On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:25 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if this could be tied into the F10 artwork theme.... I've
> > been sketching up some steampunky doodles lately. Maybe I'll do some
> > along these lines. Here are some steampunk-inspired ideas:
>
> Those ideas are just awesome, I like a lot the way you are thinking.
> However, not sure how practical: they are the opposite of the I/F/V
> posters, which aimed for simplicity.
> I for one have doubts I could draw myself such images. But you are
> better at drawing than me.
I think these ideas rock too.
> > FREEDOM
> > =======
> > - person strapped to a Wright-Brothers-esque flying contraption
> > (flight is usually associated with freedom... or maybe a steampunky
> > blimp/zeppelin ride with a crowd of steampunky people together waving on
> > the balcony, you also get the community aspect there)
>
> I think I like better the blimp take, only careful to not be to much
> like the F7 balloon (and not too much like the mozillaZine blimp).
Oh, now you're talking, the Fedora zeppelin! (Cue "The Ocean"...)
> > - a steamboat floating down a wide river towards a rising sun on the
> > horizon (open spaces, sun coming up, flowing water can all symbolize
> > great potential and/or freedom, I think)
>
> The steamboat is fading into the sunset, just like a movie ending "this
> is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
And the steamboat is flying a Fedora flag. In fact, all of the tableaux
feature a Fedora logo somehow -- and that's the only occurrence of blue
in any of the pictures. The rest of each picture is all that steampunky
sepia tone.
> > FRIENDS
> > =======
> > - steampunky sailors toasting on deck, their pewter mugs of grog
> > clanking together
>
> I like the sailors take and we can say Fedora is Free as in Freedom but
> also free as in free grog.
Nice, but...
> > - maybe a silly idea, but a group of victorian/steampunky clad women
> > in a circle, each knitting a piece together. Maybe what they're knitting
> > is a Fedora flag?
>
> And nobody can accuse us that Fedora is a community unfriendly for women :p
...this version includes a Fedora flag/logo, which I think is key to
each picture to make it our own.
> > - Or maybe a few steampunky people sitting at a steampunky piano
> > playing piano together? (collaboration!)
> >
> > FEATURES
> > ========
> > - a steampunky rube goldberg machine? (but maybe that gives a false
> > impression that we overengineer!)
>
> It does not need to necessarily be a rube goldberg machine ("a
> deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task
> in very indirect and convoluted fashion" - wikipedia), only a very
> complex apparatus (leaving alone the part about the simple task). Maybe
> include a hamster wheel into the device, just for fun.
>
> > - a clockmaker with wearing those funky spectacles working on the
> > gears inside a pocket watch (could represent infinity also, if you draw
> > the gears right)
>
> To simplify the drawing, the clockmaker can be seen from the back,
> leaning over the device: we see only the back of his head, part of the
> hands and part of the device.
>
> > - old-style movie camera projecting onto a wall, 3... 2... 1.... fedora!
What if every picture was oriented on the steampunky steamboat? So this
one would be a shot of the engine room, with a big lit-up Fedora logo as
an incandenscent light on the wall. Maybe the logo is a stained-glass
front for that light.
> > FIRST
> > =====
> > - a steampunky astronaut putting a Fedora flag on the moon?
>
> A good reference could be
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon (which does not
> involve the landing but is close).
>
> > - a steampunky rail-cart (eg
> > http://www.die-cast-toys.com/plastic-soldiers/swoppets/railcart.jpg)
> > race with the coolest-looking rail-cart driver clearly in first place
> > (maybe he has a Fedora logo on him somewhere or somehow represents
> > Fedora; maybe he has a more interesting wardrobe than the rest so he
> > stands out)
> > - or maybe a steamboat race instead of a railcart race :)
>
> I think one of those (rail-cart or boat) can work. Maybe use the boat if
> we also used a boat for freedom and sailors for friendship.
Right, the boat ftw! Or we could show the sailors planting a Fedora
flag on an undiscovered island...
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