Pictures and discussion about the happenings of fanime 2008

[Barnes]

I'm working on mine as I post:

http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f293/CapeBarnes/FanimeCon%202008/

[rude32]

Here is my contribution to this thread.

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/rude32/fanime%202008/

[Mister_E]

Here is my contribution to this thread.

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/rude32/fanime%202008/

Would love to see them but it's set on private

[sykoeent]

Hmm...
Letsee... I took 99 pics, 2 of which are beyond blurred
I bought:
1. Anime (Wanna-be Anime) statue versions of Supergirl and Powergirl - $77 (For some reason, I can't find them anywhere in So Cali)
2. Plate of yellow curry and 2 pork xiopaos - $12 (Ridiculous price, by the way... and the curry... I give it a meh)
3. 2 times in the maid cafe totaling - $24 (They had better food... or was it just the atmosphere... )
4. Something at the coffee shop downstairs - $6
5. A "Death Set" of fan art in the Artist Alley - $4
6. A couple of pins - $4
7. A Naruto outfit - $75
8. A Naruto T-Shirt - $18

So... all together... around $220 on Sunday. I normally would buy a bunch of statues and figures in the dealers hall, but I had most of them and the ones I was looking for, they either didn't have or I didn't want to spend their prices.

[rude32]

Here is my contribution to this thread.

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/rude32/fanime%202008/

Would love to see them but it's set on private

Fixed. Thanks for informing me.

[Jerry]

Whoa what a Memorial day weekend, I needed another day to recuperate because I got sick/lost my voice on Tuesday.

I worked like crazy (12+ hour shifts again) almost like Cirque except I had WAY more fun. Guest services, line controls, Ushering, Safety & Security, Reports, Convention Operations, escort Detail, Bouncer and general Logistics and Registration duties... yah I did all that and then some.

Thanks so much for guys visiting me while I was working!!!  :P It was really sweet of you ladies/gents to randomly finding me on random days, but the REAL parties happened Friday, Sat, and Sunday nights! Here's my recap:


Thursday:
4pm to 8pm – Pre-registration badge pick ups & line control... Busy lines (ask everyone who saw how busy I was) they tried to say hi while I was juggling random people. And I felt bad for not being able to hang out with you guys and gals. Sorry! >_<

8pm to 11pm – Fanime's Swap Meet. Its sorta like a flea market, pre registered folks are invited to sell/trade their stuff.

11pm to 2am – Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull – awesome!!!

Friday:
6am to 4pm – Registration/ An Cafe Line Control Working around the Con – randomly surprised my work with 2 HOT girls dressed up in costume with me. I have a random office thats off of Park avenue...

5pm to 7pm – Helping a friend drive to Oakland to pick up a new car! – She bought a Honda Hybrid.

8pm to 10pm – Dinner (Massive amounts of Pizza and drinks) and hanging out in the hotel room: Hot girls dancing in the window for kicks so I invited them to...

10pm to 1am – DANCE/RAVE!!! – but the HOT girls had to stop early because they were wearing high heals... ouch!

Saturday:
6am to 11am – Working around the Reg line and An Cafe Concert ticket pick up line. Mingling with cute and costumed girls is awesome

11am to 7pm – Working at our Maid Café – girls dress up as cute maids and serve you foods, mingle and role play (appropriately of course!) I was one of the Bouncers to keep pervy fanboys in check.

7pm to 10pm – Sushi with the HOT girls! All you can eat + Sake = good times.

11pm to 2am – More DANCING! Got VIP treatment (walked right passed super long line) – Girls got harassed by pervs (ask about side story if you want...), but Pervy guys got thrown out with my help and the night security Teams.

Sunday:
6am to 11am – Reg line + massive line for Concert ticket pickups (An Café) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic_Cafe

11am to 2pm – Helping at the Maid Café

2pm – 7pm – Managing a line of 2500+ Fans of An Café.

Think about a line starting in front of Manpower's (my work office chain) Office on Park Ave. walking towards Market towards the (Tech Museum), then from Market going on to Santa Clara towards the front of the Civic Auditorium! so yah it felt like a LONG line... especially since I was trying to keep the peace of screaming rabid fangirls.

