{"id":460,"date":"2011-04-25T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=460"},"modified":"2013-07-01T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:15:09","slug":"i-con-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"I-con 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 15-17, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While conpics.ws didn&#8217;t attend <strong>I-con 30 <\/strong>as press, we did still manage to go get some photos of cosplayers (<strong><em>See these in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/photos\/\">photo gallery<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I-Con has evolved into a multi-fandom convention. \u00a0In its 30th year, I-Con kept with its tradition of not being cheap. \u00a0But for a small con they definitely put all that money to good use in getting prominent guests. \u00a0 They did have decent programming this year, though. \u00a0 They had a mix of almost everything we would say.\u00a0 Sci-fi, steampunk, fantasy fans and even furries had panels.\u00a0 They even had practical panels with actual science involved as you can see the banner at the top has a Quad rotor remote control helicopter. \u00a0And below is someone converting their car into a mini-Ecto-1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/D4C_8197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-559\" title=\"Who you going to call?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/D4C_8197-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/D4C_8197-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/D4C_8197.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who you going to call?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Costume wise there were a lot of good costumes and we attended the cosplay show at night.\u00a0 But it really suffered this year, but maybe that was due to other conventions being so close and the bad weather.\u00a0 A lot of groups just didn&#8217;t show up, though.\u00a0 There were only a few people this year in the costume contest and only two performances. \u00a0The host of the show was a longtime attendee who dressed up in a penguin suit. \u00a0He made a plea for\u00a0 everyone in the audience to consider participating in next year&#8217;s show. \u00a0 And in all the only downside to just about every I-con is the weather. \u00a0It started to drizzle in the afternoon and at night it poured, keeping people stuck inside. We hope everyone listened and next year will be better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another visit to Stonybook for I-Con&#8217;s 30th year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}