Information

• Beware of Parking Extortion
• A Peek into Georgia Aquarium
• Choices! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Choices! (Or How the Information Booths Can Help You Navigate Through Dragon*Con)
• Pocket Program and Schedule Grid PDFs for Download
• Daily Dragon Tweets
• Getting Here, There, and Back Again to Here
• New for 2009: The Late Show

The Parsec Awards honor SF and fantasy within the new frontiers of Portable Media. Podcast shows are nominated by fans, and finalists are chosen by a yearly steering committee. Those finalists are then voted on by an independent panel of judges.

Awards are given in several categories ranging from content to audio quality and presented at Dragon*Con, hosted by the Podcast track.

The Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival awards ceremony took place on Monday, September 7st. Clips were shown from each of three finalists in 14 categories (Animated Comedy, Animated Fantasy, Animated Science Fiction, Animated Short-Short, Action, Comedy, Dark Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Comedy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Thrillers.

Best Animated Short was chosen from the 1st place winners in the four animated categories. Best Short Film was chosen from the 1st place winners …

It’s the podcast edition of The Dragon*Con Late Show for September 7th, 2009. Brought to you by the Dragon*Con Videography Staff and The Daily Dragon.

The preliminary 2009 Charity Auction proceeds (including the Stargate auction)  total $25,000*! Thank you for your generosity!

[*This figure does not include the Art Auction.]

The record increases! 437 people registered today, bringing the total registered donors to 2,081 for the past four days. About 1,650 were able to donate, and we have close to 2,100 units!

Tomorrow is the last day to donate. Give in the Marriott, rooms A701 and A702, from 10AM to 3PM.

Best Overall Costume
Chris Lee as “Apparition Abolishers”

Best Journeyman Costume
Harrison Krix, Mandie Reese, and Emily Keith as “Bioshock’s Big Daddy and Little Sister with Splicer”

Best Novice Costume
April Hall and Erin Johnson as “Undead Saloon Dancers”

Best Master Costume
Brian Burke as “The Dragon Rider”

Best Animation Costume
Alan and Jo Gratz as “Samurai Jack and Aku”

Children

Honorable Mention Child
Alex Clark  (#4)
Annie Ayers (#15)
Maggie Ainsworth Darnell (#20)
Holly Padgett (#24)
Nina Emick (#67)
Genevieve Dislets (#71)
Wendi Gratz & Jo Gratz (#221)
Michael John (#226)
Leon Rimondi (#227)
Ashleigh Murphy & Spy (#229)
Corbin Duncan (#233)
Taylor Kiss (#300)
Dean Washington (#315)
Mckenzie Chappell (#335)
Joshua Boscher (#406)
K.D. Boscher (#408)
Lawson Wellborn (#457)
Connor Welborn (#460)

Tad Beaty and Skip Faulkner shared a victory after over four hours of grueling play. Congratulations to Tad and Skip!