This transmission brings you an assortment of oddments, including a sartorial and historical lesson from Sir Brandon Fitzroy Hill, Master of Blades and Hats; and, notably, a partial reconstruction of a most educational conversation with Jake Von Slatt himself ( I am quite hopeful that the rest of that Maurice will be successful in rescuing the rest of that conversation from the damaged communication cylinder). As always, Correspondent Chris Fisher provides the latest in happenings both corporeal and virtual — notations are below.
Be sure to check back with us when we make port again at the beginning of November!
October 9 - November 23- 151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor (Between 6th and 7th Aves.), New York, NY 10001. T. Schreiber Studio’s steampunk-influenced production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will http://tschreiber.org/theatre/index.htm
October 25-26, 2008, London Movie Comic & Media Expo, ExCeL Convention Centre, Royal Victoria Dock London, UK http://www.londonexpo.com/
Oct 25-27 Aotea Centre in Auckland, New Zealand http://www.pulpexpo.com
Friday 31st October, Somewhere in Sheffield, UK. http://www.stoneorchid.co.uk/ufd/cofe.htm
NYC Parade- steampunk group, link for contact info: http://community.livejournal.com/nysteam/
October 31-Nov 2, Dearborn, MI. http://youmacon.com/ An anime convention that several local steampunkers are planning as an event for a get-together. Check forums for details.
Oct 31- Denver, CO. Disintegration presents the Time Machine, 9pm dance party with several rooms and DJs, gift bags for the first 50 people in costume, age 21+, at Benders, 314 East 13th Ave. http://community.livejournal.com/disintegration_/
October 31st, Moffat Field in the South Bay area. Airship Ventures will return airship travel to the people Tickets on the inaugural flight are $785. More info on signing up here.
Oct 31- Nov 2nd, 2008 in Sunnyvale, California — Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention 2008– at the gorgeous Domain Hotel. SPC08 is an all-ages event. Abney Park, Jake Von Slatt, La Legion Fantastique, a ball, a tea, and many other enticements. Details at: http://www.steampunkconvention.com/
Oct 31, Orlando, FL Ramada Resort and Convention center. www.wasabianime.com
Voltaire playing November, 1 2008 at Whitby Gothic Weekend http://wgw.topmum.co.uk/ which runs Oct 31-Nov 1 http://wgw.topmum.co.uk/about/venues/ Multiple places, see the website for details.
Nov 3, Sheffield, UK- Unofficial Fop event http://www.stoneorchid.co.uk/ufd/cofe.htm Possibly Vito’s Italian restaurant, Cost approximately £20.00 per head for food. T
LA’s Edwardian Ball Nov 15 in Hollywood http://edwardianball.com/2008.html
Nov 15, Seattle, WA from 1-3pm. Steamcon Organizational Meeting and Hotel Tour, Seattle Airport Marriott at: 3201 S 176th St Contact Info Email: artvixn@hotmail.com
Nov 21-23 Atlanta Supercon www.atlantasupercon.com includes parties, photoshoots, cosplay, and usual shenanigans.
DaishoCon is a Central-Wisconsin based anime- and gaming-conference. DaishoCon will be held November 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Steamy attendees expected, http://daishocon.com/events.php lists a steam mystery game among the formal events.
OryCon 30- November 21-23, Portland Waterfront Marriott, Oregon http://www.orycon.org/orycon30
In addition to a Steampunk Panel: Fashion and Culture (noon on Saturday), Steampunk Meet ‘n Greet:
hosted by Rose City Steampunks, Local 23 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rcsteam/ Saturday night, approx. 10-12 pm (check program guide online next week and at con for final time/location)
In the San Francisco area, The Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace: November 28, 29, 30, Dec. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 2008 General Admission: $22.00 at the door, $19 in advance, with student, seniors, and military discounts. http://www.dickensfair.com/index.html
Online Delights for Your amusement: New Babbage and Caledonia communities within SecondLife.
2 steamy video-games: http://www.terra-arcanum.com/sierra/ ahd http://riseoflegends.com/
http://www.NKBanimation.com/video.php
http://www.davidjosephdesigns.com/portfolio.php a fashion gallery with period influences, good for costume inspiration for the Victorian and early Steam Noir enthusiasts.
Another goodie for Steam Noir and DieselSteam enthusiasts: the Library of Congress has archived photos of the 30s and 40s in a photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/
Lest you think this is entirely for the amusement of the later steam eras, the Victoria and Albert museum has made 50,000 images available online, and they’re searchable. High res images can be ordered for free within their terms of use. http://images.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Home.html
The NY Public Library has also made thousands of images available online with search functions for those wishing to tinge their brown coats with more a authentic Victorian frontier aspect, fans of steamnoir and diesel will also find goodies: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Military uniform video by the BBC also very informative. Ok, not really informative as much as including a really cute penguin and a nice view of modern parade dress uniforms: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7562773.stm
Please send word of your area’s events to podcast@gettingby.net and I will post them to the SPS site or share them in my next report, depending upon the timing. Until then, this is CF< CSO HMA Ingenuity, your Elec and W Frontiers correspondent, signing out.
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