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A short photo essay on scale.
Oct. 5th, 2007 04:32 pmHere's a short photo essay on comics/manga in Japan.
Comic Market is the big biannual manga convention. They have these regularly. Here's the poster from last winter:
And here's the poster from this immediate past summer, as printed on the cover of the catalogue.
I saw both of these at Nippon 2007, of course, the Worldcon. They had a big exhibit area, which featured is a scale model of the Comic Market exhibition halls. Note the use of the word "halls," plural. This is not multiple copies of one model; this is collectively one big model. Note the use of the word "scale" in front of model. It is to scale:
Let's zoom in to just one of these halls. Note how big the halls is. I would describe it as pretty damn big. I've been to COMDEX when it was COMDEX, so I have some good comparison material here.
That's still pretty far out; let's zoom in further, to one section of that same room. I'm not 100% sure, but I am fairly certain that this subsection would be larger than the PAX exhibition space, in part because...
...each one of those little squares is a booth.
Last winter's convention was nr. 71. Last summer's convention was nr. 72. These are not flukes.
Oh, and by the way, not to brag or nothin', but that Animate store they're talking about lately in Megatokyo? I earned some Gainax points buyin' stuff there. The store? It is seven stories of awesome. ^_^
Comic Market is the big biannual manga convention. They have these regularly. Here's the poster from last winter:
And here's the poster from this immediate past summer, as printed on the cover of the catalogue.
I saw both of these at Nippon 2007, of course, the Worldcon. They had a big exhibit area, which featured is a scale model of the Comic Market exhibition halls. Note the use of the word "halls," plural. This is not multiple copies of one model; this is collectively one big model. Note the use of the word "scale" in front of model. It is to scale:
Let's zoom in to just one of these halls. Note how big the halls is. I would describe it as pretty damn big. I've been to COMDEX when it was COMDEX, so I have some good comparison material here.
That's still pretty far out; let's zoom in further, to one section of that same room. I'm not 100% sure, but I am fairly certain that this subsection would be larger than the PAX exhibition space, in part because...
...each one of those little squares is a booth.
Last winter's convention was nr. 71. Last summer's convention was nr. 72. These are not flukes.
Oh, and by the way, not to brag or nothin', but that Animate store they're talking about lately in Megatokyo? I earned some Gainax points buyin' stuff there. The store? It is seven stories of awesome. ^_^
