Our trip to Las Vegas started ordinary enough for the PictoBooks crew. As we were getting ready to check our baggage, exclamatory statements from those in charge of “unpacking” the carpool were getting more and more excited and anxious as they realized what they had forgotten.
“Did you get it?”…
“No, I thought you got it.”…
“Oooooh no. Trouble. We have to get it.” This was the statement that led one associate back onto the shuttle bus, to the parking lot, to the almost empty car where the Precious Metal Album lay unnoticed on the seat, carefully wrapped in its carrying case, back onto the shuttle, to check-in, through security, and finally, to our gate, with its deserted tarmac...................... We missed our flight.
Now overdue, we finally arrived at the MGM. At this point, most booths were already constructed, wiped clean and long abandoned by slot machine seeking personnel, so ours was easy to spot. It was the only booth with...
...absolutely NOTHING IN IT!...
...save for the solitary palate of PictoBooks’ possessions, protected from the pending precipitation outside, and as if it wasn’t obvious enough, someone nearby came over to exclaim, “I have never seen anyone wait until the last minute to set up their booth before!” While this conversation was going on, someone else was fighting with the shrink wrapped palate like an “as seen on TV” commercial depicting someone who can’t figure out that pesky masking tape, which somehow always results in a wrapped hand resembling a mummy.
Unwrapped, unpacked, taken out of its boxes, and assembled at lightning speed (please note: lightning speed = trouble-free, easy-going, laid-back, and relaxed), the PictoBooth came together piece by piece with its custom PictoSwatch tables, LED PictoSign, PictoRugs, and PictoMums in their flowerpots. There was even spare time enough to position each and every PictoCube (PictoCube: a 3-dimensional device for sitting) to achieve the perfect angle at which to view the PictoSpeakers give their presentation at the PictoBooth. (These were eventually removed, to the dismay of the “positioner” to reside under the tables until the following day)
Goal achieved for the evening, we ventured out onto the flickering Las Vegas Strip to investigate the Buffet situation, where later we were instructed by the PictoBoss to leave the buffet with no less than 5 helpings. The next three days proved fast-paced enough for our various PictoPeople. PictoBooks were continuously being opened, closed, opened closed, scrutinized, turned, lifted, closed, touched, opened, knocked on (no, they’re not hollow), and closed. PictoBags were handed to anyone passing by who looked like they would start handing out free information from “enter company here” because they had too much to handle, and PictoBrochures were flying off the shelves…no seriously, those things are slippery! Needless to say, we were all a bit drained by the end of the third day, apparent by our blank expressions and catnaps on the PictoCubes as we awaited our empty storage to arrive.
Now Enter: Palate of PictoBooks’ possessions from empty storage.
With a renewed energy emerging for the tear-down and packing up of the PictoBooth, we found ourselves more energetic and animated than we all knew what to do with. Wound up and unable to settle down as we awaited the delivery of a supplemental palate, we entertained ourselves, to the amusement of those surround us, by trying to stack PictoCube on top of PictoCube on top of PictoCube…………………on top of PictoCube until there was a towering column of seating leaning like Pisa, and resembling Jenga. This was all in good fun until we realized that getting the top one down would be a lot harder than it was getting it up there. The leaning tower of Picto quickly became an insignificant stack of boxes as we attempted to relieve the tower of a single Cube, but a total of three decided they wanted to go base jumping.
There was also a moment when everyone was nonchalantly watching the PictoBoss do all the hard work by shrink wrapping both palates as fast as his legs could take him around, and around and around and around………….and around again until suddenly, the shrink wrap was snatched from his hands by the PictoPerson closest to him, who continued to wrap the palate while two others held him tightly against the palate. Alas, there are no pictures :(.
All in all, WPPI 2009 was a great show. We unveiled our new Mystique series, due to be available for online order within the next month or so. And we wrapped the bossman to our outgoing palate. What more could we ask for?
