Dandelyon's Worlds

The Rose and Bay Awards are for excellence in crowdfunded creativity. If you haven't heard of them, ysabetwordsmith has a nice informative post here: Rose and Bay Awards

Anyone can make nominations, but you cannot nominate yourself. If you want, you can nominate Dandelyon's Readings in the Other category in this post here.  You have to make nominations in January.

I will be making some nominations in the next two or three days. If you are doing a project that qualifies, please let me know about it and I'll check it out. I do already have some projects in mind, but I'm happy to at least take a look!

I've found some cool things in years past, looking at other people's nominations.

 

Edit:  I meant to list the categories!  They are Art, Fiction, Poetry, Web Comic, Other Project, and Patron.

So, MuseCon was this weekend. I'd taken two days off, one to do errands and pack and do last-minute prep for crazy quilt workshopping, and one to get there early.

I also had a dentist appointment a week ago, which I figured would be no big deal. Though the cleaning a few weeks ago had found a hole, my mouth didn't hurt and I wasn't getting food caught in it, so how bad could it be? Um. The one I knew about was deep and under a crown, which meant under the gum level, and the dentist found another hole too. Ow.

Being on the inhaled steroids for my asthma means my mouth sometimes heals slowly. So, when my mouth hurt the next day I took Tylenol and didn't worry about it. It seemed to be getting slowly better until Friday. Friday was weird--I couldn't focus and was tired and out of it all day.

The Singing Tesla Coils were cool though!



If you get a chance to see--and hear--the Singing Tesla Coils, ypu should do so.  The man there in the middle is spinning two neon lightbulbs, which are being powered by the electricity being emitted by the coils.  He's protected by being in a "cage" made of wire--mostly chain mail.  He has insulators under his boots so the audience can see the electricity as it escapes from the metal around his body to the ground.

But the most amazing thing is that they modulate the tesla coils so the sounds they emit are not random--they are music!  We heard a bunch of different tunes, from the Mario game-theme to classical pieces, Vader's theme and of course, the Dr. Who theme.

Later that night, I managed to sing along with a John Denver song in Denver's key without once shifting octaves or squeaking--who'd have thought standing 20 feet from potentially deadly electrical charges for an hour or so would be good for breathing/singing?

The rest of the weekend was pretty much wasted, however.  The people at my workshop seemed to have a good time (though one said that having a creative thing where she didn't have to follow strict rules intimidating), but I never found enough focus to do anything creative myself.  My mouth was hurting more and more, and after sleeping 12 hours Saturday night, we got out of the hotel room and all I really wanted to do was go back to sleep!

So, yesterday the dentist called in a prescription for antibiotics  (which did clear my head) and today I went in to see him and had a surprise root canal.  My budget weeps, but I expect soon my mouth will feel better.

Here, have another picture of man-made musical lightning: