Help, please. Need Flanvention tips, or friends.
POSTED BY: History
UPDATED: Friday, December 8, 2006 01:37
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Thank you for your posts.
Dear MAL4PREZ, It is good to know other New Englanders will be attending. I'll be the one with the Maine accent. How 'bout you? If that is not enough to give me away, I'll make a discrete Username label and attach it to a convention pass, if we receive one, or on a "Serenity" pin (which I got off E-bay a year ago). It seems like Leiasky's/Tammy's party is the place to be Saturday evening. 
Dear HISGOODGIRL, let me know if you find a way to make "FlanII" button I.D.'s for FFFans.net posters. I'll purchase one.
Dear MINIME, I'll bring my cameras, then. As for costume...I'll think about it. I do not know how much I can "go native"--comfortably (my stupid "proper" upbringing). However, I just found a brown suede coat I wore in the early 70's. Don't think I'll bring it, but it does have pockets that will accomoate my mini-camcorder and pocket camera....Hmm.
I'm a Radiologist, btw (or "Imaging Specialist").
Dear Chindi, "comfy...casual" attire. That's open to interpretation. Inara and Simon may understand this differently then, say, Kaylee and Wash. Thank you for the information of camera etiquette. Unfortuantely, I was unable to get tickets for the banquet. I'll be at the cocktail party--if my plane is not delayed (
). No direct flights from Maine to Burbank; I'll have to change flights twice.
Looking forward to meeting everyone and seeing our BDH's next month.
Respectfully,
History
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I think I'm the oldest here (50's)
but I've been to a couple of Buffy conventions so I know the drill!
It is VERY easy to meet people, it is actually a lot like a working convention: too much drinking and all the talk is on the same topic,
but of course having the topic be Firefly, Serenity and our BDHs makes a big difference!
Costumes can mean anything, At the Browncoats Ball in San Francisco I found that the men went all out just like the ladies: beautiful vests and long coats, are very elegant, but there were a lot of men in Wash's flightsuits and Hawaiian shirts.
Jayne's Army fatigues always work too.
I have a nice Chinese jacket that I'll be wearing a lot all weekend.
Personally I would love to do a little 'meet up' at the beginning:
Thursday night dinner on Dec 7th
or Friday morning breakfast on Dec 8th
before the convention is really busy,
if anyone else is going to be arriving early ... ?
Oh and cameras are usually allowed everywhere if you do it without the flash...it is hard for the guests to do autographes with flash bulbs popping (if the convention isn't allowing them then they will always announce it 500 times, it won't be a secret).
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Hey all,
This will be my first convention of any kind. This is my very expensive 21st b-day present to myself. I'm going alone from Wisconsin. I get pretty nervous sometimes thinking about it all, but then remember how friendly everyone is and know I'll have a great time.
I have a button maker. I'll offer my services to make some. I would just need to know what to make, and how to distribute them at flan.
Jenz
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>It seems like Leiasky's/Tammy's party is the place to be Saturday evening.
Oh, I'm sure there will be other parties that evening. Ours will just be one of many - I have no doubt.
Tammy
"A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned."
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Quote:Awesome! You can count on me to order one. Can I do my own graphics? If so, what size should it be?
Originally posted by pinkishbrowncoat:
Hey all,
I have a button maker. I'll offer my services to make some. I would just need to know what to make, and how to distribute them at flan.
Jenz
I have an idea about distribution. Why not mention this to the con organizers, and see if they would let you ship them in advance and distribute them at the registration table? It wouldn't have to take up much of their time or effort, just a box that we could dig through and find our own button.
If that sounds like a good idea, you could start a thread on the BoosterEvents Flan-II forum. It's www.boosterevents.com and under Community/Forums. If you don't want to do this yourself, I can do it. The worst they can do is say no!
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I posted a message at the booster forums. If it would be too much hassle for the registration people, I'll be flying in Thursday, so I could hang out at the registration tables on Friday to get them out.
DonCoat: if you'd like to, you could design the main graphic to use on all of them. Unless you wanted yours to be unique. It still could be. I have the stuff to make 2 1/4" buttons so the graphic needs to be about 2".
I think I would sell them for either $.75 or $1.00 because of parts, labor, and getting them there(either shipping or suitcase space). I hope that's not too much for people.
If you want one you can e-mail me at jfrater@charter.net
Once I get a design for the buttons I can post it here so people could know what it looks like.
Jenz
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PBC, I'll have a go at a 2" graphic. Of course I can provide it to others if they want to use it (I'll make an area in the center where the "handle" can go).
What format should I deliver it in? JPEG, BMP, or maybe hard copy?
I was thinking maybe putting something like "FFF.net Brigade" around the outside, with maybe the Serenity chinese characters behind the nick...
Other ideas welcome, but remember it's pretty small.
A buck sounds like it's a bit on the too-cheap side. Make sure you cover your costs! Whatever you do, make it an even $ amount -- that would fit neatly into an envelope.
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Browncoat ingenuity yet again.
Thank you, DONCOAT and PINKISHBROWNCOAT.
I like the idea of "small" buttons that bring people closer to read them and say "hi!"
If it will help, I'll make a donation to support the button project.
Respectfully,
History
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Personally I would love to do a little 'meet up' at the beginning:
Thursday night dinner on Dec 7th
or Friday morning breakfast on Dec 8th
before the convention is really busy,
if anyone else is going to be arriving early ... ?
Hi Embers--
I'll be flying in on Wednesday and staying at a friend's house close to the Hilton. I'd love to have a 'meet up' early. I expect my husband, who is traveling to Burbank with me but not attending Flan, would also like to meet some of the people I'll be hangin' with all weekend.
We could meet at the Daily Grille (restaurant at the Hilton) for a meal, or there are some nice restaurants I know of in "beautiful downtown Burbank" where we could gather. Either way, an early icebreaker would be a good thing!
By the way, I'm probably the second oldest going (mid-40's). It'll be good to meet some other people close to my age!
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DonCoat: Send it as a jpeg.
When I get all the designs done, I'll post so people can pick. I'll probably hand them out myself Friday during registration. I forgot to add in the ink costs for printing so I'm gonna set the price at $2 to make it nice and even.
Jenz
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