home again :-)
Mar. 13th, 2006 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm home.
I had a great time.
I talked, out loud, with words, more or less coherently, for the whole weekend.
I talked to a *camera* and it might end up on a *DVD*...
...which I would have freaked out about more if I had been thinking anything more than 'morning, ugh, don't be sick'.
I gave away all the t-shirts on the first evening there.
Then I gave away smiley face stickers, because I had them, so why not.
I saw real katana blades in the Leeds Armoury. *Very* cool. My mental tape recorder is full of shiny metal. Also, kris blades, which are pattern welded and very wiggly indeed, and like totally the opposite of smooth shiny cloudy katanas. Metal is *good*.
I bid in the auction, but things sold for about ten times as much money as I actually had. But hey, Peter Wingfield and Adrian Paul looked directly at me for whole numbers of seconds!
I got all the signatures and smiled (I think) and wasn't rude. To famous people.
I don't think I was rude to regular people either. Probably. With the exception of sitting in their seat, which is an easy mistake to make, specially of a sunday morning.
I was noticeably strange. But I like to think I manage that with a certain style.
I got no photos, because I was halfway to Leeds on the train before I remembered the camera. And I spent all weekend asking people the time, because I left my watch on my college bag.
But people recognised my name from LJ *wave* and MTAS *wave again* and I generally did a lot of talking and was social and now I'm all *happy bouncy joy*.
Also,
*Peter Wingfield*
and
*Adrian Paul*
still give me a happy just to see them. PW so much as walks across my line of sight and I'm all :-D
So, basically, had a great weekend.
Now I need to go and eat. For the last time I managed much of that was Thursday. :eyeroll:
*waves*
I had a great time.
I talked, out loud, with words, more or less coherently, for the whole weekend.
I talked to a *camera* and it might end up on a *DVD*...
...which I would have freaked out about more if I had been thinking anything more than 'morning, ugh, don't be sick'.
I gave away all the t-shirts on the first evening there.
Then I gave away smiley face stickers, because I had them, so why not.
I saw real katana blades in the Leeds Armoury. *Very* cool. My mental tape recorder is full of shiny metal. Also, kris blades, which are pattern welded and very wiggly indeed, and like totally the opposite of smooth shiny cloudy katanas. Metal is *good*.
I bid in the auction, but things sold for about ten times as much money as I actually had. But hey, Peter Wingfield and Adrian Paul looked directly at me for whole numbers of seconds!
I got all the signatures and smiled (I think) and wasn't rude. To famous people.
I don't think I was rude to regular people either. Probably. With the exception of sitting in their seat, which is an easy mistake to make, specially of a sunday morning.
I was noticeably strange. But I like to think I manage that with a certain style.
I got no photos, because I was halfway to Leeds on the train before I remembered the camera. And I spent all weekend asking people the time, because I left my watch on my college bag.
But people recognised my name from LJ *wave* and MTAS *wave again* and I generally did a lot of talking and was social and now I'm all *happy bouncy joy*.
Also,
and
*Adrian Paul*
still give me a happy just to see them. PW so much as walks across my line of sight and I'm all :-D
So, basically, had a great weekend.
Now I need to go and eat. For the last time I managed much of that was Thursday. :eyeroll:
*waves*
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Date: 2006-03-14 07:24 pm (UTC)*blinks*
whats surreal about that?
*has flashbacks to the Armoury this weekend... shiny!*[/quote]
**is happy be had shiny fun at the con**
Pretty knives to look at, eh?
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oh *yes*
Katana blades. Real ones. The cloud line in the metal... gorgeous, just gorgeous. The way the light refracted, the way it looked different from different angles, the way one of them caught rainbows if you moved just right. Beautiful.
and Kris knives, completely the opposite. Katanas are all about smooth, kris are all about wavy. pattern welded and emphasising the differences. I've never seen anything like it in metal, only pencil, sketches of Chaos weapons.
I only got around the oriental section. So much pretty to look at!
And I only nose=glassed a couple of three times.
I have this thing about when things are pretty for purpose. Form and function all harmonious. Pretty for pretty has its place, but pretty for purpose gets me drooling. And there was detail in the metal that just can't translate to photos, so I'd never seen anything quite like it. So I think my mental video recorder has as much of stare at metal as it does of pretty actor men.
er, if I start to get repetetive, someone tell me. I'm bouncing around telling everyone I know all about everything and I'm still a bit fuzzy