Archive for January, 2007

Jack of All Trades – TV Series

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

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Mr Hildebrandt took a trip down his memory lane recently, and recalled a programme that he caught on the cathode ray tube called Jack of All Trades.  It features Bruce Campbell as a lovable, patriotic rogue, with a sharp wit and a glint in his eye in a 19th Century world with strangely out of [...]

Anima Vitae – Steampunk Medicine

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Mr Wall, while a member of the medical profession by day, does 3d modelling in TrueSpace by night – wonderfully twisted, Victorian-fictional medical contraptions that put the fear back into Steampunk medicine. Surprisingly, Mr Wall had been operating (no pun intended) in somewhat of a vacuum, and had no idea that his genre had [...]

A Clockwork Rifle

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Mr Pack sends word of his creation – the Steampunk Clockwork Rifle, and a handsome (and purely decorative) contraption it is too! With a hand carved stock, clockwork gears and a spyglass for a rather shiny looking scope, the Clockwork Rifle is loosely based on the classic Kentucky rifle. (I’ll take your [...]

Gentleman’s Duel – Trailer

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Baron Von Fogel and Mr Kraft (and also from someone at my work) forwarded a link to the new trailer for Gentleman’s Duel animated short that we looked at a while ago. Apparently the Baron Von Fogel has had the pleasure of actually seeing the whole thing, and speaks very highly of it indeed! [...]

Deco and Wooden PC Mods

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Datamancer kindly pointed out some of the beautiful PC case creation and modding done by Mr Stephenson. From PCs in oversized old-fashioned microphones, to PCs in bakelite-like radio cases, to the above pen display PC with custom pen catelogueing software installed on it – and it keeps your pens warm to boot. *chuckles* [...]

Gear Puzzle – Flash Game

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

When I posted about another gear based game a while ago, Mr Moores remembered a little flash game that he’d encountered in the past that he thought I might like – Gear Puzzle. It’s a simple little game, where I had to use trial and error mostly – but I warn you, when you [...]

Mechanical-Looking Sand Sculptures

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Mr Hildebrandt pointed out the post over at Spy’s Spice blog on the sand sculptures of Kirk Rademaker, such as the one above. Now, while I can barely erect a small castle with all the edges intact – with a bucket to help me, Mr Rademaker can construct tall, perfectly angled constructions of organic [...]

Akira Yamaguchi – Japanese Fantasy War Drawings

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Most of the time, Steampunk is set in the western Victorian era – set often either in Europe or North America, during the 19th Century – but at the same time other countries were going through an as interesing (if not more interesting) changes too – Japan being a prime example with the opening up [...]

The Nautilus Home Cinema

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Rare indeed is the Steampunk fan who would turn down the opportunity to visit the inside of the infamous Captain Nemo’s submarine – the Nautilus. But rarer still is the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea fan who comissions the creation of a Nautilus themed home cinema, like the one above! Mr and Mrs [...]

Steam Sounds – Sounds for Analytical Engines

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

When Mr Hildebrandt created his Telecalculograph Steampunk PC mod, he discovered that the usual sounds that come from your average OS, just didn’t really fit with the now stove-pipe and furnace sprouting machine that he now had. So, having requested and been given permission by the lovely people responsible for the UT conversion, Damnation: [...]