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baronessekatMemage: The Interview
The Rules
1. Leave me a
comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five
questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog/site
with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my
blog.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone
else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you
will ask them five questions.
1.If you could spend an evening chatting with any one person, living/dead, meat/fictional, who would it be and what would you want to discuss?
~Oh now that's tough. There are two people who's work I have always idolized and would love to sit down and talk with. the first is Ansel Adams. Deep down in my heart I am still a landscape portrait artist in black and white. I have spent hours studying his work and wishing I could find and capture the moments of nature that he has. I'd love to sit and pick his brain on how he found those pictures and watch him work. The second would be Diane Fossey. I read Gorilla's in the Mist in high school and then went to read several of her articles for National Geographic. I became an anthropologist because of her work (and a high school global studies teacher that really made an impact on my life) and I focused on primateology because of what Diane did. She gave her life to protect and fight for the rights and freedoms of a misunderstood and feared gentle animal. That kind of passion moves me and I'd love to just spend a day/evening/moment experiencing that passion first hand.
2.If you could spend fifty billion dollars to set up a zoo or museum and endow it in perpetuity, what would it be?
~~A preservation refuge for endangered animals with as near naturalistic surrounds as possible. I want to see the animals protected and given a chance to continue but not in a 8 x 8 metal cage. Help them remeber they are tigers and wolves and so on. And of course I would have to be able to play with the wolves like we did at the rochester zoo that one weekend.
3.What part of history or culture would you most like to study and understand?
~I'd like to be able to study and understand the Lakota Souix more. What knowledge I have has been just enough to tantalize me. They are a brave, proud and interesting people who should never be forgotten.
4.Describe your ideal date.
~May 19. Not too hot, not to cold... oh wait... wrong kind of date.
For me it's gotta be fun and relaxed. None of the pressure of "trying to impress". Maybe start out with a casual brunch, followed by walking through a large zoo or even as simple as kite flying. Dinner in a nice but not NICE restraunt and perhaps a movie. Something all day but not something that's going to have me or the other person watching the clock wondering when it's going to be over.
5.If you could only choose one book to read and could never read any others but that one over and over, which book would it be and why?
~Gasp... only one book? Um... probably Shogun by James Clavell. I ahve read that book so many times that I've had to replace it twice now. The characters are gripping, the plot intriguing and every time I read it I find something I missed before.
1. What appeals to you most about writing fanfic? Who is your favorite character to write?
~It started as a laziness I guess. I mean the characters are already established, you don't have to try to create backgrounds and relationships. The world has already been thought up. Then I found it a challenge. To write it so that other fans could say "yes that's the character". My story "The Mirror's Reflection" wasn't so much a writing of characters another had created, it was a chance to try that author's style and play in her world. So to answer the question... the challenge is what appeals to me most. Can I be true to the world/character/situation.
As for my favorite character... while I have not writen anything in a while it would still be Methos from Highlander: The Series. He's Cynical, sexy, pragmatic and at 5,000+ years old you can plop him into almost any historical setting and have it work. This reminds me I really have to finish that story I started with him and Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
2. How did you meet 'my' girlz?
~*Grins* I slept with dicea. We were in the same household but hadn't really met prior to a household Christmas party. She came in after having been awake for like 48 hours after basic training and traveling. The Boss told us to bed down on the floor in his room. We just fell alseep next to each other. She woke up at like 4am in a panic not knowing where she was. I told her it was alright and go back to sleep. She did and we've been best friends ever since. I met the Boogie when dicea brought her home and we became friends.
3. The other day you posted about singularity. What is the one best and one worst thing about it?
~The best part: no one to give me that look when I don't feel like doing the dishes or picking up the laundry on the floor of the bed room. I don't have to worry about annoying anyone in the house. I also don't have to try to fit the relationship into my schedule. I can come and go when I want, make plans on the spur of the moment and not have to worry about upseting that someone special because I would need to be with them.
The worst part: No one throughs "un-bridal showers". I'm in as much need as my cousins for new pots and pans, plates, bath towels and so on. But no one in my family's going to throw me a party just so others can give me stuff like that. Not to mention the looks I get from people when I say "I'm 31, single, never been married and not bothered by it", as if because of that I'm a social freak.
4. You wrote a couple of weeks ago about Laurels you particularly respect. Who are the top, say, five Laurels you respect most(anywhere in the SCA, active or not, etc.) and why?
~ 1. Master Brendan Brisbane (of AEthelmearc and now Atlantia). His scribal abilities leave me stunned everytime I see his work, his teaching skills are beyond enviable, and he's just a great guy.
