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obliviousally_ljI really hate the aftermath of conventions. Well, more like, the lack of anything happening. I'm also UBER busy before a con, prepping and finishing things and being generally crazy. Then the convention happens and MORE CRAZY all over the place. Then....a sudden stop. I'm unmotivated, bored, a fat, lazy lump of the weekend prior. It's annoying because my brain wants to work on things, but my body is like '...eh'. I don't get Post Con Depression. I get Post Con Lethargy.
But I did get the yard mowed. I cleaned the living room downstairs since it hadn't been cleaned since everyone was through here that last week. I gotta gather up dishes and do those, too. Blah blah blah house things blah. My area also needs cleaned like WOAH. It's starting to look like a basement-dwelling neckbeard lives here. Empty bags of chips, pork rinds, Little Debbie cakes, Pepsi bottles. It's pretty atrocious.
I also gotta put up my Pseudo Manitou prints somewhere on my wall. Because they're pretties.
I need to fill out my FAFSA for the coming school year, too. And my mom keeps telling me to go down and apply for food stamps, because they'll probably give them to me. Hey, free money for food to tide me over until I get a job? I can run with that. I just fucking HATE the welfare office. Like crazy. But it doesn't look like I'm going to get the luxury of ANY unemployment because Niles Target fucked up my hours. Assholes.
The fact that none of my stuff is selling right now is a little frustrating. Seems like the only original stuff I can ever sell has tits and ass, which is really depressing and makes me wonder why I even offer up originals and stuff. Oh, right, because I want them out of my hair and the money is nice. I just really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I thought I had cute stuff for sale at Anthrocon, little cheaply priced things and all, but I didn't sell a single thing in my book.
Uuuugh. I don't know.
I need to force myself through my commission list. Some people have been waiting WAY too long for simple things like sketches just because I've been a fucking lazy ass and I haven't kicked my ass into gear to do their pieces. I know I want to do my best on them, but I also can't keep stalling and making them wait. It's unfair to them and ends up stressful for me.
I'm also feeling stagnant with my art lately. This is probably partially due to the fact I know two other artists who do awesome expressions and shit that's, well, NOT STAGNANT. It's like I've drawn myself into a corner with my art and I don't have the vaugest fucking clue how to follow the maze back out to something decent. Uuugh. Maybe I'll pick up that pose book from the library again and force myself to sit down and draw from that. God knows it can't get any worse than the standing around poses I'm doing now.
Goddamn am I bitching. D:
Speaking of bitching, we staffed at Tikicon Cleveland on Saturday.
Yeah, wow. THAT could've been better planned and executed. The lack of signage, the lack of information given to us volunteers as to where things were (example: movie screenings at the Hanna Theatre? yeah, we're not all from Cleveland and just putting 'Hanna Theatre' on the schedule does not help anyone. even after Google Mapping it, I realized that even THAT was wrong and probably gave a dozen people the wrong directions.). The utter lack of volunteers in general and the ones that were there, but wandereing around with staff badges but NOT ACTUALLY DOING STAFF THINGS? Yeah, you guys can suck it.
It is not part of my job as a volunteer (or part of anyone's job as a volunteer, actually) to watch over the 10+ kids that were property of two other staff members. I helped out once because I was asked nicely. TJ and another girl were left behind the main desk for quite some time and had to put up with the screaming and squealing ALL WHILE trying to take registrations and pre-paid registrations. That's a great impression to give any of the guests.
PLUS. Batcopter rides were supposed to happen Saturday. Directed a bunch of people to where they were supposed to be (Carniege and 9th, I believe) and...no Batcopter. The Batmoblie was supposed to be set up and they were going to do some kind of raffle. That wasn't set up AT ALL.
Holding Tikicon during Ingenuity Fest was a good idea on paper, but in execution? Not so much. It was hard to find the Halle Building, the traffic sucked, the venue was a bit cramped and rushed. Even having Ray Park, Michael Rosenbaum and Edward James Olmos isn't going to save this, guys.
I was sorely disappointed in the fact that we all drove up an hour and a half at 8AM to get there at 10AM and there was only a handful of useable volunteers (because each celebrity guest gets a volunteer to handle their cash from autographs). Which meant some people sitting at the main desk for 6+ hours and some people manning the doors and checking badges for 4+ hours and no one bothering to switch out. There was jsut a small group of us that helped each other out.
I've staffed numerous cons and I've been to many more. I think I have a PRETTY GOOD IDEA of how to deal with volunteers and keep things running smoothly. I'll staff Tikicon Niles, but I'm going to be pretty anal about volunteers actually working and things making sense for guests. It's not rocket science. Really.
The fact that Peter was expecting 10,000 attendance? I will hold back my response to that one...
On the up side? I saw Todd Dezago and Terry Huddleston again, the latter of which I didn't expect to be there. Got to run around the festival with Anakin and Stormtroopers.
I also saw a Winter Soldier bust I wanted SO BAD but only had $10 on me. I sadfaced. HARD.
Overall? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Tikicon suceed and go somewhere. But...if things keep like this, I may not continue to be involved. I'm not afraid to voice my displeasure at things, especially when I'm staff. I'm not going to bend over backwards and say everything went GREAT. Because it obviously did not.
