my favorite parts of the steampunk world
is the exaggeration and sci-fi aspects
of like the vernian science the
theorized Tesla applications and kind of
incorporating that stuff into fictional
props and costume in aesthetics my name
is Tim Harrison oz McGinnis or as 1b
McGinnis and the steampunk world I used
to do a lot of fabrication and tinkering
and whatnot when I was younger and
decided I'm going to throw some things
together for Halloween and ended up
being a three month long project for a
Halloween costume essentially and that's
where these in the original gun kind of
came along I heard about some other
conventions specifically tested on in
Madison I had missed fabricating and
tinkering and creating and it kind of
helps bring all that back in I do some
short story writing and well for
character development and kind of
incorporating all that into a
physicality and persona that I can kind
of share and bring the character and
these fake sci-fi props to life this was
one of the first things that I built
there is usually a switch that lives on
my hand but it got stuck in the car door
in actuality it's just a fancy tough
lithium-ion power pack cellphone
batteries essentially in the fictional
universe in a CEREC extraction reactor
that kind of pulls the energy from the
space in the year before they had some
of the science backing of molecules and
whatnot and actually called things that
user in the empty space and kind of
harnesses that this is the second
iteration there's a mark one version
that's a little bit smaller a little
different
the actual concepts behind it are pretty
simple when I'm doing my panel is one of
the reasons why I want to do it put my
panels together is a lot of people I
guess are intimidated from just based
electronic words to give us $10
soldering iron and some willingness to
experiment it it's pretty simple to even
get basic lights and LEDs via pendants
or some basic gun weaponry or things
like that and just integrate that into
your props and costumes I felt like I
was looking at these things that I
didn't see it understand why this was
happening at first as like oh yeah I'm
using baubles like oh you should try
this out it we make your life so much
easier
things that I pull from aside from my
imagination the old Jules Verne stories
in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea the
forethought of technology that he wrote
about was just huge and again the fabled
Tesla journals basic sci-fi everything
from Star Wars to Firefly to things like
the wild wild west old TV show and then
the movie League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen the old movies there's a lot
of stuff like the vehicle or the boat
it's a lot of things that I guess I kind
of just like to think about aside from
the madness in my brain and kind of
combining that with just my love of
sci-fi and the particular aesthetics
with just a steam engine area like free
industrial area
okay hello what god hello
