Author: Otenth

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Anachrotechnofetishism

A show at the Suite 100 Gallery in Seattle, Washington: Anachrotechnofetishism – artifacts by pioneers of american steampunk

Long before the age of the internet, and well before the cold efficiency of the assembly line, existed fantastic and terrible machines, run on hope, sweat, and steam. It was a time in which form and function lived in sin, and everyman was a revolutionary.

These are 13 American artists united by broad geography and narrow aesthetic.

Marrying narrative and nostalgia to design and technology, they imagine the triumphs of the past overriding the failures of the present to create from the ruins and detritus a dazzling future-perfect.

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Gridnaut!

Tonight I received my group membership in the gridnauts, and have successfully TPed between Linden Research-owned simulators and Open Sim simulators owned by others. Yay!

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Apparently I can’t do just one

I saw this one on Hotspur’s blog.

Your result for The Steampunk Archetype Test…

The Charming Noble

36 Swashbuckling Engineer, 31 Crazy Clockwork Tinkerer, 47 Charming Noble, 17 Roguish Pirate, 8 Mechanical Fian and 42 Aetherist Bodger!

                    <div><p>You are surrounded by adventure and mechanical marvels which you helped bring about.<span>  </span>You don’t dirty your hands with the details, instead having one of the many engineers, bodgers, and tinkerers under your employ do the work.<span>  </span>Your time is better suited for balls and social occasions where you charm and regal bearing makes you the center of attention and you can keep the conversation steered away from the unsettling topic of the anti-royalists who keep posting flyers all over the city.<span>  </span></p></div><p><a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-steampunk-archetype-test">Take The Steampunk Archetype Test</a> at <a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/"><b style="color:#131313"><span style="color:#ac000c">H</span>ello<span style="color:#ac000c">Q</span>uizzy</b></a>
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Steampunk quiz

Yes, I know it’s cheezy to do these.

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test…

The Citizen

61% Elegant, 41% Technological, 63% Historical, 44% Adventurous and 11% Playful!

                    <div><p>You are the Citizen, the embodiment of steampunk’s everyday side.  You realize that there is far more to a rich, living environment than adventurers and lunatic engineers.  For every gentleman-scientist or airship fleet admiral there are a dozen or more “ordinary people” who prevent the genre from devolving into a mass of cardboard caricatures, and you take pride in exploring the great diversity of a steampunk world’s population.  Your clothing could easily come from any social group or society, and you are equally liable to dress upper, middle, or working class.  However, the unifying feature to your fashion sense is that it does not get carried away with “looking steampunk,” instead creating a person who could have just stepped out of the crowd in a novel.  Some people may claim that your style is too close to historical accuracy to be steampunk, but fortunately you know better. </p>

Try our other Steampunk test here.

Take The Steampunk Style Test at HelloQuizzy

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A birthday for the baron

I had the delightful privilege of DJing for Baron Klaus Wulfenbach’s birthday party in Steelhead on Sunday evening. Behind the cut you’ll find the playlist I came up with. There were a number of very delightful discoveries for me, some at the request of consular staff, others which I found from my colleagues at Radio Riel or discovered as I sought out the requests.
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Fighting cancer

The relay portion of the Relay for Life in Second Life has now begun. For the next 24 hours, people will be celebrating, learning, mourning, virtually walking, and yes, raising money for the American Cancer Society.

If you have not yet made a contribution, you can do so in Second Life by paying any donation kiosk (and there’s a Team Elizabeth Blackwell kiosk at our team campsite).

You can also contribute using a credit card at my page on the ACS fundraising pages.

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Trying out Twinity

I’ve been trying out Twinity, and they have a contest that will start on Thursday. Voting will last for a week on locations that have been decorated over the last two weeks for the contest.