Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	convention, rant

Fantasy Days
 oh well. I really want to write a con report but I don't know how to start. telling you about all the things that went wrong might take all day, shortening the list by telling you about the things that were fun gives the wrong impression .. I'll do my best to do a mixture of both, probably.

If I have to explain this fantasy fair in one word, *disaster* is probably a good choice. On the side of the vendors, only one person I talked to lucked out and didn't loose quite some money. The various performances had so many technical problems and  missing athmoshpere and, worst of all - almost no spectators - it was just sad. The many helpers were from the lack of information, organization, care and, well, things to do, as frustrated as everyone else. I feel totally bad for the few visitors who paid a substantial amount of money for empty halls, ruined performances and cancelled workshops.

We made do, of course. The vendors among themselves tried their best to be  cheerful, help each other and find some sarcastic kind of humor in a situation that might very well lead a few of them into insolvence. there was plenty of time to chat among ourselves, the few workshops I saw were pretty good, as were some of the performances - especially the taiko drummers that were the last real act on sunday. The girls I work with are great, even when things go wrong. I met engelszorn, a great digital artist I talked to on the net but never met before - and of course a whole lot of people I only see at conventions usually. 
Its not like we didn't have fun at all - and some things might have worked out - with more visitors, other organization and maybe a different location. I sold probably 4 items at all. Its so strange - it sometimes feels like the better I'm prepared, the worse I do. But then, everyone suffered from the same problem.

I don't think this convention will ever see the light of day again. I'm not sure if its funny or just insulting that one of the orga people must have said something like "The image loss isn't so bad, we'll definitely do a new convention next year." but perhaps she was just delusional.

If the whole thing had been a bit less expensive and blown up from the start, maybe we would be nicer about it. 

well, I#ll just stop here and not go into any real ranting. Its past. Can't do anything about it now. This was my last convention for this year and I'm pretty much relieved about that.