Silicon Valley Comic Con
Photo: Obi “Woz” Kenobi at Silicon Valley Comic Con — Photo: Teodor Bjerrang
Photo documentary from the first three years of Steve Wozniak’s Comic Con in San Jose.
“When I was growing up, it was hard to be a geek. It definitely wasn’t cool, and that wasn’t easy. I’m happy things have changed because now people are able to be proud of being geeks and being different. Silicon Valley Comic Con will be an event where fans of all kinds can celebrate the Age of the Geek.”
Photos: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs — 1976
Steve Wozniak has earlier credited Star Trek and Star Trek conventions as a source of inspiration for starting Apple.
Teodor Bjerrang and Steve Wozniak — 30. April 2017 at the Silicon Valley Comic Con in San Jose
Woz from the SVCC 2016
Obi “Woz” Kenobi at Silicon Valley Comic Con — Photo: Teodor Bjerrang
2018
Some of the highlights — Mads Mikkelsen, Christina Ricci, Martha Higareda, Krysten Ritter, Katee Sackhoff, Nichelle Nichols, Ray Park, Adam Savage, Jewel Staite, David Tennant, Dr. Mae Jemison, Dr. Michio Kaku and Andy Weir.
2017
Some of the highlights — Billy Boyd, William Shatner, Marina Sirtis, Robert O’Reilly, Denise Crosby, Brent Spiner, Buzz Aldrin, Grant Gustin, Tom Felton, Simone Giertz, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Andy Weir, Brian Day, Gina Torres and John Cusack.
2016
Some of the highlights — Stan Lee, William Shatner, Jeremy Renner, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk and PJ Haarsma.
Links
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Photos used
My photos have been used as official SVCC press photos along with several news outlets covering the event.
The Nerd Element: SVCC Press release
David Tennant News — PHOTOS AND QUOTES: David Tennant And Krysten Ritter Panel At SVCC
Gary Whitta — co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, used my photo for his instagram.
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Sidenote
Got to know Silicon Valley Comic Con over dinner with Steve Wozniak and Nolan Bushnell in Oslo, January 2016, Woz mentioned that he was planning his own Comic Con that year (2016) — The Silicon Valley Comic Con located in San Jose, something new, something different than other Comic Cons, a combination of pop culture and science. For me growing up with Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Dune, The Last Starfighter, WarGames, ET and TRON, to mention a few. Those movies has been a part of inspiring me to do what I do, so I ended up visiting my very first Comic Con that year :-) Thanks Woz!
Steve Wozniak, Nolan Bushnell and Teodor Bjerrang at Hard Rock Cafe in Oslo, Norway — 27th of January 2016
The opening of the very first Silicon Valley Comic Con in 2016
Photo: Teodor Bjerrang
Ending this post with some photos of myself from my golden geek years of the early 90s.
Attending Macromedia User Conference in San Fransisco 4–6 sep 1996
My room back in the days, Bleik, Andøya, Norway 1993–94