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Saturday, November 10, 2012
SAVE THE DATE! COMING THIS NOVEMBER! One month before the world ends....
History's most explosive feud will fuel the explosive end of history!
Witness the ULTIMATE SMACKDOWN at the
SHOWDOWN AT UNOBTAINIUM 2012: TESLA VS. EDISON!
Two days of an epic battle framed by a Steampunk extravaganza of camping, music, Vaudevillian delights, interactive art, vendors, delectable comestibles, talks, demos, luminaries and more!
Saturday & Sunday, November 10th & 11th, 2012
Nov 10 : 11am - 2am /Nov11 : 10am-6pm
The Ball Farm
Dale, TX (30 min. SE of Austin near Lytton Springs)
Camping available on-site
UNOBTAINIUM, TX. The name has sparked generations of Texans raised on feverishly whispered legends of this most haunted of ghost towns... Tales of the obsessed miners who staked everything they had - and rumor has it - sold their souls - to extract the elusive element from the black prairie earth and limestone of Central Texas.
This once-vibrant mining town began to lose its luster in the early 1870s. Some say the miners took their lust for the element too far and struck their richest vein...in the mouth of Hell. This also happens to be when the townsfolk began to disappear. Miners never returned from their shifts. Then, children began to go missing, the preacher, miner's wives.... the sheriff, shopkeepers, and finally, the saloon keeper and the "soiled-doves"...
Now, maybe it's due to that old troublemaker, the Son of Perdition, dabbling in wacky temporal hijinks and extracting his toll on the greedy townspeople. Or maybe it's due to the fact that that high concentrations of unobtainium have the unnerving ability to render time and space relative and ephemeral. Whatever the case or both, past, present and future intersect and occur simultaneously in the town.
For years this most haunted place in Texas (some say the world) has lain dormant, the resident evil undisturbed and the specters of its townspeople allowed to go about their business. That is, until a new wave of scientists, inventors, and tinkerers developed a seemingly unquenchable thirst for this rarest of elements to fuel their creations. For those brave enough to face the mournful, wrathful ghosts of Unobtainium, the power, the fame, and the glory is theirs...or is it?
We stand in 1887. Brilliant Serbian inventor, physicist, engineer and futurist, Nicola Tesla, claims he's braved the apparitions and reached all the way into the mine where he has extracted all the unobtainium he needs to teach Thomas Edison a lesson - payback for an incident that occurred two years previous.
In 1885, Tesla claimed he could redesign Edison's inefficient motors and generators, making improvements in both service and economy. Edison remarked, "There's one hundred thousand dollars in it for you... if you can do it!"
Tesla successfully completed the redesign with all due speed and consequently inquired about payment. Edison's reply was cutting and flippant, claiming he was only joking. "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," he laughed. Tesla immediately resigned, and infuriated over what he perceived as his betrayal by Edison, began to plot his revenge.
Edison is sick and tired of Tesla's claims, and means to teach the upstart a lesson... and take his unobtainium. That is, if he actually has it.
At the Showdown at Unobtainium 2012: Tesla vs. Edison, a number of luminaries will descend upon the town, brave the specters there, and lay bets as to who will emerge the victor in this deadly battle of wits and technology...
Among those present and sitting in judgment on the Showdown will be members of the legendary yet shadowy "Twilight Club," well-known philanthropists and visionary thinkers, all. Thanks to the suspension of time and space in Unobtainium, founding members Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and Edwin Markham will be joined by later members including artist-philosopher Walter Russell, IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel and others.
In addition to our esteemed luminaries, we invite those members of the public with the strength and fortitude to visit the town to lay their own bets on the outcome as well as display and demonstrate their own technological creations, and converse with our pantheon of brilliant thinkers.
