#pasadena convention center

[avrotf]

Anime Pasadena 2024 vlog already up days ago: https://youtu.be/h2sXjwkliX0?si=cMmCVHGwWukOWYUc

[loscerritoscommunitynews]

Pasadena Chalk Fest June 17 and 18

@pasadenachalkfestival

Celebrating 30 Years! The Plaza of the Pasadena Convention Center 300 E. Green St. Pasadena, CA 91101 A BENEFIT FOR LIGHT BRINGER PROJECT PasadenaChalkFestival.org

[railroadlion]

✨FOSSIL POKEMON KEYCHAINS ✨

I'm going to be selling these at Lightbox Expo in two weeks at the Pasadena convention center, Oct 25th-27th in California!

I'll also be selling prints and zines, so consider buying tickets here!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Come see me on tour!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

My next novel is The Bezzle, a high-tech ice-cold revenge thriller starring Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, as he takes on the sleaziest scams of the first two decades of the 2000s, from hamburger-themed Ponzis to the unbelievably sleazy and evil prison-tech industry:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

I'm taking Marty on the road! I'll be visiting eighteen cities between now and June, and I hope you'll come out and say hello, visit a beloved local bookseller, and maybe get a book (or two)!

21 Feb: Weller Bookworks, Salt Lake City, 1830h: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

22 Feb: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, 19h: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

24 Feb: Vroman's, Pasadena, 17h, with Adam Conover (!!) https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

26 Feb: Third Place Books, Seattle, 19h, with Neal Stephenson (!!!) https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

27 Feb: Powell's, Portland, 19h: https://www.powells.com/book/the-bezzle-martin-hench-2-9781250865878/1-2

29 Feb: Changing Hands, Phoenix, 1830h: https://www.changinghands.com/event/february2024/cory-doctorow

9-10 Mar: Tucson Festival of the Book: https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=display_author&id=15669

13 Mar: San Francisco Public Library: https://sfpl.org/events/2024/03/13/author-cory-doctrow-bezzle

22 Mar: Toronto: Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture: https://events.yorku.ca/events/wendy-michener-memorial-lecture2024/

24 Mar: NYC: Word Books (with Laura Poitras): https://shop.wordbookstores.com/event/word-presents-cory-doctorow

29-31 Mar: Wondercon Anaheim: https://www.comic-con.org/wc/

11 Apr: Harvard Berkman-Klein Center (with Randall Munroe) https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification

12 Apr: RISD Debates in AI, Providence, details coming soon!

17 Apr: Anderson's Books, Chicago, 19h: https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1

19-21 Apr: Torino Biennale Tecnologia https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia

2 May, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Winnipeg https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

5-11 May: Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

6-9 Jun: Media Ecology Association keynote, Amherst, NY https://media-ecology.org/convention

Calgary and Vancouver – details coming soon!

[shimmering-starsun]

i was at the pasadena convention center for lightbox and they had a mural type thing for the past performances and i genuinely fucking thought this was Terrance Fletcher.

[californiastatelibrary]

PRESS RELEASE- It’s celebration time for a California program that has enabled more than 300,000 adults to learn to read and write. The ground-breaking California Library Literacy Services program is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and commemorating four decades of success with a reception at the California Library Association convention at the Pasadena Convention Center on October 17.

Read the full release here https://www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2024/10/PressRelease-2024-10-17-CLLS40thAnniversary.pdf

[babyjujubee]

Alden Ehrenreich at the "Solo: A Star Wars Story" Press Conference at the Pasadena Convention Center on May 12, 2018 in Pasadena, California. #MakeSolo2Happen

[j2spntranscripts]

☆ 2006 Grand Slam Sci-Fi

Official name: Creation Entertainment's Grand Slam XIV: The Sci-Fi Summit Location: Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California Time: Friday, March 10 or Saturday, March 11, 2006 Panelists: Jared Padalecki Last episode: 1x16 "Shadow" - Feb 28, 2006 Next episode: 1x17 "Hell House" - March 30, 2006

Question Index: 1- (Fan Report) Body Swap 2- (Fan Report) Want for "Sam" 3- (Fan Report) Where's "Jensen" 4- (Fan Report) J2 Friendship 5- (Fan Report) Favorite Scene 6- (Fan Report) Director Styles "David Nutter vs Kim Manners" 7- (Fan Report) Powers!Sam 8- (Fan Report) s2 Renewal Int1A- (Fan Report) Bee Story Int1B- (vid) Bee Story 9- (Fan Report) Gilmore Girls Revival 10- (Fan Report) Pranks 11- (Fan Report) Auditioning for Sam 12A- (Fan Report) Show Networking + Tom Welling 12B- (vid) Show Networking + Tom Welling 13- (Fan Report) Favorite Sci-Fi Show Int2- (Fan Report) 1x15. Easter Eggs "Jared Bender" 14- (Fan Report) Act with "Anna Farris"

(vid transcripts and Fan Report links below the cut)

(*if you notice any mistakes in the video transcripts please point them out thanks*👍)

•(vid)-GrandSlam06;Int1B- Bee Story

Creation Entertainment TV logo pops up and then transitions to Jared siting on stage.

