Sunday, December 31, 2017

Ephemera 2017

This is the ShotgunProse annual CDO list of things I did in order to reference later.  It is a weird thing I do, but being able to have these lists is worth it from time to time.

Cinema
Sherlock (Season 4 Premiere) 1-1 Central Cinema
Underworld: Blood Wars
Moulin Rouge 2-14 Central Cinema
Logan
Firefly 3-10 Central Cinema
Moana
Doctor Who Season 10 Premiere 4-17
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2 (w/GotG as double feature) 5-4
Wonder Woman
Spider-Man: Homecoming
War For The Planet Of The Apes
Atomic Blonde
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Thor Ragnarok
Justice League
Victoria & Abdul
Star WarsEpisode 8: The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water

Interesting Things
Women's March on Seattle 1-21
PAX South Jan 26-31 San Antonio (Viking Guitar Live 1-28)
EVOLVE 76 1-27 Woodlawn Lake Park Gym
Ace Frehley 2-11 The Neptune
Katya Kabanova (Dress Rehearsal) 2-22 McCaw Hall
ECCC March 2-5 WSCTC (Alice Cooper)
Sounds Of Silence 3-25 WHS Theatre
Neil Gaiman 4-2 Benaroya Hall (w/Jason Webley)
Mariners 2 Rangers 1 4-14 Safeco Field
Jason Webley (w/Pepper Proud & Chris Poage) 4-21 Fremont Abbey
Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D: Defying Convention: Understanding the Creative Mind 4-24 Kane Hall
Chris Cornell Memorial 5-18 KEXP
The Davanos 5-28 LRH
Mountlake Terrace Elementary Reunion 6-9
Wordburglar & Kirby Krackle 6-9 Subspace Comics
GP Las Vegas Limited Sealed Event 6-16 Las Vegas Convention Center (1303/2695)
BAZ Star Crossed Lovers 6-17 The Palazzo Theatre
The Swains 7-14 LRH
Dita: The Art of the Teese 7-23 Moore Theatre
PAX West 9/1-4 (Polaris Party 9/2 Crocodile)
PAX Dev 8-29/30 Westin
Epica - Lacuna Coil - Insomnium - Elantris 9-11 Showbox
Book Signing Resurgence 9-12 UW
Bob's Corn Maze 10-16
Jet City Comic Show 11-5/6 Tacoma Convention Center
Krysten Ritter 11-15 UW Bookstore
Scott Kelly 11-16 UW Bookstore
Grilled Cheese 11-18 Magnuson Park
Space Time (Marian Call and guests including Molly Lewis) 11-19 Jewelbox Theatre
Bill Murray 11-29 McCaw Hall
WPZ Wildlights 12-6
First Thursday Art Walk 12-7
Podcon 12-9/10 WSCTC (WTNV/Lore/Vlog Bros/Alice Isn't Dead/etc ...)
Child's Play Charity Auction 12-14 Meydenbauer Center
Sugarplum Gary 12-23 18th & Union
Oregon Zoo Zoo Lights 12-30

Seattle Reign
2017 Kit Unveil 4-11 WAC
SRFC 3 UW 0 / 4-8 Husky Soccer Stadium
SRFC 1 SBFC 1 / 4-15 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 5 HOU 1 / 4-22 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 6 WASH 2 / 5-13 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 1 ORL 1 / 5-21 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 1 FCKC 1 / 6-24 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 2 CHI 1 / 6-28 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 2 PTFC 0 / 7-1 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 1 BOS 1 / 7-15 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 5 SBFC 4 / 7-22 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 1 NCC 2 / 8-13 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 1 PTFC 2 / 8-26 Memorial Stadium
SRFC 0 FCKC 1 / 9-24 Memorial Stadium

Soccer
USWNT 0 Australia 1 / 7-27 CLink
SSFC 1 PTFC 1 / 8-27 CLink
SSFC 3 VWFC 0 / 9-27 CLink

Randoma
Hashtag Bookclub at Subspace Comics
Seattle Saberfit
MTG PPTQ & tournaments
Tango classes at Belltown Dance Studio
Vertical World FT 6-12
Hamilton at Evergreen

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The PODCON Experience

It has been some time since I attended a con with an attendee badge and did not work in any way on the event.

I had contributed to the Indiegogo campaign, ended up not doing the volunteer app, and got into the autograph lottery for Lore. 

The stuff I looked forward to was what I had hoped for and the new things I sampled and made notes to follow up on will give me interesting stuff to explore.

This was a great experience.  I felt like the vibe or feel was good.  Whether the measurable financial metrics for PodCon work out for there to be a second is not up to me, but for a first year event I felt it was really solid. When the recordings come out I look forward to revisiting some things I attended and checking out everything I missed.


SATURDAY
DAY 1

Getting ready for the PodCon Opening Show

Attendee badge

Hal Lublin and Meg Bashwiner host the PodCon Opening Show

The Five Founders of PodCon

An intro of various folks from various podcasts of note

Julian Koster sings

Lore live with Aaron Mahnke and Chad Lawson

getting my Lore book signed by Aaron Mahnke

getting my Lore book signed by Aaron Mahnke

with Aaron Mahnke

Welcome to Night Vale Q & A

Indiegogo contributors like me

Voice acting workshop with Cecil and Meg

SUNDAY 
DAY 2

They used chairs for autograph lines and I took notes

How to Create Straight Characters

Everybody Has a Podcast with Hank Green, John Green, Casper ter Keile, Drew Ackerman, Francesa Ramsey, and Patrick Kondas

Alice Isn't Dead live with Jasika Nicole and Disparition 

Serial Fiction Storytelling with Hal Lublin, Julian Koster, Paul Bae, Joseph Fink, Brie Williams, and Lauren Shippen

Gaby Dunn and Symphony Sanders host the PodCon Closing Show

Disparition

Dylan Marron

John Green

Ashley Ahearn and Hank Green

Hal Lublin's Battle World

Aparna Nancheria

The Five Founders close it out

Seeding 52 Geek Pickup