Whist in attendance be certain to outfit yourself in the finest Steampunk, neo-Victorian, and historical fashions available for purchase from our haberdashers, milliners, dress and corset makers, vintage re-purposers, and more. Take home a souvenir of the epic battle by investing in priceless objets d'art handcrafted by our gifted artisans. Sample delectable comestibles and quaff your thirst thanks to our fine purveyors, both living and dead. Primitive camping available for those daring enough to overnight in the town, or hostelries are available in the vicinity for those with a stronger sense of self-preservation.
All of this ghostly magnificence will be framed in glorious lighting and cutting-edge visuals, as augmented by talks, demonstrations, music, interactive art, and Vaudevillian delights.
Brought to you by your humble servants Sam Tyler (The Mysterium) and Maggie Duval (Margaret Duval Productions).
For vendor, tickets/camping, volunteer opportunities and general inquiries, please contact Sam Tyler: wicked@showdownatunobtainium.com
For production questions, artist relations, sponsorships, and press relations, please contact Maggie Duval : drloveless@showdownatunobtainium.com
Keep your eye on updates to this page. Full information coming soon to SHOWDOWNATUNOBTAINIUM.COM including gorgeous artwork from lauded illustrator and comic writer/artist/publisher Mark Wheatley.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WheatleyMarks
About The Ball Farm
The Ball Farm is located on the old San Antonio-Nacogdoches Road, the oldest road in Texas. Vestiges of the original road are still visible in the yard near the house. The property is on the high ground between the Colorado and Guadalupe River systems, which in the old days made it possible for wagons to travel in wet weather. The farm, totaling 62 acres of post oak savannah, consists of two tracts of land, title to which dates from an early Spanish land grant. Dimensions on one of the deeds are still listed in varas, an early Spanish unit of land measurement.
Location: 30 minutes southeast of Austin near Lytton Springs
Mailing Address:
667 Old San Antonio Rd.
Dale, TX 78616
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BallFarm
Linkies for the non facebook inclined:
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Maggie-Duval-Showdown-at-Unobtainium-2012-Tesla-vs.-Edison
http://plancast.com/p/c66e/showdown-unobtainium-2012-tesla-vs-edison
Saturday, November 10, 2012
SAVE THE DATE! COMING THIS NOVEMBER! One month before the world ends....
History's most explosive feud will fuel the explosive end of history!
Witness the ULTIMATE SMACKDOWN at the
SHOWDOWN AT UNOBTAINIUM 2012: TESLA VS. EDISON!
Two days of an epic battle framed by a Steampunk extravaganza of camping, music, Vaudevillian delights, interactive art, vendors, delectable comestibles, talks, demos, luminaries and more!
Saturday & Sunday, November 10th & 11th, 2012
Nov 10 : 11am - 2am /Nov11 : 10am-6pm
The Ball Farm
Dale, TX (30 min. SE of Austin near Lytton Springs)
Camping available on-site
UNOBTAINIUM, TX. The name has sparked generations of Texans raised on feverishly whispered legends of this most haunted of ghost towns... Tales of the obsessed miners who staked everything they had - and rumor has it - sold their souls - to extract the elusive element from the black prairie earth and limestone of Central Texas.
This once-vibrant mining town began to lose its luster in the early 1870s. Some say the miners took their lust for the element too far and struck their richest vein...in the mouth of Hell. This also happens to be when the townsfolk began to disappear. Miners never returned from their shifts. Then, children began to go missing, the preacher, miner's wives.... the sheriff, shopkeepers, and finally, the saloon keeper and the "soiled-doves"...
Now, maybe it's due to that old troublemaker, the Son of Perdition, dabbling in wacky temporal hijinks and extracting his toll on the greedy townspeople. Or maybe it's due to the fact that that high concentrations of unobtainium have the unnerving ability to render time and space relative and ephemeral. Whatever the case or both, past, present and future intersect and occur simultaneously in the town.
For years this most haunted place in Texas (some say the world) has lain dormant, the resident evil undisturbed and the specters of its townspeople allowed to go about their business. That is, until a new wave of scientists, inventors, and tinkerers developed a seemingly unquenchable thirst for this rarest of elements to fuel their creations. For those brave enough to face the mournful, wrathful ghosts of Unobtainium, the power, the fame, and the glory is theirs...or is it?
