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Chicon 7 Day 1: Busy Busy Busy
Aug. 30th, 2012 10:30 pmAs has seemed increasingly common these days for me, Thursday, the first day of Worldcon, might turn out to be the busiest day in terms of individual items of things to do.
( Pressed Into Service )
Lisa, Kuma, and I donned our Chicon 7 flight suits: our premier costumes for this year. There was a bit of a delay because my shoulder patch was not quite right and Lisa had to take it off and re-sew it, but fortunately we had enough time and were able to get down to the Grand Ballroom and set up the camera gear with plenty of time to spare. When a hotel person asked, the convention staff assured them that we weren’t part of the convention staff, just individual members who they were letting use the space. Our jumpsuits made it look a bit like we were acting in some official capacity, so I can certainly understand the confusion.
( Photos of the Chicon 7 Ground Crew )
I took the other camera and shot handheld video of the 90-minute-long ceremony, where John Scalzi acted as host of a Tonight-show-style interview program including a live band on stage, interviewing the guests of honor (or in Rowena Morrill’s case since Rowena is too sick to attend the convention, her sister), the introducing Deb Kosiba, who unveiled the design of this year’s Hugo Award trophy base a few days earlier than usual. (There’s no rule that says you have to wait until the night of the Hugo Awards ceremony. Personally, I like the idea of unveiling the trophy early in the convention and putting it on display early on so people can look at it before the Hugo ceremony.
I will post a photo of the Hugo Award trophy on TheHugoAwards.org once I can obtain a good quality copy — I hope one of the official photos from Chicon. It’s a little challenging sometimes with everyone rushing around on the day to get this stuff done. Even if you sit still, people come to you and want to chat. And I couldn’t sit still.
( Run Off My Feet )
After the MPC meeting, I found Lisa at the Luna Society table and we agreed that it was long past time for dinner. Not wanting to risk our new jumpsuits, particularly because we plan to wear them multiple times the rest of Worldcon, we changed out of them and went to the Noodles & Co a few blocks from the hotel.
The convention was having an Opening Night Event at the Adler Planetarium and was running shuttle buses between the hotel and the Adler, but we were just too tired. Remember that Lisa is still getting over her cold and is subject to intense wracking coughing spells, and I’ve presumably caught her cold and have been doing some coughing of my own and my voice is starting to fade out. So after a brief swing by the parties — UK in 2014 have a huge spread in the Monarch Suite on the top floor and they have done an amazing job of decorating to boot — we turned in early.
After composing this LJ entry offline, I considered going downstairs to upload it and the photos we took, but I couldn’t face the Elevator Clog and the prospect of a long wait to get back upstairs. Once you’re up here on the 33rd floor, it’s best to move between the party floors by interior stairs than to depend on the six elevators. They’re already getting clogged at times and it's only Thursday.
I have the Opening Ceremonies video as raw footage, but no time to edit or upload it, particularly because I cannot leave it to upload to a wired connection in my hotel room while I go get other productive things done — like sleeping.
( Pressed Into Service )
Lisa, Kuma, and I donned our Chicon 7 flight suits: our premier costumes for this year. There was a bit of a delay because my shoulder patch was not quite right and Lisa had to take it off and re-sew it, but fortunately we had enough time and were able to get down to the Grand Ballroom and set up the camera gear with plenty of time to spare. When a hotel person asked, the convention staff assured them that we weren’t part of the convention staff, just individual members who they were letting use the space. Our jumpsuits made it look a bit like we were acting in some official capacity, so I can certainly understand the confusion.
( Photos of the Chicon 7 Ground Crew )
I took the other camera and shot handheld video of the 90-minute-long ceremony, where John Scalzi acted as host of a Tonight-show-style interview program including a live band on stage, interviewing the guests of honor (or in Rowena Morrill’s case since Rowena is too sick to attend the convention, her sister), the introducing Deb Kosiba, who unveiled the design of this year’s Hugo Award trophy base a few days earlier than usual. (There’s no rule that says you have to wait until the night of the Hugo Awards ceremony. Personally, I like the idea of unveiling the trophy early in the convention and putting it on display early on so people can look at it before the Hugo ceremony.
I will post a photo of the Hugo Award trophy on TheHugoAwards.org once I can obtain a good quality copy — I hope one of the official photos from Chicon. It’s a little challenging sometimes with everyone rushing around on the day to get this stuff done. Even if you sit still, people come to you and want to chat. And I couldn’t sit still.
( Run Off My Feet )
After the MPC meeting, I found Lisa at the Luna Society table and we agreed that it was long past time for dinner. Not wanting to risk our new jumpsuits, particularly because we plan to wear them multiple times the rest of Worldcon, we changed out of them and went to the Noodles & Co a few blocks from the hotel.
The convention was having an Opening Night Event at the Adler Planetarium and was running shuttle buses between the hotel and the Adler, but we were just too tired. Remember that Lisa is still getting over her cold and is subject to intense wracking coughing spells, and I’ve presumably caught her cold and have been doing some coughing of my own and my voice is starting to fade out. So after a brief swing by the parties — UK in 2014 have a huge spread in the Monarch Suite on the top floor and they have done an amazing job of decorating to boot — we turned in early.
After composing this LJ entry offline, I considered going downstairs to upload it and the photos we took, but I couldn’t face the Elevator Clog and the prospect of a long wait to get back upstairs. Once you’re up here on the 33rd floor, it’s best to move between the party floors by interior stairs than to depend on the six elevators. They’re already getting clogged at times and it's only Thursday.
I have the Opening Ceremonies video as raw footage, but no time to edit or upload it, particularly because I cannot leave it to upload to a wired connection in my hotel room while I go get other productive things done — like sleeping.
