This past weekend has been one of the most special of all times in life. I can tell you this. Despite the stress we've suffer due to.....well, everything lol. We are not pro in this so we had doubts what was going to come of this. We are glad everything went fine for what we had power over (sorry for the "pro" photographer, I might have taken them better than he did). And I'm so happy I got the chance to meet some of my LJ friends and a few new more...

First time I help in a convention and first time organizing and I can tell you, I felt more stress in this than with my real work. First day with the opening ceremony was the worst of all. Fortunately it all came perfect, don't you think? I, personally, accept critics ;). Anecdote from first day. I almost hit Eddie when he came into the theater prior to the ceremony. I was running upstair to give eristi  something she asked for and the hall was full of people. Couldn't see him until I was like 40cm away from him. When I saw his face....he looked at me deeply to the eyes and I'm sure he was thinking about the possible collision I had just saved him from if I hadnt seen him on time :p

 I thought I was going to be able to sleep and feel more relaxed the next two days but things weren't as I thought. The second day was worse lmao. All the people not understanding english and asking for the translation equipment at the registration desk was a total nightmare. Lucky me I was the tech girl and took the "job" of making sure to stay with the theater technician just in case and to help him in whatever I could, among other things not needing much to be there.

More to come. I need rest after 5 days of hard work and more stress than ever. But in the meantime take a look at a Special Edition eristi  and I prepared for Eddie and Mary to sign. It contains all the presentations videos shown during the panels and opening ceremony. There are only two signed copies :)

Busy this week. Leaving tomorrow. Bring with you LOT of coffee. See you all in Basauri :D

Making some time while I begin working today and saw some BSG cast, among others I like (David Hewlett, YAY), are visiting FedCon this year. In less than a week we have BasauriCon but I can't stop thinking about more. Conventions are so good for disconnecting from the normal working day....heheheh

Anyone thinking on going? Already need to plan my next vacations :p

Amazed. Lately people is publishing their drawings with Adama and/or Roslin as main subject and all I can say is............Envy is bad lol. I wished I could do that!!!! Here you have. Envy them with me so I don't feel that bad hehe

Feliz Navidad a todos. Espero que hayais sido buenos este año y no recibais mucho carbón...y si es así ya sabeis que hay que hacer propósito de ser buenos para el 2010 :)

Merry Christmas to all. I hope you all have been good boys/girls and won't receive candy coal this year...and if so, you know you'll have to be betterin 2010 :)

De nuevo han vuelto a demostrar, después de ganar la Copa Davis el año pasado, que son los mejor en tenis a nivel de equipo.

¡¡FELICIDADES, CAMPEONES!!

First of all, sorry for not updating my blog too much lately. Mea Culpa. Work and BasauriCon are keeping me really busy lol.

I bring you something to laugh a little, and if you feel like it dance to the rhythm of the music (you wouldn't be the first one) ;)

Ayer fue un día triste. Se nos fue un icono del cine español: Jose Luis López Vázquez (1922-2009). Nos hizo reir y llorar. Hoy es otro día triste porque se ha ido un grande de las letras españolas: Francisco Ayala (1906-2009). Muchos de mi generación y anteriores (probablemente posteriores también) lo recordeis como el autor del libro de Lengua de la edición Anaya que estudiábamos allá por los '80-'90 en el cole.

"Eddie's insider" about The Plan shows what his bsg actors/actresses companions think about him as a Director, and as a human being; Rick Worthy talking about the challenge Eddie puts him in during the movie..I guess he doesn't refer to THAT challenge lol. And I have to say it's not the last of Adama we see on the screen :D Check the rest below

It's been a few days since my "last" serious post. I've been the past week to London with a few friends and, as always, I had a great time. We were lucky and only got some rain one day but we were inside London Excel. There are no words to describe what the organization did: 15min with Kandyse Mcclure talking. I have to admit she is not Ron D.Moore but, at least, she deserves 30min, don't you think?? 

