So last Sunday
(17th March) was Air Kraken Day. As I already told you, my local Steampunk group
had a meet-up:
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| (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.
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| 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.
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| 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^^
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| Mini octopelius on my hat^^ |
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| More kraken on hat |
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| another kraken on a hat |
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| Kraken on gun! |
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| Kraken themed head gear... |
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| ...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.
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| 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 ;)
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| Lord Krokus sitting on Aleksander's top hat |
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| Sir Arthur Conan Kraken of Abney Park at the concert in Eindhoven |
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| Caro/Sheris and Castillus, her octopelius. |
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| 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!
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| Watch the skies! |
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| Kraken everywhere! |
You can find more pictures of the meet in my flickr-album.