But I did get the yard mowed. I cleaned the living room downstairs since it hadn't been cleaned since everyone was through here that last week. I gotta gather up dishes and do those, too. Blah blah blah house things blah. My area also needs cleaned like WOAH. It's starting to look like a basement-dwelling neckbeard lives here. Empty bags of chips, pork rinds, Little Debbie cakes, Pepsi bottles. It's pretty atrocious.
I also gotta put up my Pseudo Manitou prints somewhere on my wall. Because they're pretties.
I need to fill out my FAFSA for the coming school year, too. And my mom keeps telling me to go down and apply for food stamps, because they'll probably give them to me. Hey, free money for food to tide me over until I get a job? I can run with that. I just fucking HATE the welfare office. Like crazy. But it doesn't look like I'm going to get the luxury of ANY unemployment because Niles Target fucked up my hours. Assholes.
The fact that none of my stuff is selling right now is a little frustrating. Seems like the only original stuff I can ever sell has tits and ass, which is really depressing and makes me wonder why I even offer up originals and stuff. Oh, right, because I want them out of my hair and the money is nice. I just really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I thought I had cute stuff for sale at Anthrocon, little cheaply priced things and all, but I didn't sell a single thing in my book.
Uuuugh. I don't know.
I need to force myself through my commission list. Some people have been waiting WAY too long for simple things like sketches just because I've been a fucking lazy ass and I haven't kicked my ass into gear to do their pieces. I know I want to do my best on them, but I also can't keep stalling and making them wait. It's unfair to them and ends up stressful for me.
I'm also feeling stagnant with my art lately. This is probably partially due to the fact I know two other artists who do awesome expressions and shit that's, well, NOT STAGNANT. It's like I've drawn myself into a corner with my art and I don't have the vaugest fucking clue how to follow the maze back out to something decent. Uuugh. Maybe I'll pick up that pose book from the library again and force myself to sit down and draw from that. God knows it can't get any worse than the standing around poses I'm doing now.
Goddamn am I bitching. D:
Speaking of bitching, we staffed at Tikicon Cleveland on Saturday.
Yeah, wow. THAT could've been better planned and executed. The lack of signage, the lack of information given to us volunteers as to where things were (example: movie screenings at the Hanna Theatre? yeah, we're not all from Cleveland and just putting 'Hanna Theatre' on the schedule does not help anyone. even after Google Mapping it, I realized that even THAT was wrong and probably gave a dozen people the wrong directions.). The utter lack of volunteers in general and the ones that were there, but wandereing around with staff badges but NOT ACTUALLY DOING STAFF THINGS? Yeah, you guys can suck it.
It is not part of my job as a volunteer (or part of anyone's job as a volunteer, actually) to watch over the 10+ kids that were property of two other staff members. I helped out once because I was asked nicely. TJ and another girl were left behind the main desk for quite some time and had to put up with the screaming and squealing ALL WHILE trying to take registrations and pre-paid registrations. That's a great impression to give any of the guests.
PLUS. Batcopter rides were supposed to happen Saturday. Directed a bunch of people to where they were supposed to be (Carniege and 9th, I believe) and...no Batcopter. The Batmoblie was supposed to be set up and they were going to do some kind of raffle. That wasn't set up AT ALL.
Holding Tikicon during Ingenuity Fest was a good idea on paper, but in execution? Not so much. It was hard to find the Halle Building, the traffic sucked, the venue was a bit cramped and rushed. Even having Ray Park, Michael Rosenbaum and Edward James Olmos isn't going to save this, guys.
I was sorely disappointed in the fact that we all drove up an hour and a half at 8AM to get there at 10AM and there was only a handful of useable volunteers (because each celebrity guest gets a volunteer to handle their cash from autographs). Which meant some people sitting at the main desk for 6+ hours and some people manning the doors and checking badges for 4+ hours and no one bothering to switch out. There was jsut a small group of us that helped each other out.
I've staffed numerous cons and I've been to many more. I think I have a PRETTY GOOD IDEA of how to deal with volunteers and keep things running smoothly. I'll staff Tikicon Niles, but I'm going to be pretty anal about volunteers actually working and things making sense for guests. It's not rocket science. Really.
The fact that Peter was expecting 10,000 attendance? I will hold back my response to that one...
On the up side? I saw Todd Dezago and Terry Huddleston again, the latter of which I didn't expect to be there. Got to run around the festival with Anakin and Stormtroopers.
I also saw a Winter Soldier bust I wanted SO BAD but only had $10 on me. I sadfaced. HARD.
Overall? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Tikicon suceed and go somewhere. But...if things keep like this, I may not continue to be involved. I'm not afraid to voice my displeasure at things, especially when I'm staff. I'm not going to bend over backwards and say everything went GREAT. Because it obviously did not.
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Date: 2009-07-13 11:48 pm (UTC)DER.
Anyhow, sounds like your Tikicon is going to way of Colossal Con :O
Good luck with the art. I just keep pumping crap out in the hopes I will magically improve. I gave up on trying to sell traditional work a while ago. No boobs, no monies. Really shows the Furry maturity level and art appreciation skills...
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Date: 2009-07-17 04:48 am (UTC)