CIMG5504 Stylish arm brace at the Steampunk party at SXSW 2007, evoking a robot arm

Stylish arm brace at the Steampunk party at SXSW 2007, evoking a robot arm

CIMG5504 Stylish arm brace, evoking a robot arm

CIMG5504 A person with a stylish arm brace at the Steampunk party at SXSW. I know it’s not really an arm brace, but an artistic statement that evokes an association with robot arms, bionics, or some such.

The “Futures Past” steampunk party was thrown by EFF and several other organizations at the SXSW conference on March 12, 2007 at Scholz Garden in Austin, Texas. I didn’t know many people there, so I went there mostly to see the costumes. Ah, the costumes! Unfortunately, I don’t know the names of any of the people I took pictures of. On the technical side of things, Austin’s own Robot Group had an exhibit there, showing many all sorts of new flashing, singing, wiggling mechanical creatures I haven’t seen since their last exhibit.

March 2007, Austin, Texas