Got to be birds flying higher

tugrik passed sometime recently. Although I didn't know him, I knew of him, I have been thinking about a lot of older fandom folks.

It made me recall the passing of a local model horse collector and how some Canadian collectors are trying to collect hobby history--photos, older models, etc.

It's wild to think so much fandom is just sitting around in people's memories, if not a box of fanzines in the attic or tapes and hard drives gathering dust somewhere. What do we do with these memories? It seems like a miracle LJ and DW are still around. More than one site I frequented has gone away, if I can remember the name of them at all! It seems like a job for AI to sift and sort through.

Livejournal recently had a Writer's Block question about things people collect...well, as you might have seen from my YouTube videos, I collect model horses. Many people think at first that model horses are like model cars, and while some people do enjoy repositioning, rehairing and repainting models, most of mine are straight out of the box!

In fact, I just unboxed this beautiful silver fella, Esprit, Breyer's 2010 World Equestrian Games model. I only get a couple of new models every year nowadays - with over 300 Breyer and Peter Stone horses, so space is a bit of a premium!

One of the many facets of showing model horses is photo showing. This is where you take pictures of your horse, find a show to enter (either online or snail mail) and wait for the results. They are fun to enter and I used to be really into it! I had a really poor camera though - an Olympus Mini. Now I have a great camera and no enthusiasm for photoshowing. Go figure!

I love Esprit so much that I just had to take some pictures and this one was my favourite.