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Mar. 16th, 2010 10:19 pmSo naturally, because it was one week until the convention, I got sucked into a particular project. It had become a challenge. Eventually, though, I triumphed! I had created a new charm of a sextant with wee little mirrors and telescope that was 3/4 inch high, and went along nicely with the other charms. People (the ones who could see it, or who I pointed it out to) were impressed. It took me all damn week. How many did I sell?
0.
That's right. A big fat zero. A couple of guys were looking at it for a watch fob, but it was too small. Facepalm. I promise to post a decent photo as soon as I manage to take one. A fellow at the con took a few, but he hasn't posted them yet. I have vowed to revitalize my Etsy shop with these things so that I can attempt to make back some of the effort I have put into them.
Oh well, the rest of the con was pretty fun. Many amazing costumes and contraptions and actual steam-powered gizmos. A woman with a mohawk and a doohickum that puffed "steam" that smelled like artificial maple syrup. A complete line of mens and womens steampunk corsets debuted by Dark Garden. The Cutest Top Hats Ever. Being all cool and non-fan-girly at Phil and Kaja Foglio, except to squee about Agatha fighting off Lucretia from within her own head. ( Read girlgeniusonline.com if you don't understand that reference) Dancing at the Steampunk Ball in my 1865 peach gown. The St. Clair Aeronaut Crew delivering messages that were texted to the mechanical teletype machine. Seeing many many friends from several different crossover fandoms.
The absolute coolest thing of all, however, didn't even happen at the hotel. There was an offsite open house/mixer at the Shipyard, an industrial art space in Berkeley where they build crazy fire-spewing art sculptures for burning Man, biomass electrical generators, robots that mix your drinks, steam boilers that power carriages or anything else you want, a 3-story Victorian house on wheels, and basically anything else they want to build.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alessandro_bard and I were completely agog at the mills and lathes and welders and grinders and giant forklifts and electronics and the wacky things that had been built with them. The place is huge. It is made up entirely of nooks and crannies, each of which is filled with serious tools, crazy things built with those tools, sculptures in pieces, and scrap materials that cry out to do something neato with them. He had never been through the Neverwas Haul before (www.neverwashaul.com), and of course peppered the builders with questions and enthusiasm. I really want to see it all in daylight. A and I are now bubbling with ideas for the railcar. Bwaaaaahahaha!
Tomorrow I get to judge the county Science Fair! How cool is that!learnteach will be there too and gave me some pointers. Apparently my experience dealing with contest entrants will be more useful than would a detailed knowledge of the subject matter at a higher level than I have. I am prepared to be completely blown away by the stuff these young people come up with. It's for Science!
On Thursday there may or may not be something personally interesting happening involving ice cream. Or at least frozen yogurt which usually has so little yogurt culture in it that they might as well just call it ice cream.
Meanwhile this week I'm moving the auxiliary workbench back downstairs and doing some much-needed Spring cleaning in the studio. Monday I went over to Sam's place and got started on the master model formisagillian 's coronet, which I hope to show her this weekend. I will be at the event this weekend, but I'm not setting up a booth. I'm undertaking a radical experiment to see if I can just go to an SCA event and enjoy myself. I do have business to do there, but just the idea of not having to park my butt in a booth all weekend has me actually *not dreading* the event.
Therefore, onward! Excelsior!
0.
That's right. A big fat zero. A couple of guys were looking at it for a watch fob, but it was too small. Facepalm. I promise to post a decent photo as soon as I manage to take one. A fellow at the con took a few, but he hasn't posted them yet. I have vowed to revitalize my Etsy shop with these things so that I can attempt to make back some of the effort I have put into them.
Oh well, the rest of the con was pretty fun. Many amazing costumes and contraptions and actual steam-powered gizmos. A woman with a mohawk and a doohickum that puffed "steam" that smelled like artificial maple syrup. A complete line of mens and womens steampunk corsets debuted by Dark Garden. The Cutest Top Hats Ever. Being all cool and non-fan-girly at Phil and Kaja Foglio, except to squee about Agatha fighting off Lucretia from within her own head. ( Read girlgeniusonline.com if you don't understand that reference) Dancing at the Steampunk Ball in my 1865 peach gown. The St. Clair Aeronaut Crew delivering messages that were texted to the mechanical teletype machine. Seeing many many friends from several different crossover fandoms.
The absolute coolest thing of all, however, didn't even happen at the hotel. There was an offsite open house/mixer at the Shipyard, an industrial art space in Berkeley where they build crazy fire-spewing art sculptures for burning Man, biomass electrical generators, robots that mix your drinks, steam boilers that power carriages or anything else you want, a 3-story Victorian house on wheels, and basically anything else they want to build.
alessandro_bard and I were completely agog at the mills and lathes and welders and grinders and giant forklifts and electronics and the wacky things that had been built with them. The place is huge. It is made up entirely of nooks and crannies, each of which is filled with serious tools, crazy things built with those tools, sculptures in pieces, and scrap materials that cry out to do something neato with them. He had never been through the Neverwas Haul before (www.neverwashaul.com), and of course peppered the builders with questions and enthusiasm. I really want to see it all in daylight. A and I are now bubbling with ideas for the railcar. Bwaaaaahahaha! Tomorrow I get to judge the county Science Fair! How cool is that!
learnteach will be there too and gave me some pointers. Apparently my experience dealing with contest entrants will be more useful than would a detailed knowledge of the subject matter at a higher level than I have. I am prepared to be completely blown away by the stuff these young people come up with. It's for Science!On Thursday there may or may not be something personally interesting happening involving ice cream. Or at least frozen yogurt which usually has so little yogurt culture in it that they might as well just call it ice cream.
Meanwhile this week I'm moving the auxiliary workbench back downstairs and doing some much-needed Spring cleaning in the studio. Monday I went over to Sam's place and got started on the master model for
misagillian 's coronet, which I hope to show her this weekend. I will be at the event this weekend, but I'm not setting up a booth. I'm undertaking a radical experiment to see if I can just go to an SCA event and enjoy myself. I do have business to do there, but just the idea of not having to park my butt in a booth all weekend has me actually *not dreading* the event. Therefore, onward! Excelsior!
