Progress on the lecture presentations

Well, I have the slides set up for all three presentations. The survey of surviving garments has all it's images in place. The "construction genealogies" has all its images identified: 18 items need to be scanned but the rest just need to be placed. The "researching under-documented costume cultures" has the general ID of the images done and I've pulled all the books they'll be coming from, but I don't have specific images identified in all cases yet (and about a quarter of the examples will be text rather than image, so I'll need to pull those and format them nicely). I have to turn some of the existing images and text into a handout, but no really new material needed for that.

I just might be able to finish it all before going to bed tomorrow. Which would give me five whole evenings in which to practice timing and smooth things out. (Ok, four evenings, because at that point I get a movie night in there somewhere.)

And it isn't even 2am yet -- I'm being such a slacker tonight.

Yet more progress on the costume lecture presentations

I should note briefly that all these lecture preparations are going towards a set of costume-related lectures I'm doing next Saturday as a fund-raiser for the Vallejo Music Theater. ( Details here )

So I've completely finished the "garment genealogies" presentation. I've made serious inroads on adding the text examples to the powerpoint framework for the Welsh costume presentation, and now I'm sitting down with a pot of tea and a bowl of strawberries to identify all the visual examples for the Welsh presentation so I can do my scanning efficiently.

ETA: And the image-identification is done, with an organized list drawn up. I'll work on text on the laptop at lunch tomorrow and should be able to get all the visuals scanned and plugged in tomorrow evening. I'll probably need a bit more text time, so that brings us up to Tuesday evening. Plan Wednesday evening for assembling the handout. That gives me one evening to blow off (are you paying attention scotica?) and one to rehearse the presentation. Sounds like it'll work.