ANIME CONVENTION FACTS OF ANTHONY!

1. How many times have you been to a convention? More than 20

2. Do you sleep at conventions? At the convention center, no.

3. Do you eat? If I didn’t, I would probably be dead.

4. Are you shameless at conventions?: Hell no.

5. On average, how much money do you spend?: Usually no more than $100; that’s how much I spent at AB.

6. Do you go to conventions to pick up people? No

7. Do you go to conventions to bang people? OMG NO!

8. How much cellulite do you see when you go to conventions?: I don’t care.

9a. Do you cosplay?: Rarely, don’t have time to make the cosplay.

9b. Do you watch skits on youtube?: No, I watch them on Vidgle!

10. Does your cosplay show a lot of skin? Why?

11. Is your cosplay the epitome of badassery?: No

12. Do you wait in line for things?: I don’t normally wait onlines anymore; in the old days yes. But now since I cover the cons under press, I don’t.

13. How many friends have you met from conventions? Several.

14. Have you ever been drunk at a convention?: No

15. Name your conventions (the early years I am lost at, i think we went to I-CON 21):
2002:
Anime Expo NY
I-con 21

2003:
Big Apple Anime Fest
I-con 22

2004:
I-con 23

2005:
I-con 24

2006:
Otakon

2007:
I-con 26
Anime Boston
Otakon
MangaNEXT
New York Anime Festival

2008:
I-con 27
New York Comic-con
Otakon
MangaNEXT
New York Anime Festival

2009:
I-con 28
New York Comic-con
Otakon
Anime Boston
Katsucon
Zenkaikon
New York Anime Festival
AnimeUSA OR Another Anime Con

16. Do you go to conventions alone or with a bunch of people? Usually with friends

17. Get your own room or mooch off of someone?: Have own room

18. Ever partied hard with a voice actor?: No, I just keep in touch with them.

19. Taken a picture with Silent Bob? I even had an interview with him! That idiot never said a word!

20. Jay too? Nope

21. Gotten home to find out you’ve lost weight from walking around so DAMN much? I probably do with all the stress.

22. Hugged random people? No

23. Kissed random people? No

24. Stalked someone who was cosplaying your favorite bishi character? No

25. Gotten a g/f or b/f out of a convention?: No

26. Hooked up with someone?: No

27. Tell the truth now… : No

28. Had a temporary convention love that ended by Monday morning?: No

29. Raved until you fell over? : No

30. Flirted with a dealer to get a discount?: Yes… that’s why I have so much free stuff in my room! jk

31. Taken pictures of people?: Yes

32. Had your picture taken?: Yes. Including people taking pictures of me wearing a mario hat with the BSOD shirt!

33. Gone to a photoshoot?: Yes

34. Planned a photoshoot?: No

35. Been stalked?: Yes.

36. Been annoyed by someone?: Yes.

37. Done the annoying?: I hope not.

39. Had such a miserable time you wanted to leave but didn’t?: I-CON 28, and thank god I didn’t. Stayed the entire day into the morning!

40. Gotten in a fight?: Not a physical one, possibly a verbal one but I don’t remember

41. Tried to stage a fight? Yes.

42. Success? Yes.

43. Freaked out when you saw one of your most favorite characters?: Nope

44. Someone freaked out when they saw your cosplay? Yes

45. Hung out with random people that you’d just met? Yes

46. Reunited with a friend? No

47. Broken off with a friend? At a con, no I don’t think so

48. Cried at a convention? Yes.

49. Saved trash from stuff you bought?: No

50. Eaten ramen and drunk ramune like they were air?: I have high blood pressuer so I can’t eat ramen.

51. Slept in the same bed as someone you’ve only known a few hours?: No

52. Made any money? With Vidgle’s Con Goer, I wish

53. Made someone else money? With interviews on Vidgle, maybe.

54. Sick of this survey? It was nice knowing you!

55. Okay…last question. Favorite convention you’ve ever been to?
I would say Otakon 2006.

At Vidgle we have begun shooting our Con Goer series in high definition and all future shows will be shoot in 1080i HD as well. We started in HD this year since we have upgraded our equipment to handle the high definition video smoothly. We are using 6 GB of RAM on our Mac Pro currently and we are planning to max it to 16 GB by the end of the year. This upgrade of equipment wasn’t that expensive since all of our equipment were HD ready, we just didn’t have our video coverage in HD.

Our first coverage in HD was at New York Comic Con in New York City. You can see the HD picture by clicking on the picture above and then clicking it again on the page its displayed in. We currently only master it into 720p HD instead of 1080i.

Some cosplayers were excited that we began filming in HD so that the camera can pick up every single thing they are wearing.

There is some sad news though with this HD transition, the website is not expected to have the HD version in the years to come. All of our videos are on our website server in Los Angeles, not a third party podcast syndication network. Though we have a lot of space, it takes alot of disk space, such as 1 gigabyte for just one of videos. We are planning to have a HQ version which is in EDTV format (that’s 854×480 SD) but we think it is not worth establishing yet. But when we believe the time comes of establishing the HQ or HD feed, we will establish it. Vidgle already has a mobile website, flash video for desktop websites, and a podcast format.

The first Con Goer video that was mastered in HD will be available on Vidgle later today. Click here for the video.

Here are some other pictures in HD that you can find in our video. We’ll let you decide if its better or not! Just click on the picture, then click on the picture that displays on the page it brings you to too get the experience.

Not as good as last year, Fred and I talked about our experience at New York Comic Con on the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast. Our video reports will start coming in later this month. Click here to listen.

Everything that Vidgle and WRAJ has covered is now posted. Here are some of the links:

Photos

Video Report

Review

Of course, if you use a video-podcast catcher software, you should have received the video report by now if you are subscribed to the Vidgle or Con-Goer Podcast Feed. Click here to learn more about the video podcast feed.
I hope you enjoy it. The next Con we are reporting will be at the Totally Normal Event this June.