Con Report: Wonder Northwest<\/p>\n
The Place Crown Plaza Hotel Portland Oregon<\/p>\n
The Dates: 26 to 27 Mar 2012<\/p>\n
Wonder Northwest is a multi-genre pop culture and anything geeky convention. Wonder Northwest is in its second year the second year and my first time I attended both days. While the con offers not much in the way of panels and events, still for the price it allows for a nice distraction.<\/p>\n
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Saturday: After going out for breakfast I went to the con site and picked up my badge. This you I took my big Chococat plush to the con. I attended Nerdfight live a panel of podcast who took on all geeky challengers\u2019 questions. Next up I caught some parts of the Micromini Geek film festival, a film festival of local shorts and documentaries of SF, and other genre.\u00a0 The rest of the time I ran around the dealers den or took pictures. I had to leave early for a friend ordination to the Priesthood, so I called it a day.<\/p>\n
Sunday: I rushed over tot eh con hotel after church to catch the last part of the Kaijucast\u00a0 a Godzillia podcast. Next and PDX Yar, the pirate group, instead of just telling\u00a0\u00a0 us about pirate life in the 17th<\/sup> century, PDX Yar employed\u00a0 role play by splitting the audience into six\u00a0 groups representing six functions of a pirate ship and compressing a three month voyage into a 45 minute\u00a0 one of the more interesting panels I attended. The rest of the time I practice my photograph. I went out for dinner and return to catch the Slats and Asian influenced indie band\u2019s first set. I was disappointed the concert was sparsely attended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Good: a inexpensive diversion over the Memorial Day weekend, better than going the Indian Casino.\u00a0 Pdx Yar<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bad :\u00a0 Not really bad, but I wanted more, more panels more events more geek film festival.<\/p>\n The sparsely attend consort on Sunday, the Band were knocking themselves out; perhaps there need to be more promotion of it as a dead dog party or only on Saturday<\/p>\n Over all I felt Northwest Wonder was a good and well run convention I hope it can grow in the future.<\/p>\n Click for larger Pictures<\/p>\n\n\t\t