sundries

[rm]

Awake, and debating if I want to go back to sleep, although I do have to go into work for quite a bit and would like to see the farmer's market, just to do so.

Video chat date with Patty tomorrow! And she'll be home on the 14th!

Look at this couture collection. WOW. Seriously, this is some of the most AMAZING stuff I've ever seen, and I want to write big-budget space opera that HBO picks up in the sole fantasy of this woman costuming it. Gaaaaaaah, gorgeous.

Sarah Dopp is considering creating a marketplace for gender-variant clothing, a la Etsy. Not an Etsy store, but a new service like Etsy for this specific purpose of having a themed place where sellers who cater to this market can sell. More info, and how you can help.

Toy robot destroys Denver. Except not really.

Songs of a future dolphin, 9-year-olds record music and The New York Times describes the results as, among other things, "vaguely apocalyptic." You can listen to the track, and it is pretty intense.

Desk made of books.

Have you ever wanted a people-sized hamster wheel? The world's weirdest hotels. (ETA: the hamster wheel hotel HAS A PELLET AREA AND A TUBE ON THE WALL YOU CAN DRINK OUT OF. This feels strongly like a "your kink is totally okay but not my kink" moment for me.) I love everything about the stuff in this super strange (and sometimes appalling) article so much it's ridiculous.

Okay, I didn't come in LAST in my screenwriting contest. Someone else either didn't submit something or got disqualified. Meanwhile, this weekend I have to crank out a romance, set in a driving school, involving a bottle of hot sauce. Yeah, I know.

So, I slept in and then spent over an hour lying in the DIRECT SUNLIGHT that hits our bed every day. I realized, in horror, as I lay there, that this was the first direct sunlight I had experienced, other than the day we were in Zurich and the night we stayed at the St Davids, in the ENTIRE TIME I was in Switzerland and the UK. *shudder*

Comments

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

I don't usually do clothes (seriously, give me black trousers, comfortable flat shoes and a nice top with my favourite black cardigan: I'm sorted) - but that coutoure collections is just AWESOME - sorry for the shouting

The shoes looked dangerous but the outfits, especially towards the end: I wanted - loved the white and blue one

I love the Magic Flute and when I saw that black dress, all I could think was: Queen of the Night

Okay, will shut up now

[freyas-fire.livejournal.com]

I have an Etsy shop, and while it's nice, the fees are starting to add up. Sarah may want to consider a shop on Artfire. Basic account is free, Pro shop is $15.95 a month, and that's all you pay. No insertion fees, no percentage taken of sales. It's smaller than Etsy but they're working harder to get listings into search engines. I just opened a basic account and may slowly switch some of my items over there to see how they do.

http://www.artfire.com

[rm.livejournal.com]

She is not looking to use Etsy or Artfire, but to create a new service, using Kickstarter funding to cover the costs of making that happen. I should clarify my post.

[freyas-fire.livejournal.com]

Oops - this is what I get for trying to read prior to caffeine consumption. :P
I passed on the artfire info to her anyway - it's set up a bit different from Etsy and Ebay and she could get some good ideas for the kickstarter project, especially on ways to get the listings high up on search engines.

[freyas-fire.livejournal.com]

There is also a community on here called crowdfunding that might be worth looking into as well. It's along the same lines as Kickstarter (actually you mihgt want to consider plugging Dogboy & Justine over there) and I've seen some very cool projects get funded in a short amount of time.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Have just joined/posted.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I feel as if the makeup in the couture collection was too conventional, but the clothing... ooo, baby. The black and red Evil Empress dress makes me want to rule a galaxy, and that's one of the tamer designs, I think.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Regarding the robot:

...really? There are other cities as stupid as Boston¹? I'm charmed.

~Sor

1: We of the "light-brites are SCARY!"

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

Oh my god that couture show is SPECTACULAR.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you about the couture collection. I could totally see her designing for Dune or either of Joan Vinge's "The Winter Queen" or the "Summer Queen".

I need to do more stuff with recycled books. I've got an idea for poetry but that only uses a page at a time.

I really want to go to the caravansarai in France with a bunch of my belly dance buds and musician friends and take it over!

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Wow. That fashion show link is amazing. I love the outfits. While I was watching the video, I couldn't help but think that this designer would be someone Lady Gaga would hire for her costumes. She's already got the neck-breaking shoes thing down pat.

[ckd]

Wow, the Denver PD managed to out-do the Boston response to the Mooninite Invasion...at least ours had BLINKY LIGHTS. (Well, except for the mysterious box they detonated which turned out to be a traffic monitor.)

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Guo Pei's clothing is pretty much the aesthetic of my alt!China in the original project. With a side of Alexander McQueen's final collection, the one with all the gold detailing.

I cannot wait to write a court politics scene.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I thought of your thing (which I still need to read, but you know what my schedule's been like)!

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

whenever you get a chance!

I should have another 5k of it in the next few days, too, so if you want to wait for that I can send it your way.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, I will. I'm sure it will all be better for me than Sherlock's brain.

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Probably. *laughs* Well. Maybe. It's full of paranoid police states.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

At Flaming Lips shows, there's always a part where singer Wayne Coyne comes out in a gigantic plastic bubble, like one of those roaming hamster balls, and walks around on the crowd. I always wanted one of those, for those times when I want to be isolated but not! The hamster hotel reminded me of that. :-)

That couture show? AMAZING.

[itcamefromjapan.livejournal.com]

I thought of Wayne Coyne, too. :)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Psst: Dopp, no r.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Fixed!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

That couture collection makes me sick to my stomach, actually. I'm so very, very sick of over-the-top dragon lady, and it just....

ARGH.

I am not the target market for this. All I have is sick rage.

[syna.livejournal.com]

Thank you madly for linking Sarah Dopp's project. I will spread the word. Such a resource would be incredible to have.

[maryling.livejournal.com]

Perhaps to be included in a future Sundries: thepurpledove, "a fandom auction community created to help combat anti-LGBT bullying." Welcome post here. Not personally affiliated, just happened to come across it today.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Wow re: the couture show. (And yes, space opera did come to my mind. I was reminded of some of the extraordinary costumes Jean-Paul Gaultier made for "The Fifth Element".)

Desk made of books and gender-variant outfitter - made of win.

[doppmonster.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is Sarah Dopp. Thank you SO MUCH for reposting about the marketplace plan. I just added a video (http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2010/genderplayful-marketplace) that explains a little more. It involves many wardrobe changes and some (SFW) nakedness.

[rm.livejournal.com]

NP. I'll probably make a video for you this week, but I've just come home from a 34-day trip, and I'm struggling a bit to catch up and get organized.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I'd stay in the hamster hotel for a night. Not out of a particular desire to be a hamster (mouse, rat, etc.) but because it sounds like a hoot.

Meanwhile, the toy robot story makes me irrationally angry. Why can't we have weirdness and wonder without Order showing up and -- in this case literally -- blowing it up?