Octy has cool friends. (photos)

[tugrik]

The trip to the airport went quick. For having left smack in the middle of rush hour, I was surprised how smooth traffic flowed all the way to SFO. A short while later I'd acquired reality_fox and dragged him to a TGI Friday's in Burlingame to detox (by retox) from his flight. It was one of the best little dinners I've had with a friend in ages, to be truthful. Much de-stressing on both sides, and rambling about life, parents, motorcycles, and Sancho.

I got home to a garage that smelled strangely of burnt coffee... but instead it turned out to be the first time we've ever had burnt popcorn in the microwave. chipotle informed me that octantis had done the carbonized deed, as he'd brought some friends by to say Hi and they'd waited around for me. He attempted to entertain with popcorn, but it ended in tears (due to the smoke). :) He didn't know I'd been airport bound. His crew went off to nab starchy goodness at the Olive Garden and left all kinds of entertaining scribbles on the whiteboard about how they planned to return.

A fun time was had chatting about electroluminescent wire, LEDs, lightsticks, poi, starwatching, Garmin Rinos, and incredibly poor-taste computer videos (Tokyo Breakfast, anyone? Aieee...) . They were all exceptionally cool folks, and a refreshing break from a normally boring Tuesday. Between this and the TGI detox, it's put my week on a really cool note. I'll gladly ride this groove to the weekend if I can manage it.

While fussing with the various light-producing toys, I got nudged to pull the camera out. The full batch of pics taken is, as always, on the imageserver.

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My neighbors must think us nuts... but after a decade of living near us, I think they expect that. Cyalume draws wonderful patterns in the air when attached to strings like fire-poi, or taped to the ends of a twirlystick like Octantis has. There's tons more of this stuff with the rest of the pics on the image page from tonight.

We also pulled out revar's 3-year-old now (geez, has it been that long?) TRON-costume hat, and various folks gave it a try-on. The shirt was an especially nice touch as it was pretty flourescent-responsive to the LED's UV-heavy light. It also makes a good end to this entry. :)

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that last picture. LOVE IT.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It came out a lot better than I thought it would, being a 1-second long handheld exposure.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

PRETTY!

A friend's parents recently starting handing down 'The good shit' in prep. for her Father dying (which he did, blessing and speed yadda yadda). Amoung the other bling was the POI POUNDER. Evidently, she who owns the poi pounder is In Charge. (He who controls the poi pounder, controls the universe! cue cheesey Dune movie music). It is umm ahem koff very phallic, and I can imagine quite a lot of silent communication could be expressed by how it was carressed or thwacked while pounding poi.

I have no idea what mood I am in right now, sorry if that was too babbly.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Whoo. oCe looks positively evil in that.

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[dingybatty.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the pictures! *stares at them for hours* And thanks, you, and Sean, for being such cool hosts. =D

[octantis.livejournal.com]

That was a heck of a lot of fun. Thanks for dragging out the camera! With your mad skilz, the weird light effects, various coats and sunglasses, and funky equipment, I bet we could make a photo comic book.

[beetles.livejournal.com]

CobaltBlue sent me to your journal because of the poi pictures, since he knows I love those things. *g* Gorgeous photos -- do you know the shutter speed, etc. they were taken at?

At ConiFur, someone gave me glowsticks, and I desperately sought string or chain so I could swing them around and smack myself (and likely others) with them, but none could be found. Cobalt found some audio cable. I tore it apart and tied it to the glowsticks... it works! Very industrial. *l* I'm not very good at it, but have some friends who spin fire and so on.

And the TRON-hat picture is too spiff. Wonderful photo.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Cool, y'found me!

All the stats on the pics (shutter, aperature, focal length, etc -- the EXIF data) are printed below the pictures in their directory on the imageserver. Most were between .5 and 4 seconds. All handheld stuff -- we were just kind of goofing with the camera. :)