Thursday, August 25, 2011
Well, I was finally getting good enough that there was not a single fighter on the Barony of Sun Dragon field for FP that I lost every fight to. I even managed to dis-shield one of the fighters using a center grip oval shield! His grace, Duke Aaron Graves has been kind enough to show me hand and a half fighting style and makes sure to train me a bit personally each week.
I can't thank him enough so when he asked for some repairs to his armour I was only to happy to oblige since this what I love to do. I tried to dye the outside coal black and then to match the color scheme of his armour I gave him red straps stitched into the vambraces. More to come as I work on other pieces as a way to say thanks.
Before:
After:
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
I can't thank him enough so when he asked for some repairs to his armour I was only to happy to oblige since this what I love to do. I tried to dye the outside coal black and then to match the color scheme of his armour I gave him red straps stitched into the vambraces. More to come as I work on other pieces as a way to say thanks.
Before:
After:
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Monday, August 15, 2011
Here is the review of the Verix2 Linux Gaming/Mobile-server/etc laptop from ZaReason, by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier.
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/473692-review-zareasons-verix-2-linux-laptop-hits-the-spot
Linux
Laptops
W00T!!!
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Monday, August 1, 2011
http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/30/open-source-health-with-fitbit/
This is a cool little contraption that can be hidden in your armour to test the effects of fighter practice on your body. Also, whether or not you are pushing yourself at fighter practice or just showing up.
This is a cool little contraption that can be hidden in your armour to test the effects of fighter practice on your body. Also, whether or not you are pushing yourself at fighter practice or just showing up.
Slava Atenveldta,
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Well, John of Windrose Armoury said when sat in on circles of Chivalry, that they ask how potential knights support the other order of the peerage: Laurels and Pelicans.
I have donated my time at events before and I LOVE doing demo's whenever I can. The S.C.A. doesn't grow on trees you know!! :-P
Today, however, I entered my first A&S (Arts and Sciences) competition. I entered into the Baronial A&S Champion for the Barony of Sun Dragon (West Metro Valley) and while I did not win champion I did win for the categories of food and jewelry. Wow, food that was my first attempt at making butter with shaking the creme, grinding the mint, and then adding honey as I mixed it together and froze it.
I was also given the award of the Honor of Sun Dragon (1st level - Red Ribbon / service award; think Pelican) and the Order of the Dragon's Scale of Sun Dragon (1st level - Red Jewel / A&S award; think Laurel). Now I am working on some aluminum shoulder plates to display them from the left side. The more important issue is that I have taken another step into a much larger world.
Then at closing court yesterday I was also awarded for winning the Sun Dragon Art Botega and gifted with a box that I shall mount hinges and a latch to so it may hold links for me.
Till next time.
I have donated my time at events before and I LOVE doing demo's whenever I can. The S.C.A. doesn't grow on trees you know!! :-P
Today, however, I entered my first A&S (Arts and Sciences) competition. I entered into the Baronial A&S Champion for the Barony of Sun Dragon (West Metro Valley) and while I did not win champion I did win for the categories of food and jewelry. Wow, food that was my first attempt at making butter with shaking the creme, grinding the mint, and then adding honey as I mixed it together and froze it.
I was also given the award of the Honor of Sun Dragon (1st level - Red Ribbon / service award; think Pelican) and the Order of the Dragon's Scale of Sun Dragon (1st level - Red Jewel / A&S award; think Laurel). Now I am working on some aluminum shoulder plates to display them from the left side. The more important issue is that I have taken another step into a much larger world.
Then at closing court yesterday I was also awarded for winning the Sun Dragon Art Botega and gifted with a box that I shall mount hinges and a latch to so it may hold links for me.
Till next time.
Slava Atenveldta,
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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| Persian inspired plated-mail or Yushman in Russian armour. |
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| Russian styled Yushman armour. |
Slava Atenveldta,
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
Friday, February 25, 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keyholeprod/sets/72157626000871441/
This is a link for my boss actually to a photographer that has his pictures up from the event.
He had a few shots of me in his portfolio.
This first one is of me on Friday's battles walking off the field.
This one is of me on Saturday and I am using a "white" battle-axe which starts its swing in the top half on the right and I come into view after clobbering the guy in front of me.
Can't help it I dig action shots.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=103216&id=1454057208&l=acb1c27a6b
This is the link to my album of pictures Andrea took on my Facebook page.
This is a link for my boss actually to a photographer that has his pictures up from the event.
He had a few shots of me in his portfolio.
This first one is of me on Friday's battles walking off the field.
Can't help it I dig action shots.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=103216&id=1454057208&l=acb1c27a6b
This is the link to my album of pictures Andrea took on my Facebook page.
Slava Atenveldta,
Lord Iosif Volkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
House Inverted
Baronial Guard of Sun Dragon
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
Friday, February 11, 2011
Let me preface this by saying this statement only will make sense to those in the SCA.
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This post has been rumbling around my head again ever since Brian Cole messaged me at 1:30am several days ago and said "You amaze me."
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This post has been rumbling around my head again ever since Brian Cole messaged me at 1:30am several days ago and said "You amaze me."
While I am still very grateful for the compliment I will, always, to some degree question the worthiness of the recipient.
It is often said throughout the years: to thy own self be true.
I am a flawed man, quirky, overly questioning, overbearing, stubborn, callous, skeptical to a fault on many things, and victim of my heart. However, our failings can be used proactively with positive outcomes, like any tool how we use it determines whether or not one is evil or good.
