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Thursday, June 26th, 2008So, on to Contata proper. (See this earlier article for context.) A filk con is different from a regular con (assuming that my limited experience at Lunacon allows me to generalize about a “regular” con) in that the filk con is explicitly organized around the music. In a lot of ways, it [...]
Contata (1)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I spent this weekend at the hotel Hilton Parsippany, attending a sci fi con called “Contata 5“. In a somewhat strange co-branding fashion this was also NEFilk 18 — apparently, NEFilk is sort of an umbrella designation. Filk is an odd branch of music deriving from (originally, literally via type) folk music — [...]
Lunacon 51 (2)
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Lunacon 51 (2)
Some thoughts on my second con (should that be “sec-con”?), jotted down at midnight, though they’ll be posted much later.
The first panel I intended to attend was “Yesterday’s Tomorrows”, a documentary on the failed vision of futurists from the 1930s through 1960s. Due to the weird layout and unpredictable spacetime anomalies that [...]
Lunacon 51 (1)
Friday, March 14th, 2008Well, here I sit in the Hilton Rye Town waiting for Lunacon to get started. If you are paying more attention to this blog than you should be, you’ll recall that I attended Lunacon 50 last year as well. This year I managed to reserve early, so I am staying at the correct [...]
Review: His Dark Materials
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008His Dark Materials:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
a triology by Philip Pullman
InstaRating: 4 out of 5
This trilogy has apparently sparked quite the bitter controversy, especially online. It’s a tale of High Fantasy,Variationen von omaha poker. quite consciously in the vein of Tolkein or C.S. Lewis, but it takes a tack quite different than, [...]
Another propaganda poster
Sunday, August 26th, 2007As has been usual, this is another exhortation to “Work to Win”. My “study” of WWI and WWII posters indicates that almost all fell into the “Work harder” or “Buy more bonds” categories. True to form, this poster says, “Victory up here… begins down here“. Overhead are a Retro Rocketship and a [...]
New Poster: Ready?
Friday, July 27th, 2007I’ve got a new, rarer “landscape” poster ready. It shows two Zarkov rockets at a docking tower, with crew running to man the ships. A DV snub fighter is lifting in the background, and the ever-lovable jetpack guy has just launched himself. The tag is “They’re Ready to Do Their Part … [...]
New Poster: Loose Lips…
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007This is a variant of a classic saying from the Second World War: “Loose Lips Crash Ships!. Of course, in the original, it’s “Loose Lips Sink Ships” and the image is of a cargo ship going down beneath the waves. Well, cargo ship clearly becomes rocket ship… but then I was stuck. [...]
Re-cap on the posters
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007It’s become clear that I’ve mis-tagged some of these, and I thought it was about time — 1/3 of the way toward a book! — to collect them in one place.
More below the fold.
New poster: Don’t Let That Shadow
Friday, July 6th, 2007Another in the series, this one with the tag “Don’t Let That Shadow Touch Them“. This is based on one of the most effective WWII posters I know of, with the same tag but the shadow of a swastika. My job here was harder, in that I don’t have an instantly-recognizable symbol of [...]
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