Here is a group of the painted quill pens (a friend has geese and peacocks and saves shed wing feathers for me now… before I had to pick them up on zoo trips) that I’ll be bringing to the craft fair at Ascendio.
Ascendio 2012: A Harry Potter Fandom Event
Love Harry Potter? Get your con on! Ascendio is the Harry Potter convention taking place July 12-15, 2012 at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando® – just moments away from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Brought to you by HPEF, which previously put on Infinitus 2010, Azkatraz 2009, Lumos 2006 & more!
Very excited to launch our Redbubble store, where you can get our AWESOME Keep Calm and Carry Wands mantra on a t-shirt, hoodie, iPhone cover, iPad cover or as a poster! The shirts come in ALL the applicable HP colors: Gryffindor red, Slytherin green, Hufflepuff yellow and Ravenclaw blue.
We’ll be selling posters at Ascendio, but you can only get t-shirts, hoodies and iPhone covers via Redbubble, pre-con. So even if you can’t come to Ascendio, you can get this awesome HP-inspired shirt. Win/win!
(and if you love our shirt, check out artist flyingpantaloon’s personal Redbubble page and buy some of her awesome HP & Doctor Who shirts!)
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Snape Meetup at Ascendio: http://ascendio-snape.livejournal.com/
Who’s going to the Snape meet-up? XD
Hansi Oppenheimer’s making a documentary about fanfiction. I’m one of her interviewees! If you think this project sounds awesome (which it is) help her get to Ascendio and do interviews there by donating to the project! (It’s on IndieGoGo, which is like Kickstarter.)
Check out the micro-interview Hansi did with Ascendio chair Flourish Klink - and if you’re a fanfic author, get in touch with Hansi if you’re interested in being interviewed for the documentary!
We planned international events, meetups, read-alongs and operas on the Internet
“We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us different; this is what makes the crucial, although surprising from your point of view, difference: we do not ‘surf’ and the internet to us is not a ‘place’ or ‘virtual space’. The Internet to us is not something external to reality but a part of it: an invisible yet constantly present layer intertwined with the physical environment. We do not use the Internet, we live on the Internet and along it. If we were to tell our bildnungsroman to you, the analog, we could say there was a natural Internet aspect to every single experience that has shaped us. We made friends and enemies online, we prepared cribs for tests online, we planned parties and studying sessions online, we fell in love and broke up online. The Web to us is not a technology which we had to learn and which we managed to get a grip of. The Web is a process, happening continuously and continuously transforming before our eyes; with us and through us. Technologies appear and then dissolve in the peripheries, websites are built, they bloom and then pass away, but the Web continues, because we are the Web; we, communicating with one another in a way that comes naturally to us, more intense and more efficient than ever before in the history of mankind.”—
Piotr Czerski (via azspot)
the rest of the talk via the previous link (via brosophila)
We could post for days about the ways that fandom - not just the Harry Potter fandom, but all fandoms since - were changed by and because of the internet (we don’t like to capitalize it; it’s not a place, it’s a thing, like tennis), how the concept of fandom is different, mainstreamed, a topic and a focus by multinationals and of people who want to share their love for something.
And we will, when we liveblog discussions on this subject, and related things like the Future of Publishing, from Ascendio this summer.
Ascendio 2012 Roommate
If anyone’s looking for roommates for Ascendio, I have a hotel room at Portofino Bay Resort booked with 3 other girls and we need a 4th. We’re staying from the 11th to the 15th.
Sherlock BBC Meetup at Ascendio: http://ascendiolock.livejournal.com/
Woot Sherlock meet-up at Ascendio! We’re so psyched.