WPPI 2009 PictoBooth Speakers: Rodney Bailey, Clay Blackmore, Ben Chen, Daniel Doke
“Did you get it?”…
“No, I thought you got it.”…
“Oooooh no. Trouble. We have to get it.” This was the statement that led one associate back onto the shuttle bus, to the parking lot, to the almost empty car where the Precious Metal Album lay unnoticed on the seat, carefully wrapped in its carrying case, back onto the shuttle, to check-in, through security, and finally, to our gate, with its deserted tarmac...................... We missed our flight.
Now overdue, we finally arrived at the MGM. At this point, most booths were already constructed, wiped clean and long abandoned by slot machine seeking personnel, so ours was easy to spot. It was the only booth with...
...absolutely NOTHING IN IT!...
...save for the solitary palate of PictoBooks’ possessions, protected from the pending precipitation outside, and as if it wasn’t obvious enough, someone nearby came over to exclaim, “I have never seen anyone wait until the last minute to set up their booth before!” While this conversation was going on, someone else was fighting with the shrink wrapped palate like an “as seen on TV” commercial depicting someone who can’t figure out that pesky masking tape, which somehow always results in a wrapped hand resembling a mummy.
Unwrapped, unpacked, taken out of its boxes, and assembled at lightning speed (please note: lightning speed = trouble-free, easy-going, laid-back, and relaxed), the PictoBooth came together piece by piece with its custom PictoSwatch tables, LED PictoSign, PictoRugs, and PictoMums in their flowerpots. There was even spare time enough to position each and every PictoCube (PictoCube: a 3-dimensional device for sitting) to achieve the perfect angle at which to view the PictoSpeakers give their presentation at the PictoBooth. (These were eventually removed, to the dismay of the “positioner” to reside under the tables until the following day)
Goal achieved for the evening, we ventured out onto the flickering Las Vegas Strip to investigate the Buffet situation, where later we were instructed by the PictoBoss to leave the buffet with no less than 5 helpings. The next three days proved fast-paced enough for our various PictoPeople. PictoBooks were continuously being opened, closed, opened closed, scrutinized, turned, lifted, closed, touched, opened, knocked on (no, they’re not hollow), and closed. PictoBags were handed to anyone passing by who looked like they would start handing out free information from “enter company here” because they had too much to handle, and PictoBrochures were flying off the shelves…no seriously, those things are slippery! Needless to say, we were all a bit drained by the end of the third day, apparent by our blank expressions and catnaps on the PictoCubes as we awaited our empty storage to arrive.
Now Enter: Palate of PictoBooks’ possessions from empty storage.
With a renewed energy emerging for the tear-down and packing up of the PictoBooth, we found ourselves more energetic and animated than we all knew what to do with. Wound up and unable to settle down as we awaited the delivery of a supplemental palate, we entertained ourselves, to the amusement of those surround us, by trying to stack PictoCube on top of PictoCube on top of PictoCube…………………on top of PictoCube until there was a towering column of seating leaning like Pisa, and resembling Jenga. This was all in good fun until we realized that getting the top one down would be a lot harder than it was getting it up there. The leaning tower of Picto quickly became an insignificant stack of boxes as we attempted to relieve the tower of a single Cube, but a total of three decided they wanted to go base jumping.
There was also a moment when everyone was nonchalantly watching the PictoBoss do all the hard work by shrink wrapping both palates as fast as his legs could take him around, and around and around and around………….and around again until suddenly, the shrink wrap was snatched from his hands by the PictoPerson closest to him, who continued to wrap the palate while two others held him tightly against the palate. Alas, there are no pictures :(.
All in all, WPPI 2009 was a great show. We unveiled our new Mystique series, due to be available for online order within the next month or so. And we wrapped the bossman to our outgoing palate. What more could we ask for?
WPPI 2009 PictoBooth Speakers: Rodney Bailey, Clay Blackmore, Ben Chen, Daniel Doke
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