BEGINNINGS
I'm "Strolling with the Stars" at 9am, starting in the Messukeskus courtyard. #Worldcon75
— Lawrence M. Schoen (every day a bit stronger) (@klingonguy) August 11, 2017
Impromptu dance party with @shaunduke and @PrinceJvstin #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/jXmN0zGan2
— Disciple of Telesto (@ZaliaChimera) August 11, 2017
MADE THE NEWS TODAY
So when I got into Helsinki this was one of the first stories I saw on the bus. Expecting a TON of people at #WorldCon75 today! pic.twitter.com/qtszEnuE1v
— booksmugglers (@booksmugglers) August 11, 2017
THE FINAL FRONTIER
https://twitter.com/CherylMorgan/status/895886952334897152
The queue for the @cstross reading was legendary. So I went to #DoctorWho. Which is now also full. #WorldCon75
— Dominic J Thoreau (@dthoreau) August 11, 2017
DECISIONS
Hotel napkin, you're stressing me out #worldcon75 #schedulingproblems pic.twitter.com/2Sg2ZL16kD
— taru (@claminosity) August 11, 2017
CUISINE
Worked out why there's five heavy doors between outside and breakfast room. Latitude 60 is basically North of the Wall. #Worldcon75
— Jeremy Carter ???? (@audiojeremy) August 11, 2017
IN TUNE
Since I've missed all the great choirs and whatnot, the best musical performance at #Worldcon75 so far has been by @KameronHurley. ???? pic.twitter.com/CqooThDV41
— Aleksi Stenberg (@Saruwine) August 11, 2017
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
https://twitter.com/tinytempest/status/895890839821443072
Will be running from one event to another tomorrow. #helsinkistreetrun #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/ppE2dgDheu
— CP Ulvang (@cpulvang) August 11, 2017
. @GrimbyTweets is folding little paper animals during a discussion of how whales might clean their teeth. #Worldcon75
— Mari Ness, still masked (@mari_ness) August 11, 2017
ACHIEVING MAX RIBBONAGE
#Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/x7QrrfRkyx
— Mari Saario (@marisaario) August 11, 2017
I helped Major Ursa and bearkind! #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/skuLcFtpA8
— kirilaw (@kirilaw) August 11, 2017
RARE ARTIFACT
A classic collection of works of Walt Willis to buy at the Fan Funds auction on Saturday #Worldcon75 This was Bob Shaw's copy of Warhoon 28 pic.twitter.com/KqKgBP3P8P
— TAFF (@TAFFnews) August 11, 2017
PROGRAMMING
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem in conversation with @Nalo_Hopkinson. Would happily sit & listen all day. #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/EviUigt1fh
— Stephanie Saulter (@scriptopus) August 11, 2017
MORD finally reveals his true self at @worldcon75 with @jeffvandermeer #Worldcon75 #MORDUnleashed #MORDRevealed pic.twitter.com/OoMx2ba2f3
— Ann VanderMeer (@AnnVanderMeer) August 11, 2017
"Adventures in Five Dimensions" live action radio play. #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/nPQLt7py6f
— Terhi Törmänen (@GalFin) August 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/jaranta/status/895997067637673986
https://twitter.com/unrealfred/status/896005272296079361
“I try to be anatomically correct in my moose imitations.”—Amy Thomson #worldcon75
— David D. Levine (@daviddlevine) August 11, 2017
Alien languages in science fiction. #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/Rk8MdLReA6
— Melanie Marttila (she/her) (@MelanieMarttila) August 11, 2017
SHORE THING
One doesn't come to Helsinki for its beaches. #WorldCon75 pic.twitter.com/8uA9MZqQli
— Katrina Archer (@katrinaarcher) August 11, 2017
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
I really like seeing the decades old banner appear at Worldcons around the world. #worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/5C9nnpleax
— Michael Lee (@michaellorg) August 11, 2017
JUST DOIN’ STUFF
https://twitter.com/gilibugg/status/895988512079695873
RIBBONS