We got to see new "V" series premiere (almost as much time as Kandyse was talking) and considering EJO was not there it was like he was there, because the first question was something like "How would you describe EJO on set?" But the rest were all about her an her character. We listened to Ronny's Cox new CD (country) and not bad. I didnt know previous to London Expo that he was going to give a mini-concert (45min) , expected Q&A. London Expo was nothing like Dragon*Con. In Atlanta there was people in costumes but not as much as here, and at least you could recognize most of them. Here i was lucky to recognize a few lol. I present you the guys I found there that I knew already
 

First it was Java and Adobe Flash Player conspiring. Now my HDD fills in 7gb in less than 24h (and i didn't "borrow" anything from the internet in that time)...and my antivirus says it's clean lol. Don't use Norton. So I'm gonna be formatting (VIVA LA FIESTA) this weekend. Ouch. I have so many stuff it's gonna be a nightmare :(. Why don't I learn from my error and make a security copy?? I always say I'm gonna do it and never find and never find the time.....Has anyone tried Win Seven?

Primero fueron Java y Adobe Flash conspirando. Ahora mi disco duro dice que ha llenado 7gb en menos de 24h (y no he cogido prestado nada de internet en ese tiempo)...y mi antivirus dice que está limpio jaja. No useis Norton. Así que voy a estar formateando (VIVA LA FIESTA) este fin de semana. Ouch. Tengo tantas cosas que reinstalar va a ser una pesadilla :(. Porque no aprenderé de los errores y haré una copia de seguridad?? Siempre digo que la voy a hacer despues de una reinstalacion de cero y al final acabo no haciéndola por falta de tiempo....Alguién ha probado Win Siete??

(Added Part 3)

So thanks to anbeanand firstlady1408who posted the first cut from this video, I went directly to the official website and found the original full videos. Here you have them (still part 3 not posted at the original source). Have fun :)


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And tomorrow come my second mini-holidays this year. Destination: London. A friend of mine went on sunday (she still is there) and sent me an SMS saying: It's cold and I don't like the food. Lol. Don't feel offenderd, my british friends. I guess it's too different from the mediterranean food. I'll have the chance to try it tomorrow and compare. But i don´t need another Fritanga food court (what is fritanga?), so I hope she only had a bad day or chose the wrong restaurant. We will be visiting London Expo (Ron D Moore canceled......oooooooh) so it won't be anything like DragonCon. But it will be fun...and we will have time for some tourism

Anything more from today??? Hmmmm. Tickets for BasauriCon went on sale. Wooohooooo. VIP tickets sold out so it was a good day :). And I can't believe it's still 3 months away. What am I gonna do these 3 months?? Still considering Starfury :p. It would be good to make me forget for 3 days how long we are from February hehe.

And while I was writing this post some news about Fedcon and it's guest for next year  went online. But what I'm interested are last FedCon's DVD hehe. I guess you know who was there: Edward James Olmos, Michael Hogan (and Richard Hatch, but I don't care that much about him...sorry Richard, but you are nothing like EJO or Michael Hogan), among other guests. I have to get my hand on one of those dvd's....

So I'm specially happy tonight. EJO said some interesting things fans had been waiting to read for some time, at least me hehe

So I was checking some websites and found out Eddie's official website has been changed (and after checking i'd say it's still being upgraded). More content. I like it. Olmos Productions: the family is making collaborations too (some pictures from last free screening of The Plan by Michael D.Olmos). I prefer this presentation. Actually more pictures...Totally different look. Check it here

Mis felicitaciones a la ganadora del Premio Planeta 2009, aunque una vez más todas estas cosas están rodeadas de misterios o, por lo menos, actuaciones sospechosas. Supuestamente no se sabían quiénes eran ni el ganador ni el finalista hasta las 23:50 del día 15. Sin embargo, alguién publicó en wikipedia horas antes que la ganadora había sido Angeles Caso, que ha sido posteriormente la ganadora. Lo podeis mirar aquí. Y sí, no es ningun montaje. Accediendo a la base de Wikipedia como usuario registrado (lo he comprobado yo misma)  se puede ver en el historial que, efectivamente, una persona añadió la frase que la daba como ganadora del certamen a las 15:30 hora española. Reconozco que a mi me suena sospechoso, MUY sospechoso. Que de entre 500 manuscritos presentados, una persona supiese que ese iba a ser el premiado. Claro está, que después de lo del Nobel de la Paz a Obama ya ni estas cosas me soprenden.

