we got our nerd on
Sep. 8th, 2022 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenwe're back from worldcon. we had a good time, if an overscheduled one. like many large conferences, worldcons have many things running in parallel. there were time we wanted to be in six places at the same time, even excluding the stuff that was online and being recorded. so, tragically, we were forced to pick and choose.
i went to only two panels that were directly about science fiction. one was about megastructures, so i now know of a new one, a mars-sized sphere held up by its internal air pressure. one puts smaller megastructures inside of it, so they don't have to be airtight. the other was about science fictional governments, and since i'm always looking for new ways to fix our government, i figured i'd find a few interesting oddballs. i've got a list, so that worked too.
we went to one thing which was meta-sf, an hour-long improv star trek: new guys sketch. it worked in places, and didn't work in others. but it was funny enough.
we also went to a panel so meta it's not funny: "45 panels in 60 minutes", where the audience suggests humorous titles for imaginary panel discussions, and the panellists do funny things with them for a minute or two before moving on. they managed 51 topics, three of which were dïe überblønde's.
i made two more objets d'art; pictures soon. and i went to what turned out to be an hour-long infomercial for fancy cosplay/stage/art makeup. which was interesting even though i expected a demonstration of said makeup. the company gave away random things, so i have a random stage make-up kit.
the masquerade had some amazing costumes. i guess some people put the various early-pandemic shutdowns to good use. i have more pictures of some costumes, which i may post.
and i went to a lecture on the history of books and censorship, with various replica and historical kinds of books. it also touched on the history of printing, and the lecturer gave away some lead newspaper type; i have five letters and a punctuation mark. i need to ink them to see what the last one is; it's too small and/or worn to tell.
the con was surprisingly asocial, though. one friend was helping running autographing; we barely said hi to her. another friend had an equally-busy but opposite schedule; we met him for lunch. one couple bailed entirely; they're apparently still hiding from the plague.
we also wandered off to the art institute. that was well worth it. they have all of monet's haystack paintings, and most of the ones of bridges and buildings in the london smog. so now, monet's intention, depicting the light in the scene, not the subjects, is clear; we'd only seen isolated works before, and the haystacks aren't that exciting. thus we are enlightened: when the tourists are ready, the art museum will appear.
we saw some other exhibits, but the gallery holding the calder mobiles i wanted to see was closed. alas; i like calder.
i went to only two panels that were directly about science fiction. one was about megastructures, so i now know of a new one, a mars-sized sphere held up by its internal air pressure. one puts smaller megastructures inside of it, so they don't have to be airtight. the other was about science fictional governments, and since i'm always looking for new ways to fix our government, i figured i'd find a few interesting oddballs. i've got a list, so that worked too.
we went to one thing which was meta-sf, an hour-long improv star trek: new guys sketch. it worked in places, and didn't work in others. but it was funny enough.
we also went to a panel so meta it's not funny: "45 panels in 60 minutes", where the audience suggests humorous titles for imaginary panel discussions, and the panellists do funny things with them for a minute or two before moving on. they managed 51 topics, three of which were dïe überblønde's.
i made two more objets d'art; pictures soon. and i went to what turned out to be an hour-long infomercial for fancy cosplay/stage/art makeup. which was interesting even though i expected a demonstration of said makeup. the company gave away random things, so i have a random stage make-up kit.
the masquerade had some amazing costumes. i guess some people put the various early-pandemic shutdowns to good use. i have more pictures of some costumes, which i may post.
and i went to a lecture on the history of books and censorship, with various replica and historical kinds of books. it also touched on the history of printing, and the lecturer gave away some lead newspaper type; i have five letters and a punctuation mark. i need to ink them to see what the last one is; it's too small and/or worn to tell.
the con was surprisingly asocial, though. one friend was helping running autographing; we barely said hi to her. another friend had an equally-busy but opposite schedule; we met him for lunch. one couple bailed entirely; they're apparently still hiding from the plague.
we also wandered off to the art institute. that was well worth it. they have all of monet's haystack paintings, and most of the ones of bridges and buildings in the london smog. so now, monet's intention, depicting the light in the scene, not the subjects, is clear; we'd only seen isolated works before, and the haystacks aren't that exciting. thus we are enlightened: when the tourists are ready, the art museum will appear.
we saw some other exhibits, but the gallery holding the calder mobiles i wanted to see was closed. alas; i like calder.
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