~2. Duchess Mistress Mistress Sedalia MacNare (The East). I started out fearing this woman. she was/is SEDALIA. I got to know her more in the Pelican capacity but I am in awe of her costuming skills. I spent one evening at Pennsic a couple years ago when she was autocratting and talked to her about how to find the right trim for garb and how to tell if the garb you are making needs it. She helped me to look more closely at pictures of my time and culture to figure out how to make the coats and tunics have the right look.
~3. Mistress Alicia Langland (AEthelmearc) - gods I wish I could calligraph like she does. And she's one of the nicest sweetest people I've ever met.
~4. Mistress Bree (The Outlands) -besides making to die for garb... the girl knows how to party and tell it like it is. She's one of the few who has managed to put me in my place and make me smile about it. She also has sat with me at Pennsic, let me vent after a hard day at Security Point and then point me to someone to show my scribal portfolio to. And did I mention... she can party like no tomorrow?
~5. Mistress Mairi (formerly of the East now AEthelmearc). She's an associate of my household, former apprentice of Duchess Sedalia and is the research goddess. She does wonderful Byzantine and has given me places and ideas to look for Russian stuff. But she's the one who has encouraged me the most in my research for period documents and texts for scrolls. she's read some of my work and helped me find focus for it. If I were ever to take a belt for arts I'd strongly consider her.
5. On a related note, if time travel allowed for it, who in the Real Middle Ages would you have liked to be apprenticed to/associated with, and why?
~this one is tough. Mostly because for as much as I play in the SCA and research part of it, I've never really studied one person over another. But if I had to pick, I think the Master of Mary of Burgandy. Who I do not think was just one person though. Mainly because I'd like to learn that style of art better. I can't do acanthis leaves very well, and the style of calligraphy at times has left me a bit perplexed. I'd like to learn both from someone who was patroned by the rich for his skills in those area.
thank you for the questions... for someone who's never met me in person you picks some great ones.
The Rules
1. Leave me a
comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five
questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog/site
with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my
blog.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone
else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you
will ask them five questions.
1.If you could spend an evening chatting with any one person, living/dead, meat/fictional, who would it be and what would you want to discuss?
~Oh now that's tough. There are two people who's work I have always idolized and would love to sit down and talk with. the first is Ansel Adams. Deep down in my heart I am still a landscape portrait artist in black and white. I have spent hours studying his work and wishing I could find and capture the moments of nature that he has. I'd love to sit and pick his brain on how he found those pictures and watch him work. The second would be Diane Fossey. I read Gorilla's in the Mist in high school and then went to read several of her articles for National Geographic. I became an anthropologist because of her work (and a high school global studies teacher that really made an impact on my life) and I focused on primateology because of what Diane did. She gave her life to protect and fight for the rights and freedoms of a misunderstood and feared gentle animal. That kind of passion moves me and I'd love to just spend a day/evening/moment experiencing that passion first hand.
2.If you could spend fifty billion dollars to set up a zoo or museum and endow it in perpetuity, what would it be?
~~A preservation refuge for endangered animals with as near naturalistic surrounds as possible. I want to see the animals protected and given a chance to continue but not in a 8 x 8 metal cage. Help them remeber they are tigers and wolves and so on. And of course I would have to be able to play with the wolves like we did at the rochester zoo that one weekend.
3.What part of history or culture would you most like to study and understand?
~I'd like to be able to study and understand the Lakota Souix more. What knowledge I have has been just enough to tantalize me. They are a brave, proud and interesting people who should never be forgotten.
4.Describe your ideal date.
~May 19. Not too hot, not to cold... oh wait... wrong kind of date.
For me it's gotta be fun and relaxed. None of the pressure of "trying to impress". Maybe start out with a casual brunch, followed by walking through a large zoo or even as simple as kite flying. Dinner in a nice but not NICE restraunt and perhaps a movie. Something all day but not something that's going to have me or the other person watching the clock wondering when it's going to be over.
5.If you could only choose one book to read and could never read any others but that one over and over, which book would it be and why?
~Gasp... only one book? Um... probably Shogun by James Clavell. I ahve read that book so many times that I've had to replace it twice now. The characters are gripping, the plot intriguing and every time I read it I find something I missed before.
