When I woke up,
Years back, Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett did a series of photographs of Victorian-era, steam-powered robots. Although lots of people want Boilerplate the Robot to be real, he’s just a fiction, artfully photoshopped into real pictures. They finally got a write-up in the Oregonian, which led to a publishing deal for a coffee-table book. I’d seen their work, so Friday at SCF, I made a point of going by their table, and talked with Anina. She mentioned that Paul was into 1/6th scale figures, so I came back around on Saturday when he wasn’t busy. We discussed our respective use of action figures, and he invited me to their costume party that night.
Well, when a Famous Person invites you to a party, you don’t pass it up lightly. So on our way home from the Skating show, we stopped at the party. We were some of the very few people NOT in costume, but were greeted warmly and went in to check out the toys. Paul has a room of various comic figures and highly-detailed WWII figures (including armored vehicles).
You'd think that I'd be all done with being social for like, a MONTH, but there was more on Sunday...