I think it’s reasonably well known that I look a bit like Jamie from the Mythbusters. Enough so that people in costume think that I’m not at times. If I shave my head, I actually have to work at changing my appearance to not have people come up to me and say either ‘Did you know you look a lot like …’ or ‘Are you Jamie from Mythbusters?’
From the perspective of being someone else, even my voice is a problem. It sounds a lot like his.
Oh well. That is not really the point of this.
There are ‘myths’ surrounding various science fiction and related conventions. I am expecting to be at two or three of them this year. Conventions that is, I’m not sure about the myths surrounding them. Well, perhaps this would be a good time to sit down with people at one or more of those conventions, and talk with people about those myths.
The conventions I expect to be at this year are Minicon, (where if I attend, at most I will be badging) Anime Detour (This is in Minnesota over the last weekend in April, I’m on staff this year which limits my time for this) and CONvergence, (which if you don’t know about my involvement up till now, you haven’t read my blog much.)
Since it’s early in the year, and there is time, I would like to know if there are any myths you think should be explored at any of these conventions.
I’m not planning on posting anything to YouTube at this point, but if there are people interested in putting some production time into the venture, I would also love to hear about that.
Things that I think would be interesting to look into include: creation myths, activity myths, “where’s reg this year?” and possibly relationship myths.
That last could be either how the conventions do, or don’t have relationships between them, or it could also be how people establish relationships with others at the convention. I only see some people once a year at one of these conventions. But even with that I think of many of those people as very good friends.
Comments are welcome and desired. Are there specific things that you’ve ‘heard’ about these conventions that you would like to have confirmed or refuted?
Are there other conventions that this would be a fun idea for? Marscon, 4th street, or Diversicon? Others?
The only convention I am getting a room for this year is Anime Detour. I have not pre-registered for MiniCon (I never know if I’m going to be able to schedule the weekend off far enough in advance.)
I will also post a note on my FaceBook profile that people can post comments to.
