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By: matthiasrat

matthiasrat — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:00:01 +0000

Wow! I was at the Rodent Party, and I vaguely recall an individual wearing a Cheetah Tail. Never had a clue that they were from the press! Talk about sneaky!
Of course, the party ws quite tame and a good bit of fun too. And heck, I didn’t even know the party was listed as ‘yiffy’ either. Talk about funky to find!

By: lion_of_the_sun

lion_of_the_sun — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:30:12 +0000

In reply to pteryxx.

The interview
Indeed I remember you very well Pteryxx it has been a while.
the interview with me was pretty accurate, I wish that they could have said more about the transformation aspects of technology , but this piece was not just about me. You can find my other bot (once I had secured a machine shop ) that I fought with in 2002 and 2003 Little Peice of hate Far far better a bot indeed.
My side of the costuming portion is not only to give people their dreams and forms but to try and open people minds to the possibilitys of when technology can give us wings, will we soar into the blue? or will we burn them out of fear of all the things we will be able to become. I want most of all to positively offer up the idea that it is okay to want to be somthing more, to experiance things not possible in the forms we are locked into now.
I imagine in many ways a simple video of a sub trying desperately to pick up a rock to take to the surface and failing with its grapper arms. then out of the darkness with biolumenecent lights on his or her body a transumanist aquatic picking up the rock for them and placing it in the basket for them, then swimming off into the black of the deep ocean.
And yes , a grand golden lion form for myself. To finnaly be whole , to feel that power for the first time. To leap from rock to rock along the shoreline while chasing other freinds in their various forms.
I think it is good dream. I Imagine a world with custom avian forms and dragons dot the skies above.
If I make my frozen journey. My “low door ” through time. eventually I can imagine my mind, placed in some great ship, And I will slowy turn away from the only home I have ever known to glide through the galaxy for a couple thousand years and see for myself what(and perhaps who) is out there.
Perhaps one day I will wake up and find that we were not a single voice of sentiant life in the universe, But part of a chorus.
Perhaps one day, we will all be able to become our dreams.
Lionel Vogt
http://www.lionofthesun.com

By: pteryxx

pteryxx — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:09:35 +0000

I met Lionel Vogt five years back in a different setting – at Battlebots 2001. He built a mostly weaponless lightweight box, like many first-timers, but differed in two respects – it had a giant tentacled eyeball painted on, and it had an onboard camera system that allowed Lionel to steer it around the arena in first-person. He wore a set of VR goggles to drive it. Even the veterans of special effects, such as Mark Setrakian of Mechadon, were impressed.
This page has a lot of images, since it covers the entire lightweight class of 2001. Vogt’s bot Malice is about halfway down.
http://www.robotmarketplace.com/bbsf01light.html

By: ristin

ristin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:28:37 +0000

That’s an excellent article (what a change and what a relief!)

By: dreamtigress

dreamtigress — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:05:54 +0000

I found the article on par with CSI, but better than say, MTV or Real Sex. We are, well, freaks, and it’s definately better copy to publish the juicy bits than it is the less exciting details. Too bad real journalism is so rare nowadays.
I am jazzed that two pictures from my booth ended up in the article though… I can’t help but be happy about free publicity.

By: typographer

typographer — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:53:01 +0000

In reply to typographer. Which isn't to say that the article isn't disappointing or slanted, btw.

By: typographer

typographer — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:34:41 +0000

In reply to rigelkitty.

I hesitate to start what might turn into an argument in someone else’s journal, but by definition, fans ARE geeks.
The community is all fringe. Some protions of the fringe is less outre than other portions, and a lot of the “mundane” world is way more freaky in secret than most fans are at all, but it’s fringe.
The treatment of sci fi fandom in the press and media has gone through a similarly painfully slow incremental path away from tabloid coverage. And the same is true for gays. I sort of look at it all as a very slow acceptance of the idea that people can be wildly different from “us” (whoever us is) and still be decent, productive members of society.

By: snapcat

snapcat — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:06 +0000

Ya know… if ya read the article and you don’t go out of your way to look for things to criticize in it… its a damn fine article.
a DAMN fine article.
Those Anthrocon Luckies!!

By: woodychitwn

woodychitwn — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:26:44 +0000

“Who gave Mix a ride?”
*giggles softly*

By: woofwoofarf

woofwoofarf — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:12:05 +0000

In reply to rigelkitty. I have no disagreement with what you say. I do want to say that I in no way intended to imply that either you thought that Karl had not done a good job or that you are impatient, because I am quite sure that neither of those statements are true. Evidently I need to work on my writing clarity a bit :-)