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Well I suppose I should write a post about my new years eve, which was utterly fantastic. I attended Seductive Alchemy, a steampunk masked ball, filled with weird and wonderful people and events. Everyone was dressed fantastically, there were mad scientists, high victorian fashions, sky pirates, fire dancers, industrialists, aliens, rabble-rousers (rousing us against the alien menace), airships, ray-guns, and an inflatable penguin.
My penguin and I.
Myself, sashagoblin, ktsqueak, and davejust.
My goggles, in the style of a leather welding mask. You have no idea how long such a simple thing took to put together. Expect an instructable soon.
The awesome glamwhorebunni and the beautiful ktsqueak.
lost_in_avebury and her utterly fantastic glasses.
More piccies are up here.
There were really fantastic things going on all night, like the girls firespinning in the courtyard, a live band with robotic dancing girls (not actual robots, unfortunately), and a zeppelin battle over the main dance floor, with two 4 foot long skyships suspended from poles held by two guys on stilts. There are pictures, but they don't do the spectacle justice, it was amazing. They were lit from inside, and the baskets under them held sweets, which people helped themselves to as the zeppelins were lowered.
The final thing before we left was an alien invasion and battle with the sky pirates, for which a group of about 20 of us got talked into swapping masks and joining the alien menace. We were armed with rayguns, and sent into the smaller room to do battle with what appeared to be sky pirates, also armed with rayguns, and having the advantage of high ground. Nobody was quite sure which side won, but it doesn't really matter too much, and we did get to keep the alien-masks and rayguns, so everyone felt pretty good about it all.
I'll close this post with another link to the rest of the photos, and a caption competetion.
Answers on a postcard to the usual address please.
My penguin and I.
Myself, sashagoblin, ktsqueak, and davejust.
My goggles, in the style of a leather welding mask. You have no idea how long such a simple thing took to put together. Expect an instructable soon.
The awesome glamwhorebunni and the beautiful ktsqueak.
lost_in_avebury and her utterly fantastic glasses.
More piccies are up here.
There were really fantastic things going on all night, like the girls firespinning in the courtyard, a live band with robotic dancing girls (not actual robots, unfortunately), and a zeppelin battle over the main dance floor, with two 4 foot long skyships suspended from poles held by two guys on stilts. There are pictures, but they don't do the spectacle justice, it was amazing. They were lit from inside, and the baskets under them held sweets, which people helped themselves to as the zeppelins were lowered.
The final thing before we left was an alien invasion and battle with the sky pirates, for which a group of about 20 of us got talked into swapping masks and joining the alien menace. We were armed with rayguns, and sent into the smaller room to do battle with what appeared to be sky pirates, also armed with rayguns, and having the advantage of high ground. Nobody was quite sure which side won, but it doesn't really matter too much, and we did get to keep the alien-masks and rayguns, so everyone felt pretty good about it all.
I'll close this post with another link to the rest of the photos, and a caption competetion.
Answers on a postcard to the usual address please.