There are several things that epitomise Steampunk to me – the use of steam, unconventional (or Victorian) modes of transportation, and quirky eccentrics who try new and potentially wonderful things. The Flying Kettle Project qualifies quite happily. It seems some Brits are having a go at creating a steam filled balloon, with the [...]

Well, good grief – Fearless Griggs was brought to my attention by Mr I Williams, and I’m not entirely sure that Griggs is going to put up with any of my dillydallying in telling you! A graphic novel apparently in the works at the moment, The Aggressive Adventures of Fearless Griggs is a Steampunk [...]

Andy_W of the Æther Emporium sent me a surfeit of links after our last post about steam bikes, so I’ll repeat the best ones here:

The above, lovely photograph of a steam powered penny-farthing style bicycle and proud owner (and rightly so).

Another, same model black and white photograph of a penny-farthing cycle, steam propelled.

The mysterious ‘Pete’s [...]

Found the blog of a most interesting looking comic that’s in the works at the moment – it’s called the Risk Society, and it looks deeply Steampunk. From the page itself:

“The Risk Society could be described as Ray Harryhausen meets Jules Verne, a Victorian adventure story with a mix of science and fantasy played [...]

The Modern Compendium of Miniature Automata has been around for a while, but nowhere else can you create you own nano-scale cog-driven beasties that then scurry around yellowed paper. Sent to me by MChristian, I think I must have last seen it four or five years ago, but it now seems all the lovelier [...]

Mr S. Addison described his work as the best Steampunk art ever – and while that’s high praise indeed, I’d be put in an akward spot if I were to be asked to say who my favourite was – but Harry Grant Dart would be in the top five, at least!
Originally a newspaper cartoonist (before [...]

May I introduce Babette – a steam engine sculpture by the artist Wm. Dubin. MikeST surely deserves some kind of medal for finding this gentleman, and someone really needs to tell Mr Dubin that he’s accidentally independantly discovered his own brand of Steampunk. Mr Dubin, it seems, was a sculptor of wood, initially, [...]

Several people pointed out the wonderful collection of user submitted photos of steam powered bicycles over at Make:Blog a few days ago – and it would be negligent of me not to mention them here. From the fictional Artimus Gordon’s steam-cycle in Wild Wild West, to the all too real and dangerous cycles of [...]

In Doktor A’s words, not mine, he’s been at the absinthe again – which is handy for us, as he’s made another wonderful Steampunk themed model! The above one is greatly inspired by Verne’s Nautilus – with a sea-going vessel and underwater diver/pilot. The attention to detail is amazing – there are even [...]

Mr Addison found not only the peculiar chopper motorcycle, but the above beautifully detailed custom wheel. Created by a company called Capricorn Cyclo-Works, the above wheel not only looks stunning in stills, such as this, but quite mesmerising when rotated (video on their site). I’ve no idea what it would look like going [...]