absolutedestiny

Overall, a really wonderful convention. The small amount of people led to a much more intimate convention experience than I am used to but I am totally fine with that. I felt really welcomed by everyone and had a great time meeting some really cool, interesting and just plain awesome people. I was constantly in great company and so many people I'd never met or spoken to made an effort to invite me into conversation. You people kick ass.

Yeah, it totally rocked in every way possible. The vids were fucking amazing. I was going to try and make a rec list but it's currently so damn long that I'm not sure where to start! I actually feel really sorry for anyone not at the con, not only because they missed the vidding high-point of the year but also because they are going to have a nightmare of a job finding and watching all of these really awesome videos.

I felt my stuff went well. The Anime Vidshow wasn't a huge attendance (which is fair enough... given the option I'd have been at the aesthetics panel too) but the vids went down very well. My aim was to offer a broader variety of genres and artistic attempts than most of the people at the show would be used to seeing from anime vids. I'm going to make posts in

vividcon about my vidshow and my panel with links and downloadable stuff and yeah.

My DVDs shifted well – 60 were taken by hungry vidders, which is cool. I'm going to post the vid I had in the Premieres show later today. I find it funny that before the con I was dissapointed in myself for having such a shallow trivial video in the show but the reaction to it (both positive and negative) was really great and I felt I'd succeeded with what the video intended to do. Of course, I don't mean that I intended to offend anyone with it but I did know that to make a video which emphasises the comic-book aesthetics of exploitation cinema I'd have to accept the fact that the exploitative nature of the content would provoke strong reactions. Deservedly so and I'm cool with that. If it didn't – it wouldn't be a video about exploitation cinema. There is a time for a video which is a more clear critique of the genre but it's not this video.

I think I've managed to get over the downer of all the goodbyes (including the ones I missed –

permetaform and

lierdumoa, I'm sorry I never caught you before you left. It was really great meeting you.) I'm focusing on what I'm wanting to do for next year. I'm going to hopefully become somewhat more prolific – it's been a very light year for me but I'm filled with ideas now so hopefully I can get back on track. Write the reports and get working on my next vid. That's the goal for me.

Ok, my brain is too fried for anything else right now. I'm sitting in Dublin airport waiting for my Heathrow connection and my body clock is fucked beyond recognition. Time to obsessively check my Flist and hope that I can reorganise my thoughts for more detailed posts later.