Archive for the ‘Convention Reports’ Category

Ari Rockefeller presents: Zenkaikon 2011 — The Convention Formerly Known as Kosaikon (and Zentrancon)

                  If you’ve been following my deviantART activity, then you’re aware of what is easily the most heavily edited deviation I have on there—a photograph of my numerous convention badges hanging on the wall in a rather large frame. Even with the addition of my badge from Zenkaikon ’11, there is still a lot […]

Ari Rockefeller presents: Katsucon 2011 — This Time Will Be Different!

                When the topic of going to a convention comes up, the amount of planning for any given con is based on a wide variety of factors—mostly monetary issues, but things like how badly you want to go and even the convention itself can sway the issue in one direction or another. Otakon, for example, […]

Ari Rockefeller Presents MangaNEXT 2010 — Between the Decrepit North and the Verdant South (or “Hey, How Much Booze Do You Think Will Fit in the Hotel’s Hot Tub?”)

Do you know what sucks about not having a phone with GPS, or rather, getting driving directions from a computer and printing them out? Aside from trying to read them while bombing down (up?) the New Jersey Turnpike and having to switch your attention between the road and the paper – made especially difficult with […]

Ari Rockefeller presents New York Anime Fest 2010 — I Want to Be a Part of It

Traveling up to New York City to meet friends living in the area isn’t always an easy for me. The trek to the city from South Jersey can take two hours if I’m lucky enough that the roads up in north Jersey have been completely abandoned. The further north you go and the closer you […]

Ari Rockefeller presents Otakon 2010 — The Boys Are Back in Town

In 2004 or thereabouts, while on winter break from college, a friend of mine suggested, “Hey, we should totally go to Otakon this year!” I at that point only had a slight familiarity with cosplay and knew next to nothing about Otakon, or conventions in general. Our journey to Baltimore for the convention was, for […]

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