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!)

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Convention Videos:

Really big thanks go out to Soulcrash for getting all this great video of Anime Milwaukee!  Enjoy the first 5!