Hisui Dream Diary #2

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I don’t regularly remember my dreams or keep any sort of dream journal but I have learned the trick to remembering your dreams is to repeat what happens in the dream to yourself out loud as soon as you wake up. It commits the dream to a longer term part of memory. And so I do not know how often I will be able to write posts like this but I consider this part one of an irregularly updated ongoing series. It is all dependent on when I remember dreams that are worth talking about on the blog.

OK. Just so you know. It is all downhill from here. No matter what happens all dreams in the Hisui Dream Diary will at most maybe hope to be in the second place position. I had the ultimate dream to which all other dreams are inferior.

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Otakon 2012: A Powerful Positve Feedback Loop

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Just a quick reminder than Otakon has a special panel feedback form up. So if you attended New Anime for Older Fans and/or Type-Moon: Unlimited Panel Works please fill out the form for each. We never see the results of these forms, which they implemented last year, but one hopes they are one of the pieces used to determine who gets panels again in 2013. We’d very much like to have that opportunity!

(We swear this is the last post about Otakon until next year.)

Otakon 2012: Artist Alley

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Last year, I didn’t spend very much time in the Artist Alley which I felt rather unhappy with myself about. So this year I made a point to get down there early and give it a good walk-through. I am exceedingly happy that I did because it ended up being one of the many highlights of Otakon.

In 2011, I wrote about AnimeNEXT’s budding Artist Alley with its increased variety of styles and offerings. I’m pleased to say this trend has extended to Otakon’s alley as well. People’s styles were emerging and more apparent. There was a robust nature to the artwork that made booths pop. There was really so much to see that even when going down an aisle for a second time, I end up stopping some place new or seeing a piece I hadn’t noticed on the previous tour.

And thus I ended up buying more than a few items, so much so that I banned myself from returning after finishing my once through on Saturday morning.

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