Sabiais que el Premio Planeta es el mejor dotado económicamente después del Nobel?? 600.000€.......hay que bien me vendrían a mí unos eurillos de esos jajajja

New Community for fans. YAY!! Planning on going?? What are you waiting for?? basauricon

They couldn't even prevent to have 43secs from this song to be leaked to the internet.

Como siempre, el tener un proyecto fiable no sirve de nada. Una vez más ha quedado patente: un buen proyecto tiene valor CERO cuando está LA POLÍTICA de por medio. No sé por qué lo primero que me vino a la mente cuando dijeron el nombre de la ciudad organizadora de los JJOO 2016 fue "Eurovision". Vosotros me direis si sentisteis lo mismo.

El buen trabajo ha pasado a segundo plano, eclipsado por lo de siempre, el estúpido sentimiento de "quedar bien". Me da igual si es apelando a que no se han celebrado JJOO en el continente o no. Desde luego si lo han hecho por "pagar una deuda histórica" dan PENA. De nada sirven las consideraciones de seguridad y plazas hotleras que hizo el COI si luego no lo tienen en cuenta en la decisión final (Y luego Alberto de Mónaco nos buscaba las cosquillas por "cuestiones de seguridad" hace 4años....)

¿Qué alguien me explique objetivamente las diferencias que hacen tan EXCELENTE el  proyecto  de Rio con respecto al de Madrid para que en la votación final haya habido una diferencia de 34 votos a favor de Rio? Si no seguiré pensando que todo es REPUGNANTE POLITICA (decisión geopolítica en toda regla).

Felicidades Rio. COI....sin comentarios.

 

Estaba viendo las noticias esta mañana y con todo esto de los Juegos Olímpicos, cuando he oido en qué hotel se alijaban todas las delegaciones, no he podido evitar pensar en Michael Trucco y compañías. Por qué???? Muy sencillo. Se alojan todos en el Marriot de Copenague. Básicamente todas las conferencias sobre bsg en Atlanta fueron en el Marriot Marquis. Qué buenos recuerdos!! Por fuera no se parecen, pero por dentro serán de estilos similares.....WOW. Creo que a partir de ahora, a donde vaya, iré buscando Marriots, si el bolsillo me lo permite jajaja

We were walking from Colon Square to Cibeles Square and we were not the only ones. Lot of people, some oldest than the others (from 1-2years old to.....a lot (:p), were walking in the same direction. Objective: Support Madrid2016. Everyone getting a banner with one of the fours colors representing our logo. In the meantime El pulpo provided the entertainment. The Mayor was there, and some of the authorities too, like anyone else enjoying the moment.

And the rain made its appearance. But no one moved. For 15-20minutes it was raining, but it was not cold and most people didn't have umbrella either. We didn't move from our positions :)

The proof we were there (if you can see me...or trust my word) lol

Hace un día perfecto para estas cosas. Por la mañana un poquito de piscina (que nos la cierran hoy *llora*), para luego recargar un poo las pilas, con una siesta de domingo, para esta tarde acudir a Cibeles. Qué parte de la mano me tocará sujetar?? Con foto aérea incluida.

Pero hasta que llegue el momento de La Foto disfrutaremos de la tarde que el Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha organizado para este día: zancudos, malabaristas, talleres para los niños y todas estas cosas que acompañan. Será algo diferente a la de Madrid2012 pero si vamos tantos como la vez anterior va a quedarse pequeña la mano para tantas personas jejeje (Mosaico humano)

I was playing with a friend a game he invited me to play, and what a surprise when I found in a facebook advertisement there's a scifi convention in Madrid I didn't know about lol. It's called CIFIMAD, and this year they have two star trek actors invited. You can check it here. I'll have to check it next year ;). It's scifi in general: BSG, stargate, star trek, babylon 5.....Maybe next year they'll have someone I'm interested in seeing, because this year they have two star trek actors I'm not really eager to meet.

