> While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
> production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the most
> persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter!

*snicker*
My very first experience with Midsummer was back while I was still in
high school, but I spent my summer working at one of the local
college's summerstock theaters. As we started second weekend of the
run I had the  stage director somewhat hostilily (in a tongue in check
sort of way) inform me that she had discovered some of our "Damn Fairy
Dust" during her shower the day before in unmentionable places on her
person and that we should keep it to ourselves.

Michelle "Peasblossom"

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Back when I was dancing regularly I used to attend seminars with
merchant rows. The hotels were the victims of what we referred to
as "glitter litter" from the glitter veils that were very popular at
one time. It's a bear to get out of the carpet.

Nora
--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, "Michelle Clark" <MBORZOI@...> wrote:
>
> > While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
> > production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the
most
> > persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter!
>
> *snicker*
> My very first experience with Midsummer was back while I was still
in
> high school, but I spent my summer working at one of the local
> college's summerstock theaters. As we started second weekend of
the
> run I had the  stage director somewhat hostilily (in a tongue in
check
> sort of way) inform me that she had discovered some of our "Damn
Fairy
> Dust" during her shower the day before in unmentionable places on
her
> person and that we should keep it to ourselves.
>
> Michelle "Peasblossom"
>

Oh boy, I remember that stuff.  I had to use it once when I played the ghost in
Blithe Spirit.  Took several washings to get it out of my hair, and even then it
was all over the house for months!  Persistent stuff indeed!

Susan S

-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Eisenhour <sjeisenhour@...>
>Sent: May 31, 2007 11:46 PM
>To: ICG-D@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [ICG-D] costumerish discovery
>
>While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
>production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the most
>persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter! Even after
>washing it's all over everything...including costumes that were not,
>originally, on fairies!  We now have the most flash lint trap in
>Charleston...or probably the whole of Illinois!
>
>I think the worst offender is from the glitter hair spray. fine little
>sparkly particles.
>
>Glitiziana strikes again!
>Susan E
>

Just ask any belly dancer who uses body glitter and gets complaints from
her husband because he found glitter on himself at the office. ;-)
     Jeanine
     ^..^
     >J<

Susan L. Schoaps wrote:
>
> Oh boy, I remember that stuff. I had to use it once when I played the
> ghost in Blithe Spirit. Took several washings to get it out of my
> hair, and even then it was all over the house for months! Persistent
> stuff indeed!
>
> Susan S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Susan Eisenhour <sjeisenhour@...
> <mailto:sjeisenhour%40eiu.edu>>
> >Sent: May 31, 2007 11:46 PM
> >To: ICG-D@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ICG-D%40yahoogroups.com>
> >Subject: [ICG-D] costumerish discovery
> >
> >While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
> >production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the most
> >persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter! Even after
> >washing it's all over everything...including costumes that were not,
> >originally, on fairies! We now have the most flash lint trap in
> >Charleston...or probably the whole of Illinois!
> >
> >I think the worst offender is from the glitter hair spray. fine little
> >sparkly particles.
> >
> >Glitiziana strikes again!
> >Susan E
> >
>
>


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>While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
>production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the most
>persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter!
----------------------------
I long ago discovered the . . . um . . . staying power of said glitter.
Naturally, I used it to my own fiendish ends. How so, you may ponder?
Read on . . .

Some years ago, when my niece was but a tot, I wanted to send her
something fun for Christmas. Having recently enjoyed a vacation in
Disneyland, I decided to send her the small bottle of Tinker Bell Fairy
Dust(tm) that I had picked up as a souvenir. All well and good, the lass
was delighted, and Aunt Kate had gone up another notch on the Cool
meter.

Then, in the spring, near said lass's birthday, I received a call.
Apparently, the T.B.F.D.(tm) was spent, and much bitter mourning had
befallen her world. Not wishing to allow another moment of
disappointment to cloud her fair brow, I told my niece that I would
speak to Tinker Bell about this, and see what could be done. Several
packs of silver, gold and white glitter and one quart jar later, I had a
passable gift to send on, which I did.

Now, be it known that there was some growling to be had from my niece's
Mother (my younger sibling) at this time, but as they live in Kansas and
I in Washington, I thought not much upon it. However, after the gift
arrived, said growling grew in volume, and some veiled threats were made
upon your humble scribe's person. Knowing that my little sister was much
too broke to afford a trip west for mere vengeance, I laughed and went
my merry way.

Until the next Christmas. Wails and moans from my dear little niece, now
five, led me to understand that, though the entire town of Salina,
Kansas now fairly glowed with trails of glitter (some of which today
still reside in Grandmother's house), the jar was empty, and the tragedy
of this was epic. Being of soft heart (and, occasionally, mind) I
comforted the girl, but told her that Tinker Bell was very busy this
season, and I may not be able to talk her out of any more Fairy Dust.
However, I knew some Garden Fairies, who might just have some extra to
spare. (This was their slow season, after all.) Thusly, upon the morn a
few days hence, another jar, slightly larger than the previous, carried
the gift of pink, red and green glitter to the hinterlands of the
prairie.

