Here are the last videos from Anime Milwaukee:
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Update 4/15/10by admin - April 15th, 2010 |
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Short Update 4/8/10by Nick - April 8th, 2010 |
Ok. This will be a short update because we are backed up on things to get done. Here are the next 5 videos from Anime Milwaukee! Enjoy!
We are still about 20 emails away from having a winner in the DS Lite contest. Get your feedback emails to us today!
Remember to check out our Facebook Fan Page (All the really cool stuff is happening here!) and follow us on Twitter. We are posting all our photos on facebook for you and your friends to tag.
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Update 3/31/10by Nick - March 31st, 2010 |
Convention News:
Everything is falling into place for ACEN and we are super excited. We have started to see alot of new people searching for ACEN videos and making comments so we can tell that excitement is in the air.
Ohayocon 2010 Review (Just a little late!) by Brandi:
Masquerade and Jonthan Coulton Concert
The main event room was far away from the rest of the con, which slightly sucked, but it was worth the trip to see Jonathan Coulton and of course get great footage of the masq. The masq was set up very well with little flaws happening, which was nice to see ^-^. We loved the MCs 
Zack and Jim do an amazing job keeping the audience entertained during the whole show. There were a lot of very good skits here..We were thoroughly impressed by most of them J (most of them are up on our youtube page). Also, in the walk-ons there were some pretty amazing costumes.
Right after the masq was the Jonathan Coulton concert!!! So of course we stayed and Nick even talked to Jonathan and he let us film it!! But Nick has to clear all the legal issues first before we can put them up for you guys L but the concert was amazing! And I suggest if anyone has the chance, ever, to go to one of his concerts to do so, you will really enjoy yourself.
Rave
Let’s see… that rave, ok so it was awesome cuz we got to see Greg Aryes and talk with him again ^-^ but it kinda sucked that the room was small and every hour or two they would kick everyone out of the room and cycle in new people. I understand this probably helps to make sure everyone stays hydrated and such but when the line is THAT long they just need to get a new room or new plan >.< Anywho, Greg is an awesome DJ so no problems with the music the videos played were a little creepy but we still had fun!
Hotel
We stayed at the Marriott Courtyard, only a few streets away from the con. It was an amazing hotel! For the first time ever we didn’t have any problems here and they were very nice! They would call a cab for us and help with everything no problem ^-^ and they had valet parking which never caused any problems either. We will definitely be staying there again next time we go. The room we had was very large (plenty for all of us and our excessive crap lol). And the view was nice at night 
but I think the city just looks better, generally, at night. It was a very comfy hotel, with a microwave and a fridge in our room X3 .
Friday
On Friday, it was only Nick and I but we got a lot accomplished ^-^ we learned they layout of the con, grabbed our press badges, gabbed with our friends at the OMGcon booth, went to the Steampunk panel, made friends with some amazing Sailor Scouts ;), interview with the Gurren Lagann girls, photoshoot with our friends CJ and Lisa cosplaying Time Lords from Doctor Who, and finding time to squeeze in food. Needless to say, once we got back, we were pretty tired. So we hit up the hot tub to relax then went back to the room from alittle bit of WoW playing till the rest of our crew arrived J
Saturday
We all really liked the area where the convention was located. It had a lot of room and very spacious for taking pictures and having large crowds. It had many different “settings” to take pictures which helped a lot, though we had to be careful of the time of day for lighting. We all LOVED the food court!! First con ever were an abundance of food is available that you don’t have to travel for!! This was right in the convention center and they had options for everyone ^-^ It was super convenient and a great place to see/meet people. We had fun doing some small photoshoots with the Yes Girls and their crew and also just walking around the halls grabbing people. We even talked to Chris Aryes for a bit about his new voice acting role.
Sunday
Again Food court was awesome; we all enjoyed a nice large breakfast. Sadly 4 of our crew had to bail out early on Sunday but Nick and I stayed for a few hours longer and did a photoshoot with an amazing steampunk group, who then changed for us into their fantastic Guild costumes ^-^ We had fun and made new friends.
Webcomic: Penny Arcade! We LOVE these and if you dont know about them you should. They are behind the awesome Child’s Play charities and PAX. One of these days we are going to try to get to a PAX as I hear they are amazing fun.
Time Waster:
Website: Ipad L???
Anime: Valkyria Chronicles Anime (Sorry, all I could find on youtube was the opening. Its good though!)
