some nice stuff too, but these people had some money in there.. and yet again, the best analogy to come up with is like driving a rust bucket car and asking valet to park it. With the con running full swing, that jewlery show was so FAR out of place.
After checking into our room, I began my tour of the place, and learned the layout of the place. It sure wasn't a David L. Lawrence center like where AnthroCon (64 days away now), having to take a segway down the hallway to make it to the elevators by dusk. But a sizable place indeed.
I found the artists alley quite quickly and chatted myself up with a few artists, and wandered onward.
It was about then I was suddenly pounced by a good friend of mine Deoge. It sure was good to seem him again, since we met at MFF last year. Not to mention Howiepup, and another good friend of mine 'Pony'.
I suppose I don't need to do a play by play of my entire weekend, but it was good to put everyday life on hold for 72 hours.
I will say, I saw and chatted with rabbi_tom for a bit, and bought a simple con badge from him (prior paid for ;)) and in which reminds me I need to contact him about a full page commission.
From my take of the con in it's second year, it shows promise, in fact for it's second year the attendance was 730-ish attendees. That's pretty good from about 375the prior year. It, being new still had some gaps in the schedule of events, and there wasn't a huge huge lists to choose from; but this is why I wanted to go, after having been to AC and MFF, I wanted to experience a smaller con.
Which brings me to another point, being a smaller con, you'd think they wouldn't be so stringent with the rules, yet ask any artist there, they were like Nazi's with how they were treated and the alley run. Two 15 minute breaks, scheduled bathroom breaks, required to check in and check out... I sincerely hope they amend this for next year.
All in all, for the most part, I had a positive experience, and hope to attend next year. It was fun, and well worth the money. Oh, and just in case anyone wonders, I "Voted for Violet".
Well I think that's all I'm going to say for now, I'm still rummaging through my several hundred to a thousand photo's so the cream of the crop picks will be up shortly.
Until next time...
Friday was an early one as Skyfox and I loaded up the truck, and prepared our journey to Novi, MI. at 5am. After about 2.5 hours on the road, we finally arrived it the Sheraton hotel. Not to our surprise there were the typical furs standing by the front doors smoking, but as we soon piled out of the front seats after parking, found ourselves amused with the fact there were two other meetings going on at the same time.
For example, there was a business meeting luncheon going on in the main lobby area; which I have to chuckle at the sight it must have been to see all these men and women, eating their lunches, and seeing a bunch of fur suiters walking all over the place.
Then not to mention, on the second floor, next to the gaming area, and the sponsors lounge, there was a jewlery show talking place as well. There was some nice stuff too, but these people had some money in there.. and yet again, the best analogy to come up with is like driving a rust bucket car and asking valet to park it. With the con running full swing, that jewlery show was so FAR out of place.
After checking into our room, I began my tour of the place, and learned the layout of the place. It sure wasn't a David L. Lawrence center like where AnthroCon (64 days away now), having to take a segway down the hallway to make it to the elevators by dusk. But a sizable place indeed.
I found the artists alley quite quickly and chatted myself up with a few artists, and wandered onward.
It was about then I was suddenly pounced by a good friend of mine Deoge. It sure was good to seem him again, since we met at MFF last year. Not to mention Howiepup, and another good friend of mine 'Pony'.
I suppose I don't need to do a play by play of my entire weekend, but it was good to put everyday life on hold for 72 hours.
I will say, I saw and chatted with rabbi_tom for a bit, and bought a simple con badge from him (prior paid for ;)) and in which reminds me I need to contact him about a full page commission.
From my take of the con in it's second year, it shows promise, in fact for it's second year the attendance was 730-ish attendees. That's pretty good from about 375the prior year. It, being new still had some gaps in the schedule of events, and there wasn't a huge huge lists to choose from; but this is why I wanted to go, after having been to AC and MFF, I wanted to experience a smaller con.
Which brings me to another point, being a smaller con, you'd think they wouldn't be so stringent with the rules, yet ask any artist there, they were like Nazi's with how they were treated and the alley run. Two 15 minute breaks, scheduled bathroom breaks, required to check in and check out... I sincerely hope they amend this for next year.
All in all, for the most part, I had a positive experience, and hope to attend next year. It was fun, and well worth the money. Oh, and just in case anyone wonders, I "Voted for Violet".
Well I think that's all I'm going to say for now, I'm still rummaging through my several hundred to a thousand photo's so the cream of the crop picks will be up shortly.
Until next time...
P.S. I voted Violet hehehehe
I suggest you best be there.. or, I'll newspaper you!