Win Tickets ($90): PDX GEAR-Con | Rose City Steampunk Film Festival presents Portland’s Gaslight Explorers, Adventurers, & Romantics Convention
July 19, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEPipeline is giving away a pair of tickets to the PDX Gear-Con Steampunk convention beginning Friday, July 22. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed on Friday, July 22.
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From our sponsors at Portland Gear Con:
The Rose City Steampunk Film Festival presents Portland's Gaslight Explorers, Adventurers, & Romantics Convention (Portland GEAR Con)
Portland Gear Con
Crowne Plaza Portland | 1441 NE 2nd Avenue. Portland, OR 97232
July 22nd-24th | Registration and Info: pdxgearcon.com
STARRING: VAGABOND OPERA, VERNIAN PROCESS, UNWOMAN, VERONIQUE CHEVALIER, FEIN AND DANDEE
Portland's Gaslight Explorers, Adventurers, & Romantics Convention is a celebration of Steampunk and neo-Victoriana in the Pacific Northwest, taking place over three days in Portland, Oregon. Members of the public can register to meet fellow enthusiasts, attend presentations and workshops, meet authors and other steampunk community luminaries, shop for costumes and other goods, enjoy musical and variety performances, and much more.
Adults and teenagers 14+ register for all three days of Portland GEAR Con by paying the PayPal button on our registration page, signifying that they have read and agreed to our convention policies and code of conduct.
With appearances from our honored guests: Meljean Brook, M.K. Hobson, Andrew Mayer, Noah Mickens, Devon Monk, Cherie Priest, Irene Radford, Professor DR Schreiber, and Shanna Germain.
With DJs: Brian Backlash, Owen, DJ Number 6, DJ Panix, and Beatnik Betty.
Join us on Saturday July 23rd at 3:00pm for a Steampunk Fashion Show. Featured Designer: ¬ËœTAKEN BY THE SKY', collections by Laura Hagen
What is Steampunk?
Steampunk is a retro-futuristic subgenre of speculative fiction, set in or thematically referring to an alternate Victorian period during which the technologies of the Industrial Revolution achieve fantastic sophistication and power. It is also an aesthetic inspired by said literary phenomenon, expressed in art, fashion, music, motion pictures, handcrafts, and other media. The name was coined as a tongue-in-cheek reference to Cyberpunk, another science fiction subgenre.
July 19, 2011 at 12:15
This event sounds like a blast! Please pick me as the winner of the tickets.
July 19, 2011 at 12:58
It will be fun! We love free tickets.
July 19, 2011 at 14:01
I’m a diehard Steampunk fan, but the costly repairs to my time-machine and my recent monocle upgrade meant that I couldn’t afford GearCon tickets! Being able to enjoy myself among my fellow denizens of the refined world of gears and Victorian fashion this fine weekend would surely make my day. Allow me to throw my freshly brushed top hat into the ring for tickets, my good sirs!
July 19, 2011 at 16:56
I’d love to make it to GearCon as an excuse to wear some of my costumes here in Portland rather than having to wait to SteamCon in Seattle! Besides, just because Seattle calls first dibs on the steampunk craze doesn’t mean Portland can;’t show ‘em up! :)
July 19, 2011 at 19:45
I am from the future, and I must win tickets! The fate of the world depends upon it! I would tell you why, but the resulting paradox would create a black hole and reality as we know it would cease to exist.
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Again.
July 19, 2011 at 20:12
Because my fiance is a huge Steampunk fanatic and we have been dying to go but couldn’t afford tickets!
July 19, 2011 at 20:15
This sounds like it will be fun and spark many ideas for my own wardrobe! I would love to win tickets so that I could invest more money on things I may find at the fest.
July 19, 2011 at 20:19
I would love to win tickets to this! The fest sounds like it will be educational to those newly interested in the steampunk style. I would enjoy the opportunity to learn more about it.
July 19, 2011 at 20:22
This sounds like it will be fun and spark many ideas for my own wardrobe and hat ideas for my business! I would love to win tickets so that I could invest more money on things I may find at the fest.
July 19, 2011 at 21:04
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.
July 19, 2011 at 21:11
I’ve been looking forward to this event but am unable to purchase tickets at this time. Free tickets would be amazing!
July 19, 2011 at 21:23
Oh, by the by, I want it.
July 19, 2011 at 22:02
Winning these tickets would be a dream come true for me. I would be honored to take a stroll and bask in the neo-victorian goodness that is GearCon. If only I could find my googles and my hat. Anyways, if I won these tickets I would be so grateful and enthused.
July 19, 2011 at 22:32
Recently back from my sabbatical to the Pnoptic ruins of G’luuuh’kfahn (excuse me), I find myself short of funds to gain entrance to this grand affair and share my findings with like minded philosophers au cthon.
Also, I need to educate some fools on one of today’s finest steam punk authors, Martha Wells, who had the misfortune of writing some of the very best fantastic Elizabethan novels a decade before the genre truly defined.
Drop ballast! Were going to France!