We stand in 1887. Brilliant Serbian inventor, physicist, engineer and futurist, Nicola Tesla, claims he's braved the apparitions and reached all the way into the mine where he has extracted all the unobtainium he needs to teach Thomas Edison a lesson - payback for an incident that occurred two years previous.
In 1885, Tesla claimed he could redesign Edison's inefficient motors and generators, making improvements in both service and economy. Edison remarked, "There's one hundred thousand dollars in it for you... if you can do it!"
Tesla successfully completed the redesign with all due speed and consequently inquired about payment. Edison's reply was cutting and flippant, claiming he was only joking. "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," he laughed. Tesla immediately resigned, and infuriated over what he perceived as his betrayal by Edison, began to plot his revenge.
Edison is sick and tired of Tesla's claims, and means to teach the upstart a lesson... and take his unobtainium. That is, if he actually has it.
At the Showdown at Unobtainium 2012: Tesla vs. Edison, a number of luminaries will descend upon the town, brave the specters there, and lay bets as to who will emerge the victor in this deadly battle of wits and technology...
Among those present and sitting in judgment on the Showdown will be members of the legendary yet shadowy "Twilight Club," well-known philanthropists and visionary thinkers, all. Thanks to the suspension of time and space in Unobtainium, founding members Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and Edwin Markham will be joined by later members including artist-philosopher Walter Russell, IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel and others.
In addition to our esteemed luminaries, we invite those members of the public with the strength and fortitude to visit the town to lay their own bets on the outcome as well as display and demonstrate their own technological creations, and converse with our pantheon of brilliant thinkers.
Whist in attendance be certain to outfit yourself in the finest Steampunk, neo-Victorian, and historical fashions available for purchase from our haberdashers, milliners, dress and corset makers, vintage re-purposers, and more. Take home a souvenir of the epic battle by investing in priceless objets d'art handcrafted by our gifted artisans. Sample delectable comestibles and quaff your thirst thanks to our fine purveyors, both living and dead. Primitive camping available for those daring enough to overnight in the town, or hostelries are available in the vicinity for those with a stronger sense of self-preservation.
All of this ghostly magnificence will be framed in glorious lighting and cutting-edge visuals, as augmented by talks, demonstrations, music, interactive art, and Vaudevillian delights.
Brought to you by your humble servants Sam Tyler (The Mysterium) and Maggie Duval (Margaret Duval Productions).
For vendor, tickets/camping, volunteer opportunities and general inquiries, please contact Sam Tyler: wicked@showdownatunobtainium.com
For production questions, artist relations, sponsorships, and press relations, please contact Maggie Duval : drloveless@showdownatunobtainium.com
Keep your eye on updates to this page. Full information coming soon to SHOWDOWNATUNOBTAINIUM.COM including gorgeous artwork from lauded illustrator and comic writer/artist/publisher Mark Wheatley.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WheatleyMarks
About The Ball Farm
The Ball Farm is located on the old San Antonio-Nacogdoches Road, the oldest road in Texas. Vestiges of the original road are still visible in the yard near the house. The property is on the high ground between the Colorado and Guadalupe River systems, which in the old days made it possible for wagons to travel in wet weather. The farm, totaling 62 acres of post oak savannah, consists of two tracts of land, title to which dates from an early Spanish land grant. Dimensions on one of the deeds are still listed in varas, an early Spanish unit of land measurement.
Location: 30 minutes southeast of Austin near Lytton Springs
Mailing Address:
667 Old San Antonio Rd.
Dale, TX 78616
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BallFarm
Linkies for the non facebook inclined:
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Maggie-Duval-Showdown-at-Unobtainium-2012-Tesla-vs.-Edison
http://plancast.com/p/c66e/showdown-unobtainium-2012-tesla-vs-edison