Yesterday my brother came to visit and I showed him my dragoncon adventures....He thought I was going to US for a professional congress rofl. He was surprised that I went to DragonCon, to say the least. Actually, I think he thinks I'm a freak :p

And tomorrow....Madrid2016 popular meeting in Cibeles!!! :)))

Estaba jugando con un amigo en facebook cuando, por sorpresa, descubrí en uno de los anuncios que existe en Madrid una convención de ciencia ficcion llamada CIFIMAD, y que este año tienen invitados a dos actores de star trek. Puedes echarla un vistazo aqui. Tendré que echar un vistazo para el proximo año ;) porque han agrupado al general scifi en general (bsg, babylon 5, stargate...). Probablemente el año que viene traigan a alguien que me apetezca ver y está cerquita

Ayer mi hermano vino de visita y le enseñé parte de los videos y fotos que me trajé asi como de palabra las aventuras americanas...Pensó que me había ido a usa para un congreso profesional jajajaj. Sorprendido se queda corto para describir lo que debía estar pensando de mi. Realmente creo que piensa que soy una friki :p

Y mañana encuentro popular con foto aérea incluida por la candidatura de Madrid2016 en Cibeles!!! :)))

So while watching how our boys are doing in the Davis Cup competition, i have time during the break to read latest Kate's post in her official website.

Kate Mulgrew:   I don’t even know what Twitter is. Kate, Kate. A scientific captain can't say that!! She obviouly doesn't surf a lot hehe.

Kate Mulgrew:  I can do a play.  Kathleen Turner and I are talking about doing something together.  She wants to direct me in a piece.  It’s a one woman piece, and it’s called “Le Voix Humaine”, “The Human Voice”, by Jean Cocteau.  And it’s one woman on the phone saying good-bye to her lover for the last time. She’s desperate not to say good-bye, but he’s done – he’s going to marry someone else. It’s about sixty minutes.  And she’s just slowly bleeding to death.  But Kathleen said to me two weeks ago when we were having a drink, she said, “I’ll direct it and you’ll act.” I said, “We can do this.”  I'd love to see that play. Shame it'd be in NY. They should do a Tour in Europe  :P

Check the interview, made during Dragon*Con, here

Hoy nos jugamos el pase en dos grandes competiciones. Así que a cruzar los deditos que en estas cosas un poco de suerte tampoco viene mal (aunque partimos de buenos equipos en ambos deportes). :P 

 

ÁNIMO, ESPAÑA!!! Que queremos otra Copa Davis y una medalla de Oro en el Eurobasket :D

Updated 19th September (parade)

I'll be posting here all I could film at the convention. There's lot of material from different panels, not only bsg so related, so it can take 2-3 days to have them prepared and uploaded. I'll be posting when I'm done with these (I know you are impatient to watch them all), some thoughts about the bsg panels and our Dragon Con experience (and my 1st time ever Convention experience ever). So here I bring you the first panel I worked on (not necesseraly the first panel in order during the convention)

BSG PANEL 4TH SEPTEMBER (AFTERNOON)


BSG PANEL 5TH SEPTEMBER

 

BSG PANEL 6TH SEPTEMBER

 
BSG PANEL 7TH SEPTEMBER (Added 17 th September)
 
COLONIAL FLEET PARTY
 
In 2008 we had EJO&MH. This year we had Mary and the rest of the cast, except for EJO :( (patience is a virtue....)

STAR TREK - KATE MULGREW PANEL 5TH SEPTEMBER


STARGATE PANEL 5TH SEPTEMBER (Added 13th September)
   

DRAGON*CON'S COSTUMES VIDEO (just a few)  (Added 13th September)
 

STARGATE PANEL 7TH SEPTEMBER (Added 14th September)

 
 

My camcorder can't give more so that's what there is. I'll try to reduce the brightness tomorrow  and see what we get ;)

DRAGON*CON PARADE 6TH SEPTEMBER (Added 19th September)
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