I filmed some things we did in Boston at PAX East using my iPhone.
See?
Yes, that is the internet’s Woody Tondorf near the middle, there. We met up with him and hung out for a bit, because he happened to be in Boston at the time. We even acted in something for him. When that comes out, we’ll be sure to link you to it!
And with this update, commodoreHUSTLE makes its triumphant debut on The Escapist.
In the interest of full disclosure, I do take long showers. Very long.
This video was a bit of an experiment for the lot of us. We hadn’t really planned on filming a full video at the con, but Graham wrote this script on the plane to Boston to kill time. We hadn’t brought the big camera with us (it’s risky to transport stuff like that, and Delta was charging $25 for every piece of checked luggage), but G had purchased a Canon Rebel T2i to document the trip with, and it just so happens that this new camera also shoots HD video. Such was the genesis of this video.
Oh, by the way, I’ll be posting a pretty substantial news item/announcement on this blog tomorrow, so I’d advise you to check back.
Cheers!
Yeah, we filmed something in Boston. But what?
Well, it’s over.
PAX East has drawn to a close, and the gamers have all gone home. All, that is, except a good portion of the Enforcers, who are sticking around to do take-down and clean-up and all of the other essential work that makes the show work. We at LoadingReadyRun would like to thank all of the Enforcers and other PAX staff for everything they did to help us out and make our time at the con go so smoothly and be so enjoyable and successful.
Boston is a beautiful city. We had some time to wander around on Thursday, and on Sunday morning we were given a short driving tour of a few landmarks, as well. For my own part, I appreciated all the history that I could see in the city. We have some great historical buildings and landmarks in Victoria, BC, but Boston really puts its heritage out there!
The fan meet-up on Saturday afternoon was a lot of fun, and a great opportunity to connect some names to faces, and our panel on Saturday night went really well. Thank you to everyone who showed up, despite the fact that we overlapped with Paul and Storm a bit, and prevented you from seeing the Video Game Orchestra.
It was really cool for us to have a table in Bandland, where we could hang out and meet people and sign autographs. It was even cooler that we had Wil Wheaton, Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, and Bill Amend to our right, and Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and the Video Game Orchestra to our left!
I’m sure we’ll be sharing many more details about our trip over the next couple of podcasts, and we have taken some behind-the-scenes footage, so hopefully that will find its way online at some point. For now, though, Jer and myself are heading back to Victoria on a red-eye flight, and Graham, Paul, Matt, Kathleen, and James are continuing on to New York for some vacation time.
Once again, thank you to everyone who made PAX East so awesome, and hopefully we’ll see some more of you at PAX Prime this summer.
As you may have ascertained from the post topic, your favorite sketch comedy team will be making their way to the East Coast of this fine continent to attend PAX East.
As of right now Matt, Paul, Tim, Jer, Graham, Kathleen, and myself (James) are planning on making the trip out. If they have the ability to do so, Morgan and Bill will be joining us.
We will have a panel and possibly a screening block at some point during the con. When we have final times and dates you will be the second to know. Obviously this will be an opportunity for all of our fans on the East Coast to come and see us, which will be neat since we haven’t been to that area as a group before. If you want the chance to come see us make sure you get on top of picking up tickets ASAP, as they expect the event to sell out fairly soon.
So please hop on over to the PAX East Registration site and get yourself a three-day badge.
Hopefully we will see you there!