[pix] Bay Area Maker Faire 2011

So yes! Yesterday we drove down to San Mateo for the Bay Area Maker Faire and had quite a fun time. Many strange and silly (and nerdy and intellectual) things were to be seen. So without further ado, pictures from the geekfest below the cut!

( Warning: Science (and Other Weird Things) Ahead )

So yes...quite a lot of things seen and done, played with or eaten (yes, we had funnel cake!), and it was a hell of a lot of fun. So much so that I was dead tired by the time we got home! It was well worth it, though...lots of silly, geeky fun.

[rts] 1987, Part 1

From past experience, I know a lot of you have heard me go on excessively about how much I love the music from 1988...but lately, while working on my research for Walk In Silence, I've found that while many of the classic alt-rock albums of the late-80s came out that year, there were quite a number that had come out the previous year as well, many of them being "seminal" or at least classic. I figure, why not do a retrospective video post? As like before, these will be in chronological order and under an lj-cut so as to not crash your browser.

( Learn to love me and assemble the ways, now, today, tomorrow and always )

[Part 2 coming next]

[rts] 1987, Part 2

And now for the second half of the year!

( They told me bring something new, please let me pull something through )

So yeah...like I said in the previous post, the more I do research on Walk in Silence, the more I'm realizing just how important some of the major hits and albums from the mid-to-late 80s became in this genre's history. I should post some other years at some point, just for fun!