July 19, 2011 at 23:58
Sounds like an altogether worthwile time to spend a weekend. Excellent lineup and such.
July 20, 2011 at 01:52
I have been unable to go to SteamCon in the past, rather depressingly–mostly due to a lack of funds (and thus an inability to travel to Seattle). I love steampunk very much, and am involved with a Portland-area airship. Because I could not join the rest of my ship at SeaDogs this year, I was hoping to make it to GearCon, but I have been unemployed for a while now and thus will not have funds to spare on purchasing a ticket. I would still dearly love to go!
July 20, 2011 at 08:43
As am artist I’ve always been fascinated by steam punk and I simply MUST see Vagabond Opera on Friday evening!
July 20, 2011 at 09:20
I would be stoked to win the tickets!
July 20, 2011 at 09:21
I would really love to win the tickets!
July 20, 2011 at 15:35
Was into steampunk before I knew what it was…and now after I know…so, free tix would be amazing— I promise to dress as a sexy fiend!
July 20, 2011 at 19:25
I’ve been looking for ideas for building a steampunk outfit and this convention would be the best thing to help me along my way.
July 20, 2011 at 23:05
OMG! This would be amazing. If I did not win tickets then I would stand outside just to see people’s costumes. I have always been into steampunk but really did not know that it had a name until a few years ago. I don’t get out a lot but there is no way I would miss this. Oh but if I had funds… or won tickets…. How exciting!
July 21, 2011 at 07:48
The most amazingly attired steampunk fellow walked past me yesterday in Portland, and I can only hope to see more of the same at this event!
July 21, 2011 at 11:26
give me some steam!
July 21, 2011 at 11:33
I love steampunk! And I had planned to go to this conference but my finances did not cooperate. AND Cherie Priest is there!!! Please please please pick me!
July 21, 2011 at 11:40
Pick me pick me! My husband is dying to see Veronique Chevalier and I’d love to surprise him with tickets!
July 21, 2011 at 12:05
who doesnt want to own a Wimpledink pneumatic pulse propelled roto revolver or some such what not, send me and a date!
July 21, 2011 at 17:52
Based on the ingenuity of the responses give us all free tickets so I can people watch the commentators! Tis better to share a bounty than to hoard, and this would make one crazy horde. Steam on!
July 22, 2011 at 09:53
Oh My! Wish my kids were here to enjoy this too! Yes, would love to hang with the steam punk crowd! :)
July 22, 2011 at 10:10
Arnie Saccnuson sends his greetings and wishes for free tickets.
July 22, 2011 at 11:14
Recently I crossed the country spending zero dollars and hundreds of Bitcoins. Now, I’m building an anonymous, trust-based social network where people can trade goods or services for Bitcoins.
My goal is to beta test this social network here, by making Bitcoin Portland’s local currency. Imagine being able to buy a burger from a food truck by scanning a qr code on your cell and sending Bitcoins. Imagine buying tickets for shows with Bitcoin, so the artist doesn’t get screwed by Ticketmaster fees. The possibilities are endless, I say!
I’m meeting new business owners daily who like this idea. I want these tickets because I know a lot of open minds will be at this con who can help me make pdx the Bitcoin City.
-Plato
July 22, 2011 at 11:19
My robotron requires free tickets.
July 22, 2011 at 11:48
I REALLY want to go to this, but I just started running an organization full time and don’t have any income from it yet, so any extraneous spending isn’t in my cards. Please pick me!! <3
July 22, 2011 at 11:50
My family and I were nomadic, antique-gadget loving people before there was a name for it… I don’t want tickets to attend the Portland Gear Con as a “fan”, I want to walk through it’s pagodas and look over my shoulder to see a glimpse of home.
July 22, 2011 at 12:04
Love to go to this, because (awkward confession) when I was in middle school I use to love this role-playing game (looks at feed in shame) called Space 1889. http://www.space1889.org/. This was back in the 80s and I look back on that whole scene as the beginning of what is now called Steam Punk. Also in like, 1990, I think, I got the book The Difference Engine signed at an event, by the authors were William Gibbson and Bruce Sterling. That was pretty exciting. And that was another early iteration of victorian sci-fi revival. So, yeah. Want to reconnect with my former and future geek.
July 22, 2011 at 12:21
I wanna see all the steaming hot steam punkers with weekend because it’s gonna be a toasty 90 degreees and their cogs and bolts are going to be scorching to the touch. Ouch!
…. and I wanna get my future retro daintiness on. ;)
July 22, 2011 at 13:54
Really want these tickets.
July 22, 2011 at 15:46
Sounds great, would love to go and see what the world could have been like & what still could be!
July 22, 2011 at 15:59
Parascope up! Liquid breached…stand by with thrust torpedo @
69 degrees North. All systems go Captain, ready for your command.
July 22, 2011 at 16:41
Late. Soooo late. I swear I was crafting brass and crystal swoggle-goggles for the party, though.
August 27, 2011 at 09:39
I wouldn’t know what to expect when attending a show like this…just the way I like you.