Sunday, February 27, 2005

Panel OF DOOM, Anime Express 2005

March 18th-20th officially kicks off anime con season here in Florida with Anime Express 2005, and the Panel OF DOOM will be there on Friday night to deliver the burning! With three weeks to go and only having just been given the okay for the panel about an hour ago, I haven't got a definite lineup yet, but I'll be scaling back on the Walker, Texas Ranger and TV Carnage bits in favor of more Looney Tunes wartime propaganda, educational films where children injure themselves for not following all the rules, and sketch comedy bits. SCTV is Dave's territory, and since I already used a bit of Kids in the Hall at AWA, I'll stick to that. Plus, Andy Richter's visit to the Make a Wish Foundation and everyone's favorite floating gun-spitting head, Zardoz! The kids don't know about that one. The folks down here don't know about Fish Fight or Forklift Driver Klaus either, and you can rest assured that something will certainly be done about THAT.

With any luck I won't be stealing any of Ken Nabbe's thunder, as he runs a Hell-like show at Jacon entitled "What The?!" Fortunately, he tends to stick more to the Flash animation / funny video linked across the Internet route, so I don't expect any overlap. I'm pretty sure I pointed him to the CPF site to pick up a copy of Foreshadowing, since not only does Joe Vecchio attend Jacon, but the crowds were getting tired of seeing Corn Dog 7 every year. Florida crowds are restless and you have to keep clips as short as possible. I know Dave draws the line at ten minutes, but with these kids I'm lucky if I can keep things at about three. For the educational films like One Got Fat, I have to split those up one injury per clip.

Danno suggested I buy one of those portable DVD players with a monitor on it so I can preview my VHS footage, but it's about $150 for ones with both composite input and output. Besides, I don't even get microphones at FL cons (or volume controls or...any of that stuff listed in the manifesto aside from a panel room equipped with a projector and a screen). I'm thinking I should buy a karaoke machine just so I can have a mic connected to a speaker. Suggestions?

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Here's a 7 inch LCD monitor for $99:
http://www.mp3playerstore.com/stuff_you_need/special/L7M.htm

Daryl Surat said...

The problem with that is that it doesn't have outputs. That's pretty common for LCD monitors, since even the upper end 20.1" models that cost several hundred dollars don't have outputs other than the standard D-Sub connector that all monitors use as well as DVI.

I figure I'm going to need composite inputs and outputs on whatever I use to preview the footage, but finding something cheap that has both is tough.

Daryl Surat said...

I guess the other, cheaper, option would just be to bring a TV. Have the composite output of the VCR go into the switcher and the coaxial output go into the TV. That would do the job, though the smallest TV I can get still weighs about half of what I do.

In other news, it appears that every single person I talk to has already seen Forklift Driver Klaus. Apparently it got passed around the Internet fairly recently even though it's a few years old by now.

Unknown said...

I'll look around. I'm always going between lite weight and cheap equipment. And tube tvs weigh alot.

I've known about a low res stream of FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS that's been out there, and I've found low res Window Media files, too. I don't know, it doesn't compare to the quality of the DVD and that's what I've been showing.

I'll get off my ass and get to the P.O. today...

Unknown said...

Are you ready for your show, Surat?

What's your playlist look like?
-d!

Unknown said...

You know, you could just go out and buy a Mister Microphone, or maybe get a cheap bullhorn at Fry's. That'd be perfect for DOOM...

And there are some cheap handheld TVs that have inputs on 'em that could work as a monitor priced under $100.
-d!