con report.. day one
Got up early had a leasuirly breakfast and wandered over to the oddessy arena after brushing teeth etc, enough of my personal life, it makes for long, boring novels on the American market but doesn't tell you what I did.
Well got in early and negotiated my way past the entry drones and out on to the floor of the "Petting zoo". That title part inspired by Pat Tallman and her comment about sitting behind a table at conventions.
I chatted briefly with one or two of the folks I didn't recognise but Colin Baker wasn't there yet so I moved on to the reason I Was there, PAtricia Tallman and Claudia Christian. I was a little intimidated I Admit and kinda tounge tied so I didn't chat for long, I'm looking forward to chatting with them tomorrow evening at the pub night. I did spend quite a while nattering with the lovely Jennifer Blanc, partner of Michael Beihne, (kyle reese in Terminator, also hicks in Aliens and many many more things.)
She really put me at my ease and then, while chatting to her the guy in the Indiana Jones costume started cracking his whip, it was really *really* loud and Jennifer to be honest looked a wee bittie bit scared.
Then PAtricia Tallman stepped up! she shouted up a tthe guy, telling him to stop and that there were kids here!, she really took control and he cowered and ran away like a scared little boy, way to go Pat!
I chatted to Jennifer for another wee while then wandered over and had a very nice talk with Kristian Nairn who plays Hodor in Game of Thrones, he's a local Belfast boy and I joked that he has a FRank Kelly level of Dialogue akin to Father Jack! he agreed and said it's an easy line to learn but the physical demands of the Job are quite large - plus the actor playing Bran is getting heavier
I comission a wolverine (for your info Naomi in shorts only) from a young artist from Clare, Declan Shavley, we chatted briefly about x-men which is his first love. I had an unexpected encounter with Malcolm from discworld fandom between Q&As. But to return to my chronology, I watched Brian Muirs Q&A and asked him a question I have garnered from chats with Bernard Pearson i.e. the curse of arthritis which can inflict many sculptors, Brian being someone who has sculpted, amongst other things, the original darth vader mask and armour. Asked him about best and worst materials to work in also, he like Bernard seems to prefer clay but he commented onm the benefits of polystyrene for movie work as you don't need to cast it or prep, you just need a sharp knife and an eye for detail.
Next after that was the Q&A with Colin Baker, a perfect gent who seemed to love his tim eon Dr who and discussed at length the issue with a controller of the BBC at the time and his desire to kill the show entirely as he didn't seem to like it, also the mismanagement of BC enterprises in that the money a show made from overseas sales and merchandising (even limited as it was then) didn't go back to the department that made it but rather, in to the general BBC coffers which meant those who made the show had no incentive to continue working on it.
After the Q&A I met my friend Ed Ashby and we went for a wee meal and to see Michael and Jennifer movie "the victim". It's a grindhouse style movie production but both of them took questions before and after the film. They were most gracious.
After the movie I popped briefly in to a pub with Ed and chatted a wee bit about what we'd seen. Tomorrow I won't be going down as early as I've met pretty much everyone that was there apart form those who didn't appear today and are only there tomorrow and Sunday.
I've decided that despite missing the Claudia/Pat Q&A I am going to head home on Sunday, it's not the sort of Con I'm used to and I'l have no real friends there on Sunday so am going to eat breakfast int he hotel then wander home.
Expect an equally long report for tomorrow
I hope facebook lets me post this but am copying and pasting in to a differnt document in case it refuses it as too long. This will be largely replicated in a post on the discworldstamps forum for those of my friends who aren't on this medium .
Alan
Got up early had a leasuirly breakfast and wandered over to the oddessy arena after brushing teeth etc, enough of my personal life, it makes for long, boring novels on the American market but doesn't tell you what I did.
Well got in early and negotiated my way past the entry drones and out on to the floor of the "Petting zoo". That title part inspired by Pat Tallman and her comment about sitting behind a table at conventions.
I chatted briefly with one or two of the folks I didn't recognise but Colin Baker wasn't there yet so I moved on to the reason I Was there, PAtricia Tallman and Claudia Christian. I was a little intimidated I Admit and kinda tounge tied so I didn't chat for long, I'm looking forward to chatting with them tomorrow evening at the pub night. I did spend quite a while nattering with the lovely Jennifer Blanc, partner of Michael Beihne, (kyle reese in Terminator, also hicks in Aliens and many many more things.)
She really put me at my ease and then, while chatting to her the guy in the Indiana Jones costume started cracking his whip, it was really *really* loud and Jennifer to be honest looked a wee bittie bit scared.
Then PAtricia Tallman stepped up! she shouted up a tthe guy, telling him to stop and that there were kids here!, she really took control and he cowered and ran away like a scared little boy, way to go Pat!
I chatted to Jennifer for another wee while then wandered over and had a very nice talk with Kristian Nairn who plays Hodor in Game of Thrones, he's a local Belfast boy and I joked that he has a FRank Kelly level of Dialogue akin to Father Jack! he agreed and said it's an easy line to learn but the physical demands of the Job are quite large - plus the actor playing Bran is getting heavier

I comission a wolverine (for your info Naomi in shorts only) from a young artist from Clare, Declan Shavley, we chatted briefly about x-men which is his first love. I had an unexpected encounter with Malcolm from discworld fandom between Q&As. But to return to my chronology, I watched Brian Muirs Q&A and asked him a question I have garnered from chats with Bernard Pearson i.e. the curse of arthritis which can inflict many sculptors, Brian being someone who has sculpted, amongst other things, the original darth vader mask and armour. Asked him about best and worst materials to work in also, he like Bernard seems to prefer clay but he commented onm the benefits of polystyrene for movie work as you don't need to cast it or prep, you just need a sharp knife and an eye for detail.
Next after that was the Q&A with Colin Baker, a perfect gent who seemed to love his tim eon Dr who and discussed at length the issue with a controller of the BBC at the time and his desire to kill the show entirely as he didn't seem to like it, also the mismanagement of BC enterprises in that the money a show made from overseas sales and merchandising (even limited as it was then) didn't go back to the department that made it but rather, in to the general BBC coffers which meant those who made the show had no incentive to continue working on it.
After the Q&A I met my friend Ed Ashby and we went for a wee meal and to see Michael and Jennifer movie "the victim". It's a grindhouse style movie production but both of them took questions before and after the film. They were most gracious.
After the movie I popped briefly in to a pub with Ed and chatted a wee bit about what we'd seen. Tomorrow I won't be going down as early as I've met pretty much everyone that was there apart form those who didn't appear today and are only there tomorrow and Sunday.
I've decided that despite missing the Claudia/Pat Q&A I am going to head home on Sunday, it's not the sort of Con I'm used to and I'l have no real friends there on Sunday so am going to eat breakfast int he hotel then wander home.
Expect an equally long report for tomorrow

Alan
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