INTEX Digital Sound have published the first clip of FedCon 18! Get a taste for what was going on on Thursday, how all the equipment was set up, and how the fans started to take over the Maritim hotel on Friday.

For continuous updates, check out FedCon.tv.

First off one or two warnings: a) this report will feature men without pants (yes, I am using the plural for a reason) and b) it will be more like a picture story. No real, deep content here. For my German readers: much like a BILD special issue  
John Billingsley, to us scifi geeks best known as Dr. Phlox of Enterprise, had already made himself stand out from the other actors during the opening ceremony. He came out on stage, wearing a black shirt with Marc B. Lee’s …

Today I am way too tired for a full fledged report and I really want to do John Billingsley justice, so I decided to share two of my geek moments with you that also have to do with FedCon.
While sifting through my photos during the weekend, faithfully tagging all of them so I won’t get totally lost, I suddenly realized what my most used keywords were at that moment:

Keywords in Adobe Lightroom
Now, how cool is that? Usually I see only rather boring keywords like ’sunset’, ‘dresden’, ‘flower’, or ‘macro’. Having the …

It was another highlight in the succession of panels Friday night at FedCon 18. Despite her almost 80 years of age, Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek incarnation, came to Bonn, Germany.
After being greeted with a four minute standing ovation during the opening ceremony, she received another heartfelt and long welcome from the assembled fans. After all, she is one of the last cast members of the original show. A show, if I may say so, that has changed the SciFi genre and made all …

Edward James Olmos
Where to begin? Friday night at FedCon brought three amazing panels and they hit it right off with ‘the old man’ himself, Edward James Olmos a.k.a Admiral William Adama of »Battlestar Galactica«. It was completely mind blowing that he and his co-stars Michael Hogan, James Callis and Mark Sheppard came to Germany at all. After all, it’s not like taking a trip from the West Coast to some East Coast convention. And to have three of the main characters and the coolest character of BSG assembled all at once (yes, and let’s throw in Richard …

Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica)
The first panel I attended on Friday was that of the original Apollo and now Tom Zarek of the BSG. Took me a while to bring those two together, but eventually even I got it.

Richard Hatch on stage at FedCon 18 in Bonn, Germany
Richard Hatch was an energetic performer on stage. Only after a conversation with a fan I knew that he was now 63 years old – he neither looks or acts like it. He’s full of energy and humor. Right from the start, when he came …

Here we go, finally. FedCon 18 is over (why, oh why?) and it’s time to trade stories and photos. Since there was so much going on, I will not split my reports by the days I spend there, like I did last year’s coverage, but I will just go by events. So, here’s my take on my trip to FedCon and on the press conference on Friday.
For full sets of images from the convention, please check out my gallery pages at In The Moment. They will constantly be updated over …

Hello everyone!
After much anticipation, FedCon 18 finally came – and went. I’ve had five incredibly fun and exhaustive days, both as a visitor to the convention and part of the DVD production team, led by INTEX Digital Sound.
Right now, I sorting through roughly 30GB (yes, I really mean gigabyte) worth of photos and I hope to have the pictures up for you during the week. The reports of the convention days should be up as well in the next 14 days … somewhere between me working and recovering :)
Full galleries …