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Shannon O'Hare as Major Catastrophe.

Shannon O'Hare as Major Catastrophe.

2015-07-06 Fangirlish, “Exclusive: Director Byrd McDonald Talks ‘Vintage Tomorrows,’ His Definitive Steampunk Documentary Debuting at SDCC”

July 10, 2015

http://fangirlish.com/byrd-mcdonald-vintage-tomorrows-sdcc-interview/

"The Maker Movement is perhaps the most fascinating elements of steampunk, and you highlight a wide variety of inventions and contraptions in the movie. Do you have a favorite among the featured works?

Byrd: Yeah, for sure: the Neverwas Hall. It’s just insanely cool. It’s a house on wheels, and it’s – you, know, it’s a house! There’s a library on it. The guys who made that are just the coolest people. They live to make cool shit, and they do it by dumpster diving and finding things that they can reclaim and repurpose, and what they do is astounding to me. They make sculpture art cars, and I think that stuff is the coolest stuff. They are Burning Man people, and when they initially had built this object, they had no idea that steampunk was a thing. They were cool to become a part of the community, but they’re doing it just because they need to do something. They choose not to be passive; they want to make stuff all the time.”

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