Comments on: After SteamCon 2009 http://www.curioobscura.com/2009/11/20/after-steamcon-2009/ For the Strange and Wonderful Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: TotalLunar Eclipse http://www.curioobscura.com/2009/11/20/after-steamcon-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-790 TotalLunar Eclipse Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:57:19 +0000 http://www.curioobscura.com/?p=200#comment-790 It was a pleasure to meet you at the con and hopefully will see you at the next one. Pardon the lateness of this post but it was by passing that I chanced it just now. - TotalLunar Eclipse - Steelhead Owner It was a pleasure to meet you at the con and hopefully will see you at the next one. Pardon the lateness of this post but it was by passing that I chanced it just now.

- TotalLunar Eclipse - Steelhead Owner

]]> By: Pandora Wrigglesworth http://www.curioobscura.com/2009/11/20/after-steamcon-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Pandora Wrigglesworth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:35 +0000 http://www.curioobscura.com/?p=200#comment-778 I didn't perceive any particular disconnect between RL and SL steampunk enthusiasts beyond the fact that RL and SL are themselves very different. I think that RL and SL feed our enthusiasm in very different ways. RL can't let you replace your brain with clockwork while flying in a bicycle-powered zeppelin over the soot-stained landscape of a future that never was. But in SL you can't feel the weight of your bustle swing behind as you spin around on the catwalk. Each meet different needs and it is the totality of RL and SL which is the most satisfying to me. I didn’t perceive any particular disconnect between RL and SL steampunk enthusiasts beyond the fact that RL and SL are themselves very different. I think that RL and SL feed our enthusiasm in very different ways. RL can’t let you replace your brain with clockwork while flying in a bicycle-powered zeppelin over the soot-stained landscape of a future that never was. But in SL you can’t feel the weight of your bustle swing behind as you spin around on the catwalk. Each meet different needs and it is the totality of RL and SL which is the most satisfying to me.

]]> By: Brigid Ashwood http://www.curioobscura.com/2009/11/20/after-steamcon-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-777 Brigid Ashwood Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:25:08 +0000 http://www.curioobscura.com/?p=200#comment-777 I was recently a guest at FaerieCon and participated in a Steampunk Fairies Panel there. I'm a fine artist in RL but I also create airships, homes and textures in SL (Love your work btw!) under the name Charmingdale Designs. We Second Lifers have been early adopters of the Steampunk Aesthetic yet the Real World steampunk movement seems to have little knowledge of the amazing possibilities of steampunk applications in SL. I brought this up on the panel as a way of encouraging people to explore creative endeavors. SL offers so many advantages to creation (materials are cheaper, no physical limitations). My comments were poo pooed by another panelist who clearly just didn't get it. I'm curious - Did you find there was a disconnect between RL and SL steampunk enthusiasts at the con? I hope to discuss this more on another panel someday soon as I think SL offers so much potential for creativity and community to steampunk enthusiasts who may have little access to these things in their RL surroundings. Nice to Meet you btw! RL Brigid Ashwood SL Brigid Yoshikawa I was recently a guest at FaerieCon and participated in a Steampunk Fairies Panel there. I’m a fine artist in RL but I also create airships, homes and textures in SL (Love your work btw!) under the name Charmingdale Designs. We Second Lifers have been early adopters of the Steampunk Aesthetic yet the Real World steampunk movement seems to have little knowledge of the amazing possibilities of steampunk applications in SL. I brought this up on the panel as a way of encouraging people to explore creative endeavors. SL offers so many advantages to creation (materials are cheaper, no physical limitations). My comments were poo pooed by another panelist who clearly just didn’t get it. I’m curious - Did you find there was a disconnect between RL and SL steampunk enthusiasts at the con? I hope to discuss this more on another panel someday soon as I think SL offers so much potential for creativity and community to steampunk enthusiasts who may have little access to these things in their RL surroundings. Nice to Meet you btw!
RL Brigid Ashwood
SL Brigid Yoshikawa

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