08/03/10 - A quick visit to Baldwin, Otakon 2010, and the last picture my Powershot S2 IS ever took

Hi Dave!

Jerry!

Tossing a ball around?

The huge stack of wireless routers!

Configuring them is hard

New backup equipment!

Sweet floppy disk..

Hard at work, Dave?

Back in Baltimore!

Vic and Amanda!

Tough Guy Albert

Jeff and Joy

I approve of this shirt

Otakon staff badge pickup!

OtaStaffers!

Waiting for my badge to be printed

Vic had to get a new picture taken too

More staffers trickle in

Hey, I know that guy!

Putting my picture on the badge

Laminating!

My badge!

Ooo, chain lanyard things

This guy got stuck half way into the intersection

The good ol' Baltimore Convention Center!

Now that we have our badges, it's time to head to Con Ops

Waiting to find out the situation in Video 1

Amanda sitting around

Alan, Omar, and Jeff

Alan makes a funny face

Ooo, how do I join?

Mike Lee, Anime Boston's Tech Director!

A lot of AB staffers also work Otakon

Carl on the phone

An army of staffers assembling badges

The empty BCC

This'll be cram packed within 24 hours

I don't think I've ever seen the floor on this area..

Down the escaltor!

Alan!

So empty!

Last year's Video 1, this year's game room!

Alan is following us!

Con center staffer?

Jessie from Toy Story!

Proj365 picture!

Hey, it's Bryce and Albert!

They go to the BCC faster on foot than we did in the van!

Albert looks like he's falling horizontally!

Hey, it's that place where we are

This is one lazy engineer

Congoers!

Baltimore loves us

Seen in the back of a car

Vic's infamous server

Fork Lift Hero

Nights!

Mmm, pizza

Burger place?

Jeff waiting for his burger

Amanda opts for the chicken place

Pretty Baltimore sky

Golden hour?

Amanda opens the new Render-chan art

Tadaaa

Vic works with the DSL guys to get his equipment hooked up

Video 1! All 2,312 seats of it

There I am!

The AMV crew

In con mode

Vic wearing normal glasses.. weird

The Otakon mascots!

Vic gets to work on calibrating his equipment

Calibrating video!

Hey, cool, I get an

And of course, an

The empty third floor..

Heading back to the hotel

Lights near the harbor

Lit up skyscraper

I drank a bucket of booze with Jeff and Omar!

Omar seems excited

Jeff and Joy!

Bryce talked me into going to Howl at the Moon

So many straws

Omar is a man of many faces

Mike is excited

..and singing

Bryce checks his phone

Oof, this is pretty creepy, even for Bryce

Watching the band

Hi Joy!

Omar sure is excited about something

The Rainbow War begins!

The rainbow made it to the other bucket!

Go, Omar, go!

It's beautiful!

Ahh, it's not that stable!

Oh, it's OK

The rainbow's even bigger!

You've done it, Omar!

Ah, the tragic end of the rainbow

Heading down to the convention center on Friday

Waiting for the light..

Bryce want donut!

Amanda ended up recycling that cup holder several times throughout the weekend

Bryce went with the best badge.. the crab badge!

Magnet man!

A Reki cosplayer! Hoorraaay, there are still Haibane cosplayers!

A great TF2 troupe!

Spiffy costume, Peter!

Vic's mixer.. Vixer..

Time to play the Overflow! Well.. some of it

A fan asked Vic for his autograph!

Vic was happy to oblige

Amanda was thoroughly amused

Final Fantasy cosplayers!

Sniper wolf!

The crowd thickens

Look how many people are in line for the AMV contest!

A great Chise from Saikano

Here they come..

We had a lot of ballots

Vic rushes to direct the line

Go that way!

Go THAT way!

Omar joins in

Look how many people came to the first showing!

We really packed them in

This is Amanda's

The view from the back of the room

We got over 1,000 ballots after the first showing!

Power equipment

Mr. Desmond Wooten!

A great Yoko cosplayer!

The audience for the show that killed AMV Overflow. As you can see, it was standing room only

Moving the equipment back upstairs

Don't bump it!

Opening the ballot box

Impressive Iron Man cosplayer!

Counting ballots!

Sometimes people draw us cool things

This guy really liked.. whatever category that is

Oh come on, I like Smash Mouth!

What is this guy even trying to vote for?

More cool artwork!

Counting is fun!

Jeff loves it

More awesome ballot artwork

This guy voted for every video except 29.. and then gave 29 his best in show vote

Aww, bye bye!

Wow, this guy went all out!

I took a bunch of ballot counting pictures on Friday when we weren't up against a hard deadline

Reading off vote numbers

Amanda types away. Note the coin flip app on the G1

Nearly done, Jeff!

The last little pile

I think this guy is a combination of Protoman and John Conner..

Bryce and Amanda on the elevator

Bryce rants about this thing that Tokyopop gave him.. a

It's that time of the con.. hentai time!

Vic and Amanda were pretty wiped from the hard day of work

Heading back down on Saturday morning

Oregon Trail cosplayer!

This is the last photo my Canon Powershot S2 IS ever took. It served me well. And now it's in *sniff* camera heaven!