What? ONLY 50?
Nov. 17th, 2008 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeySo, the yammering has commenced in various quarters about the A&S 50 Challenge.
As if it's new or something, by the sound of some folks - which it isn't, having been started May 1, 2007.
So I started flipping through the old LJ and came up with the following rough outline of what artsy fartsy stuff (SCA and otherwise) I've done since May 1, 2007:
1. Performed the Agincourt Carol in a practicum class and tried my hand at playing French session music on hurdy gurdy at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival. (If more "bards" went out and faced the real world, I suspect the SCA would have less bad ones.)
2. Embarked on - and completed the Tosenin Kosode.
3. Threw my own kosode makin' workshop at Kingdom A&S.
4. Learned "Ina Bushi," a Japanese dance at Pennsic.
5. Busked entr'acte for the Wakefield Cycle plays at Pennsic.
6. Taught a waka class, fixed a great many obi and looked faaaaaaaaaaabulous at the Tanabata feast.
- 100 points for succumbing to a filk virus.
7. Made a hiogi. (Technically unfinished as it hasn't been painted.)
8. Created the House of Cheerful Monkeys, suitable for hosting sake parties and confounding the namban.
9. Brown wool gored tunic. (Unfinished.)
10. Saionji no Spike's kariginu.
11. Kake-mamori.
12. Banners for Rising Sun encampment.
13. Anachronistic flannel tabi.
14. Taught two classes and participated in the artisan's display at Estrella.
15. Handsewn Regency gown out of kimono silk in one week.
16. Lectured on pre-17th century Japanese costume at CostumeCon 26.
17. Took the Journeyman prize for documentation in the Historical Masquerade at CostumeCon 26.
18. Started studying taiko April 15, 2008.
19. Striped kosode.
20. Helped throw a Japanese picnic.
21. Sugoroku board/camp box.
22. Shibori sampler
23. Fustibalus
24. Uzume scroll
25. Emaki research paper.
25. Played taiko for the Queen. The Royal Pavilion did not burst into flames nor did any heads explode.
26. Memento mori paternoster.
And that's without counting any of the waka (tanka) written since May of '07.
Considering the fact that I've been dealing with a personal loss and have been in a deep musical funk since last autumn, that's a lot of activity when I look at it all in one place. It's not good or bad, it just is.
So am I taking the challenge? Nope. It's a non-motivator for me. I'm just doing stuff as I am inspired, or as need strikes.
Future contemplated projects include a cardboard and strapping tape shime-daiko and new lanterns for Rising Sun.
As if it's new or something, by the sound of some folks - which it isn't, having been started May 1, 2007.
So I started flipping through the old LJ and came up with the following rough outline of what artsy fartsy stuff (SCA and otherwise) I've done since May 1, 2007:
1. Performed the Agincourt Carol in a practicum class and tried my hand at playing French session music on hurdy gurdy at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival. (If more "bards" went out and faced the real world, I suspect the SCA would have less bad ones.)
2. Embarked on - and completed the Tosenin Kosode.
3. Threw my own kosode makin' workshop at Kingdom A&S.
4. Learned "Ina Bushi," a Japanese dance at Pennsic.
5. Busked entr'acte for the Wakefield Cycle plays at Pennsic.
6. Taught a waka class, fixed a great many obi and looked faaaaaaaaaaabulous at the Tanabata feast.
- 100 points for succumbing to a filk virus.
7. Made a hiogi. (Technically unfinished as it hasn't been painted.)
8. Created the House of Cheerful Monkeys, suitable for hosting sake parties and confounding the namban.
9. Brown wool gored tunic. (Unfinished.)
10. Saionji no Spike's kariginu.
11. Kake-mamori.
12. Banners for Rising Sun encampment.
13. Anachronistic flannel tabi.
14. Taught two classes and participated in the artisan's display at Estrella.
15. Handsewn Regency gown out of kimono silk in one week.
16. Lectured on pre-17th century Japanese costume at CostumeCon 26.
17. Took the Journeyman prize for documentation in the Historical Masquerade at CostumeCon 26.
18. Started studying taiko April 15, 2008.
19. Striped kosode.
20. Helped throw a Japanese picnic.
21. Sugoroku board/camp box.
22. Shibori sampler
23. Fustibalus
24. Uzume scroll
25. Emaki research paper.
25. Played taiko for the Queen. The Royal Pavilion did not burst into flames nor did any heads explode.
26. Memento mori paternoster.
And that's without counting any of the waka (tanka) written since May of '07.
Considering the fact that I've been dealing with a personal loss and have been in a deep musical funk since last autumn, that's a lot of activity when I look at it all in one place. It's not good or bad, it just is.
So am I taking the challenge? Nope. It's a non-motivator for me. I'm just doing stuff as I am inspired, or as need strikes.
Future contemplated projects include a cardboard and strapping tape shime-daiko and new lanterns for Rising Sun.
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Date: 2008-11-18 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-18 04:08 am (UTC)I've been feeling like I haven't done ANYTHING for a year - which clearly isn't true once I started thinking about what I had done. Go figure.
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Date: 2008-11-18 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-18 02:58 pm (UTC)Hence my cut off date of June 2009.