The final day of E3 is upon us and afterwards we have to pack up
and send off all the bits and pieces, parts and parcels that
made up our world for the past six days.
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Meet Phil Gelber. See how happy he is that this is the final
day of E3? Phil, are you happy? Look at that smile. Maybe
Phil is happy because he was just with the Women of
Vigilancethat you can see in the background near
the center of the HEAT ring. Is that why you are happy, Phil?
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Here we are looking across from the 10six stations towards
the Vigilance and
AnyWorld stations. You can see one of the Women of
Vigilance lounging idly near these stations. In
the distance you can see the Skies stations, and
beyond them the Virtual
Makeover section of the booth.
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Since we were right next to GameStorm and
GameStorm had some soldiers from Starship Troopers and an
Alien in costume walking around there were several times
when all three would hang out together and do the group
photo thing with various passers by. This image and the next
one are of this group.
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This and the following two images are more in this
series. Hey, digital film is cheap so we took a lot of
shots. The last of the shots actually came out the best
since we turned off the flash and then just lightened the
gamma on the image so things would show up a bit better.
Lamont claims that these shots do not do the Women
of Vigilance any justice since they lack the
proper angle to appreciate the depth of the matter. We
think it came out fine.
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Here you can see the lounge lizards in their native habitat. |
| Same lounge lizards, without so much haze. |
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Look! It is the offical P.I.T.A. acting saucy! |
| Our fearless leader of technology begins to show the wear
and stress of nigh on three days of constant wheeling and
dealing throughout E3. |
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 | Sarah
discusses with some coworkers where the HEAT tattoo should
go now that we have officially passed one quarter of a
million registered users. |
| The HEAT circle was always popular. It was especially
dominated by games of SiN, Quake 2, and Unreal. Here is
where most of our Foot Soldiers who won the trip to E3 were
hanging out. |  |
 | Ah, the ever popular
Women of Vigilance doing more posed
shots. |
| Kim pays us a visit from the Psygnosis camp! BTW, that
very bright pink light is actually from the GameStorm booth. It
is a laser drawing squiggly shapes on to a rotating opaque globe. |
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out of the booth towards the Vigilance stations and
beyond. The HEAT ring is off to our right and you can just
barely see the Skies
stations. |
| Here is another look in to the SegaSoft booth on the
VMO side of things. This was one of the quieter times as you
can see. Even quiet, however, the VMO section still gathered a
lot of actual participatory traffic. VMO can really be a
communal activity as John Cahill pointed out. We really do
like those nice plasma display monitors, though. |  |
 | Here you can see
Magic Man Ted leaping in to fix yet another printing problem
in the VMO booth. If we do a VMO booth next year SegaSoft
should really invest in a $4k color laser
printer instead of these cheapie inkjet printers. So much
time and effort was spent on making these things work. Ask
Jeff and Ted what they think of them. |
| Believe it or not, the show is now over! Here is a shot
in to the interior cloistered section of the SegaSoft
booth. You can see the 1st line of defense desk and behind
it the 2nd line of defense desk. The floor lights are now on
turning the noisy dark pit of flashing extremes in to just a
hot, well light pit full of people and cranes moving around
at high speed. |  |
 | And so cleanup
begins. Everyone pitches in, even the master Reverend Drew
can figure out how to take a bunch of speakers, repack them
in their styrofoam forms and put them back in to their
boxes. Kaylin to the left lugs around one fo the CPU boxes. |
| Sarah Anderson, Erik Wahlberg, and Jeff busily start
tearing apart the VMO booth each with visions of sugar plums
dancing in their heads. |  |
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for us, packing all this stuff back in to boxes was indeed a
case of where many hands make light work. We would frequently
clear and pack all the boxes that had been dropped off to us
with long pauses waiting for the next shipment of boxes to arrive. |
| Even Greg Chiemengo can tape up a box. Just look at the
determination on his face. Not sure what Sean Ryan behind and
to his right is up to, though. Behind Greg you can see the
remains of the HEAT circle beginning to be dismantled. |  |
 | Drew the man
zips in to action packing away speaker set after speaker
set. Perhaps he is hoping to get one of the new souped up
systems back at work? Need them for those rev events! |
| Dave Grey and Ted compare notes as to how these modern
cables test. You can see the bottles of water in front of
them that they are using to clear their pallates between
sampling different sorts of power cables. Around them is the
shambles of the HEAT ring and beyond them the wreckage of the Vigilance
stations. Jeff walks away professing not to know these two loonies. |  |
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Kaylin sits out for a short bit. Right after the show ended
they turned off the A/C and temperatures rose quickly.
Right now Kaylin is probably thinking "put that camera away
before I smack you one." |
| Sarah shows how she can still do situps after all that
hard packing, and that the tatoo really is not bothering her
at all. Lamont pointed out that we missed getting a picture
of the humongous roll of bubble wrap that is currently right
behind where were standing when we took this picture. Truly a
site to see. |  |
 | As the breakdown
wears on more people begin to drop out from the heat, the
humidity, and the simple lack of things to continue to pack. |
| And finally.. the last bits that we can do are
done. Britt Morris and Kaylin sack out while watching the
Art Guild go in to full swing tearing the booth
down. Actually, though, there were three machines and two
monitors for which we did not have boxes that Ted was still
waiting on. One of the boxes was damaged due to water, and
the other two were missing in action for a while. But, we
believe that it all got pulled together in the end. |  |
