End of Day 4 #SDCC2022 at the Embassy Suites Happy Hour. 655 ppm CO2. I made myself an outdoor happy hour just outside the doors to enjoy some San Diego weather.
End of Day 4 for me! Double fisting a suitcase in one hand and a margarita in the other to very very slowly make my way outta dodge. Overall on the air quality side + mask compliance I've been impressed by what #SDCC2022 has been able to achieve in comparison with that other con
I measured Hall H on Friday, then portions of the Exhibit Hall and Sails Pavilion throughout the convention. I measured Room 6BCF on Saturday. I did not measure Ballroom 20 or any other smaller panels.
Con side lessons: the exhibit hall is overall better in CO2 ppm to the G side, with readings of 800 ppm to 900 ppm. The A side was around 1000 ppm to 1100 ppm. The worst areas were in the 1300 ppm range by the 3300s middle of the exhibit hall.
Con lessons 2: during all-day sessions of elastomeric mask wearing, it is important to have a change of moisture absorbing pads for your face piece and a small hand towel ready to wipe your face periodically. I used this Marushin towel every 45 min and it did the job pretty well.
Con lessons 2: the Angelus paint is durable to a point, and that is when the ambient humidity comes into play. There are these two weak points at the upper part of the harness cage that need reinforcement when masking / unmasking frequently.
Con lessons 4: Even if you take a grip of rapid covid tests with you, all you can measure is what your hotel roommates came with, not whether they picked up anything new at-con. Woops.
SDCC is really proving itself to be the premier pop culture convention in the world. In the next couple days we will see the results of the work put into mask enforcement at-con. In the end if Comic Con can do it, it can serve as a model for other conventions in the world.
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My spam texters live in a world of beauty and urgency, where with a recently met friend, the next day one can go to a wedding together, play ball, introduce themselves out of the blue
What if I was Melissa? and the new intriguing friend I met at the gallery opening would actually fly me to Mandy's shotgun wedding in Vegas. I don't even know Mandy. I'm just her dog groomer and I keep her teacup Pomeranian perfectly dyed into a rainbow panda. For the 'gram
What if I was Lina, and for months I had been secretly sneaking portions of the delicious gourmet lunches in the company fridge, in the beautiful bags marked "Alice"?
This year I feel like it's very true that nothing you spend time designing is ever wasted, it always ends up getting used later somewhere in a future project. E.g. here's a pic from the final photoshoot of my entry for metal plating design competition in design school
My POV was to play on the transformation power of masks (and that plating itself was a mask) Also I was broke AF so this was like $2 baling wire, the cheapest sheet metal I could find, and then stupid high amounts of labor overkill on my part
Then I did a performance footwear assignment on wushu martial artists, bc at that time it was up for consideration for the Olympics + I really liked how all the USA wushu folks that I found to interview were obsessively into transforming themselves to fit the culture of the sport
In 3 days I went to Kentia Hall, Exhibit Hall, the Entertainment Hall, panel in Petree Hall, panel in Main Events + JW Marriott lobby, second floor waiting for Platinum Ballroom, and panel in Platinum Ballroom. I did not do any other events at #AnimeExpo
At the Exhibit Hall, there was a big difference in the readings at the Bandai Namco area between Day 1 and Day 3- it started off strong at around 800 to 900 ppm but by Day 3 it was consistent with the rest of the show floor at 1300 to 1400 ppm
Most of the Exhibit Hall show floor on Day 3 from 1pm to 3pm remained around 1400 - 1500ppm but this area in yellow outline seemed to get to 1700 - 1800+ ppm. I didn't go to the orange outline so I don't know how that was #AnimeExpo#covidsafetyAnimeExpo
I got covid at the beginning of the month. Even 3x vaccinated, it was still a terrible, scary experience as what I thought was a run of the mill sinus infection got more and more painful. I wished that I had more anecdotes on ppl's experiences at the time. Here's how mine went
Bc I WFH, didn't leave the house for weeks, I knew that I had gotten infected Saturday, which I put as Day -3. -1 symptoms started happening. All week, temps of 65F. Suddenly on Day -1 it became 88F and I thought it was allergies. Quar just in case
Day 3 the Rapid Test that they tell you to wait 15 minutes for a reading flipped 2 lines for a positive almost immediately. Headache was so severe it made my inner ears, my eyeballs hurt as well! The sore throat was like the feeling of having received a first degree burn