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Chicon 7 Videos Available

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Kevin Standlee has posted video of Chicon 7’s Opening and Closing Ceremonies. They were shot by Lisa Hayes and Kevin through the good offices of Lisa’s video-production company, Tsuki Systems LLC.

Kevin comments:

It’s taken me a while to get around to putting the pieces together, and it doesn’t have everything I wanted (in particular, a good part of LSC3′s portion of the ceremony got lost when someone jiggled Lisa and the fixed camera, causing it to turn off without her noticing), but here you go –

Opening Ceremonies [YouTube]

Closing Ceremonies [YouTube]

Note: When I tried to embed two different videos WordPress kept displaying only the latter. So I have put in links to both but left only one embedded video.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]

2012 Smofcon Scholarhip Winners Named

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CanSMOF has awarded Danielle MacDonald (Ontario, Canada) and James Shields (County Meath, Ireland) scholarships to the 2012 SMOFCon.

MacDonald has worked a number of art shows, and is also interested in masquerades and food and hospitality services. This will be her first Smofcon.

Shields has worked in programming, and is interested in developing uses of web technologies to further aid conventions and their memberships with their online experience. This will be his first Smofcon in North America.

The winning applicants were selected based on a demonstration of their potential for contributing to their local fandom and Canadian fandom. The 2012 selection committee was Terry Fong, Diane Lacey and Kevin Standlee.

CanSMOF Inc., is parent non-profit organization of Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, The first scholarship was open to a Canadian citizen or resident, while the second was open to anyone involved in running conventions, regardless of their place of residence or citizenship.

Smofcon 30 will be held Philadelphia from November 30-December 2.

Video of Future Worldcons and Bids

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Kevin Standlee had posted video from the Site Selection Business Meeting at Chicon 7.

Part 1: Formal results, Introduction and Question Time for Loncon 3, Question

Time for Orlando in 2015: http://youtu.be/KGtLkep36lY

Part 2: Question Time for Spokane in 2015: http://youtu.be/8Ba8_kpO28U

Part 3: Question Time for Helsinki in 2015: http://youtu.be/utqjyYKkFGs

Part 4: Question Time for Arizona (Tempe) in 2014 NASFiC: http://youtu.be/ZKXYtv2Q1rc

Part 5: Final Housekeeping, Announcements, and Adjournment sine die: http://youtu.be/B320nmnXPto

Follow 2012 Hugos Online

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Chicon 7 reports that members cast 1,922 valid final ballots for the 2012 Hugo Awards, second only to Renovation’s record-setting tally of 2,100 last year.

The Hugo winners will be announced Sunday evening, September 2, at the Worldcon. The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. (Central) and will be broadcast live via Ustream (www.ustream.tv/channel/worldcon1.)

The official Hugo Awards site will deliver live text coverage via CoverItLive. Past Worldcon co-chair Kevin Standlee and Campbell Award Nominee Mur Lafferty will host that broadcast.

Chicon 7 will take a step forward by having Hugo base designer Deb. Kosiba reveal and discuss her work during the Chicon 7 Opening Ceremony, rather than delaying until the night of the Hugo ceremony was done for many years.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Meanwhile, Back at the Wormhole

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Two years ago Seattle defeated Tonopah for the right to host Westercon 65 and so, over the past few days, ConClusion has been running in Washington State. At least in our universe.

Kevin Standlee claims in an alternate universe his doppelganger is hosting Westercon 65 in Tonopah, and a wormhole periodically dilates and lets through artifacts like the Tonopah Westercon Program Book [PDF file], the daily newzine Majestic Files — even the entire Tonopah Westercon hospitality suite.

Seventeen-Seventy-Standlee

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Kevin Standlee and Mur Lafferty will cover the Hugo Ceremony via Twitter again this year. 

It occurs to me that Kevin, who has long fancied performing in a version of 1776 based on the Worldcon Business Meeting, should also set a scene at the Hugos where he can join in the duet singing these new lyrics to the tune of “Egg”:

All:
We’re typing up a tweet, tweet, tweet
As each Hugo’s handed out
We’re typing up a tweet, tweet, tweet
As each rocket leaves the nest of this
Conventional incubator

Does Conreporter.com Have a Future?

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Although Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee’s Convention Reporter site has provided ambitious coverage of several conventions since its 2009 launch, there have been no new reports on anything since Aussiecon 4. Acknowledging that no volunteers came forward to cover Easter weekend cons, they’re now thinking of shuttering the site.

Cheryl Morgan analyzed why the project wasn’t more successful on her personal blog. She asked anyone interested in the site or the domain name to contact her, otherwise it will be going away.

[Thanks to The Crotchety Old Fan for the story.]

SFL Supports SF&F Translation Awards

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The Speculative Literature Foundation has pledged $250 annually to help fund the SF&F Translation Awards. The awards recognize the work of those who translate science fiction and fantasy into English and promote the fiction of non English-speaking authors.

The current plan is for the award to be given for the first time to work published in 2010. The presentation is expected to be at the Eaton Conference. There are two award categories, long form (40,000 words and above) and short form. The winning translator and author will both receive a trophy and cash prize.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards are administered by the Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization whose directors are Gary K. Wolfe, Kevin Standlee, Melissa Conway, Rob Latham and Cheryl Morgan.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Standlee Posts Aussiecon Videos

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Kevin Standlee’s video of the Aussiecon 4 Hugo Awards Ceremony is now online here at TheHugoAwards.org.

Kevin warns there is one-minute gap in the coverage beginning just before the tie for Best Novel was announced, the length of time it took him to notice the camera had unaccountably turned itself off.

He’s also posted his video of the Worldcon Chairs Photo Session at Aussiecon 4 on Vimeo.com.

Update 09/18/2010: Changed Vimeo link per Kevin’s announcement.