The complete Arisia '05 schedule, in pdf form, is up on the website at http://www.arisia.org/2005/arisia05pp2.pdf. It's 2 MB, a hefty download if you have a slow connection.
I'm doing a program item, which is listed on the schedule as "Theremin Demo", saturday at 6pm in Whittier.
I will not be doing a "demo". If 150 people show up and expect me to play it, they're going to be really disappointed, because I can't, hardly anyone can. It's supposed to be listed as "Try the Theremin". The text I wrote for the program book was as follows:
Try your hand at this rare instrument, which is actually played by moving your hands in the air! If there is an official instrument of Science Fiction, it must be the Theremin. Its eerie sound is heard in everything from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" to "Hellboy".
*grin* thanks! We worked reallyreallyreally hard on it. Phi and I spent over 40 hours STRAIGHT on it, tag-team, me working from 4pm Sunday until Noon Monday, him picking up at noon Monday while I slept until 7pm. At 7pm I started working on it again, immediately upon waking up, and around 10pm Phi and I started working on it together each of us doing side projects in other apps (for instance I was making the icons in Illustrator, while he was working on the InDesign doc.; I was working on the maps, while he was proofing the text file, etc.) until he had to leave for work at 9:15am. I kept working on it until it shipped finally at 4pm Tuesday. And that was After he spent time all week collating all the date that came in many different formats, and correcting the changes, errors, addenda, etc. that were coming in from all sources. Phew! It was all pretty fun, in its own way, but, still I definitely appreciate the positive feedback. Thanks!
It is beautiful. I wish there were a plain HTML version I could suck into plucker, though, since the PDF is a little wonky on the Palm version of Adobe Reader.
(This is less of a problem than it would have been at Worldcon, though, since the pocket programs for Arisia are actually pocket-sized AFAIK, unlike Noreascon's.)
I seem to have been left out of all the panels that I'm supposed to be on. I guess I'll just have to have faith that Programming will fix it when I get there...
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Date: 2005-01-19 03:32 am (UTC)EEK!!!!
Date: 2005-01-19 06:00 am (UTC)I will not be doing a "demo". If 150 people show up and expect me to play it, they're going to be really disappointed, because I can't, hardly anyone can. It's supposed to be listed as "Try the Theremin". The text I wrote for the program book was as follows:
Try your hand at this rare instrument, which is actually played by
moving your hands in the air! If there is an official instrument of
Science Fiction, it must be the Theremin. Its eerie sound is heard in
everything from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" to "Hellboy".
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Date: 2005-01-19 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-20 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-21 03:29 am (UTC)(This is less of a problem than it would have been at Worldcon, though, since the pocket programs for Arisia are actually pocket-sized AFAIK, unlike Noreascon's.)
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Date: 2005-01-21 04:41 pm (UTC)Sigh...
Date: 2005-01-19 03:29 pm (UTC)Re: Sigh...
Date: 2005-01-19 07:16 pm (UTC)She's probably right.