DS Lite Contest:
We are coming up on the winner for the DS Lite contest. Less than 60 emails to go! Please go ahead and send us in an email! It just has to be a short single paragraph giving us feedback on what you like or would like to see on the site. Its EASY and you could win the DS!
Remember to check out our Facebook Fan Page (All the really cool stuff is happening here!) and follow us on Twitter. We are posting all our photos on facebook for you and your friends to tag. I will be adding older convention photos as I have time.
Convention Videos:
Really big thanks go out to Soulcrash for getting all this great video of Anime Milwaukee! Enjoy the first 5!
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A&G 2010 Review!by Brandi - March 16th, 2010 |
By the power of alcohol, 5 hour energys, and techno we magically appeared at the Cincinnati convention, A&G!
Hotel
For this convention we stayed at the Holiday Inn (which just happens to be the location of the convention on the main floor :P). Small but very nice as far as our hotel experience goes, but being as that we stayed in a room with friends we didn’t have much interaction with the hotel staff. The few we did interact with were very nice and helpful. The hotel is conveniently located right off the interstate with plenty of food and stores for all your needs. The Holiday Inn is right across the street from the Eastgate Mall, which is a very short walk from the con, and has a large food court with plenty of options.
We ourselves sampled Buffalo: Wings and Rings on Friday in the mall (a slight knock off of Buffalo Wild Wings *though not as good*) but was still very yummy though sadly lacking enough Killians for the 2 of us…. but making it up with a Blue Moon for myself and yummy, boneless, parmesan garlic wings! We give them a B ^-^
Then for lunch on Saturday we took the ‘long’ trek to O’Charlies (right across the parking lot from the con). We had some interesting and fun looks from the costumers as we and a few cosplaying friends arrived but everyone was friendly and never actually said anything. Though lacking in the vegetarian food department for one of our friends, O’Charlies is a good place for those carnivores out there. For those who have never experience O’Charlies they are a restaurant much like T.G.I. Fridays, Logans, and Applebees.
Ok first things first- the good things about the Holiday Inn hotel/convention area =
- Hot tub- though small, it still felt amazing!
- Fancy, with a fountain, waterfall, bridge/river, and pond in the lobby; also a nice restaurant too
- Friendly staff and an easy check-in
- Convenient and easy parking
The bad things about the Holiday Inn hotel/convention area=
- Poorly stocked pop machines!
- Small main event rooms
Friday
When we arrived at the con we were greeted in the parking lot by a transformer of epic proportions! A fully functional, semi Decepticon! (pictures will be up lol) Made from a torn-up semi in a junk yard by Travis Lyon (www.DecepticonMotormaster.com).
Once we finally made it in the door (after getting side tracked by the Decepticon) we visited con ops for our badges and then began our random wandering of the convention. Happy to see familiar faces, we greeted those we knew before continuing on our mission to get lost, which we happily succeeded at till we finally made our scope of the terrain and stalked out our prey…. I mean subjects <.<
Also, we attended the Anime Cosplay Wrestling event that went over quite well. The staff was very creative when they created this event. It is both unique and original. The con rented an actual wrestling ring for the event that the staff seemed to enjoy playing on very much. Though the crowd was quiet most of the time (probably from the suspense ;P lol) it was fun to watch.
Saturday
After rolling out of the holes we slept in and exiting zombie mode, we stumbled downstairs and, lo and behold, to our surprise there were many more cosplayers and the energy had risen from the day before! We set up shop and began mini-photo shoots inside for friends and random cosplayers we managed to nab. The day went well since we made some new friends. We visited the dealers room and browsed for a short while before returning to the halls, but of course not before we said hi to John and his cohorts at the Fast Food Anime booth.
Of course with it being Saturday the main event of the day was the Cosplay Contest! Though short, there were many interesting costumes and amusing skits. The videos will be posted as soon as we can. ****Oh! AND A NOTE TO ALL COSPLAYERS WHO ENTER A COSTUME CONTEST!! When you walk across the stage for walk-ons, pause when you reach the center of that stage at least for 3-5 seconds so the photographers can grab a photo of your costume! You put a lot of work into your costume, I’m sure, so please let us see it and get a good photo of you rather than a picture of your back as you flee off stage!!!!***
Convention Overall
As a whole we enjoyed ourselves; it was great to see old friends and new friends alike. Con staff was very friendly and helpful even with being busy and stressed (and Jen’s duct tape dress was fantastic btw!) They seemed very organized, though as we have seen with other small cons they seemed to have issues with their sound systems too.
