Marcon - Sunday
25 May 2009 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dime_novel_heroI got up and packed the car. Made five trips to the parking garage a block away so that we could check out and have the room empty without having to take the car out of the lot and spend the bulk of the day still at the con. I hit the dealer's room one last time to get a t-shirt and a plasma disk. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with a plasma disk yet but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find some sort of steampunk purpose for it.
I went to a panel on zombie plans but, being from Pittsburgh, I already had my zombie plan in place and so didn't gather any new information. I went to a panel on "writing the other" but didn't find it all that informative either. So many of the examples of alien cultures they mentioned really aren't that different from my own culture. Or perhaps I'm just too familiar with multiple cultures and the weird crap that my own culture does to find them alien.
In the afternoon, the was a steampunk costuming panel. The day before, I had heard that the people doing the panel had only just been informed that they were doing so and I was being asked to attend and bring my stuff. I went back to my car and hauled some of it in. Mostly, it was people sharing their steampunk resources. What shops to go to. Websites to peruse and so on.
Of course, the question of goggles came up. Goggles are the "Steampunk Helper." Just add goggles and it's recognized as being steampunk. So, what to do without goggles? One lady said that she had a nice dress that she thought was steampunk but she didn't seem to get the attention. I saw her. Thought it was very nice, though a little more Edwardian than Victorian. But, she was right. It didn't stand out as steampunk. My though is to properly accessorize. If you can't incorporate steampunk elements into your costume, walk about with a steampunker on your arm. There. It's as easy as that.
And when someone wanted to know how to steampunk a horse, that is how to make the tack and harness look more steampunky, the answer was obvious. Put goggles on him.
I went to a panel on zombie plans but, being from Pittsburgh, I already had my zombie plan in place and so didn't gather any new information. I went to a panel on "writing the other" but didn't find it all that informative either. So many of the examples of alien cultures they mentioned really aren't that different from my own culture. Or perhaps I'm just too familiar with multiple cultures and the weird crap that my own culture does to find them alien.
In the afternoon, the was a steampunk costuming panel. The day before, I had heard that the people doing the panel had only just been informed that they were doing so and I was being asked to attend and bring my stuff. I went back to my car and hauled some of it in. Mostly, it was people sharing their steampunk resources. What shops to go to. Websites to peruse and so on.
Of course, the question of goggles came up. Goggles are the "Steampunk Helper." Just add goggles and it's recognized as being steampunk. So, what to do without goggles? One lady said that she had a nice dress that she thought was steampunk but she didn't seem to get the attention. I saw her. Thought it was very nice, though a little more Edwardian than Victorian. But, she was right. It didn't stand out as steampunk. My though is to properly accessorize. If you can't incorporate steampunk elements into your costume, walk about with a steampunker on your arm. There. It's as easy as that.
And when someone wanted to know how to steampunk a horse, that is how to make the tack and harness look more steampunky, the answer was obvious. Put goggles on him.
