Serendipity Kiwi Style
Jun. 6th, 2007 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysMost of the folk reading this are sf fans of some sort. Are you ever apprehensive about admitting your hobby? Do you think that people will think you are strange for liking this stuff? (Do you want them to think you are strange?) With sf being so mainstream these days, I don't think there is the reluctance to admit your interest that there might have been in the past. But I wonder if there is still the tiniest little bit of doubt when it comes to the crunch. This story may remove any lingering worries.
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strangedave and Robin over to Martinborough yesterday for a bit of wine tasting and sightseeing. After checking out Martinborough Vineyards who are always good, I planned to go to Muirleigh Rise or one of the other places along the same road but they were all shut. So instead we went around the corner to Tirohana Estate. As we were tasting the wines (not me personally - I was doing the driving) we were talking to the guy there about why Dave was in town all the way from Perth. When we mentioned an sf convention he became very interested and we found some common ground - turns out that as well as running (owning?) the winery he is also one of the main figures at Cloud 9. This is the company which made The Tribe and a bunch of other TV series aimed at younger audiences. They are also subcontracted to do prop work for other productions like LOTR and Hercules. We were invited into the back room and shown a little treasure trove of props. Swords from LOTR, Hercules and a crystal sword from William Tell. There was also a very strange alpenhorn from William Tell. Not to mention various models and costumery including a very peculiar helmet that Robin got to model. Dave took some photos so, with a bit of luck, you will all be able to see how cool it all was.
So letting slip that you are an sf fan can have all sorts of potential benefits. We didn't mention that we were fans at anywhere else we visited - perhaps they all have interesting collections hidden away.
I drove
strangedave and Robin over to Martinborough yesterday for a bit of wine tasting and sightseeing. After checking out Martinborough Vineyards who are always good, I planned to go to Muirleigh Rise or one of the other places along the same road but they were all shut. So instead we went around the corner to Tirohana Estate. As we were tasting the wines (not me personally - I was doing the driving) we were talking to the guy there about why Dave was in town all the way from Perth. When we mentioned an sf convention he became very interested and we found some common ground - turns out that as well as running (owning?) the winery he is also one of the main figures at Cloud 9. This is the company which made The Tribe and a bunch of other TV series aimed at younger audiences. They are also subcontracted to do prop work for other productions like LOTR and Hercules. We were invited into the back room and shown a little treasure trove of props. Swords from LOTR, Hercules and a crystal sword from William Tell. There was also a very strange alpenhorn from William Tell. Not to mention various models and costumery including a very peculiar helmet that Robin got to model. Dave took some photos so, with a bit of luck, you will all be able to see how cool it all was.So letting slip that you are an sf fan can have all sorts of potential benefits. We didn't mention that we were fans at anywhere else we visited - perhaps they all have interesting collections hidden away.