I think for my next two reports, I'm going to take a different philosophy with them. Rather than a day by day report, which admittedly gets a little bit exhaustive...not to mention by this point my habits are known, I believe I shall simply talk in impressions of the convention overall.

Taking a break from the various convention related items still in the works, I've put to the proverbial pen and paper a review of one the manga I picked up over at Anime Central this year, that being Ben Dunn's 'Heaven Sent'.

Got the pics I took from Anime Expo 2009 up. As with the others, I've not yet had time to go through and cull the ones that were a little off, or annotate the ones that I recall having a story behind. I should have Doug's pics up from Fanime and Anime Expo in a few days.

Remember, if you see your pic and you want a larger image, email me, and I'll make it available. Have fun!

Anime Expo is coming up in a couple of days. As is usual, I'll be running around, taking pics and making a general nuisance of myself. I'll also be among those taking video of the main events...so if you see me, come up and say hi

Hope to see you and have fun with you all there!

I've come to the conclusion I need to figure out how to get proper colors on this camcorder when those at Anime Central use those weird ass colored lights. On the other hand, it'd also be nice if I had decent software that was capable of correcting some of that in the AVCHD format.

Well, here is Day 1 for your reading pleasure. I hope this one is more interesting than the prep day of Day 0, heh.

Well, here's the first of the videos I've taken this year: the 2009 ACEN Masquerade, ready to be downloaded and viewed.

More to come as I get them encoded. Enjoy!

Since I had such a great time at ACEN last year, I decided to go ahead and attend this year. Like last year, I attended as a member of the Press, which enabled me to film and photograph events in ways I otherwise would not have been able to as a regular attendee. This is important when one considers how many events I've actually started filming on a regular basis at the various conventions I attend; almost all of which I've made available via bittorrent. It's irked me considerably that most of the video taken at these cons seems to disappear down a dark hole into shear nothingness, despite the number of people I see taking video…especially at the larger conventions like Anime Expo. Thankfully with the advent of Youtube and various other online video services, people are beginning to transcode and upload their videos; most famous of which is American Cosplay Paradise who has actually gone back and begun making available video from about '99 on.

Well, finally got the pics for Fanime 2009 up. Like the ACEN ones, I've not gone through and culled them, that'll come later. It's more important I get them up for everyone to enjoy. Head on over to TFA Cosplay or just click here to go directly there.

Well, finally got the pics up. These are all the pics I took, no cuts and no comments. I’ll be removing some as I go through them and cull the ones that I don’t think I took very well, blurry ones, etc, and comments will come as I go. I figured it’d be best if I just put them up there for those that were looking forward to them now.