First off when it comes to events I am generally quite positive with only a few negative comments here and there and yes this event did have some positives but as a whole it was not great and was actually quite a mess. The biggest issue at this event was that the venue size was too small for the amount of people, they had sold too many tickets and unfortunately a lot of people ended up stuck outside of the event because it was at maximum capacity and they couldn’t enter until people had left this meant that people who had brought VIP specialty tickets worth hundreds of dollars were stuck outside waiting to enter. The event also had two very big names as guests in Stan Lee and Patrick Stewart, the two were located in different areas of the venue and both of their queues were insane and basically blocked out complete aisles of the event as there was not really enough room for the large amount of queuing.

Before the event I had been contacted by Victoria, who I had met previously at the 2011 Melbourne Armageddon, she asked me if I could help out with something where she wanted me to get photos of the actors at the event giving the peace sign so that they could then be auctioned off to raise money for the charity Celebs4Kids. I contacted the organiser of Oz Comic Con and gave them all the relevent information regarding the request, but unfortunately it never went any further than that, which was such a shame as I did think it was a great idea and something fairly easy to do if he guests were okay with it. Since I wasn’t able to do that for Victoria I decided to have a little bit of fun and make the peace signs a theme for the weekend and went around taking photos of friends and called it Geeks for Peace instead, it gave me something to do throughtout the weekend and was a little bit of fun.

I spent the majority of the weekend hanging around either a mates stall and keeping her company chatting with Ryan Robbins and Karyn Baltzer because they are awesome and super friendly and the place was just way too busy to want to do anything else. Plus there was no way you’d chance leaving the venue for fear you would never get back in. At one stage there was a large group of us hanging around chatting and Ryan called us the Kult of Karyn, which we pointed out to him he had just named us KOK, we had a good laugh and then there were photos taken of us all bowing down to our leader, beacause it’s all part of the fun. At one stage Karyn was eating some hot chips and a mate gave her some Vegemite to try and Karyn decided to dip the chips into the Vegemite to eat which was definitely something different and perhaps the start of a new trend?!