In a posh frock at the Hugo Awards ceremony #Worldcon75 #amediting #SFF #hugoawards pic.twitter.com/Vk7407zNrW
— Kat Harvey (@AthenaCopy) August 11, 2017
MORE SARTORIAL SPLENDOR
@mightymur and her badass dress at #Worldcon75 She's basically a Space Emperess. pic.twitter.com/bWcjTJXg9D
— Duckfather (@luftwaffle) August 11, 2017
#worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/FR856xYGAD
— Cat Sparks (@catsparx) August 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/ThornCoyle/status/896040305006444545
@LegalValkyrie and @AlasdairStuart rocking it at the Hugo reception. #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/i7xUOwsNt5
— Duckfather (@luftwaffle) August 11, 2017
QUEUE FOR THE HUGOS
#worldcon75 queueing for the Hugo ceremony pic.twitter.com/BcGhIVswJF
— Hannu Kokko (@hkokko) August 11, 2017
Hugo queue #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/5PkuWHlc6e
— Malcolm Hutchison (@malc851) August 11, 2017
YOUR HUGO AWARD WINNERS/ACCEPTERS
Hugo winners and presenters. Huge congrats!#worldcon75 #thehugoawards pic.twitter.com/zTwue9FjR8
— Mike Pohjola (@mikepohjola) August 11, 2017
TECH ALWAYS FAILS
Wow, such entitlement! #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/REHFpkht3O
— PRK (@prkaye) August 11, 2017
WELCOME LOSERS
Beautiful cake at Steampunk Helsinki bar. Celebrating Hugo Losers and Winners.#HugoAward #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/rAI6goM4kE
— Ann VanderMeer (@AnnVanderMeer) August 11, 2017
Three Hugo winners just arrived at the Hugo Losers Party. The crowd chants "Shame! Shame! Shame!" #worldcon75 https://t.co/Qhjf7rDpmV pic.twitter.com/2y1KhO6CpN
— David D. Levine (@daviddlevine) August 11, 2017
So this happened… and was amazing. #worldcon75 #hugolosersparty pic.twitter.com/DHVEs3UvOv
— Jeremiah Reinmiller (@jreinmiller) August 11, 2017
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I was also disappointed about the livestream, but… c’mon. I’ve seen Blizzard screw up livestreams before and I’d hazard a guess that Blizzard’s budget is very, very much larger than Worldcon’s. Tech fails. It happens. Livestreams are still very hit-and-miss.
The Hugo Losers Party looks amazing. 🙂
Love the Hugo ceremony outfits!
I feel like the livestream not working is traditional. If there isn’t a con problem, I have a problem. I’ll be quite shocked if it works one year
ticky
So who is Jonathan Crowe that we should care about him making an ass of himself? If the Worldcon had any use for galley slaves I’d suggest making him one, so he can see a fraction of the effort that putting on such a circus takes.
I’ve known Worldcon Tech to miss other goals — but I also have some idea how reluctant a lot of them are to say no, and I’ve done just enough tech traveling to know how massively difficult drop-in tech is.
The railway workers have their peculiar way of saying goodbye to Worldcon attendees in Helsinki … by going on strike starting Monday, 6 pm.
Traffic congestion is to be expected, so adjust your plans accordingly if you are still in Helsinki on Monday.
@Chip Hitchcock–“So who is Jonathan Crowe that we should care about him making an ass of himself? “
Well, according to his website he is a “Book reviewer, cat photographer, fanzine editor, map blogger, snake whisperer”. And, if the universe is just, the new head of the people responsible for the live-stream.
Actually, I have this vision of the coming year with his twitter/Facebook/website/etc. full of people asking him if he’s going to be in charge; thanking him for volunteering to be in charge; assuming he’ll be in charge; announcements that he’ll be in charge; you get the idea.
The Losers’ Party was a nice consolation prize. It was crowded and loud, though; the Hugo Reception (held for two hours before the awards ceremony) was a better place to meet and chat with famous people.
