Tag: beer

Efes Mastery

I’ve been working on the OKAPI island in Second Life pretty hard recently, with the addition of Sadrettin’s cafe, the water tower complete with little owl, and some cosmetic fixes that I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.  I’m also happy to report that Karl Harrison will be helping us BURN Çatalhöyük DOWN at the end of the semester.  Good stuff.

More to the point though, is that there needs to be Efes in Second Life, as it is an integral part of the Çatalhöyük experience (for better or worse!).  I was looking around for good photos of the beer labels and found these masterful constructions:

There’s a deep and obvious kinship here, one that hits me right at home:

Because Art is a cowboy hat, made out of a beer carton, according to the headline of the Austin American-Statesman, flagship newspaper of the capital of Texas.

(this image is downright stolen from my brilliant friend Joolie, who has much more to say on the topic)

Making Beer at WAC-6

I’m still trying to get organized and squashing all the email demons that arose while being gone most of the summer, but I’ll have more about Kalaupapa shortly.  In the meantime, with the courtesy of the Moore Group:

Making Beer at WAC 6

(click on the image to enlarge)

There was also experimental bronze making at WAC.  I think this should lead to a trend of conferences where we just reenact the archaeology we find.  Though that might be a little awkward with the more burial-oriented presentations.

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