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TFS 2018 report
7 years ago
I've been enjoying bringing a little dance setup to TFS over the years, since I'm all about the blinking lights and wriggling. :) When Jace approached me about doing it again and said we could have a whole room I was estatic!
Zeebra volunteered to help move stuff (he has a truck) so I made a decent size pile of equipment and off we went!
The room wasn't titanic--it was two rooms with the airwall between them down--but it was the right size for everything but one event. We set up four meters of truss near one of the narrow walls and the sparkle curtain to make a sage-ish focal point. Two 32" monitors flanked the mains, not really doing anything but display the TFS logo, but they looked nice!
The event schedule was thrown together in a little more than a month but I think it was pretty solid. Kareoke got dropped since there was no (paid for)hotel wifi, but the fursuit games went well, people having fun with the beanie baby slingshots that Corby built. The advertised talent show was improvised, the MC decided to not go to the con but didn't tell anyone (???) but Zeeb stepped in and we had a few performers. The dance-off was CRAZY, room totally packed and people lined up in the hall. Ritchie kept the event moving (I liked the very quick judging), Zain did a great job with the music and the dancers were REALLY good, wow!
The friday dance was great, not packed but a really fun crowd. The saturday dance started off wierd...young folks coming in to sit in the middle of the floor and have conversations, that was odd. No harm in it though.
There was some bass resonance going on in the room (as always), got the worst of that EQ'd out saturday morning.
I made some easy to use lighting macros and Zeeb and Rheldar ran the lights for the dances, looked good and nothing blew up. I don't think I brought anything useless although the rollers were somewhat drowned out by the huge pile of wash lights aimed in people's faces. I neglected easy options to dim those.
Got to suit up and dance some, although the muzzle fan was being wonky friday and totally went on saturday. I know exactly where the issue is at least; it's the little USB cable that runs from the battery to the voltage bucking module. Easily fixed now that I know what it is.
Teardown went well, Corby and I got up early and started at 8am, some random people wandered in and helped. (thanks BrianPuppy, Giles!) Getting ahold of the rest of our crew was an issue since they were sleeping saturday night off; we were getting a little close to the deadline to be out of the room for my preference, but we got the key to the truck and Rheld and Zain showed up and did a lot of heavy lifting in the roasting heat.
So overall, lots of fun! Many thanks to all the work that a lot of people put in to making it all happen! :)
Definitely keep TFS on your list if you're looking for fun local events (to Texas) next summer.
Zeebra volunteered to help move stuff (he has a truck) so I made a decent size pile of equipment and off we went!
The room wasn't titanic--it was two rooms with the airwall between them down--but it was the right size for everything but one event. We set up four meters of truss near one of the narrow walls and the sparkle curtain to make a sage-ish focal point. Two 32" monitors flanked the mains, not really doing anything but display the TFS logo, but they looked nice!
The event schedule was thrown together in a little more than a month but I think it was pretty solid. Kareoke got dropped since there was no (paid for)hotel wifi, but the fursuit games went well, people having fun with the beanie baby slingshots that Corby built. The advertised talent show was improvised, the MC decided to not go to the con but didn't tell anyone (???) but Zeeb stepped in and we had a few performers. The dance-off was CRAZY, room totally packed and people lined up in the hall. Ritchie kept the event moving (I liked the very quick judging), Zain did a great job with the music and the dancers were REALLY good, wow!
The friday dance was great, not packed but a really fun crowd. The saturday dance started off wierd...young folks coming in to sit in the middle of the floor and have conversations, that was odd. No harm in it though.
There was some bass resonance going on in the room (as always), got the worst of that EQ'd out saturday morning.
I made some easy to use lighting macros and Zeeb and Rheldar ran the lights for the dances, looked good and nothing blew up. I don't think I brought anything useless although the rollers were somewhat drowned out by the huge pile of wash lights aimed in people's faces. I neglected easy options to dim those.
Got to suit up and dance some, although the muzzle fan was being wonky friday and totally went on saturday. I know exactly where the issue is at least; it's the little USB cable that runs from the battery to the voltage bucking module. Easily fixed now that I know what it is.
Teardown went well, Corby and I got up early and started at 8am, some random people wandered in and helped. (thanks BrianPuppy, Giles!) Getting ahold of the rest of our crew was an issue since they were sleeping saturday night off; we were getting a little close to the deadline to be out of the room for my preference, but we got the key to the truck and Rheld and Zain showed up and did a lot of heavy lifting in the roasting heat.
So overall, lots of fun! Many thanks to all the work that a lot of people put in to making it all happen! :)
Definitely keep TFS on your list if you're looking for fun local events (to Texas) next summer.
