• 5/23/2008 14:30 Hall Costumes - How To


• 5/23/2008 17:30 Masquerade 101


• 5/24/2008 13:00 EZ Costuming Kids


• 5/25/2008 14:30 Wardrobe Malfunctions

It's going to make prepping the final LoEG party tight, but we're going for fewer decorations (since we don't know the hotel) plus the posters.
The EZ Costuming for Kids is a hands-on-make-silly-things class.

Or the next best thing.

My friend smashwolf has put a couple of Really Big digital projectors (one 10,000 lumens, one 6,000 lumens) up for sale on eBay.

One of them is the one used for the famous "Dive-in movies" projected on the side of the DoubleTree San Jose Hotel above the swimming pool at BayCons past.

Check 'em out. They're in great working order, and it's a really good price.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200221983927&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200221986167&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010

www.cc26.info is alive and well again.

http://pix.cc26.info, the CC26 Media Repository, is also now properly linked and ready for hazelchaz, johno, didjiman, and their brilliant cast of many to start building the official photo/media collection. Further announcements about that will be forthcoming.

The Costume-Con 26 site is offline temporarily.

We're trying to create a photo storage site on a different server than our main website and the instructions we were given by the other server's host managed to hide our site from the internet.

The changes have been backed out, but it will take a while to reappear, at which point we'll start posting some show results.

I'm very proud of all the people who worked so very hard to make my vision for CC26 a reality.

876* people came to play, and I think most of them left happy. That makes us the second largest Costume-Con in its 26-year history.

We weren't perfect, we made some mistakes, but I think we also learned from them. All the planning in the world will not eliminate the need for a giant dollop of "wing-it" at an event like this, and I appreciate the attendees' patience and forbearance when those glitches turned up.

The hotel liked us. A lot. They also took copious notes yesterday when we passed on folks' complaints.

I'll write a longer post later when I have a working brain. The daily 'zine and competition participants and awards will be posted soon; I have the data right here but don't want to risk mangling it in a post right now.

Thanks for coming out to play with us.

Kevin

*Pending final audit. The members have gone home, but we still have to do our final accounting and pay the bills.

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didjiman

Last August the BBC visited and shot lots of video in my lab.

They've chosen to use a chunk of it to go along with today's press release!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7341031.stm

Note that while the video caption mentions me, the article is about the two papers by my group published in Science magazine today. They cut out all the parts where I talk about Dr. Parkin (the brilliant head of our team) and the rest of the group, and focussed on the shiny machinery.

Our group has two papers being published in Science Magazine tomorrow, so today is press release day...

Including this video:



The animated section in the middle, demonstrating how racetrack works is my work, and that part of the script, too.

Four Weeks
or
28 Days
or
672 Hours
or
40320 Minutes
or
2419200 Seconds


(Before you quibble, remember, for me, my on-site work starts on Thursday)

to galtine1

Many happy returns, o not-wife!

I worked a lot on the Costume-Con 26 online scheduling tools this weekend, and the result is now available online.

Select "Program and Exhibits" from the top menu and you'll find "Prelimnary Program Schedule" offered near the top of the left menu.

If you want to refer someone there, you can use this link: http://www.cc26.info/show_prelim_schedule.php which actually redirects to the correct page.*

The schedule is still subject to massive changes, of course, but the online view is generated directly from the latest input to the program db, so it's always fresh.

*(Geekery: the redirect gets around the issues the secure server has with drilling down directly into the secure part of the site)

The rough cut of the Costume-Con 26 educational program is now available for viewing at this online program listing page

It's got some gaps and a duplicate or two, but all the data is now in the online database, so you'll see it maturing quickly as we continue to update it with participant responses.

If we weren't actually inventing new stuff at work all the time, I'd worry my fifteen minutes had run out long ago...


Robert Scoble visited Almaden Research Center yesterday, and while they were setting up to use our lab as a setting for an interview with the lab Director Mark Dean, he ran around with his small camera doing impromptu interviews with those of us there.

So here you go, live on the Internet in atrocious resolution:



I manage to neither look nor sound like a complete idiot, so I'm not complaining.

to jorhett

Keep the rubber side down, dude!

After about 5 abortive attempts to write the Letter from the Chair for the Costume-Con 26 program book, I finally ended up with something I'm not embarrassed to have my byline on For All Eternity, and it has been duly forwarded to trystbat. And then re-sent, as I realized there was a sentence missing. Such sturm and drang over less than 500 words!
(And, yes, jaylake, I'm fully aware how much harder short writing actually can be ;-) )

The accompanying photo is more difficult, since my good head shots are 4 years and 3.5 hairstyles ago.

didjiman, did you get anything at IRLM Coronation that would be useful?

A photo of npage1 and me at San Jose Coronation 2 weekends ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24753705@N06/2339923028/

To unayok!

Narf!
Poit

wagwagwagwagwagwag

Reliable sources* high up in the CC26 programming department have leaked some details about confirmed program items for the conference.

First, it is with great pleasure that I can announce that the retrospectives at Costume-Con 26 will be presented by

Pierre and Sandy Pettinger
&
Bruce and Dana MacDermott

You can visit http://www.cc26.info/main.php?section=program for lots more information about our classes, workshops and retrospectives.

Also, we're well past 500 registered members now, and are expanding the educational program as a result. IIf you'd like to suggest an item, we now have a great web-based tool that avoids email disasters! Make your suggestions at https://www.cc26.info/interactive/program_item_form.php. (You do not need to be a registered member to make suggestions, but if you are,
please log in before doing so; it makes it easier for us to contact you about them!)

Kevin Roche
Chair, Costume-Con 26

*Reliable as in the department head.

to cmdrsuzdal!

In 10 days bovil and I will be attending the Imperial Royal Lion Monarchy, Inc. of San Jose Coronation 38 Ball on March 8 at 5pm.

(If you aren't aware, I served as Emperor 34 of the IRLM and hence am "Imperial Family").

We will be "walking" (announced and presented to the outgoing Monarchs) as the UnConventional Foundation and Costume-Con 26, and having lots of fun using titles inspired by our League of Evil Geniuses theme.

If you are interested in attending and walking with us, you can buy tickets via PayPal directly from http://www.irlm.org/coronation.htm ; they are $45 each and include a hors d'oevres buffet. (Look for the Coronation 38 button on the right just below the masthead. Don't let the site injure your retinas.)

I'd like to have enough folks with us to fill a table of ten; they aren't requiring that I buy the entire table in advance, but I would like to fill one.

Comment here if you wish to join us at the event and what Evil Title you think is appropriate for your walk, so I can assemble our protocol.