7pm – 10pm – An Café Concert @ the SJ Civic Auditorium = mass female Hysteria. Mosh pits are interesting, but I probably wouldn't do it again... unless I had riot gear.

10pm – 2am – One last nite of DANCING! – I felt like that guy in Hitch, instead of just being an 'escort' I got to dance a little with one of the Hot girls I was crushing on twas nice.


Monday:
730am to 11am – ('accidentally' slept in...) Walking around general Convention area keeping the peace.

11am to 12pm – An Café's Autograph signing to the limited general public – Seeing girls nearly faint for being 3ft. in front of their favorite band member was pretty funny. I counted at least 29 girls crying of Joy in a line about 150 fans.

12pm to 1pm – Checking out of the trashed hotel... partied like a Rockstar? Sure did. :P

1pm to 2pm – An Café's Q&A Panel line control... 300 Harecore fans... I made them line up via doing a Conga line. Hey it worked.  :D

2pm to 3pm – An Café's Q&A – Fans nearly killed me when their NO camera/video rule was changed 5 MINUTES before the Panel started. I seriously saw my life flash before my eyes. At least I would have been torn to shred by a rabid mob of J-rock Fans... would have interested way to go. All turned out OK, and the Q&A was actually pretty fun.

3pm to 4pm – An Café's secretive Staff Autographs: I gave my spot away to the 2 Hot girls I'd been hanging out with all weekend. Yah, I gave the girls a little more VIP treatment, because I'm cool like that.  8)

4pm to 6pm – An Café's security detail, they have a private conference, meeting with our Executives and exclusive press interview for our Evaluation of how they liked North America (as a whole Nation) San Jose was their first time concert in America!
Check out their An Cafe's Thank you VIDEO! -
http://forums.fanime.com/index.php/topic,10010.0.html

6pm to 9pm – Final debriefing of the Convention as a whole, checking the Convention Center and most area were cleared out by then with a couple of exceptions here and there.

9pm to 12am – Randomly driving home friends from the Convention.



For Random Pictures: check out this link: (Cosplay.com) http://www.cosplay.com/event/922/photos/ - check out people in costume!

I'm exhausted and my voice is still gone.
I <3 being a nerd. 
Hot girls <3 nerds like me. 

It's a shame I only saw questionette for like 5 seconds before she walked into the Dealers room. We need to change that! and when my house is ready. I think its time for another JERRY-CON during the summer.

;D Can I get a HELL-YAH on that?  :D

[Jelly Soup]

Did anyone get a pic of the Crisis Core Aeris cosplayer?
Or the Piplup boy?

[Lacunacraft]

Whoa what a Memorial day weekend, I needed another day to recuperate because I got sick/lost my voice on Tuesday.

I worked like crazy (12+ hour shifts again) almost like Cirque except I had WAY more fun. Guest services, line controls, Ushering, Safety & Security, Reports, Convention Operations, escort Detail, Bouncer and general Logistics and Registration duties... yah I did all that and then some.

Thanks so much for guys visiting me while I was working!!!  :P It was really sweet of you ladies/gents to randomly finding me on random days, but the REAL parties happened Friday, Sat, and Sunday nights! Here's my recap:


Thursday:
4pm to 8pm – Pre-registration badge pick ups & line control... Busy lines (ask everyone who saw how busy I was) they tried to say hi while I was juggling random people. And I felt bad for not being able to hang out with you guys and gals. Sorry! >_<

8pm to 11pm – Fanime's Swap Meet. Its sorta like a flea market, pre registered folks are invited to sell/trade their stuff.

11pm to 2am – Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull – awesome!!!

Friday:
6am to 4pm – Registration/ An Cafe Line Control Working around the Con – randomly surprised my work with 2 HOT girls dressed up in costume with me. I have a random office thats off of Park avenue...

5pm to 7pm – Helping a friend drive to Oakland to pick up a new car! – She bought a Honda Hybrid.

8pm to 10pm – Dinner (Massive amounts of Pizza and drinks) and hanging out in the hotel room: Hot girls dancing in the window for kicks so I invited them to...

10pm to 1am – DANCE/RAVE!!! – but the HOT girls had to stop early because they were wearing high heals... ouch!

