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An InfoCom worker hands out program guides to foreign visitors at an aircraft racing event. (There could even be a story here, somewhere.)
Speed Week (on Spontoon Island in the 1930s) attracts a lot of visitors, especially for the aircraft racing. Most all of the visitors from large cities around the Pacific ocean are rich people from the upper classes, who can afford to travel for fun. They may have never visited the Pacific islands before, and may need information about the Speed Week racing, hospitality services, and local culture.
The Speed Week Information Committee Co-op pays many information workers to be on hand in areas where visitors will gather. Some of these workers are at information booths, some (in their distinctive checkered uniforms) will be on the streets, or mingling with the crowds. They can answer general questions about Speed Week and the Spontoon Islands, or direct visitors to an information booth... all of the booths have telegraph operators, and some even have telephones (gasp!) to contact the info center, or telegraph directly to hotels.
Speed Week (on Spontoon Island in the 1930s) attracts a lot of visitors, especially for the aircraft racing. Most all of the visitors from large cities around the Pacific ocean are rich people from the upper classes, who can afford to travel for fun. They may have never visited the Pacific islands before, and may need information about the Speed Week racing, hospitality services, and local culture.
The Speed Week Information Committee Co-op pays many information workers to be on hand in areas where visitors will gather. Some of these workers are at information booths, some (in their distinctive checkered uniforms) will be on the streets, or mingling with the crowds. They can answer general questions about Speed Week and the Spontoon Islands, or direct visitors to an information booth... all of the booths have telegraph operators, and some even have telephones (gasp!) to contact the info center, or telegraph directly to hotels.
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This image is based on a detailed pencil drawing by Jerry Collins, set in the Spontoon Island shared-setting.
http://georgieganarf.deviantart.com/
Jerry continues to offer commissioned pencil, ink, & color sketches. Information is at his Deviant Art account, and also in early journals in account here on FA. He has a set of very elaborate fantasy & sf worlds & characters to share in his sketches.
Spontoon Island (shared-setting) and 'Speed Week' links are here:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
http://georgieganarf.deviantart.com/
Jerry continues to offer commissioned pencil, ink, & color sketches. Information is at his Deviant Art account, and also in early journals in account here on FA. He has a set of very elaborate fantasy & sf worlds & characters to share in his sketches.
Spontoon Island (shared-setting) and 'Speed Week' links are here:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
Well, maybe what you weren't expecting...
When cartoonists "talk shop", this is the sort of questions they ask themselves and each other.
For 1940s magazine cartoons, this was very much the style, and maybe had something to do with post-WorldWar2. Maybe. All the other guys are hopeless dorks (or should be) (except for you, The Male Viewer). All females are voluptuous if they are attractive - 7-foot tall goddesses - that's a given. That's how I could feel at times in junior high school.
I think some of this comes from 4th, 5th, & 6th grades (ages 10 through 12?). Young women go through their 'growth spurt' (height & weight) before the young males do. This is about time all us kids maybe started noticing the beginnings of sexual hormones & culture (even if we might not have known what to do with it). After 10 years of male kids dominating through physical power & culture, there is a Big Turnover.
The cartooning is symbolic. Women tall & zaftig and in physical command. Guys all short & awkward dork-monsters. You have a lot of design for young adult anime & comics design wrapped up in that model of a pre-teen social/sexual power struggle. Teachable boys & girls have 3 years to learn how to do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
When cartoonists "talk shop", this is the sort of questions they ask themselves and each other.
For 1940s magazine cartoons, this was very much the style, and maybe had something to do with post-WorldWar2. Maybe. All the other guys are hopeless dorks (or should be) (except for you, The Male Viewer). All females are voluptuous if they are attractive - 7-foot tall goddesses - that's a given. That's how I could feel at times in junior high school.
I think some of this comes from 4th, 5th, & 6th grades (ages 10 through 12?). Young women go through their 'growth spurt' (height & weight) before the young males do. This is about time all us kids maybe started noticing the beginnings of sexual hormones & culture (even if we might not have known what to do with it). After 10 years of male kids dominating through physical power & culture, there is a Big Turnover.
The cartooning is symbolic. Women tall & zaftig and in physical command. Guys all short & awkward dork-monsters. You have a lot of design for young adult anime & comics design wrapped up in that model of a pre-teen social/sexual power struggle. Teachable boys & girls have 3 years to learn how to do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
Twelve didn't entirely leave. Memories get left behind (and "left behind", too). Not all of the memories go away. Parts of one's self respond to the symbols that remind one of the experiences.
I don't believe that I would actually want to go through twelve again, even if it was with knowing what I know now. Time travel is bad enough in THIS direction.
I don't believe that I would actually want to go through twelve again, even if it was with knowing what I know now. Time travel is bad enough in THIS direction.
Sounds like an excellent set up - and with telegraphs or telephones ready to paw, it's not outside the realm of possibility that some of the InfoCom workers actually have eyes or ears on certain foreigners. Reports and intel would join the usual traffice at that point.
Yes. If it isn't done as a specific operation with a target, intelligence gathering would be practiced "for practice". Some of the telegraph traffic would certainly be done in code. There is betting on the racing outcomes, and technical secrets for racing vehicles, and reporters trying to get a 'scoop' of advanced news, so there are rationales for open secrecy and coded messages.
Must protect the valuable visitors, and anticipate their wants and needs. Perhaps accumulate some favors owed.
Must protect the valuable visitors, and anticipate their wants and needs. Perhaps accumulate some favors owed.
Thank you!
Jerry Collins did excellent clothing designs based on my real sketchy text descriptions. (Along the lines of "...the information workers have clothing, or parts of their clothes, with checker-pattern - to show that they are on-duty to answer questions."... and he designed the tunic & hat. For the visitor's clothes, I said "something along the lines of 1930s to 1945 fashionable upper-class Summer clothing styles." He did both sets of clothing very well, but I was mean during my inking, and modified the female's dress to something from the very early 1930s. A longer hemline, and the small shoulder-helmets (or whatever they are called). I used a compilation of Sears catalog pages as a reference.)
The colors may come from my having a chance to read a batch of 1940s & 1950s funny-animal comic books over the last 3 months.
Jerry Collins did excellent clothing designs based on my real sketchy text descriptions. (Along the lines of "...the information workers have clothing, or parts of their clothes, with checker-pattern - to show that they are on-duty to answer questions."... and he designed the tunic & hat. For the visitor's clothes, I said "something along the lines of 1930s to 1945 fashionable upper-class Summer clothing styles." He did both sets of clothing very well, but I was mean during my inking, and modified the female's dress to something from the very early 1930s. A longer hemline, and the small shoulder-helmets (or whatever they are called). I used a compilation of Sears catalog pages as a reference.)
The colors may come from my having a chance to read a batch of 1940s & 1950s funny-animal comic books over the last 3 months.
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