~About Airkraken Day~

Happy Airkraken Day, a photo by AyraLeona on Flickr.

I wish you all a Happy Airkraken Day! (And of course happy St. Patrick's day as well!)

If you don't know what Airkraken Day is, you can find an explanation in my entry from last year. 

~about International Steampunk Day~

So today, 14th June is INTERNATIONAL STEAMPUNK DAY!
Info from the Facebook Group:

"There is International Pirate Day, Ninja Appreciation Day, Dress like a Goth Day and Mock an Emo Day, but there is no steampunk day. I suggest we remedy this and have a offical Holiday where we get to dress up like Steampunk Characters, watch steampunk movies, play steampunk video games, read steampunk books and just bask in the glory that is the steampunk genre. So bust out your goggles and your ray guns, your felt vests and your steam gaskets and imagine a history that might have been...at least for one day."

So Happy Steampunk Day!

My octopelius and me celebrated together ;) 

We both dressed up for the occassion 

(I had to work all day, bit at least at home I could change into steamy clothes^^):
His outfit: 

top hat: made by me

My outfit: 

Skirt: taobao

corset: restyle.pl

belt: C&A plus added keys

curtain tassel: taobao

blouse: Primark, dyed by me

gloves: H&M
glasses: Vintage
jewelry: Atelier Tausendschön, Six, Poor Man's Gold Label 

So what did you do at Steampunk Day 2013?

~about the Spymuseum and my Air Kraken Day~

So last Sunday (17th March) was Air Kraken Day. As I already told you, my local Steampunk group had a meet-up:

(Nearly) the whole group
Picture made by our gorgeous waitress

(It was kind of  "the day of the Steampunk meet-ups, because in Germany and Switzerland there were four at the same time! If you want to read about the other ones (and understand German) you can check the Clockworker for it.)

We meet at 11.15 at the Brauhaus Zeche Jacobi in Oberhausen. Luckily I had a table reserved for us because the restaurant was really full! Originally 13 people were at the list for the event, but we ended up being 17, so it was a bit cramped at the table, but nothing we couldn’t handle. We had an awesome lunch and dessert and coffee afterwards and spent almost three hours at the brewhouse. We changed seats every now and then (mostly when some of the guys went outside for smoking^^) so you had the chance to talk to everybody. 

Our waitress was so kind taking a group picture, which you can see at the beginning shortly before we left. (Unfortunately one is already missing here.) 

We only had to walk some few meters to get to the Spy museum. But since the brewhouse and the spy museum are located at the CentrO Oberhausen which is a huge shopping mall with different museums around it, it was very crowed even on a Sunday. Especially families which wanted to go to the cinema, Legomuseum or Sea Life so we had to stop quite often to answer questions about our appearance. Three guests left us here, so we were 13 Steampunks left, that visited the museum. 

ALL the guns...

 At the museum itself we split into smaller groups. Honestly: I LOVED the museum. The concept is really great, for adults as well as or children. You learn something about the history of espionage, agent services, prominent spies, spy movies, internet spies, and so much more. There is a lot of stuff you can try yourself, like Morse code, or brake a safe, night vision gear and so on. If you ever come to Oberhausen you should really visit that museum, it’s totally worth it!

 

Funnily our group reunited at the museum shop at the children’s toys^^ They had golden guns, for 2€… An opportunity a crafty Steampunk will not miss (I bought two myself^^).

After that we bid farewell and headed home.

I took my tiny octopelius and the even tinier, still nameless purple kraken to the meet

Since it was Air Kraken Day I had to take some pictures with my krakens, and pictures of other people with my krakens, AND some sky watching pictures^^

Mini octopelius on my hat^^

More kraken on hat

another kraken on a hat

Kraken on gun!

Kraken themed head gear...

...and jewelry!

Hilde, MaRy and I had decided before to dress up together and take some outfit snaps, which I don’t want to hold back. Here's Hilde's entry for Air Kraken Day. 

Hilde's awesome outfit and her krakens!

Hair flower: H&M

Goggles: some random Cyber brand

Scarf: taobao

Tailcoat: my own design, made it myself

Wristcuffs: my own design made them myself

Cardigan: Primark

Skirt: made it myself

Petticoat: Dear Celine

Nylons: American Apparel

Woolen socks: Hema

Boots: Clio

(Copyright 2013 Bert Van den Wyngaert)

 

Unfortunately Mary forgot to take an outfit snap but at least she made a photo of her krakens having pizza^^. 

Since I like to give away some of my krakens, I like to present them to you with their new owners ;) 

Lord Krokus sitting on Aleksander's top hat

Sir Arthur Conan Kraken of Abney Park at the concert in Eindhoven

Caro/Sheris and Castillus, her octopelius.

Sissy Voss (bassist of Coppelius) and me at the concert in Nürnberg,
together with the tiny octopelius

I hope you all had a great Air Kraken Day!

Watch the skies!

Kraken everywhere!

 You can find more pictures of the meet in my flickr-album.

~about the Air Kraken Day~

Dear Followers and those who may have stumpled upon my blog: Today is Air Kraken Day (yes and also St. Patrick's Day). So my krakens and me wish you a

(Crocheted by me, only the brown one was knitted by my friend Hilde, thank you again!)

So watch the skies as the Great Northern Air Kraken return to their nesting grounds.

You don't know what Air Kraken Day is?
Well it's kind of a Steampunk Holiday established back in 2007 in the Brass Goggles Forum. It's always on March, 17th.

Tinkergirl gave some further information about the subject at Brass Goggles:

Some of you may be aware of the scourge of the skies – the deadly Air-Kraken.  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of them (The Horror of the Heights), and the whole ecology supporting these sky based terrors, they seem to have been mostly forgotten about.  Well, with March being the height of their mating season, it’s as good a day as any to look warily to the skies and remember the mighty Air-Kraken.
It is of course, St. Patrick’s Day also, so perhaps you’ll take a glass or two of whatever tickles your fancy, and look to the skies to see if you might by chance spot an Air-Kraken flitting between the clouds – it’s probably the very best time to do so.  Current theories believe them to be either semi-transparent and made from mostly aerogels, or alternately colour-changing like water-based squid and supported aloft by sacs of hydrogen.

And as the Clockworker lets us know even Wikipedia has knowledge of the  Atmospheric Beasts.

The Telegraph UK even gave a proof of Air Krakens existing!

But what do do today?
You decided wether you hide from all the beasts floating around the sky OR you grab your pet kraken for a walk like me and my friends Hilde and MaRy. We decided to dress up for the occasion and as luck would have it my local Steampunk group has a meet-up today ;) (I'll show you the pictures later ;) )

If you are interested in krakens, octopus, squids etc. you might like Hilde's and my joined Tumblr: Air Kraken Adventures. We post a lot of our own krakens there but also other awesome kraken related stuff, so feel free to have a look.

I'm interested what you did today. Anything Kraken related? Or more sympathy for St. Patrick's Day? Or just a normal Sunday?

~about Kraken Stories~

Kraken Stories is thing Hilde, MaRy and I do, because we all have plushy air krakens. They will send each other messages or show them interesting things they found. Maybe you are also interested in their stories ;)
Albert and Cutethulu already did a small story at Emporium Vernesque, you can find it here in Hilde's livejournal. Based on that we want to make some further stories, so here we go^^

Well then, this is Mildred's (Albert's sister) answer to Cutethulu's message (the first part of our current story) and to Kraky:

"Hey guys,
after Albert read the poem, he felt like he should to something to become stronger, so he left for the gym...

I'm not sure, if they have exercise machines for eight arms..."