Soup Guise
Im JT
Kumoricon '08. 1st day of the con. I was sitting in an empty room, when all of the sudden a tall guy wearing glasses comes in saying things like "hmm. nothing going on in here eh?" and "wonder when the next thing is happening in here". He starting playing with the equipment, and i said "hey, do you know what you are doing with that stuff?". "nope" he replies, "just messin around".
So i went up and joined him. We got the mic's to turn on, and we started talking. People started flowing into the room rapidly within the next 20 minutes, the room was just about full.
We covered a lot of things in our talking and finally we began talking about "What not to cosplay as".
This and other things got us in trouble with the con (not to mention f***ing around with there equipment).
Anyway, during the first panel, someone mentioned that we should call it the "Oftenly Renamed Panel" and it just stuck.
Matt, the guy who was playing with the equipment, and i exchanged phone numbers, and have been in touch, and great friends ever since.
We applied for a panel this year, and it has been approved.
Basically, what we plan to do this year is let the audience drive the discussion.
We want to know what you want to talk about, and we will talk about it. We also have some other activities planned out, so it should be a jolly good time.
We are kind of new to this, but we hope that everyone who comes enjoys it, and we hope to see some new faces, as well as people who were in the original panel last year.
http://oftenlyrenamed.forumotion.com/Thanks for reading
JT drew