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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #210 on: 2012-10-17, 00:48:21 »
More photos:

Event & Portraits:
http://ed.toton.org/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?g=2012.dok-misc

Antiques & Artifacts:
http://ed.toton.org/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?g=2012.dok-antiques

I still have the joust photos left to do, and general site photos, and then that's all of them.
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #211 on: 2012-10-17, 01:43:59 »
I am feeling very non-chivalrous amounts of insane jealousy over all of you. Each photo is sheer torture! Would that I had been there.

Just kidding. This event was the definition of awesomeness, and I intend to pour over each photo for ideas and inspiration.  ;D
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #212 on: 2012-10-17, 15:55:27 »
I hope it is or becomes a yearly affair...and I hope to attend the next one with you fellows.

Hey!  Are you guys handling those antiques w/out gloves?!?
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #213 on: 2012-10-17, 16:04:04 »
Quote from: Sir William on 2012-10-17, 15:55:27
I hope it is or becomes a yearly affair...and I hope to attend the next one with you fellows.

Hey!  Are you guys handling those antiques w/out gloves?!?

Hopefully they'll hold it again in the future. It was planned as a one-time event, and the coordinator (Nicky Hughes) is retiring within the next couple of months. He's hoping someone else will pick up the mantle, and he can just attend as a participant.

But yes, we're handling the antiques without gloves. The owner was very casual about it. He was genuinely surprised that anyone even WANTED to pick them up. He just left the key for the cases with us and let us go at it. Then, he showed us those cardboard boxes full of horseshoes, chapes, pommels, belt buckles, and so on, and just flipped through them to show us all the bits and pieces. It was quite amazing.

I think this photo of Sir Nathan sums up how we all felt:



And me too... :)

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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #214 on: 2012-10-17, 16:49:40 »
That guy's camp was staggering. I peeked through the tent from outside, he said come in, and I asked if I could sit down .. not because I was in harness, but because the whole thing was truly staggering. That axe is "only" about 700 years old. There was a roman spatha in there that was from ~700AD - so, about 1,300 years old! We fondled it, I mean, handled it, without gloves too.

Those are great looks to describe it.
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #215 on: 2012-10-17, 16:51:31 »
Quote from: James Anderson III on 2012-10-17, 16:49:40
That guy's camp was staggering. I peeked through the tent from outside, he said come in, and I asked if I could sit down .. not because I was in harness, but because the whole thing was truly staggering. That axe is "only" about 700 years old. There was a roman spatha in there that was from ~700AD - so, about 1,300 years old! We fondled it, I mean, handled it, without gloves too.

Those are great looks to describe it.

I guess that is one way to get a hold or make your mark on history. Fingerprints. :) Wonder how many men that axe has cut down. Hmmmm.... Looks like you guys had a great time!!
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #216 on: 2012-10-17, 18:33:29 »
HAH

do you guys actually know whom it was you met? Dan Peterson? he is the reason we have deepeeka armor and such. he has been involved in various medieval groups and has written a few books. he has worked in several museums and such. a really great guy that you could pick his brain for hours on end ;)  very humbling once you realize you met a historical giant of our time hehehe
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #217 on: 2012-10-17, 20:02:24 »
Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2012-10-17, 18:33:29
HAH

do you guys actually know whom it was you met? Dan Peterson? he is the reason we have deepeeka armor and such. he has been involved in various medieval groups and has written a few books. he has worked in several museums and such. a really great guy that you could pick his brain for hours on end ;)  very humbling once you realize you met a historical giant of our time hehehe

Yep. I saw the Sigismund of Tyrol replica and he said it was the original they built all the others from when he went down there to show them how to make it. He had another harness and a few other sallets there too. He spent 20 years in Europe / Germany, found some of the artifacts himself, he painted his tent himself as a replica of a period Burgundian design, and is most into the Roman era stuff (that he wrote a few books on). He's an awesome guy, I spent probably 45 mins to an hour down there just chatting with him - when I wasn't ogling everything.
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Re: Days of Knights
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #219 on: 2012-10-18, 19:42:22 »

The official word from Nicky Hughes (organizer for the event) about next year:

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I have just been informed that there will be no Days of Knights in Frankfort in 2013. Maybe sometime in the future - maybe - but not next year. So, let's treat the event as Mr. Brunette suggested last Saturday evening - as "one brief shining moment - Camelot."

So... it's either done, or it'll happen in a future year, or it will have to be someplace else.
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #220 on: 2012-10-18, 19:43:46 »
Sir Edward just ninja'd me on the bad news. :(
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #221 on: 2012-10-18, 19:47:52 »
Quote from: James Anderson III on 2012-10-18, 19:43:46
Sir Edward just ninja'd me on the bad news. :(

lol, sorry about that. :)

BTW, for snagging the pictures into a consolidated album, you can grab the 1280-pixel images from these folders:

http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-accolade/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-antiques/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-church/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-joust/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-misc/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-site/
http://ed.toton.org/photos/2012/dok-teutonic/

(just note that the large images are the "b" copies, where it's in the format "bNNNNb.jpg", with the smaller resolution copies lacking that second "b" in the filename. The "b" means "big")

Up to you whether you want to include the accolade images, since that was more "our" thing and not so much the event, but it did happen there.
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #222 on: 2012-10-18, 20:55:07 »

Well, Dan Peterson has an idea for a venue in Lexington KY.

However, Nicky replied with this:

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Do nothing yet. There may be another, vastly easier option. Stand by.
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #223 on: 2012-10-18, 22:54:38 »
Quote from: Sir Edward on 2012-10-18, 20:55:07

Well, Dan Peterson has an idea for a venue in Lexington KY.

However, Nicky replied with this:

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Do nothing yet. There may be another, vastly easier option. Stand by.

Why do they toy with my emotions?!?!? :D
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Re: Days of Knights
« Reply #224 on: 2012-10-18, 22:58:57 »
Quote from: Sir Edward on 2012-10-17, 20:41:59

Last batch of pictures:

Site & Encampment
http://ed.toton.org/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?g=2012.dok-site

Joust
http://ed.toton.org/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?g=2012.dok-joust

Thanks so much for all the photos, Sir Edward! Other than the pics of you knights and the accolade ceremony, the first photo here in 'Site and Encampment' is perhaps my favorite. The tents and banners with the trees in the background, all golden and green in the morning sun - very idyllic. No trace of the modern world.
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