I knew full well when the package arrived, for some days later, I
received a phone call. It was not from the child's Mother, nor from her
Grandmother, but from her babysitter. She told me, in no uncertain
terms, to NEVER NEVER EVER EVER send anything remotely resembling Fairy
Dust *or* glitter to my niece again. Actually, I remember that call
somewhat fondly, as I'd never received death threats from a baby sitter
before.

Fast forward to this year. Said niece is now sixteen, and well beyond
the Fairy Dust stage. However, the babysitter has a four year old
daughter . . .

With a Wide Evil Grin,
Kate McClure


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ROFLMAO!  :wipes tears of glee from eyes:  Thank you so much for sharing that
story!  I really needed a laugh today!  :-D

My son sent this to me today.
Dana



Space Tengu Costume Design Contest.
  The dead line has been extended to June 8th though it does not say so
on the English part of the website.


http://osugimusicaltheatre.com/tenguartproject/page_10766.html

As some of you know, Sandy and I were Costuming
Guests of Honor at Marcon 42 in Columbus over the
Memorial Day weekend. We thought you might like a brief con report.

Marcon is a fairly large convention (about 2000
attendees) with an emphasis, though not a large
one, toward media. They also invite a very large
number of guests. This year they had a
toastmaster, author GOH, artist GOH, filk GOHs,
costuming GOHs, science GOH, gaming GOH, two
media GOHs, and I'm probably forgetting someone.

Timothy Zahn was the toastmaster. During opening
ceremonies he gave a funny talk involving the
importance of toast in history, allowing him to
segue at points to guest introductions. It was
quite entertaining, so much so that one of the
media guests, Kevin Sorbo (who we met and was
very nice),  gave a faux protest when he didn't get a personalized segue.

Friday largely started late in the afternoon. We
had panels after opening ceremonies, which were at 7PM.

On Saturday we had two obligations, Iron Costumer
and Masquerade judging. Iron Costuming was fun,
though Sandy and I are not fast workers. The
theme was "Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
and the secret ingredient was a Nasa space
blanket. We did the Dish of the Day. We didn't win, but we had fun.

The MD was Julie Washington. The masquerade
judging started about 1 1/2 hour before
masquerade time.  Our third judge was Sunny
Buchler.  They call it pre-judging. We were a bit
concerned about that. As many of the old-timers
recall that was a term that used to be used as a
way to eliminate some entries from ever going on stage.

What pre-judging actually was, though, was
workmanship judging. I gather that in the past
they didn't actually award separate workmanship
awards, but we sort of pushed them into it this
year. (They didn't really protest that. It was just new to them.).

We had about 15 entries, juniors, novices and
journeyman. Though master is an allowable class,
there were none this year. Marcon runs their
entries by division, first juniors, then the
novices and finally the journeyman. While this is
not our preferred method, it's their masquerade.

The entries were overall not bad. We saw some
impressive costumes and some really good, though
a bit long, presentations. The entries and awards are below.

Sunday we did a version of our
judging/presentation panel using video of past
winning costumes. It was well-attended and seemed
to be appreciated.  The dead-dog later on Sunday
was fun. Luckily we were able to pack between the
official end of the con and the dead-dog, so we
could hang around and still leave very early Monday morning.

Overall we enjoyed Marcon a great deal.  They had
a moderate amount of hall costuming, much of it
was either anime/cosplay based or
alternate-history military.  (This isn't a bad
thing - but we would have liked to see more
original stuff.) They are trying to rebuild their
masquerade and if anyone is in the general area
we would encourage anyone in the area to attend and compete.

Pierre & Sandy

Marcon 42 Masquerade

Masquerade Director: Julie Washington
            Bob Swiger
Master of Ceremonies: Timothy Zahn


Judges


Pierre E. Pettinger, Jr.
Sandy Pettinger
Sunny Buchler



ENTRIES


001         Ghost Rider           Jr.
AM        Made by Kurt Kessler & Jason Winks
                                                  Presented
by Joey Rendrick
                                          Workmanship: Best in Class
                                          Presentation: Best in Class

002     Fire Princess         Jr.
SM            Megan
James
Presentation: Most Promising

42        Iron Costumer
Entries
Presented by Audry Beale
&                                                          Kathleen Knese

101     Patrick Muldoon, the Irish
Werewolf              N          Bill Phillips

102     Frozen Shade from Magic: The
Gathering     N          Made by DiTerlizzi
&                                                              Katrina Johnson
                                                                  Presented
by Katrina
                                                                  Johnson
                                          Workmanship:
Best in Show                                       Presentation: Best in Class