Jared: Alright, a story. (readjusts his seating position) Let me think about this. Uuum…

Audience member: Practical jokes.

Jared: Practical jokes

Audience member: (unintelligible)

Jared: O-Okay. Okay. Here we go.. (audience laughs) Uuum, wow (shakes head) I'm like a deer in the headlights (audience laughs) (laughs) So, bright (briefly holds hands up to block the lights) Uhh.. You know what? I'll tell you a story about “Bugs.” (scratches head)

Eh, wha- speaking of Kim manners, who's our director- Who also did, I think, 55 episodes of, um, of “X-Files.” He-he had done more “X-Files” than (gestures) anybody else. He, uh, (audience claps) Yeah. (nods and claps his knee) Yay, for Kim Manners. He's fantastic.

He was doing an episode, called “Bugs,” and I remember we were coming off of “Skin,” the shape-shifter episode where we had done the fight scene, which was kind of my favorite scene to film. And we were beat up and we had been training on Saturdays and Sundays and throughout the weekdays and during lunch with this Ultimate Fighter and with our stunt coordinators. And we were all pretty beat up. And we were like, “We just need an episode where Sam and Dean sit in the Impala and make a phone call and get rid of the demon or something.”

And then we read the next script and it's like, you know, Sam and Dean hear about this Indian ritual and they go to save a family who's on some sacred grounds and there are a hundred-thousand bees in the attic. And they're in the attic. And we were like, “Oh that's gonna be a lot of visual effects.” (scratches the back of his head)

And- So, then I remember we're still (audience laughs) shooting “Skin.” We're shooting the fight scene, actually, that day. And, during lunch, our asic-assistant director comes up and says, “Hey guys. So, the bee trainer is here and he wants to introduce you to the bees.” (audience laughs) (smiles) And we were like (scratches head) “What do you he m-whu-” (shakes head) “There's a what? There’s a- Who?” (shakes head) “Bee trainer. Like, I’ve never heard of- How do you train bees?”

And so, sure enough we walk outside. And, um, I don't know if- He- he explained it later like, it was a hot day and the bees were kind of, like, aggravated, because they had been traveling to set. And then they gone to another set. And, I think the li- the girl who was working with the bees had to do something for “Exorcism of Emily Rose” or something like that.

And so, he sittin’ there and he's like, “It's no big deal.” (mimics bees flying) And there're- there’re bees flying around. We're outside and he releases them out of a box. And he's explaining that they’re drone bees and that they don't attack unless they're angry (audience laugh) and that you can just kind of like swat your hands. But we were thinking, the whole idea is that we're not gonna- our characters are gonna (mimics rapidly swatting) be swatting these bees away. And they're like, “Well, you can't really swat the bees. You can go like this with your hands.” (waves hand gently around) “But you can't swat the bees.”

And so, I was just thinking like, “I'm not just gonna sit here in a deck and go like this,” (wave arm around) “while bees are flying around, do- do the wave or something.” And, um, (audience laughs) so he's telling us to go ahead and try (swipes) and he-he wants to show us himself and, you know, inspire some confidence within us.

And so, he gets out. And he, uh, he releases the bees and he-he makes (holds out arm) them go on his arm he put some (points to his arm) little juice on his arm or something. And, uh, one starts getting on his arm, he shoos it away. And were like, “Oh, not a big deal.” And the one gets on his neck and (mimics wiping the bee off his neck) he shoos it away and it comes right back (mimics bee coming on his face) and zips him in the face. (audience laughs) And we were like, “Great. So, here we go. We're gonna get stung in the face. And we're gonna be in the room.” (gestures)

And we really were in a room smaller than this stage, probably half the size of the stage with like 60,000 bees. (scratches head) And Jensen and I both got stung. (audience ughs) And I remember Jensen was the first to get stung because (gestures) he had, uh, he had an aerosol can or something. And he- he was holding it and the bee got on it. And he kind of like (mimics brushing) brushed it off and it came back and stung him in the hand or something.

And then I sort of laughed at him and of course that's when I.. probably sealed my fate. (scratches head) (audience laughs) And, uh, I'm sitting down- I go to sit down actually. (audience no’s) And right as I sit down I go, (mimics sitting down and then jumping up) “Oh crap, there's a bee in my ass. There's a bee-” (audience laughs) And sure enough, I get up and they-they rush you to- they rushed me to some safe air locked room or something where they had a vacuum cleaner and he's like, “Yep, sure enough.” (mimics guy picking off a bee from Jared’s butt) “There's one.” And the guys asking, “Pull down your pants. Make me like-let-make sure you didn't leave the stinger.”

And so, (scratches head) I'm sitting there and trying to, you know, (audience laughs) (scratches head) deal with myself pulling down my pants in front of a man that I've never met before, (audience laughs) who- who’s training bees. And he had a (nods) vacuum cleaner.

And that's another thing that he was saying. That's how they had (mimics holding a vacuum) to get the bees off. Once bees got on you and you couldn't get them off, (gestures) they had like a little air hose vacuum cleaner they (mimics vacuum) , dougz, dougz, dougz, dougz. And they suck the bees into this vacuum cleaner bag where, I guess, they weren't hurt. And then re-released them. And he explained that the more that you have (gestures) to do it, the more angry they get. (audience laughs) So, not to do (laughs) the scene too many times.

