Worldcon photos

[nonelvis]

We spent very little time sightseeing in Montreal, mostly because we were there for the con instead of sightseeing, and also because we've visited before. But it's a beautiful city we do need to explore further, so we can find more gems like this, a section of the Berlin Wall:



Talk about something I'd never expected to see, much less randomly come across while following the underground pathway to the Palais de Congrès! I found it quite moving – I can't imagine what it must have been like to have concrete section after section of this dividing your city in two.

There was also a gorgeous multilevel light fixture in the Tour de la Bourse (the stock exchange):



The Palais itself is a magnificent building, one I could have spent an entire day photographing:







Its interior artwork, however, sometimes left something to be desired:



I mean, what the hell, man? What. The. Hell.

At the con, there are boards set up for broadcast messages. Sometimes, these are simply posts from people trying to meet up; sometimes, they're self-promotional; and sometimes, they're more like this:



The dealers' room/exhibition hall had a rather nice display of costumes worn in previous con masquerades:





This one, naturally, was called "The House Dress":



Oh, yes, I did promise a photo of Paul Cornell, didn't I?



STILL SQUEEING OVER HERE.

Some costume shots from the hallways and masquerade:





This one is grainy, because I had to zoom way the hell in to get the costume decal. Yes, it's the mighty Klingon hero Bat'leth! (Designed and modeled by a friend of bruyere_75's, as it turns out.)



But my favorite con participant photo by far is this one, because of what the guy is carrying. We were walking by him outside, and when I realized what was on top of the squid tail, I stopped him so I could take a photo.

All hail the Winslow-Squid!



More photos (as if this hasn't already killed your connection) in the complete Flickr set.

Comments

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Its interior artwork, however, sometimes left something to be desired

What are those, pink cacti?

[nonelvis]

They looked more like tree trunks to me. Whatever they were, they were definitely not working.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

That's… a temporary installation, right? Right??

Those rainbow-colored panes, though—oh, man. They were a delightful surprise in a 600 x 500 or summat digital blob, so I can only imagine what turning the corner and running into them was like. More buildings should be like that.

[nonelvis]

Oh, no. The pink thingies looked quite permanent.

The rainbow panes are so gorgeous. A lot of convention centers are really boring concrete slabs, but someone really spent some time making the Palais de Congrès beautiful, even if they did end up adding those stupid trees.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Shoot me if I ever make pink, bifuckated trees, you hear?

[nonelvis]

If you were to make pink trees, they'd be much more interesting-looking.

[ms-hooligan.livejournal.com]

They remind me of the ducts available in designer colors from "Brazil."

[nonelvis]

Apparently they really are supposed to be trees, but I prefer your theory.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I was in Berlin in '91, when large streches of the Wall were still standing (indeed, Pink Floyd had done a New Year's Eve concert of The Wall at the Wall that past NYE). It's profoundly striking, even more so when you see how it cut neighborhoods, streets, just in two. I got some rubble as a souvenire, but I may well have lost it since then.

[nonelvis]

What I most struck me about it was that it was this cold, heartless concrete slab, but all the graffitti covering it made you realize that there were human beings separated by those slabs. It's incredibly powerful.

[peebles.livejournal.com]

That second dress kind of looks like a Vorlon. If Vorlons liked to go to fancy balls.

[nonelvis]

I'll have to take your word for it, having never watched B5. (I know, I know, I'm a bad geek.)

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Izzat you with Paul? If it is, you look very much like my paternal grandmother did at your age. Which means we might be mistaken for sisters, should we ever be seen side-by-side... (Pay no attention to the icon. It's a stylization.)

[nonelvis]

Nope, not me! I have no idea who that woman is, except that it seems like she may have given Paul his t-shirt.