1. What appeals to you most about writing fanfic? Who is your favorite character to write?
~It started as a laziness I guess. I mean the characters are already established, you don't have to try to create backgrounds and relationships. The world has already been thought up. Then I found it a challenge. To write it so that other fans could say "yes that's the character". My story "The Mirror's Reflection" wasn't so much a writing of characters another had created, it was a chance to try that author's style and play in her world. So to answer the question... the challenge is what appeals to me most. Can I be true to the world/character/situation.
As for my favorite character... while I have not writen anything in a while it would still be Methos from Highlander: The Series. He's Cynical, sexy, pragmatic and at 5,000+ years old you can plop him into almost any historical setting and have it work. This reminds me I really have to finish that story I started with him and Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
2. How did you meet 'my' girlz?
~*Grins* I slept with dicea. We were in the same household but hadn't really met prior to a household Christmas party. She came in after having been awake for like 48 hours after basic training and traveling. The Boss told us to bed down on the floor in his room. We just fell alseep next to each other. She woke up at like 4am in a panic not knowing where she was. I told her it was alright and go back to sleep. She did and we've been best friends ever since. I met the Boogie when dicea brought her home and we became friends.
3. The other day you posted about singularity. What is the one best and one worst thing about it?
~The best part: no one to give me that look when I don't feel like doing the dishes or picking up the laundry on the floor of the bed room. I don't have to worry about annoying anyone in the house. I also don't have to try to fit the relationship into my schedule. I can come and go when I want, make plans on the spur of the moment and not have to worry about upseting that someone special because I would need to be with them.
The worst part: No one throughs "un-bridal showers". I'm in as much need as my cousins for new pots and pans, plates, bath towels and so on. But no one in my family's going to throw me a party just so others can give me stuff like that. Not to mention the looks I get from people when I say "I'm 31, single, never been married and not bothered by it", as if because of that I'm a social freak.
4. You wrote a couple of weeks ago about Laurels you particularly respect. Who are the top, say, five Laurels you respect most(anywhere in the SCA, active or not, etc.) and why?
~ 1. Master Brendan Brisbane (of AEthelmearc and now Atlantia). His scribal abilities leave me stunned everytime I see his work, his teaching skills are beyond enviable, and he's just a great guy.
~2. Duchess Mistress Mistress Sedalia MacNare (The East). I started out fearing this woman. she was/is SEDALIA. I got to know her more in the Pelican capacity but I am in awe of her costuming skills. I spent one evening at Pennsic a couple years ago when she was autocratting and talked to her about how to find the right trim for garb and how to tell if the garb you are making needs it. She helped me to look more closely at pictures of my time and culture to figure out how to make the coats and tunics have the right look.
~3. Mistress Alicia Langland (AEthelmearc) - gods I wish I could calligraph like she does. And she's one of the nicest sweetest people I've ever met.
~4. Mistress Bree (The Outlands) -besides making to die for garb... the girl knows how to party and tell it like it is. She's one of the few who has managed to put me in my place and make me smile about it. She also has sat with me at Pennsic, let me vent after a hard day at Security Point and then point me to someone to show my scribal portfolio to. And did I mention... she can party like no tomorrow?
~5. Mistress Mairi (formerly of the East now AEthelmearc). She's an associate of my household, former apprentice of Duchess Sedalia and is the research goddess. She does wonderful Byzantine and has given me places and ideas to look for Russian stuff. But she's the one who has encouraged me the most in my research for period documents and texts for scrolls. she's read some of my work and helped me find focus for it. If I were ever to take a belt for arts I'd strongly consider her.
5. On a related note, if time travel allowed for it, who in the Real Middle Ages would you have liked to be apprenticed to/associated with, and why?
~this one is tough. Mostly because for as much as I play in the SCA and research part of it, I've never really studied one person over another. But if I had to pick, I think the Master of Mary of Burgandy. Who I do not think was just one person though. Mainly because I'd like to learn that style of art better. I can't do acanthis leaves very well, and the style of calligraphy at times has left me a bit perplexed. I'd like to learn both from someone who was patroned by the rich for his skills in those area.
thank you for the questions... for someone who's never met me in person you picks some great ones.
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Date: 2005-04-29 03:23 am (UTC)The Dicea Questions
Date: 2005-04-29 06:40 am (UTC)2. If money & scheduleing was not an issue, where would you take me for a 10 day vacation?
3. The Galactic Overlord says you have been judged. You get to choose your punishment: lose your hearing, lose your sight, lose your ability to speak. Which do you pick and why?
4. You are given an opportunity to meet and spend an evening with any musical artist (singer, composer, conductor, musician), living or dead. Who do you pick and why? Also what would you talk about?
5. Describe your ideal date.