Saturday:
6am to 11am – Working around the Reg line and An Cafe Concert ticket pick up line. Mingling with cute and costumed girls is awesome

11am to 7pm – Working at our Maid Café – girls dress up as cute maids and serve you foods, mingle and role play (appropriately of course!) I was one of the Bouncers to keep pervy fanboys in check.

7pm to 10pm – Sushi with the HOT girls! All you can eat + Sake = good times.

11pm to 2am – More DANCING! Got VIP treatment (walked right passed super long line) – Girls got harassed by pervs (ask about side story if you want...), but Pervy guys got thrown out with my help and the night security Teams.

Sunday:
6am to 11am – Reg line + massive line for Concert ticket pickups (An Café) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic_Cafe

11am to 2pm – Helping at the Maid Café

2pm – 7pm – Managing a line of 2500+ Fans of An Café.

Think about a line starting in front of Manpower's (my work office chain) Office on Park Ave. walking towards Market towards the (Tech Museum), then from Market going on to Santa Clara towards the front of the Civic Auditorium! so yah it felt like a LONG line... especially since I was trying to keep the peace of screaming rabid fangirls.

7pm – 10pm – An Café Concert @ the SJ Civic Auditorium = mass female Hysteria. Mosh pits are interesting, but I probably wouldn't do it again... unless I had riot gear.

10pm – 2am – One last nite of DANCING! – I felt like that guy in Hitch, instead of just being an 'escort' I got to dance a little with one of the Hot girls I was crushing on twas nice.


Monday:
730am to 11am – ('accidentally' slept in...) Walking around general Convention area keeping the peace.

11am to 12pm – An Café's Autograph signing to the limited general public – Seeing girls nearly faint for being 3ft. in front of their favorite band member was pretty funny. I counted at least 29 girls crying of Joy in a line about 150 fans.

12pm to 1pm – Checking out of the trashed hotel... partied like a Rockstar? Sure did. :P

1pm to 2pm – An Café's Q&A Panel line control... 300 Harecore fans... I made them line up via doing a Conga line. Hey it worked.  :D

2pm to 3pm – An Café's Q&A – Fans nearly killed me when their NO camera/video rule was changed 5 MINUTES before the Panel started. I seriously saw my life flash before my eyes. At least I would have been torn to shred by a rabid mob of J-rock Fans... would have interested way to go. All turned out OK, and the Q&A was actually pretty fun.

3pm to 4pm – An Café's secretive Staff Autographs: I gave my spot away to the 2 Hot girls I'd been hanging out with all weekend. Yah, I gave the girls a little more VIP treatment, because I'm cool like that.  8)

4pm to 6pm – An Café's security detail, they have a private conference, meeting with our Executives and exclusive press interview for our Evaluation of how they liked North America (as a whole Nation) San Jose was their first time concert in America!
Check out their An Cafe's Thank you VIDEO! -
http://forums.fanime.com/index.php/topic,10010.0.html

6pm to 9pm – Final debriefing of the Convention as a whole, checking the Convention Center and most area were cleared out by then with a couple of exceptions here and there.

9pm to 12am – Randomly driving home friends from the Convention.



For Random Pictures: check out this link: (Cosplay.com) http://www.cosplay.com/event/922/photos/ - check out people in costume!

I'm exhausted and my voice is still gone.
I <3 being a nerd. 
Hot girls <3 nerds like me. 

It's a shame I only saw questionette for like 5 seconds before she walked into the Dealers room. We need to change that! and when my house is ready. I think its time for another JERRY-CON during the summer.

;D Can I get a HELL-YAH on that?  :D

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What kept you going? besides the hot chicks of course :P
Being a nerd is always awesome, but i am a shy nerd still. That is changing however and maybe i will get lucky and hook up with some hot chicks like you :P

[Riri]

Did anyone get a pic of the Crisis Core Aeris cosplayer?
Or the Piplup boy?

Hi~
This Piplup boy?
http://photos-501.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v288/105/14/540639501/n540639501_834112_1416.jpg
Don't mind me on the right ^^

[Jebus]

fanime was pretty good this year, but i think it was more about hanging out this year than the last two ive gone, but then again that just could be because ive been doing other things lately. rave kicked ass, im surprised i didnt drop dead monday after dancing for 4 hours the night before, and a couple on saturday. sunday/monday morning rave prompting my search for that girl in the red dress. i swear that sounds like something from the matrix. "were you dancing at the rave, or were you looking at the girl in the red dress?"

saturday i think it was, kind of sucked because i spent a few hours sick off of a johnny rockets burger that was underdone. but i recovered quick enough that the rest of the con didnt suffer. wish i could have cosplayed and bought more than just a shirt, but hey, theres always next year

[brie]

11am to 12pm – An Café's Autograph signing to the limited general public – Seeing girls nearly faint for being 3ft. in front of their favorite band member was pretty funny. I counted at least 29 girls crying of Joy in a line about 150 fans.

1pm to 2pm – An Café's Q&A Panel line control... 300 Harecore fans... I made them line up via doing a Conga line. Hey it worked.  :D

2pm to 3pm – An Café's Q&A – Fans nearly killed me when their NO camera/video rule was changed 5 MINUTES before the Panel started. I seriously saw my life flash before my eyes. At least I would have been torn to shred by a rabid mob of J-rock Fans... would have interested way to go. All turned out OK, and the Q&A was actually pretty fun.

I was with a group of people and most of us were crying... P: And the Conga line was a good idea! The chant really got things going. After finding out camera's were allowed, I pretty much tripped over myself to run and get it outside. It was you that said, "OH, so that's what they look like," when they were hanging posters, right? C:

But all in all, you (and the rest of the staff) did a good job and made waiting in line fun. XD;

[RiotKitty]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/riotkitty/

Half of these are of me and my friends. We had a good time~  8)

[darrenfhf]

Finally got all my photos done. Dang real life for interfering with the important stuff  ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhf-org/sets/72157605219779326/detail/

[Jelly Soup]

Did anyone get a pic of the Crisis Core Aeris cosplayer?
Or the Piplup boy?

Hi~
This Piplup boy?
http://photos-501.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v288/105/14/540639501/n540639501_834112_1416.jpg
Don't mind me on the right ^^

YES, thank you!
He is so freaken cute.

[Rainbow Ichi]

I've got my pictures up, if anyone cares to view them ^^

http://rainbowichi.multiply.com

[Mango Bunny]

Finally got all my photos done. Dang real life for interfering with the important stuff  ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhf-org/sets/72157605219779326/detail/

Yay, I finally got a picture of me, thanks!

[narutofan17]

I had fun. I go to the con to relax after finals and I have to say I got my money's worth.

MOJOJOJO!!!!!!!!

[edendreams]

WHOOT! MY friend posted pics of me in my cosplay!


You can see my green eyes! (i actually was wearing contacts)



Haha yep that's loktera in tha curly wig

[Paladin Cecil]

My experience at Fanime this year totally topped this year. Fanime '07 wasn't the best time I had at a con, but it had it's moments and I enjoyed it enough to want to keep attending and I'm very glad to have made that decision after the experience I had this year. I hosted more panels this year and had a great time with them (I hosted Story Story Die, The Anime List and the fan art caption contest) and I plan to host panels again next year as well.

I also had a great time taking pictures at the gatherings I attended and the video clips I taped was my most diverse video collection from a con to date. When I returned, I was excited to get back just to upload the clips. They can be viewed at http://youtube.com/user/PaladinCecil/
The Fanime '08 clips are on the first page and most of the second page and I also have clips from last year's Fanime.

The pictures I took from the con can be viewed here:
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PaladinCecil/Cons%20out%20of%20state/
The Fanime '08 pics are on pages 1 thru 5 and the first 8 pics on page 6.

I have a few questions about the con that I wanted to ask as well:
1. What all panels did you attend and which one/ones did you like best?
2. Was anyone here at the DOAX pool gathering? I attended it with some other people who got to it late because the girls in charge of it had to re-locate at the last minute. If anyone here showed up at it when it started, what all went on?
3. What all gatherings did you attend and which one/ones did you like best?

[narutofan17]

You guys have inspired me to upload my pics on to photo bucket now (even though there already on my facebook) XD.