The con-goers were mostly younger (teens) in age and less cosplayed then we expected. It was very internet/troll-e…. many people holding cardboard signs, many free hugs, etc. :\ but it happens. Sadly when we arrived the energy of the con on Friday was very low; happily it was much better on Saturday (probably because people finally recovered from their trips to the con).
If you have any other questions about the con feel free to email either myself or Nick and we will get back to you as soon as we can!
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Update 3/10/10by Nick - March 10th, 2010 |
Convention News:
We are heading out this friday morning to Columbus OH for A&G! Hoping to arrive around 1pm and start getting in some photos and videos. If you would like a photoshoot friday will be the day for it. Just send an email to the contact button above and let us know! The masq will get filmed and the skits put on youtube over the next few weeks.
We missed the press badge application for Anime Boston by a week but I am still trying to get them to consider us. If you know someone on Anime Boston staff please throw them a friendly reminder that we would love to come and cover the convention!
Ron will be heading to Anime Milwaukee this weekend. He will be doing photoshoots and getting video of their masq. Expect those on the site in the next few weeks!
We have put in our application to C2E2 Chicago for press badges. Ill let you know when we hear back from them. If they say yes we will be covering that as well.
Webcomic: Grim tales from down below
This is a neat webcomic that we have become obsessed with.
Time waster of the week: OCRemix
I have spent HOURS browsing around this site downloading AWESOME video game remixes. There is some really cool stuff here. Just type the video game you would like to find some tracks on in the search bar.
Website of the week: Fully Ramblomatic
Some of you might already know of Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw from his weekly series on The Escapist called Zero Punctuation Reviews. Check them out for a great time! Did you know he also makes his own 2D oldschool adventure games? They are along the lines of Secret of Monkey Island and Space Quest. You can download his games for free (or the special editions for a donation, they are WORTH it). While slightly annoying at points the story telling is great with mystery, horror and suspense.
Anime of the week: Toradora
Convention Videos:
I was not able to get any new videos done this week. Im hoping to buckle down tonight and knock out at least 1 to post in this spot tomorrow.
Contest News:
We have a Nintendo DS Lite in our hands and ready to give away. However we just cant seem to come up with a really GREAT contest to do so. If you have some awesome ideas go ahead and send us an email by clicking contact in the title bar. We hope to have everything put together and ready for next weeks update!
Remember to check out our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter. We are posting all our photos on facebook for you and your friends to tag. I will be adding older convention photos as I have time.
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Contests and a wall of speaker…by Nick - March 3rd, 2010 |
Random linky of the week: The WOS Experience
Destroy your competition by cranking Carameldansen with this in the back of your truck. Or maybe as a supporting wall in your house.
Anime recommendation of the week: Shugo Chara!
Website to visit: Dany Choo
Awesome figure reviews and fun little photoblog of the Tokyo Storm Trooper in Japan.
Time waster of the week: Ninja Ropes Extreme!
My record is 26.72. Post on the fanpage if you take me down!
News:
A Nintendo DS has fallen from the sky into my hands. I would like to give it away in some type of contest. If you have a neat idea for a contest send us an email by clicking contact at the top of the page. Look to next weeks Wed update for the contest start and what it will be. Fans on the fanpage might get a headstart… >.>
We are working on Anime Boston instead of Sakura because it would be much cheaper to do. I will have more info on that next week. Ronald is heading up to Anime Milwaukee next weekend. He will be filming the masq and taking pictures all over. If you want to schedule a photoshoot, send us an email!
Brandi and I will be heading out to A&G Ohio that same weekend. Really looking forward to it!
Forums are being setup on the site by Brandi and should be operational soon. She has some fun ideas to get some good threads going.
If you are 21+ and live in the Chicago area you might be interested in this show. It’s a Alice in Wonderland themed fashion show. I will be a photographer here so let me know if you plan on attending so I can say hi!
New Ohayocon Skit Videos:
Skit #18 - Two Alchemists Plus a Wrench.
Skit #19 - Guide to Overdone Cosplay.
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Chicago Auto Show, Anime Milwaukee & Sakura Con!by Nick - February 22nd, 2010 |
Its news time! A bit earlier than Wed but we wanted to get some info out there. As you can tell from the title we have 3 events to talk about.
Chicago Auto Show: Soulcrash was able to get out and cover this. He got some great shots that you can see over in his gallery if you like cars.
Anime Milwaukee! We heard about this about a week or so ago and decided to get up there and cover the event. Soulcrash once again volunteered to do this event and we are really excited to see what he brings back. He will be taking pictures and filming the masq there. If you will be at Anime Milwaukee and want to schedule a photoshoot with him you can do so through his facebook account.
Sakura Con! We are working on the numbers and hope to attend this awesome convention. The farthest west we have been is … Illinois. We are based in Illinois. So yeah, we need to get some west coast action! Ill post here when we are 100% going. Sakura has already granted us press passes for the weekend (you guys are awesome!) so things should be coming together. If you will be at Sakura and want to schedule a photo shoot you can do it through our facebook fan page!
In other news be sure to follow us on twitter and fan us on facebook (where you can upload your own fan photos!). If you are a fan or photographer at a convention we would LOVE to see your photos. Click CONTACT above and send us a link to your flickr, photobucket, facebook, personal webpage or whatever and we will post links to you on the site so people can find their photos! If you are looking for a place to post your photos we would be happy to (with your watermark) do so!
UPDATE!
We will be attending A&G Ohio in 2 weeks! Planning on attending all day friday and saturday through the cosplay contest. If you will be at A&G and would like to schedule a photoshoot with us just click contact above and send an email. We will put something together! Hope to see you there!
UPDATE! 2/26: Attendance at Sakura Con canceled.
Unfortunately getting to Seattle is just going to be a bit too expensive for us. We will be canceling our attendance at Sakura and hopefully be able to attend next year. Sorry for everyone who was excited about this event. We are disappointed as well.
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Ohayocon 2010 Picturesby Nick - February 1st, 2010 |
Starting to upload all our Ohayocon 2010 photos! The first 100 are up in the gallery and on our facebook fan page! Follow us on twitter so you know exactly when new photos are live! We decided to change the watermark a bit after talking to a fan at Ohayocon. Hope you like the smaller more un-obtrusive watermark. Just remember that if you like your photo please buy it from us! Its cheap and helps us keep getting to all these conventions so we can take your picture and do video.
Calling all DSLR photographers! If you got good shots at Ohayocon and are looking for a place to post your photos send us a email by clicking contact above. Put in a link to some of your work and if its good we will host you as a guest photographer! Your pictures should be watermarked with your information and of a size no smaller than 1024×1024 for posting in our gallery and facebook fan page. If people offer to buy your photos we will pay you $1.00 per photo.
Masquerade Opening
Skit #1 - Deadliest Warrior
Skit #2 - Totally Randomness
Skit #3 - Romeo & Juliet Remix
Skit #4 - Sexy Kitchen!
Interview with Say YES! to Gurren Lagann Girls.
Skit #5 - Someones Going Down
Skit #6 - Death by Button
Skit #7 - Henshin Hoopla (PUNCH’D)
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Ohayocon!by Nick - January 20th, 2010 |
We are gearing up to head out to Ohayocon next weekend! 3 Car loads of Enthusiasts are attending this one!
Most of our time will be spent at different photoshoots and wandering the halls looking to take your picture. Here is our tentative schedule for the convention so far:
Friday: Steampunk 101 1pm - 2pm, Gurren Lagann Photoshoot 6:30pm - 8pm.
Saturday: Steampunk fashion 11am - noon, 3pm - 4pm Steampunk Panel, 5pm - ??? Masquerade and Dance.
Sunday: Steampunk Photoshoot 11am - 1pm, Steampunk Panel 1pm - 2pm.
If you have some other great photoshoots or would like to try to schedule a private photoshoot with us click the contact button above and send an email! We will try and set something up.
Really looking forward to this convention. Some highlights we are putting together are: Interview with the “Say YES to Gurren Lagann!” group from Youmacon and some more great photos of The Guild cosplay group.
Hope to see you there!
Update! (1/26/10)
We will be trying some live streaming of Ohayocon for those of you who cant make it via UStream. Im going to embed the show here and we will be tweeting when we are live! I tested it a bit earlier and its not so bad actually. About a 5-10 second delay.
And we are off! Leaving tonight at 7pm for the 6 hour drive to Ohio. Be sure to follow us on twitter for notifications when we are streaming live from the convention!
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Starbase Indy 09 pictures are up!by Nick - December 1st, 2009 |
Check them out in the gallery!