103         How to Spot a
Lycanthrope              N             Shawna Garrity
                                          Workmanship: Best in Class
                                          Presentation: Best Folklore

104         V for
Vendetta     N                Made by Mikhaila
Scoville, Presented
by                                         Jimmy
Durante (apparently he's related)
                                          Workmanship: Best Fit and Finish
                                          Presentation: Best Recreation

105         Lucario, the Wave-Guiding Hero     N             Kattywampus
                                          Workmanship:
Best Non-Human                                                     Construction
                                          Presentation: Best Anime

106         Order of Kai Kan                N             Made by Mark Seymour
                                                  Presented
by Mark Seymour &
Frank                                               Courtney

107     Sesshomar                                     N          Kate James

108    Samurai Deathmatch
9000               N             Made by Chris
Stephenson &                                                   Gregory Dunn
                                                          Presented
by Chris
Stephenson,
Charles Connor, Jamie
Wilmoth,
Gregory Dunn, Ed Locke,
John
Chuba, Juliette Magera, isa Gunther
&
Carol
Conquest
Presentation: Most Humorous

109     Female Edward Elric                       N          Kelly Mullen

201      Ode to Mr.
Jackson             J              Made by Sidley
Howard Helphrey,
James
Helphrey, Jeffs Jennings,
Brannor
Jennings, Stacy Flowers,
J.P.
Seeholtz, Bonnie Morey &
Pat                                                    Campbell
                                                  Presented
by Sidley Howard
Helphrey,
James Helphrey, Jeffs
Jennings,
Brannor Jennings, Stacy Flowers,
J.
P. Seeholtz, Bonnie Morey &
Pat                                                         Campbell
                                          Workmanship: Best in Class
                                          Presentation: Best in  Show

202     Honoring These
…                                             J
           Megan
Buchard
Presentation: Honorable Mention

203     Good
Duty                              J            P Textor & Anne Murriott

204     Olerius Bolett, an Ithorian J              Scotty Lees
                                          Workmanship: Best Soft Sculpture
                                          Presentation: Best Alien

205    Defense Against the Dark Arts and
You         J              Made by Cora, Gabe,
Beth                                                                   & James
                                                                         
Presented
by
Cora,
Gabe, Beth, James
&
Tony
                                          Chairman’s Choice
                                          Presentation: Best in Class


"Those Who Fail To Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly --
Why They Are Simply Doomed.

Achemdro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
   -- C.Y. 4971

Andromeda

Could someone post the contact person for the dvds here, please?  And
have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or from official
photog)?

Thanks!!
JP

No official galleries I'm aware of (not on the Costume-ConNections site,
and I'm not sure what's happening with the official photographer at this
point).

I purchased my DVDs on site from Eric Cannon. Don't have his contact
info handy at the moment...

Sorry I can't be more helpful. Whole house is a major mess right now,
for several good reasons.

-b


taknflyte wrote:
> Could someone post the contact person for the dvds here, please?  And
> have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or from official
> photog)?
>
> Thanks!!
> JP

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Kevin
taknflyte wrote:
> Could someone post the contact person for the dvds here, please?  And
> have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or from official
> photog)?
>
> Thanks!!
> JP
>

Oh my gosh, that is HILARIOUS!!!!

Can I add, as the mom of two young girls, that while Katie isn't over-
fond of glitter (we've "conveniently" skipped those areas while in
Joanns), Abby seems much more interested in fairies, glitter and the
like already.  And we have a new, big hairy dog (Maui) who will no
doubt be involved in some of the ruckus.  Poor dog!  (Hee-hee!!)

D


--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, "McClure, Kate (DEX-BLV)"
<kate.mcclure@...> wrote:
>
> >While washing the costumes from the late (not very lamented)
> >production of Midsummer Night's Dream, I have discovered the most
> >persistent, potent element in the universe: fairy glitter!
> ----------------------------
> I long ago discovered the . . . um . . . staying power of said
glitter.
> Naturally, I used it to my own fiendish ends. How so, you may
ponder?
> Read on . . .
>
> Some years ago, when my niece was but a tot, I wanted to send her
> something fun for Christmas. Having recently enjoyed a vacation in
> Disneyland, I decided to send her the small bottle of Tinker Bell
Fairy
> Dust(tm) that I had picked up as a souvenir. All well and good, the
lass
> was delighted, and Aunt Kate had gone up another notch on the Cool
> meter.
>
> Then, in the spring, near said lass's birthday, I received a call.
> Apparently, the T.B.F.D.(tm) was spent, and much bitter mourning had
> befallen her world. Not wishing to allow another moment of
> disappointment to cloud her fair brow, I told my niece that I would
> speak to Tinker Bell about this, and see what could be done. Several
> packs of silver, gold and white glitter and one quart jar later, I
had a
> passable gift to send on, which I did.
>
> Now, be it known that there was some growling to be had from my
niece's
> Mother (my younger sibling) at this time, but as they live in
Kansas and
> I in Washington, I thought not much upon it. However, after the gift
> arrived, said growling grew in volume, and some veiled threats were
made
> upon your humble scribe's person. Knowing that my little sister was
much
> too broke to afford a trip west for mere vengeance, I laughed and
went
> my merry way.
>
> Until the next Christmas. Wails and moans from my dear little
niece, now
> five, led me to understand that, though the entire town of Salina,
> Kansas now fairly glowed with trails of glitter (some of which today
> still reside in Grandmother's house), the jar was empty, and the
tragedy
> of this was epic. Being of soft heart (and, occasionally, mind) I
> comforted the girl, but told her that Tinker Bell was very busy this
> season, and I may not be able to talk her out of any more Fairy
Dust.
> However, I knew some Garden Fairies, who might just have some extra
to
> spare. (This was their slow season, after all.) Thusly, upon the
morn a
> few days hence, another jar, slightly larger than the previous,
carried
> the gift of pink, red and green glitter to the hinterlands of the
> prairie.
>
> I knew full well when the package arrived, for some days later, I
> received a phone call. It was not from the child's Mother, nor from
her
> Grandmother, but from her babysitter. She told me, in no uncertain
> terms, to NEVER NEVER EVER EVER send anything remotely resembling
Fairy
> Dust *or* glitter to my niece again. Actually, I remember that call
> somewhat fondly, as I'd never received death threats from a baby
sitter
> before.
>
> Fast forward to this year. Said niece is now sixteen, and well
beyond
> the Fairy Dust stage. However, the babysitter has a four year old
> daughter . . .
>
> With a Wide Evil Grin,
> Kate McClure
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

While we're doing convention updates, I have a small one of my own.
CONduit, a small-ish convention of around 800 attendees, happened in Salt
Lake City over Memorial Weekend. After running a couple of Masquerades, I
finally took a step back from the backstage end of things and got onstage
and competed. I got a Best in Class: Journeyman award for workmanship (not
having won any major awards before, I could've competed as a novice but
figured that would be very unfair to those who really were novices). I and
the two friends who got onstage with me totally stole the show with our "A
Fairy Godmother's Lament" skit, and we won Best in Show: Presentation. (If
time and finances permit, we're going to try to bring ourselves and the
skit to CostumeCon next year--it's very warped and twisted.)

Afterwards, the head judge told me quite firmly that next year, I WILL
compete at Master level. Hopefully that only applies to small local
events. Locally, yes, my friends and I have proven a rather difficult
combination to beat (they've taken BiS for the last two years running, in
costumes I crafted for them, and we all collaborate on the presentations),
but at the one CostumeCon I've attended so far, I had ample opportunity to
observe what real masters can do. Heck, I've had ample opportunity to
observe what real masters locally can do, when they're not running things
and can actually get onstage. And I can attest I'm nowhere near that level
of expertise.

Anyway...

Not having MD'ed this year, and having performed last in the show, I can't
report on the other entries, but I'll try to get info from the wonderful
lady who DID take the MD job, or from the wonderful gentleman doing
post-production on the DVD, and pass it along. Our Masquerade this year
was a lot like Marcon's--15 entries, mostly novices and "rising stars"
(aka juniors), with a few journeymen thrown into the mix. The local
masters-who-actually-deserve-the-title (am not at all convinced that I do)
were busy helping run things this year. We had a nice balance of media
recreations, cosplay, and original work. For halftime, we presented awards
for other costuming events (Hall Costume Contest and Iron Costumer), then
had an entertaining musical skit, and then a local filk group did a very
nice mini-concert (including a gorgeous brand-new song that gave me
goosebumps, it was so vivid). It was good and entertaining, but I think
next year we might have to bring back the "game shows" we've done the last
two years, for part of the time, anyway. About 50 people wandered off and
didn't come back when it became clear that there wouldn't be anything
interactive-and-incredibly-funny for them to do this year.

Well, that's about it for costuming updates, for now. I will try to get
the rest of the show info and pass it along, but for now it's time to go
work on the very horrible hot-pink-satin skirts my sister and I are
supposed to wear to my brother's wedding reception next weekend.

Heather

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple
with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas
Adams



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My own glitter tale also offered as amusement...

When I worked on the snowflakes for my Snow Queen, I was using 4 different
kinds/colors of glitter to get the dimensional effects I needed.  The most
insidious of the glitter was this very, very fine iridescent pink stuff.  It
was as fine as the hair spray stuff, but came in full bottles.

It didn't mater how careful I was...  the Irish Wolfhounds were taking the
glitter into the vets office... and while I wasn't quite getting the death
threats that Kate was... the people with show poodles were NOT amused about
the transfer from the glittery wolfhounds.

However, the most "dangerous" transfer was happening at work.  At that time,
I worked in an automotive warehouse as head of IS.  The thing about places
like that... there's very fine oily dust that's even nastier than glitter
about getting into everyplace.  Our department would have to disassemble
numerous things to clean and soak components (yea, that was still the time
when you would have an open tray of Freon to soak these things in --- oops I
really just dated myself.)  Well, combine the glitter and that oily dust...
it's almost like glue.   You can't wipe up that stuff, it almost become
grit... but shinny grit.   Add to the fact that we had all those open
electrons around... we were always trying to get rid of the glitter and even
cleaning it off each other --- which is more than a little funny in a macho
automotive environment.

So... to the best part... my assistant was 6'5", red Mohawk, much muscles,
skull tattoos and piercing interesting enough for the fetish mags... so
scary looking but very sweet.  He was one of the main folks on glitter
patrol... so sure enough one day he goes home... with a whole strip of pink
glitter that we'd missed on cleanup..  (OK, that he's probably gotten from
my sweater while we'd been fixing a mess of computer cables that day coated
with that dust.... so it glued onto him.)

So, he goes home.. to his new girlfriend (that has an even more interesting
look than he does) and ever so more "interesting" hobbies.  She sees the
whole streak of glitter across shoulder and head and goes...  "and how did
you get all that glitter on you???"

He froze in his tracks because he was more than a little bit afraid of her
(and her hobbies) and didn't know her really well yet.  He tentatively
goes... "er.... my boss".

Pause....   Big happy grin "Oooooo, what kind of project is she working
on???" as she does the costume thing of checking out the glitter closely and
noting texture and iridescence.   <G>

Turns out that the also belong to the local costumer's guild... and didn't
always play big tough street punk.

-Cat-



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(Yea, that's a weird title... but it's good for doing a search on later.)

Caught a commercial from a home décor show my mom was watching... and saw
something that might be useful for costumers.  It was showing vases that you
made and shapes on your own... using a thermal plastic that works like those
friendly plastic strips.  The interesting thing about this... the plastic
was clear or nearly so, and in large enough "sheets", if you cut the vase
apart, that it could have interesting costume application.

Anyway, it's called the "Wonder Vase",  the link:
http://marketplace.hgtv.com/Product.aspx?Lid=2200-N612072  .  It comes in
clear-ish, blue, green.  It's not too bad at $6 or $15 for the 3.


I guess if these exist, there's a way to get the transparent sheets in
bigger sizes too, but I haven't seen them yet.

-Cat-


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Thank you, sir!  =)

JP

--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Roche <kevin@...> wrote:
>
> Try rrvorlando@...
>
> Kevin
> taknflyte wrote:
> > Could someone post the contact person for the dvds here,
please?  And
> > have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or from
official
> > photog)?
> >
> > Thanks!!
> > JP
> >
>

This is a major announcement:

At the conclusion of Costume-Con Fifteen, I took over CCXV's web site
from its original web master, Ron Robinson. In response to requests from
CC16 and CC17 con coms, I converted the site to a basic archive of
information about the previous several Costume-Cons, including a photo
gallery for exhibiting the images from each of the competitions, and
including the rules and other info as a means of preserving the con's
history.

The following January, at Arisia, I got into an off-hand conversation
with Karen and Ricky about the site and possible future use. Ricky
presented me with a wish-list. Sort of a "You know, the site would be
really useful if..." kind of conversation.

Nine years and five months after that conversation (give or take a
week), I can announce that there is now a representative image (photo or
video snap) for every costume to cross a stage at a Costume-Con over the
course of the conference's 24 year history. The result of editing and
reviewing thousands of images and scanning actual photographs from the
personal collections of a dozen people, there are now 3,115 images
comprising the complete collection to date.

CC25 (our immediately past conference) is the only CC for which no
images are included. This gap in history will surely be corrected as
soon as we can complete the following work.

The Costume-ConNections site is migrating in the very near future. When
site migration has been completed, I will be stepping down permanently
as Costume-Con Archivist. Karen and Ricky will be taking on the
responsibility for collecting (and correcting) the data in the archive
and for preserving Costume-Con's past, present and future.

When the site is in actual physical transition, there will likely be
some down-time. A notice will be posted on the site to let people know
the transition is in progress.

This site would not have been possible without the generous donations of
materials and time of the people and organizations listed here:

	 http://costume-con.org/about.shtml

There are a few changes left to be made, to revise the site so that it
is truly an archive, while making the Costume-Con.com site the portal
for present and future cons.

If you have any questions about this process, changes to data listed
there or anything else, please let us know!

Thanks so much for all the compliments, suggestions and corrections. I'm
very glad to have been a part of this history.

Cheers,

Betsy Delaney
Soon-to-be Costume-Con Archivist Emeritus

WoW!  Congrats, Betsy, a major achievement.

Byron


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   Subject: [ICG-D] Costume-ConNections Visual Archive Announcement (five months
later than expected...)


   This is a major announcement:

   At the conclusion of Costume-Con Fifteen, I took over CCXV's web site
   from its original web master, Ron Robinson. In response to requests from
   CC16 and CC17 con coms, I converted the site to a basic archive of
   information about the previous several Costume-Cons, including a photo
   gallery for exhibiting the images from each of the competitions, and
   including the rules and other info as a means of preserving the con's
   history.

   The following January, at Arisia, I got into an off-hand conversation
   with Karen and Ricky about the site and possible future use. Ricky
   presented me with a wish-list. Sort of a "You know, the site would be
   really useful if..." kind of conversation.

   Nine years and five months after that conversation (give or take a
   week), I can announce that there is now a representative image (photo or
   video snap) for every costume to cross a stage at a Costume-Con over the
   course of the conference's 24 year history. The result of editing and
   reviewing thousands of images and scanning actual photographs from the
   personal collections of a dozen people, there are now 3,115 images
   comprising the complete collection to date.

   CC25 (our immediately past conference) is the only CC for which no
   images are included. This gap in history will surely be corrected as
   soon as we can complete the following work.

   The Costume-ConNections site is migrating in the very near future. When
   site migration has been completed, I will be stepping down permanently
   as Costume-Con Archivist. Karen and Ricky will be taking on the
   responsibility for collecting (and correcting) the data in the archive
   and for preserving Costume-Con's past, present and future.

   When the site is in actual physical transition, there will likely be
   some down-time. A notice will be posted on the site to let people know
   the transition is in progress.

   This site would not have been possible without the generous donations of
   materials and time of the people and organizations listed here:

   http://costume-con.org/about.shtml<http://costume-con.org/about.shtml>

   There are a few changes left to be made, to revise the site so that it
   is truly an archive, while making the Costume-Con.com site the portal
   for present and future cons.

   If you have any questions about this process, changes to data listed
   there or anything else, please let us know!

   Thanks so much for all the compliments, suggestions and corrections. I'm
   very glad to have been a part of this history.

   Cheers,

   Betsy Delaney
   Soon-to-be Costume-Con Archivist Emeritus




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Sounds like a great Con!

   Heather, if I gotta compete in Master, then so do you!** I'm trying not to
hyperventilate at the thought. On one hand, it's kind of a kick to be moved up
after getting a BIC Jouneyman award, but on the other hand, there's no way I'm
really in the same "class" with the big guys/gals. I figure I'll just have to do
what I do best, and continue to improve. IMHO there's something to be said for
experience--simply designing/creating/presenting a new costume, whether for a
small or large con, will give you lots of knowledge. Also, if you have a group
of people to bounce ideas off of and collaborate with, you're way ahead of a lot
of people (like, um, me :-) )

   Next CC, I'll be on my 6th masq. entry, and am really feeling the lack of
different venues and experiences and times through the process. Trust in
yourself that you do have the skills and the creativity to compete at a high
level, and I'll see you at CC next April! I've got my idea percolating, and
we'll see if the husband and little kids are up to it....

   Karen Mc

   **Figure of speech--I know there are well-set-out rules for who should be in
each class, and I'm not presuming to tell you where you "really should" be if
the rules say something else!

Heather Monson <hbmonson@...> wrote:
           While we're doing convention updates, I have a small one of my own.
CONduit, a small-ish convention of around 800 attendees, happened in Salt
Lake City over Memorial Weekend. After running a couple of Masquerades, I
finally took a step back from the backstage end of things and got onstage
and competed. I got a Best in Class: Journeyman award for workmanship (not
having won any major awards before, I could've competed as a novice but
figured that would be very unfair to those who really were novices). I and
the two friends who got onstage with me totally stole the show with our "A
Fairy Godmother's Lament" skit, and we won Best in Show: Presentation. (If
time and finances permit, we're going to try to bring ourselves and the
skit to CostumeCon next year--it's very warped and twisted.)

Afterwards, the head judge told me quite firmly that next year, I WILL
compete at Master level. Hopefully that only applies to small local
events. Locally, yes, my friends and I have proven a rather difficult
combination to beat (they've taken BiS for the last two years running, in
costumes I crafted for them, and we all collaborate on the presentations),
but at the one CostumeCon I've attended so far, I had ample opportunity to
observe what real masters can do. Heck, I've had ample opportunity to
observe what real masters locally can do, when they're not running things
and can actually get onstage. And I can attest I'm nowhere near that level
of expertise.

Anyway...

Not having MD'ed this year, and having performed last in the show, I can't
report on the other entries, but I'll try to get info from the wonderful
lady who DID take the MD job, or from the wonderful gentleman doing
post-production on the DVD, and pass it along. Our Masquerade this year
was a lot like Marcon's--15 entries, mostly novices and "rising stars"
(aka juniors), with a few journeymen thrown into the mix. The local
masters-who-actually-deserve-the-title (am not at all convinced that I do)
were busy helping run things this year. We had a nice balance of media
recreations, cosplay, and original work. For halftime, we presented awards
for other costuming events (Hall Costume Contest and Iron Costumer), then
had an entertaining musical skit, and then a local filk group did a very
nice mini-concert (including a gorgeous brand-new song that gave me
goosebumps, it was so vivid). It was good and entertaining, but I think
next year we might have to bring back the "game shows" we've done the last
two years, for part of the time, anyway. About 50 people wandered off and
didn't come back when it became clear that there wouldn't be anything
interactive-and-incredibly-funny for them to do this year.

Well, that's about it for costuming updates, for now. I will try to get
the rest of the show info and pass it along, but for now it's time to go
work on the very horrible hot-pink-satin skirts my sister and I are
supposed to wear to my brother's wedding reception next weekend.

Heather

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with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas
Adams

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*mouth open in stunned amazement*

Betsy you are SO incredibly totally AMAZING!  Holy cow, what an accomplishment-
and then ya throw in two kids and doing the newsletter AND costuming AND running
that theater group on top of all that- holy cow women, when do you ever sleep?

*will continue to be be stunned for a while*

JoAnn in VA

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We're still uploading pictures.  Kerry had dial-up only, so as you
can imagine, that wouldn't do uploading without major angst.  We
would be further along, but we've had two cons in the last two weeks
(one we were guests at) and no Internet access to speak of during those trips.

I can say that the event photos are done.  Pierre will begin
uploading hall costume photos tomorrow (he can't sew, machine is in
the shop :-().  Even with a high-speed connection, it takes
time.  They will be on Smugmug.com when they're done, and we'll send
out an announcement.  Remember, there were over 1,300 pictures taken
at the con.

They're coming, please be patient, pass it on!

Sandy

At 09:47 AM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
>No official galleries I'm aware of (not on the Costume-ConNections site,
>and I'm not sure what's happening with the official photographer at this
>point).
>
>-b
>
>taknflyte wrote:
> >And  have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or from official
> > photog)?
>
> > JP

"Those Who Fail To Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly --
Why They Are Simply Doomed.

Achemdro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
   -- C.Y. 4971

Andromeda

>>And we have a new, big hairy dog (Maui) who will no
doubt be involved in some of the ruckus. Poor dog! (Hee-hee!!)

Guaranteed that the dog will stick his nose into it too see what's going on.
Big dog sneeze!!!!!  And then you won't need glue to get that glitter to
stick.  <G>  Oh, and dog combs won't get glitter out of the coarse dog hair.
(Own the t-shirt on both of those.)  So, give up now and just recognize that
the dog is going to get costumed.

-Cat-


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Thank YOU!!!!!!

(I hope your web hosting company has good backup too. Talk about not
wanting to lose a site's data!!)

At 05:15 PM 6/2/2007, Betsy Delaney wrote:
>This is a major announcement:
>....

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
please use richard at imagecraft.com)

Thanks for the update, Sandy!

I can guarantee that when they are up, dealing with posting the
electronic version of photos is INFINITELY better than dealing with
paper-to-scanned versions any day.

Thank the gods for improving technology so much in the last 10 years!

Cheers,

Betsy

Pierre & Sandy Pettinger wrote:
> We're still uploading pictures.  Kerry had dial-up only, so as you
> can imagine, that wouldn't do uploading without major angst.  We
> would be further along, but we've had two cons in the last two weeks
> (one we were guests at) and no Internet access to speak of during those trips.

--
--
Betsy Delaney

*************************************************************************
    See my resume at: http://www.hawkeswood.com/betsywork.shtml
*************************************************************************

Thanks for the encouraging words, Karen! My entry at CONduit this year
marked my fourth entry into a Masquerade, ever, and the first time I'd
actually gotten onstage as a participant. The others were just for
workmanship, since I was helping run things backstage those years and
couldn't get onstage myself. However, for local events, I'm okay with the
head judge's decision that I ought to be bumped up. Three of those four
entries in which I've somehow taken part over the years took BiS:
Presentation, in costumes I created and presentations in whose creation I
collaborated, and I collaborate with friends who, though not at all
skilled in costume creation, have years of performing experience and a lot
of stage presence. Locally, we've proven very hard to beat, and to be fair
to others, we ought to compete as masters, even though we are very new to
the whole Masquerade thing and aren't anywhere near as technically
proficient as the other local masters. I'm just hoping the new status
doesn't stick if we take our show on the road and compete in Masquerades
at national-type conventions (i.e. CostumeCon). Anyway, I guess we'll
cross that bridge if/when we come to it. :-) Thanks again for your
encouragement, and good luck with Entry #6!

Heather

--- Karen McWilliams <karenemcee@...> wrote:

> Sounds like a great Con!
>
>   Heather, if I gotta compete in Master, then so do you!** I'm trying
> not to hyperventilate at the thought. On one hand, it's kind of a kick
> to be moved up after getting a BIC Jouneyman award, but on the other
> hand, there's no way I'm really in the same "class" with the big
> guys/gals. I figure I'll just have to do what I do best, and continue to
> improve. IMHO there's something to be said for experience--simply
> designing/creating/presenting a new costume, whether for a small or
> large con, will give you lots of knowledge. Also, if you have a group of
> people to bounce ideas off of and collaborate with, you're way ahead of
> a lot of people (like, um, me :-) )
>
>   Next CC, I'll be on my 6th masq. entry, and am really feeling the lack
> of different venues and experiences and times through the process. Trust
> in yourself that you do have the skills and the creativity to compete at
> a high level, and I'll see you at CC next April! I've got my idea
> percolating, and we'll see if the husband and little kids are up to
> it....
>
>   Karen Mc
>
>   **Figure of speech--I know there are well-set-out rules for who should
> be in each class, and I'm not presuming to tell you where you "really
> should" be if the rules say something else!

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple
with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas
Adams



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Announcement of the jaw dropping kind, Betsy!!  Congrats and many
thanks to you and everyone else that contgributed to making this
happen.

JP

--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, Betsy Delaney <bdelaney@...> wrote:
>
> This is a major announcement:
>
(snipping many words....)
>
> Nine years and five months after that conversation (give or take a
> week), I can announce that there is now a representative image
(photo or
> video snap) for every costume to cross a stage at a Costume-Con
over the
> course of the conference's 24 year history. The result of editing
and
> reviewing thousands of images and scanning actual photographs from
the
> personal collections of a dozen people, there are now 3,115 images
> comprising the complete collection to date.
>
> CC25 (our immediately past conference) is the only CC for which no
> images are included. This gap in history will surely be corrected
as
> soon as we can complete the following work.
>

--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, Pierre & Sandy Pettinger <costumrs@...>
wrote:

> They will be on Smugmug.com when they're done, and we'll send
> out an announcement.  Remember, there were over 1,300 pictures taken
> at the con.
>
> They're coming, please be patient, pass it on!
>


Wow!  Thats alot of pictures.. and work to get them uploaded!  Thank
you, thank you!   Can't wait to see them!

JP

Big thanks to Betsy and also to all the other folks who contributed their
time.  I have gone to the site many times and it is a pleasure to scroll
through and remember some of the wonderful things that have been created.

Yours in costuming, Lisa A>

At the convention [CC25] the photographer said he would be selling
CD's of the photos.   Is this no longer going to take place?  Buying
a CD for a flat rate can work out much more economical than ordering
individual photos.

Is there a way of ordering from the Smugmug site without putting
your credit card online?  After having my card number lifted twice I
am extremely reluctant to post it on the internet.

                             Cathy Leeson


--- In ICG-D@yahoogroups.com, Pierre & Sandy Pettinger
<costumrs@...> wrote:
>
> We're still uploading pictures.  Kerry had dial-up only, so as you
> can imagine, that wouldn't do uploading without major angst.  We
> would be further along, but we've had two cons in the last two
weeks
> (one we were guests at) and no Internet access to speak of during
those trips.
>
> I can say that the event photos are done.  Pierre will begin
> uploading hall costume photos tomorrow (he can't sew, machine is
in
> the shop :-().  Even with a high-speed connection, it takes
> time.  They will be on Smugmug.com when they're done, and we'll
send
> out an announcement.  Remember, there were over 1,300 pictures
taken
> at the con.
>
> They're coming, please be patient, pass it on!
>
> Sandy
>
> At 09:47 AM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
> >No official galleries I'm aware of (not on the Costume-
ConNections site,
> >and I'm not sure what's happening with the official photographer
at this
> >point).
> >
> >-b
> >
> >taknflyte wrote:
> > >And  have any new photo galleries been setup by attendees (or
from official
> > > photog)?
> >
> > > JP
>
> "Those Who Fail To Learn History
> Are Doomed to Repeat It;
> Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly --
> Why They Are Simply Doomed.
>
> Achemdro'hm
> "The Illusion of Historical Fact"
>   -- C.Y. 4971
>
> Andromeda
>