Have a very happy Hogmanay (or new year), may 2007 bring us lots of delightful Steampunk things to tickle our fancy, and best wishes to you and yours.

Ok, both the Table of Malcontents and Neatorama had this, and I couldn’t resist any longer – it’s the wooden ’skyscraper’ of the town of Arkhangelsk in Russia, and it’s handmade by one resident of that town to rise about 10 storeys above the height of the rest of the towns two storey skyline. [...]

Just a last few posts before Hogmanay is apon us, but I must let you know about the new, English language and reorganised Steampunkopedia from the Retrostacja page. From the quite unique and very well researched chronology, to the surfeit of Steampunk related links, to a collection of Steampunk music videos (as well as [...]

The Generalissimo J. Dalio wrote some time ago to tell me about the Musee Mechanique (warning – noisy page) she visited in San Fransisco – a collection of old and restored mechanical attractions from fairgrounds and seasides – from Laffing Sal, who’s paper mache face and boisterous laugh terrified children for decades, to coin-operated teasingly [...]

The above is a woefully shrunken version of the card that the delightfully named Chronographia hand made for her friends – with definite and deliberate Steampunk influence too. Mr Stephen P. pointed it out and I am very grateful – but I am also embarrasingly envious of the fortunate people who recieved such cards. [...]

Ok, this has to be one of the more peculiar things that I’ve found, but it’s delightfully bonkers and more than a little Steampunk. It’s like someone took the tame but quite unhinged sketches of a Victorian inventor and actually made one come true! What is it? Well, it’s Keny Marshall’s Apophenia [...]

It is my very sad duty to inform you that in the year 1774, on Sunday the 8th of May, there was a conjuction of Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and the Moon and the resultant gravitational pull yanked the Earth out of its orbit and careening into the sun, to be burned to a frazzle. [...]

Some time ago, Mr M Snyder sent me a bundle of links that I’m still having the pleasure of making my way through – one of which is to the artist Jin Wicked’s page. An artist with a love for clocks, cogs and antiques is always something I like to see, and Ms Wicked’s [...]

I apologise for the blurry picture; I’m sure it was taken in haste due to the excitement of creation, but the subject itself is interesting – the Resistor Butterfly, a cobbled together ornament from various items that the creator (the Datamancer, known before for some lovely cog necklaces) had available in the house: jewelery scraps, [...]

My thanks to Mr J Svensson who pointed out the above game, Metronome, to me (though it seems it’s been on Retrostacja’s link page for a while). Made by the Swedish game developers, Tarsier Studios, it’s a third person adventure that reeks of graphical style not terribly unlike a cartoonish version of something inspired [...]