Tuesday, June 5, 2007

currently listening: mi swing es tropical by...
quantic and nickodemus! the title would have been too long if i had their names. i don't like the title to go past the little end of the box, because i'm just ocd like that. anyway i have mah mocha frap and this song to get me going today! -dances around ¿MEXICAN STYLE?- if you're too lazy to listen to it, it's that song on the ipod commercial where the people are dancing in this rainbow of colour. AWESOME! i love it because of the beat! it just makes you want to get up and dance and hop around! -does just that-

aaaaaaanyways, my weekend! i had a FUN weekend. on friday, i didn't go to a-kon like i wanted because it was too short-notice for my mum (she wasn't feeling well) so we waited for saturday. i set my alarm on my cellphone to 6:30 in the morning so i could get ready really fast! and in the morning i SPRUUUUUUUNG up from bed and clad myself in my blue sundress, jeans, boots, my lucky harmonica necklace and LOOOOTS of bracelets. what can i say? i love accessories! then i grabbed my bookbag and RAAAAAAAAAN downstairs (quietly so i wouldn't wake chels up) to my mum and dad's bedroom. they were both STILL asleep (time: 7:00AM) so i shook my mum's shoulder saying "c'mon, we gotta get their early so we don't have to wait in liiiiiiiiine!" she woke up, my dad too, and said, "you're dressed already??!?! you look so pretty, taytay! :D" so after them deciding who would take me (my dad won), i hopped around in the study here to find stuff to bring! i brought my ipod, camera, cellphone, sharpie, maps to the adam's mark, and my autograph book! jus, an autograph book. when extraordinary artists are just a 25 minute drive away, you don't bring a NAPKIN to make them sign! you get an autograph boooook!!!

so dad and i hopped in the car and drove lickety-split down to the adam's mark with no troubles at all, except parking. there was this lady there TAILGATING us to get a good spot. so after paying for the space, we walked fast to the hotel! er, one of the buildings of the hotel.

we looked around and saw NOTHING, dood. just a concession stand with breakfast foods and a few people i knew were going to the convention. so we asked one of the people where to go, and she was nice and told us that we needed to go to the other building for all the anime junk and to sign in. this building we were in was for tabletop, mmorpg, card, etc gaming. so we walked FASTER to the other building and saw this HUUUUUUUUUUGE line of people getting their badges and wrist bands! so we got in the line and started to wait for the first time that day. and i took pictures! i'll post them sometime later though because my stupid hooker-upper for the camera is being stupid. GRAGH.

the person at the end of the line had to hold the end of the line had to hold a big sign that said END OF LINE. ^ ^ so once my dad and i got our wristbands to get in, the lady told us we were freeee to wander around wherever we wanted in the convention! she was really nice! so i just started leading us around, taking pictures of cosplayers and other lines. there were so many lines, i didn't know what most of them were for, but i didn't pry. so i just took pictures. loooooooots of pictures.

i was leading my dad around the artist alley when i got to the very back corner of the first floor. i saw prints of "to market to market...", "whisperings" and "homesick" then i thought, OH. MY. LORD ABOVE. i had found shirotsuki's booth!!!

so i hung out there for who knows HOW long, looking at THE SKETCHBOOK and looking at prints of all her works in her gallery <3333333333333333 it was awesome. though when i first got there, she was busy making a commission sign, so i couldn't talk to her. i just looked at her sketchbook getting a feel of things. then this one girl started talking to allie (shirotsuki) about how her name was allison and she heard about her from orchestra (or something rather). allie got all excited and said, "your name's allison too? how cool! i like stringed instruments, but i can't read music, i just play it..." and she started talking a lot (XD) and i joined in saying i played cello and stuff...then this one boy there said, "hay, can i commission you?" and allie said "sure!" and i said, "oh, can i commission you too? and she said, "of course! gee, the sign's working already!" so i gave her $20 dollars and she said, "oh, i need y'alls' names and emails so i can make sure you're not spam? i do get spam. i also want to know where i should email the picture when it's done, too." so she got an index card to write on. then i saw the other guy's name and it was TAYLOR NELSON. so i blurted, "OMG, my name's taylor too!" and allie looked for a second and said, "THIS is cool! it's like we're playing match-up er something!" so we laughed about that...then she gave us her email on an index card and said that's where we'd send the information of our commissions. GASJLDFAJKS;DKFJA;OWRUN;! so now i have her email! >:D ahahaha! just kidding. so then i said thanks and started on my way again, then i thought...AUTOGRAPHS?!??!!?!!!!!!!!!! so i jumped back and said, "i'm so sorry to bother you again, but may i have an autograph and picture?" she looked at me for a second and said "....SURE!" so she signed on my autograph book and i got a picture of her, then i went on my way.

