now we wait

[solarbird]

I need to pick and record my next Trad O’ the Fortnight! Got any requests?

Every couple of weeks I pick another traditional song – preferably about piracy, revolution, riot, drinking, one of the classics – and do a simple recording of it as a bonus for people on the fan mailing list. Members get a free download link. It’s easy and fun! (Click here and fill out the form to join!)

It also gives me something to do while John McCaig at panicStudios has the finished album tracks in his mastery little hands, or however that works. It’s a mystery to me, which is why I’m letting a professional do it. XD

I’m going to put some of these traditional song covers up for pay download, eventually. I’m looking for an album cover, and a title, mostly for organisational purposes, since this won’t be an official album.

I’m thinking some sort of photo of antique lockpicking/thieves’ tools. I kind of like this tool:

(Public domain, but credited Shaddack)
…and I could do a lot of work to change the photo around to something more suitable – it’s public domain – but this tool is sadly a bit modern. It’s from the 1950s, and these songs are centuries old, not mere decades! Pfah!

Anybody know of someplace with the right kinds of tools? I could photograph them myself, that’d be easy and fast. I was in an antique store earlier today, but, oddly, they had no criminal implements! Other than an accordion. What the hell use is that?

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

That looks very easily steampunkable. A few rivets photoshopped onto the corners, brass texture on the knobs and leather over the foam padding and all of a sudden it's from an alternate Victorian era that should have happened.

[solarbird]

I'm not really good at that kind of photoshoppery. I've done a little of it, but not a huge amount. Plus, I'd have to get photos of the rivets and such.

I dunno, I could try to draw it or something. With rivets! And such.

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(device) has a very pretty medieval lock from Kathmandu. If you're looking for something a bit less pretty, there might be something associated with historical Williamsburg, VA or Sturbridge Village, MA. I lack the brains right now to do much more than point fingers. :) Locks aren't nearly the same as lock-picks, but they're a lot easier to find!

[solarbird]

S'true. But I need the lockpicks or some other form of burglary tools. Or I could do some sort of montage, maybe. That might work.

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

Oh and! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant has a very cool picture of a sextant; totally not what you're looking for, but definitely something I'd expect to see in a Girl Genius comic. :)

[annathepiper]

Well, an accordion IS an excellent implement of crime.

Bob Hallett IS the smart one in Great Big Sea after all. ;>

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, try getting that on an airliner, even in checked luggage. :-)

[solarbird]

It looks a just little like a tiny steam engine, doesn't it? Imagine the nickel adjustment screw tower as being a tiny venting chimney. XD

[brombear.livejournal.com]

http://www.thevikingstore.co.uk/larp-thieves-tools-380-p.asp