Naka-Kon. Was. Awesome.
Naka-Kon 2009, in Kansas City Missouri was a fantastic weekend. We flew in Thursday night, and went out to eat at the revolving restaurant on the top floor of the hotel, accompanied by some other convention guests. Had some fun and, um interesting conversations… What happens at the con stays at the con. Anyway, being up on the 39th floor was quite epic. Check out these aerial views of Kansas City:
Sweet view. Our concert was Friday evening. I could not believe it, but we had a huge crowd. I’ve played shows at conventions in the past where I thought the room was gonna be packed and ended up being empty, and this made up for all of those! I thoroughly had a great time rocking out onstage, and the audience was great. Wow, if only all gigs could be this good! Here are some performance shots:
The other thing that made Naka-Kon really special for me was finally getting to meet Nate (our music video animator) in person. Seriously, we had been working together for over a year and this was the first time we met in real life. I got to go on a tour of Kansas City and check out his awesome living space (where a party was going on.)
On Saturday, Nate and I did a panel on the making of ‘Yuri The Only One’ again to a surprisingly large crowd. I learned for the first time ever that the music video contains subliminal messages! It was unbelievable. Again, I want to keep some thing a secret (so that people can learn the truth at conventions we attend.) I will say that if you slow down to individual frames when the meteor hits, it says something special.
Matt and Nate, together at long last!
Props: Shota, Jon and Akash for great performances. Tyler for booking us and taking amazing care of us. Lear for being an incredible sound guy. Sierra for helping us out with whatever we needed. Pinky for being a rock star. Samanth for the live photographs. Everyone else we met for making us feel like rockstars. Anyone I forgot. Naka-Kon. Was. AWESOME!!!!
Update: I found some concert footage on YouTube:
hehe, since last year i forgot to check your site, im glad to see its working XD
anyway, i came to say, keep the good work, i like the idea of a webcomic, actually i liked the one you guys put on youtube, so, i will be coming here to check the comic, hope this one dont stop hehe
BTW, sorry, i have a bad english
im from costa rica (probably dont know where it is XD) but know that you have a fan over here 
Some of those pictures are mine. woohoo! And I don’t know if you know but the videos are also mine!! I was so excited to see them here on your website. The concert that night was awesome and I hope to see you in concert again in the near future!!!!
Samantha
I know the pictures were yourse (see thank you note.) Did not know the videos were yours too! Double thank you, Samantha!!
I did see the note.
Thanks. I’m just glad that you were able to use them. 
I was there!!! It was so much fun, meeting all of you and meeting Nate, seeing and old friend, CJ, who introduced me to him and everything else. I took some pretty cool fisheye pics with a colorsplash flash that I will have to scan and put online for sure. I hope you guys come back to KC!
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