that was the highlight of me for a-kon.

i walked around with dad some more, stopping by multiple booths and getting my autographs and pictures from different artists, most from deviantart, like sleepar, pzb, zureul, herms85, and so on...i didn't get to see scott ramsoomair or the guys from explosm, but it was still the awesome!! -dances some more- i saw the explosm guys' booth because of the big banner, but it was too crowded to get a good shot of them or an autograph. XDDDD;;;; ahaha...

pzb was really nice. my dad and i talked to her a while about tablet arts and my situation at the art event and it turns out that that kind of stuff happened to her too! so it made me happy not to be alone on that AND that she was really nice. my dad bought a bookmark from her because he thought....well, i don't want to embarass him, so i'll leave that part out. X3

then he and i got in a line, not knowing what it was for, and we asked what it WAS for. this lady with her grandkids and friends said it was to get the autographs from the voice actor guests! so he and i got a REALLY good spot (like 6th in line) and started to wait again! then the lady said "oh the line is OVER HERE. move plzkthx" so we saved our spots for us and the people around us and started to wait AGAIN, still in the same position in line, thank god. and, quoting from my dad, "we weren't going to start waiting again."

so i took a lot of pictures of characters from the line, including namine, some guy with a kfc bucket on his head, and fai. then at one point in time i JUMPED out of line and ran to get a picture of THE BEST JACK SPARROW COSPLAYER EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR. when i caught up, he was posing for a picture and i took a quick one too while he was like that. then, when we were done, he did a clumsy little japanese bow and wavered off like he was drunk. <333333333 srsly, i WISH y'all could've seen him!!! the clothes, jewels, hair, actions AND personality were all SPOT-ON!!! hooooooooo dood.

then i got back in line and we talked a lot with the girls behind us and the lady in front of us, 'cos they were all REALLY nice. ^ ^ then everyone started screeeeeeeaming because we were finally starting to get autographs from the guests! so when i got to the first guest, my heart was just POUNDING. i saw wendy powell first, and she was kind of tired. ^ ^ she said it was a bad hair, face, eye, arms, feet day and we talked for a little bit and laughed, and i got a picture and autograph. it says "stupid humans! <3 wendy powell - ENVY FMA - ".then i saw chris patton (<3333333333333!!!!!!!) and he was actually pissed off when i saw him. one kid was being a little brat in the line, and he was just ANGRY about the conduct. but wendy and my dad settled him really quick and he started signing my autograph book. he said, "so, taylor, have you been drinking water and keeping hydrated?" and i said, "ohooo, actually, i forgot my bottle at hooome. ;o;" so he laughed and said, "ohhhh taylor, taylor!! that's going to be my message for you. DRINK WATERRR!" so i got a picture of him pointing to a bottle of ozarka. ^ ^ a real custom message! it was "hey taylor! drink water! chris patton" i made sure to get a big bottle of water when i got home. then i got signatures from peter ss. beagle and samantha inoue-harte and a picture of them hugging. ^ ^ we talked to them about how they got started in the biz and laughed with themmmm~ then i got to the next voice actor, vic mignogna! i'm sure EVERYONE knows him as ed from fullmetal alchemist, but i liked him as dark in dnangel most. <3 he was REALLY nice and shook my hand and asked how i was doing, then gave me the message "<3 to taylor! vic mignogna". then i got a picture with him and i hugging. he said bye and i said bye and then i felt accomplished for the day! and hungry. so dad and i decided we'd make one more run-around the artist alley to get pictures then leave. it was a fun con, even though i only stayed 5 hours on saturday morning. my parents refused to take me another day because it would be expensive. 8D;;; I STILL LOVED IT!!!!!!! though if any of you went, i'm sure you wouldn't recognize me and i wouldn't recognize you. ^ ^;;; that's the only downer. o well!

so yesterday i emailed allie about my COMMISSIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! i asked for sané searching for the fairie kingdom behind the library. X3 i gave her an up-to-date reference sheet as well as a big description that was somewhat specific. i was scared i didn't pay enough or i was too vague, but she said it was just what she needed AND a picture too! ^ ^ so it made me REEEEEEEEEEEALLY relieved. she said it'd be done either today or tomorrow and she'd mail me the actual sketch!!!! so i'm just FRAZZL'D. it was such an awesome weekend! and then yesterday night i watched the abyssssss. X3 it was a good movie, and good graphics too for a movie made 10 years ago.

i almost DIED during jaws iii because of the terrible graphics. XOOOOOOO it was horrible! but not the abyss. the abyss was GREAT.

aaaaaaaaaaaanyways, i'm on a roll of sketches and contest entries, and i want to be able to get a div layout working today, so i'm off! -flaps off-
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