David Big Adventure - Steampunk Guns

Well, it certainly was a time of it!

David had adventure getting here. David & I had day game of phone tag. He would call me, I would call him. At one point, I had phone off for the Radio session. As I got out, I notice Dave had called not two minutes before. Luckily, I caught him before he turned off his phone. Dave had spent the day with James and some other friends and planing on meeting me at the hotel at 10:30. His plan was to take the MARTA in and walk to the hotel. Of course, he ran late. When he did into the city, he pointed in the wrong direction in not the section of town. Finally, he called to say he was close, but need a police officer's help with directions. Yes, another wrong turn. At this point, I headed out to meet him. Luckily, I knew enough to stay on the same street of the hotel. I was able meet up with him at the Capitol Building. We got back to hotel at about 12:30 am.

I am glad that, at the last minute, I decided to take my laptop ith me. While it still isn't 100%, it's OK for this. One bad thing, I don't have any programs to do any basic editing of the photos I load. So the ones I posted are in the raw form. As an example, here is the photo of the Steampunk mini-squirt gun I bought. I suppose I could have work it more on the photo end, but you don't get that chance in the wild.

The background is that Cosplay for a Cause calendar I bought. I thought that worked out nicely, composition wise.

Dragon*Con Friday!

What a day! AND I left the con early.

I decided that I didn't want to wait in any long lines, so that means many of the popular sessions were out of the question. 

Started out with the Gerry Anderson:UFO panel. Real good recap of the show, learned some tidbits of how the show was produced. It's link to Space:1999. I of course, put two cents in. Honestly, I don't what it is with stuff like this, I can't keep my options to my self. And best of all, plans for UFO: The Movie. The only thing holding it up is financing, so it may be a while. The had a link up up the producer/director Matt Gratzner. The cool thing is most of SFX will be with models and not CGI. The is a head a model studio after all. Still looking forward to this.

Woman dressed as Moon Base Tech.

Ironically, she wasn't at panel.

Next up was Whedonverse 101 - Which was full by the time I got there. So I ended up with my forth choice. Stargate Universe - Year in Review. The True Blood panel had huge line, and Macross panel was 3 hotels away. The Stargate was pretty good for canceled and not well liked series. Lots of debate on what went wrong with series. Ditto with my input on this panel as well.

Wraith - from Stargate Atlantis, not Universe, but beggars can't choosers.

Took a bit of break from here to check out the dealer rooms. Really, not much for me. I bought a small Steampunk gun, a couple of PS 238 Trade Paperback and that was it. Most of the ray guns were either Steampunk or movie prop. I was hoping for something more 50's sci-fi.

At 4:00, I hit the Film Festival Track, Animation show. One film from RISD {Playing for Keeps}, which I hated! There was two I really like. One was history of boxer, John L. Sullivan {Gilded Age Gladiator} and one about the Collyer brothers {Junk Palace}. The others were OK.

Then at 5:30, I by passed trying to get to Buffy: Season 9 for, yes, Taxes for Artist. While it focused mostly on Federal Taxes, I tired, and think succeed in pointing out areas of concern on the state level. I wanted to talk to the host, but didn't want to miss the next session. This one one I would have stayed in line for.

The Atlanta Radio Theater Company.

I really like the idea of Radio Theater. Old time radio is cool, but old. I have always wanted to see it done with up to date themes. Of course, this was a comedy show, so the did a 40's Sci-Fi spoof (set way in the future 1985!), a talk show spoof, a hard boiled detective and a Steampunk Sherlock Holmes. They did not disappoint! Excellent Show!

After the show I decide to call it quits as I am meeting David at 10:30.

One other item I did buy was Cosplay for a Cause 2012 Calendar. Cosplay is basically women dressing up as Japanese Animation characters. All the proceeds go to Japan Relief efforts. And that is the only reason I got it.

Here are some other photos: