AUSSIECON IV - 68TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION - MASQUERADE - "2010: THE YEAR WE SAID, 'G'DAY!' " - SPACESUIT PARAPHERNALIA
Assorted odds 'n sods connected with my 2001 spacesuit:
I photographed them sitting on the middle section of the backside of the Monolith. You can see the holographic foil in the background.
The stash includes:
- “Spot’s” handles. Two simple aluminium brackets that I cable tiedonto the Monolith to hold it up with.
- “Mother” High Energy drink. Yes, I used a performance enhancing drug! I also needed the empty to stick into the tinny holder I had on the spacesuit utility belt.
- Aussie flag with “Boomeranged” coathanger wire aerial and koala bear mascot. Uh, yeah!
- Harpercollins Voyager 15th Anniversary Party lanyard I used this to tie some extra gear onto th belt.
- A construction running sheet I used to keep track of where I was (or wasn’t!) during the build.
- The zip I didn’t get time to add into the cossie! Yah, that meant I had a limited time in costume before I’d have to get out of it. No big deal, I knew the parade wasn’t go to last longer than I could!
- Music for the skit. AIFF and MP3 formats on two discs. Plus back-up files on a memory stick. (Be prepared! You never know what the house music system will handle. Fortunately it was state of the art first rate, and so were the tech crew handling the audio.
- Costume checklist for loading gear on the day of the masquerade. Absolutely essential to make sure you’ve got all the bits and pieces packed on board!
- Blinky light for the suit’s thrusters. I found these sweet self contained LED flashers that fit nicely in the nozzles on the backpack. Well, I thought they were sweet, but they were all pretty dodgy, wiring wise, and had to be re-soldered at 2.00 am. Not all of them successfully! Oh well, such is life.
- Fly swat. What exactly I expect to swat with them in space I have no idea. Vacuum blow-out flies?
- Mini-Programme book with notional Masquerade start times circled.
- Skit script that I used when recording. Note last minute alterations! What I’d initially written didn’t sound so good when I heard it repeated back aloud.
- Patches for the suit done as iron-on transfers which I didn’t have time to iron on! Farnarkled around with double sided tape and so-on on the night but to no avail. Left ‘em off eventually rather than have them flutter onto the stage. Annoying, but no worries.
- Patches for the backpack; printed out on inkjet paper.
- Tech-looking gadget for the utility belt. This actually came off my old Ghostbusters outfit. Thought it might come in handy again someday!
AUSSIECON IV - 68TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION - MASQUERADE - "2010: THE YEAR WE SAID, 'G'DAY!' " - SPACESUIT PARAPHERNALIA
Assorted odds 'n sods connected with my 2001 spacesuit:
I photographed them sitting on the middle section of the backside of the Monolith. You can see the holographic foil in the background.
The stash includes:
- “Spot’s” handles. Two simple aluminium brackets that I cable tiedonto the Monolith to hold it up with.
- “Mother” High Energy drink. Yes, I used a performance enhancing drug! I also needed the empty to stick into the tinny holder I had on the spacesuit utility belt.
- Aussie flag with “Boomeranged” coathanger wire aerial and koala bear mascot. Uh, yeah!
- Harpercollins Voyager 15th Anniversary Party lanyard I used this to tie some extra gear onto th belt.
- A construction running sheet I used to keep track of where I was (or wasn’t!) during the build.
- The zip I didn’t get time to add into the cossie! Yah, that meant I had a limited time in costume before I’d have to get out of it. No big deal, I knew the parade wasn’t go to last longer than I could!
- Music for the skit. AIFF and MP3 formats on two discs. Plus back-up files on a memory stick. (Be prepared! You never know what the house music system will handle. Fortunately it was state of the art first rate, and so were the tech crew handling the audio.
- Costume checklist for loading gear on the day of the masquerade. Absolutely essential to make sure you’ve got all the bits and pieces packed on board!
- Blinky light for the suit’s thrusters. I found these sweet self contained LED flashers that fit nicely in the nozzles on the backpack. Well, I thought they were sweet, but they were all pretty dodgy, wiring wise, and had to be re-soldered at 2.00 am. Not all of them successfully! Oh well, such is life.
- Fly swat. What exactly I expect to swat with them in space I have no idea. Vacuum blow-out flies?
- Mini-Programme book with notional Masquerade start times circled.
- Skit script that I used when recording. Note last minute alterations! What I’d initially written didn’t sound so good when I heard it repeated back aloud.
- Patches for the suit done as iron-on transfers which I didn’t have time to iron on! Farnarkled around with double sided tape and so-on on the night but to no avail. Left ‘em off eventually rather than have them flutter onto the stage. Annoying, but no worries.
- Patches for the backpack; printed out on inkjet paper.
- Tech-looking gadget for the utility belt. This actually came off my old Ghostbusters outfit. Thought it might come in handy again someday!