But the nature of a television show is you're- is you do a (gestures) master shot. And then you come around you shoot the other angle. And then you shoot a close up. And then you shoot the other guy's close up. And so about three or four hours into it we're like, “You know what? We're gonna get stung for sure.”

But another, uh- another way to describe Kim Manners for whoever asked, was that, um, when we found out that we're gonna be shooting in this attic with all these bees. They got, uh.. (flaps his shirt and then laughs and shakes his head) uh, like (shrugs) hazmat suits for all the crew. All (audience laughs) the- which was (shrugs) kind of weird as an actor looking around and seeing all these tough crew guys with tattoos and like shaved heads in their (mimics cuddling up) hazmat suits scared of the bees. And here we are in like t-shirts. (audience laughs) But Kim, um, Kim turned his down and said if my actors aren't gonna wear.. a hazmat suit I'm not going to either. So he sat there in the attic with us watching a handheld monitor and directing. And I think he got stung a few times.

We're all getting stung. And so, that was.. that- that probably also was.. not my.. most favorite scene to film.

Creation Entertainment TV logo pops up. Vid ends.

•(vid)-GrandSlam06;Q12B- Show Networking + Tom Welling

Creation Entertainment TV logo pops up and then transitions to Jared siting on stage.

Fan: All these sci-fi and fantasy shows that are filmed in Vancouver (Jared nods) , uh, I was wondering, uh, what amount of, uh, visiting that actors and writers and the like do to each other's shows? How much of that walking around in the background (laughs to himself) happens among that kind of genre show in Vancouver?

Jared: (nods) Right. Okay. Um, well it's, uh. We're all pretty busy up there. And it's sort of.. (gestures) spread out all over the city. Like we're based in Vancouver, but we're usually.. about an hour drive outside of downtown.

But there was a scene when we did the show, “Asylum,” which was filmed obviously in the asylum. Um, “Smallville” was shooting right next door to we were shooting outside of this bar. And so there was a scene where Jensen and I’d (pauses to look in font of him) drive up- Thank you. (looks back to fan) And, um, and (mimics car driving up) Jensen and I drive up, and we get out of the car. We start walking into the bar.

And so, we decided to play a trick. And uhhhuh, we drove up in the Impala and then all three of us got out of the car. And somebody- somebody in video village goes, “What the hell?” (Smiles) Like, they thought that someone- because Tom- We had Tom laying in the backseat. He had showed up on set. And he was like, “Hey, I want to be in.” And so we had him show up on set he was laying in the backseat.

And so sure enough the (mimics the car) Impala pulls up and we parked. And then three people get out of the car. And I think security, like, ran over (audience laughs) and thought that some guy was trying to jump us or something. (audience laughs) And they're like (holds hand out) “Oh. Oh, I-I'm sorry. I-I-I, uh- What are you doing here?”

Creation Entertainment TV logo pops up. Vid ends.

Fan Reports: *warning: fan reports are often times accounts of an event where the poster relies mostly on their own memories and biases. As a source it can't be fully verified unless there is video footage that can accompany it. Therefore fan reports should not be taken as the unquestionable truth, but instead of a likely possibility of things said.*

[lilylionheartdraws]

Xarinesca and I will be participating at

Anime Pasadena

this weekend

at the Pasadena Convention Center.

Come find us at Table 164!

We'll have tons of cute merch!

Especially Kingdom Hearts 💖

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Thank you Anime Pasadena 2024!

[geekynerfherder]

Exclusive new prints by Jason Edmiston available during Monsterpalooza, at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA, May 31 - June 2 2024.

'Eyes Without A Face' 9" x 5" giclee prints in limited editions for $25 each.

'Vincent Price: Master Of Menace' 5" x 7" gicleé print, in a limited edition of 50 for $20.

Other prints and original art also available.

[nikkiabregoart]

📣✨😍Come visit me at @pasadenacomiccon today at the Pasadena Convention Center!! My booth babe @will2501 and myself will be here all day, we hope to see you here! Also, what do y’all think of my new setup? I have a new sign currently being made that I’ll debut at the next con but I’m really digging the new look, if I do say so myself. 😉 . . . #nikkiabregoart #datartistlife #pasadenacalifornia #pasadenacomiccon #copic #copicmarkers #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #artistalley (at Pasadena, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAeRJzPU3v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[krixbeeble]

We all are having a blast 🚀 so far at AlienCon Pasadena! Everyone us so friendly and open minded here 🪷 See you again today in the Marketplace at Booth 101 🤗 Even Grogu got in on this fun with his guardian, the very lovely Lucy. #aliencon #alienconpasadena #goodtimes #likeminds #connection #intention (at Pasadena Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpaXNSZrbII/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mermaidinthecity]

49th Daytime Emmy Awards at Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California - June 24, 2022

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CatCon Arrives at Pasadena Convention Center Without J.D. Vance http://dlvr.it/TBS2VP