I expect that what he (and to be fair, most people) do not understand that Worldcon is a brand new million-Euro start-up convention every year. This isn’t an ongoing event in the same place with the same people with years to have worked out all of the bugs in the system. It’s a one-shot convention that has never been held in that space before with that combination of people and equipment, and with no possibility of a do-over.
I’m relieved that the CoverItLive coverage worked, but even it is subject to trouble — last year, the connectivity in the hall was so hall that neither the primary or secondary connections worked. There was a third option, but I didn’t know what it was until after the ceremony was over.
It’s like an elaborate musical production where you don’t get any rehearsals and where Opening Night is also Closing Night. Under the circumstances, the miracle is that we manage to pull off anything at all.
The big purple winged spiked hat is specifically Girl Genius cosplay.
Kevin
I assume that it’s my incompetence when I can’t make my iPad work, and I’m completely right on that; expecting other people to do a hugely complicated tech thing as a one-off is, in my view, immensely silly. I’m still trying to find Red Wombat’s Hugo acceptance speech, but that’s me, not Worldcon.
Part of it comes back to the the belief that there’s an all-powerful guy who runs the Hugos and will put them on in Kuwait next year if the price is right; you just need to acquire an underground volcano and a white cat and everything will be fine…
Stevie, no sign of the ceremony coverage being put up yet, but I’m pretty sure someone will mention it once it is.
I was a little surprised about the livestream difficulties at the Hugos because they have been streaming the business meeting and other panels successfully. Between a livestream from some audience member, the live captioning, and the text CoverItLive comments I got a pretty good idea of what was happening though. I’ll just skim to the highlights of Worldcon’s recording when it appears.
In addition to the “Shame!” chanting (of which I was a proud participant), in response to three Hugos arriving at once, someone yelled “They’re traveling in packs now!”
Stevie, I listened to the Hugos on the Chinese feed, and as best as I could tell trying to listen behind the translators, Oor Wombat’s Hugo acceptance speech was a slightly pared-down version of what she posted on Twitter a few weeks ago.
I don’t have a Twitter account (I lurk, basically) and I don’t really know if this will work, so apologies if this link doesn’t work right, but if I’m doing it right the story starts about here:
https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/890786066189344768
(Non-twitter-users, if a dialogue box pops up asking you to join or sign in, you can just close it and read.)
Too late to edit: The Hugo speech ended (if memory serves) on a more positive note with little gardens of sea-life on the deep sea-bed flourishing years and years after the whale carcasses had disappeared from macroscopic notice. And I don’t think the digression about cow bones was included. <grin>
But the tweets should give you the gist of the whale-fall acceptance speech, anyway.
@Harold Osler: that’s a lovely vision, but given his attitude I figure he’d be a Trump-style manager (i.e., a blowhard who orders people to do what he can’t and blames them when they fail at the impossible — I never thought I’d feel a drop of sympathy for not-reelecting-Obama-is-more-important-than-fixing-the-Bush-recession McConnell, but I’m drifting that way.)
@Kevin Standlee: that’s a bit of an exaggeration; even within fandom there is a growing pool of experience with dropped-in shows, not to mention recurrent use of facilities. (Sometimes that experience gets ignored; after the monster lines hours before Spokane opened, I’m … unclear … why Helsinki expected to ramp up gently.) But you’re right that a lot of people don’t understand the constraints of drop-ins — particularly when they involve rented equipment, too much of which may come from the lowest bidder.
Annnd, of course I accidentally unfollowed the latest threads & have to ticky again….
ISTR that the livestream from KC was okay last year. Not many glitches in Spokane, either.
Dot’s vun schvell hat! Iz gud plan!
Rick and Morty Hugo cabal!
I feel like them being that organised is not wholly in the spirit of the show.
Yes MAC2’s stream was fine except for ads at inopportune moments. Spokane was past my bedtime so I don’t know.
I missed MAC2’s stream for reasons but Spokane’s worked fine for me. (The playback, not so much, but the original stream was fine.)
Cassy B: Thank you so much for the link to twitter–loved not only the whale speech but comments on works in progress! LOVES!