An updated message related to STARMAN FAMILY-CON 2012 (SFC’12)
SFC -- a biennial “Family Reunion” of those who created/appreciate STARMAN -- is an international convention of STARMAN’s cast/crew/staff/fans, hosted by Spotlight Starman International (SSI).
Originally posted by Vicki Werkley on AUG 16, 2012 at 8:22 pm PDT
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Greetings, All!
If you’ve been awaiting the PAF & NAF Forms so you can enroll in SFC’12, order T-shirts or Raffle tickets, and/or just get more info, we’ve had so many little changes (for the better) since July 31 that the Forms are still being revised. Hang in there.
You’ll find some additions to the Con Crew (see signature at bottom of post).
Our main news: we have some important changes in SFC’s themes and colors, based on our research, so here’s an update.
If you remember, we announced our major theme was Celebrating “The Year of Mayan Culture” and how we’d be learning some new things. Well, the first new thing WE learned was that using the adjective “Mayan” is only correct in relation to aspects of the language; the correct terms are Maya culture, Maya calendar, Maya people, etc. It doesn’t sound quite right to our ear, since we’ve heard the other so often, but we’re going to bend to accuracy. Therefore, we now list our themes as:
Celebrating “The Year of Maya Culture”
Let’s learn some New Things (you know how Starman loves that!) while we take an affectionate look at the kerfuffle over whether or not the Maya calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it on 12/21/12.
Celebrating the number 12.
SFC 2012. beginning Oct 12th, is the 12th biennial FAMILY-CON. [Dozen that sound worth mentioning?]
That’s right! It’s been twenty-two years since the first Reunion Party at Patrick Culliton’s home in 1990. [The very first STARMAN convention was organized by Annemarie Schomaker (SCA) in San Diego in 1987, and there’ve been numerous other international conventions, but SFC just refers to Family Reunion Parties in the L.A. area.]
When it comes to colors, we announced those as Sapphire and Aubergine (which are the company’s names given by Gildan Activewear for the two main T-shirt colors we’ve chosen). We’d already decided to refer to the latter as “Eggplant” (avoiding the embarrassment of trying out our French accents). Personally, I haven’t cared for the term “Sapphire”; it has no STARMAN connection, and I think of sapphires as more true-blue gems than the actual T-shirt color, which is more teal-ish. I‘d been using the term “Electric Blue,” but I worried that would get confused with our alternative “Royal Blue.” Then, during my research, I discovered a mysterious color called “Azul Maya”!
This bright blue/turquoise pigment was used by pre-Hispanic peoples of southern Mexico and Guatemala -- Maya, Tolteca, Totonaca and Azteca -- beginning around the year 750. After Spanish conquest, it was painted on the walls of a number of colonial convents until around the year 1580, after which its use disappeared in Central America (though it seems to have been imported into Cuba and was, for a time, called Havana Blue). In the world of the Maya, it has survived on striking temple murals, ceramics, sculptures and other artifacts.
In fact, its survival is one of the main attributes that sets this pigment apart. It is impervious to weather (heat, sunlight, cold) and to both concentrated acids and caustic alkalis, maintaining its brilliant color through the centuries. And for centuries, its origins -- and unrecorded recipe -- remained a mystery, despite decades of extensive scientific research and experimentation. Finally, thanks largely to the efforts of Mexican archaeologist/chemist Constantino Reyes-Valerio, the mystery is solved: Azul Maya (Maya Blue) is a compound of macerated leaves from the American Indigo plant -- locally called Añil — and an uncharacteristically fibrous clay known as palygorskite. Filtered and dried, then fired at 190ºC for some five hours, this results in a truly remarkable combination of organic and inorganic elements and is considered the first stable organic pigment. In fact, now its recipe can be replicated, there’s interest in industrial use for this coloring that is beautiful, versatile, economical, extremely durable and environmentally benign. Does that sound like a STARMAN color or what?
The color itself can vary visually (like yarn dye lots), depending on the particular batch of ingredients, processing, surface to which it’s applied, etc., so it can shade light and dark, between blue and turquoise. So Bruce and I feel comfortable taking a little liberty and using this ancient color for our formerly Sapphire T-shirts. [Note: Azul is Spanish for Blue.]
So SFC 2012’s official colors are Eggplant and Azul Maya.
When you finally get those Forms in the next coupla days, you’ll find those terms in place for T-shirt colors. And you’ll find that URL to show you the colors online!
Speaking of which, I’d better get back to those Forms. . . .
Stay Tuned,
Vicki
for Bruce Jividen
P.S. THANK YOU to those of you who have already sent SFC payments! Much appreciated.
P..P.S. If you want to learn more New Things about Azul Maya (and to see some examples), check out the website created by Constantino Reyes-Valerio: http://www.azulmaya.com/en/
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STARMAN FAMILY-CON 2012 (SFC’12)
12th biennial "Family Reunion" of
those who created/appreciate STARMAN
October 12-14, 2012
including: Reunion Party with Cast/Crew/Staff
El Segundo, California
(1 mile south of LAX)
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STARMAN FAMILY-CON 2012 (SFC’12)
12th biennial "Family Reunion" of
those who created/appreciate STARMAN
October 12-14, 2012
El Segundo, California
(1 mile south of LAX)
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Official 2012 Con Crew Members:
Vicki Werkley (NCA) *** Liz Turner (SCA)
Jacque Wilhelm (SCA) *** Janice Sheehan (SCA)
Jean Laidig (NJ) *** Sandra Ragan (N/SCA)
Mike & Janelle Fanning (SCA)
Sharon Herden, Auction Coordinator (IL)
T-Shirt Team: Bruce Jividen (OR) & Vicki Werkley (NCA)
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Co-organizers: Vicki Werkley & Liz Turner
Contact Vicki: starwerk@gmail.com
or STARMAN.Family@gmail.com
16563 Ellen Springs Rd / Lower Lake CA 95457-9477
707-995-1228 (any day: 7am-4pm; 5-9pm Pacific Time)
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"We're not history yet!"
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