The Steampunk party
Last Monday Steve and I went to the Steampunk party "Futures Past", thrown by EFF and some other organizations as part of the South By Southwest conference. Steve had to be dragged down there kicking and screaming, although I thought he would enjoy the robot exhibit by the Robot Group, who demoed several new cool robots (new being those I haven't seen at their earlier exhibits :-)). But Steve wasn't impressed with robots-as-art. He thinks robots are only cool if they do something functional. Oh well. I myself went there primarily for the costumes galore. Steampunk costumes! Victoriana with a techy twist! Yum. Mile after a square mile of lace-up boots and fishnet stockings, and much more.
I'm reporting on this event only now, because it took me this long to sift through the 200 pictures I took and post them on my photo gallery.
I got a glimpse of Bruce Sterling, and, I think, his Serbian wife. And nobodobodon played a theremin, of which I dutifully made a video, but my buggy camera often causes the audio be out of synch with the movie; and while that's tolerable in baby videos, it makes a theremin video completely pointless, since you can't see the correspondence between hand movements and sounds. Too bad the sounds he made weren't very melodious; it was, I'm afraid to say, a rather tuneless improvisation. I've heard some theremin performances where it played actual music.
But the biggest attraction was a duo of two young women acrobats, Popsy Purvy. The name very well describes what they do. Since a picture is better than a thousand words, I'll say no more: here are the pictures. I also took a couple of videos of their acts, embedded below.
I'm reporting on this event only now, because it took me this long to sift through the 200 pictures I took and post them on my photo gallery.
I got a glimpse of Bruce Sterling, and, I think, his Serbian wife. And nobodobodon played a theremin, of which I dutifully made a video, but my buggy camera often causes the audio be out of synch with the movie; and while that's tolerable in baby videos, it makes a theremin video completely pointless, since you can't see the correspondence between hand movements and sounds. Too bad the sounds he made weren't very melodious; it was, I'm afraid to say, a rather tuneless improvisation. I've heard some theremin performances where it played actual music.
But the biggest attraction was a duo of two young women acrobats, Popsy Purvy. The name very well describes what they do. Since a picture is better than a thousand words, I'll say no more: here are the pictures. I also took a couple of videos of their acts, embedded below.