Working on EPRICoTT has been like working a second weekend job—the most amazing second weekend job that ever was. Of course, working on this sort of thing is my job, and for the upcoming workshop, we have the following volunteers to thank:
- Captain Mike Jamoom
- "Professor" Eli Bergmann
- "Professor" Adriane Jones
- Intra-Temporal Secretary (and seamstress) Lauren Varner
- Pam Martin
- Amanda Krieg
- John Meehan
The core premise of EPRICoTT is simple. Our students will get mixed up with some rather eccentric adults and have fun jaunting through the fourth dimension. They'll accidentally wipe out humanity (by writing well-intentioned but ultimately short-sighted letters to the future). They'll scramble through time to catch and revise the letters before they can do anyone any harm. They'll return to the present to find their parents have become way cooler before embarking on two more equally disastrous (yet less lucrative) adventures.
To make this all happen, our volunteers have put in weekend after weekend after weekend building all of EPRICoTT's equipment and props at 826LA East. The pictures below will give you an idea of what we've been up to. And this will be nothing compared to the workshop (we're getting a fog machine).
Here, we're preparing to sew space blankets together to make the canopy for our time machine.
Yes, we said sew. And thankfully, the whole thing folds away neatly after it's put together.
Here're costume samples for our Time Travel ponchos (for EPRICoTT research purposes only, in both adult and child sizes) and our Time Bandit gear (which didn't pass QA).
Now we're reading to start testing; we've slipped the canopy over the time machine's cardboard hull.
And with the help of our time turbine/electric fan, the EPRICoTT Apricott comes to life!
We've got robots, too.
The robots, of course, travel via flying saucers. Cooler than those, though, are our prehistoric fauna. We've taken our schematic, built a wireframe,
and turned that into a flying pterosaur.
That's Ptimmy the Pterodactyl, who looks a lot like Tommy the Dragon (our answer to a request for a dragon workshop); we've really messed up the time stream. Let's hope our students can fix it on Saturday.
