Renderman graciously invited us to appear to demonstrate that you can survive in style with custom-made tactical gear. Renderman and Mike did excellent back-to-back talks on immediate and long-term survival respectively and the "hacker survival" idea was on the tip of everyone's tongue, they just gave it a name. Expect to see more evolve in this direction and the TacticalCorsets.com team will be involved and bring news of ongoing developments as geeks apply their hacker mindset to personal and species survival, which after all is the crux of http://www.spacepunk.org.
Maker Faire was amazing! The second live demonstration was great fun. We exhibited with Suzanne Forbes' amazing portraiture in Carnival Mechanique the steampunk zone.
The GETV crew ran into Utilikilt clad Alex Peake at Maker Faire because of a rumor that he was making Tactical Corsets! With beautiful model at the ready, Irina and Alex unzip the mysteries of this military grade corset.
Here's some pictures of the early prototype at the Faire. Note that this was a preproduction version with a zipper and not made out of Cordura as the finished corsets are.