I am also a good man, loyal, determined, patient (more so as I get older), caring, and nurturing. When I look at the good and bad traits I see two side of the same coin. So what does that make me, human I guess, a person that feels at least, a man.
My faith in many things has been bruised and left in doubt but as my father would say, "the sun will rise tomorrow whether you like it or not." So I persevere because of an old motto of my Scottish clan: Lindsey, which is "Endure Forte."
My fighting style was centered around this and all my tastes in literature, history, and so many things have been centered around two simple, yet powerful words: endure forte. In Norse mythology it is dark about the end times of Ragnarök, and the Battle of Thermopile where 300 Spartans (yes and there roughly 1,000 other fellow Greeks) stood against insurmountable odds. These stories made me realize I cannot agree with Machiavelli in that "the ends do not justify the means." I read "The Prince" and there is wisdom in it but gather from it the wisdom you value and re-read it in a few years and see if you value the same things.
I believe strongly that "white leather" means first that I must serve as the wall, that I will defend against all assaults and those behind me can move freely because I stand here against the storm. This thought leads to service and the words of Leo Tolstoy and Jack London:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy
"He who serves all best serves himself." --Jack London
When the water crashes against the stone and breaks it does wear it down over the years but when the people come and reinforced the stone the cycle is renewed. When Tolstoy talks about changing the world I think of every boy's dream about being a knight to save the land, but not what to do the day after that. Then I think of London's words and find that knights have become cops and firefighters they continue to save the day each day and by serving those around them they become reinforced because the whole gets stronger through their efforts.
Others will mention that all the stone cannot be attended to at the same time surely some must fall. I would agree but remember Thermopile, remember the Alamo, ethics and morality are what you do when no one is looking. They could not see the future and yet stood their ground to make a way for that future to come, they served without regard for their well being because they saw what the SCA strives to see everyday.
the Dream...
... of what should be, not what was or often is.
I see "white leather" as perfect imperfection, when a broken soul can find reparations to itself through service to a goal bigger than they are yet like a unique, perfectly imperfect snowflake fall with the power of an avalanche of change when they unite in community of action.
Sister Joan Chittister of the Order of Saint Benedict said it best about the church, and I find this to be true of any institution that becomes successful and sustaining.
"The church is a human institution, and it is slow. It's also a universal institution. It takes a long time for ideas to seep to the top, let alone to move the bottom. So you just realize that what is going on right now is simply the seeding of the question. It comes down to how many snowflakes does it take to break a branch? I don't know, but I want to be there to do my part if I'm a snowflake."
Each bearer of "white leather" and the peerage as a whole is one of these snowflakes, and with the inspiration they can muster all of us become perfectly imperfect, unique, and special.
I can't wait to see what we can do when such a community moves together.
My faith in many things has been bruised and left in doubt but as my father would say, "the sun will rise tomorrow whether you like it or not." So I persevere because of an old motto of my Scottish clan: Lindsey, which is "Endure Forte."
My fighting style was centered around this and all my tastes in literature, history, and so many things have been centered around two simple, yet powerful words: endure forte. In Norse mythology it is dark about the end times of Ragnarök, and the Battle of Thermopile where 300 Spartans (yes and there roughly 1,000 other fellow Greeks) stood against insurmountable odds. These stories made me realize I cannot agree with Machiavelli in that "the ends do not justify the means." I read "The Prince" and there is wisdom in it but gather from it the wisdom you value and re-read it in a few years and see if you value the same things.
I believe strongly that "white leather" means first that I must serve as the wall, that I will defend against all assaults and those behind me can move freely because I stand here against the storm. This thought leads to service and the words of Leo Tolstoy and Jack London:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy
"He who serves all best serves himself." --Jack London
When the water crashes against the stone and breaks it does wear it down over the years but when the people come and reinforced the stone the cycle is renewed. When Tolstoy talks about changing the world I think of every boy's dream about being a knight to save the land, but not what to do the day after that. Then I think of London's words and find that knights have become cops and firefighters they continue to save the day each day and by serving those around them they become reinforced because the whole gets stronger through their efforts.
Others will mention that all the stone cannot be attended to at the same time surely some must fall. I would agree but remember Thermopile, remember the Alamo, ethics and morality are what you do when no one is looking. They could not see the future and yet stood their ground to make a way for that future to come, they served without regard for their well being because they saw what the SCA strives to see everyday.
the Dream...
... of what should be, not what was or often is.
I see "white leather" as perfect imperfection, when a broken soul can find reparations to itself through service to a goal bigger than they are yet like a unique, perfectly imperfect snowflake fall with the power of an avalanche of change when they unite in community of action.
Sister Joan Chittister of the Order of Saint Benedict said it best about the church, and I find this to be true of any institution that becomes successful and sustaining.
"The church is a human institution, and it is slow. It's also a universal institution. It takes a long time for ideas to seep to the top, let alone to move the bottom. So you just realize that what is going on right now is simply the seeding of the question. It comes down to how many snowflakes does it take to break a branch? I don't know, but I want to be there to do my part if I'm a snowflake."
Each bearer of "white leather" and the peerage as a whole is one of these snowflakes, and with the inspiration they can muster all of us become perfectly imperfect, unique, and special.
I can't wait to see what we can do when such a community moves together.
Slava Atenveldta,
Lord Iosif Volchkov, Squire to his excellency Viscount Sir Jerry the Inverter of Kilkenny
House Inverted
Barony of Atenveldt
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
House Inverted
Barony of Atenveldt
Kingdom of Atenveldt
arizona.rune@gmail.com
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