Well, ladies and gentlemen, it seems that I have yet another fine addition to my Compendium of Phantastic Artisans: one Mr. Keith E. Lo Bue. He has an incredible number of pieces, each at least as stunning as the last. Though they all have quite a bit of Victorian flair to them, the best Steampunk pieces (in your author??Ts humble opinion) are to be found in the Jewels and New Work sections. These deliciously grungy objects were cobbled together from all manner of Victorian junk (read: treasure), including a rusty raccoon trap, door knobs, a bat skull, and false teeth! Good lord, I could spend all day on that site???

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Oh, and here??Ts one for our more eagle-eyed and elephant-minded readers: that brass ???28??? on the piece shown above. You??Tve seen an identical pin somewhere else, bearing the number ???27?????’can you tell me where? Give your answer in the comments, the first one to provide a link to the object I??Tm thinking of will receive a (very) small brass plaque, hand-made by yours truly. Good luck!

Link courtesy of “Haunted_Lady“, via The CWGJ??

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What would happen if Batman were prowling around in the 1880s? Why, he’d take on Jack the Ripper, of course! Yes indeed, in this 1989 DC comic, the Dark Knight encounters the devilish Jack who, for some reason, has journeyed to Gotham. Gotham by Gaslight is considered by most to be the first “Elseworlds” comic–a series where popular characters are put into strange times and realities. You can purchase the 112-page compilation (shown above) of Gotham by Gaslight and its sequel Master of the Future on Amazon for around $10US.

Last year, toy company “DC Direct” came out with this fantastic action figure in the image of this anachronistic avenger. A gentleman by the name of Poe has a nice written review of the figure here, in which (among other things) he makes a rather good point about this Batman’s physique. His seemingly chubby build is in fact quite accurate to what a “he-man” would have looked like in the 1800s. It’s only with today’s exercise techniques that the chiseled body of the modern Batman would be even remotely possible…

There’s also this figure that I simply couldn’t not post. He’s actually from a WWII-era Elseworlds, but come on; goggles!

Dear me, can it get any better than Steampunk and Batman? Heavens, I’m a nerd… *chuckles*

A fellow by the name of Richard sends us word of The Bradbury Building, located in Los Angeles. It was apparently featured in many big-time motion pictures, which means there’s lots of photos available. BRmovie.com has a rather nice set full of interior and exterior shots, from both real life and the movies. The building’s not too spectacular from the outside; but once you get to the atrium? Heavens me!!! You can see many (hundreds!) more pictures on Flickr, and learn all manner of interesting facts on Wikipedia.

Gee, between this and “The Edison”, LA is starting to look like quite the Steampunk destination!

For those of you who are unfamiliar, “Winamp” is a rather popular media player program for PC (though versions for Mac and Linux do exist). One of the features that makes Winamp so favorable is its ability to be “skinned”. This means that you can drastically change the look and user-interface of the program to fit your fancy. There are so many skins available, in fact, that even within the realm of Steampunk, there’s a skin to match your specific taste!

First off, the one shown above. Known as Unison Brainstormed, it embodies the elegantly industrial look that I personally favor. It also has fun little features like the gauges on the equalizer that rotate along with the sliders

Eight more after the jump… (more…)

The beautifully fragile item you see above is one of ten pieces of moving sculpture that are currently available from the terribly skilled Mr. David C. Roy. He has been making these spring-powered illusions since 1975, so he has quite the archive going! The website is very well designed, giving us easy access to videos of the works in action as well as a brief tutorial as to how he creates such delightful machines. Despite their uniqueness, they are all rather hypnotizing and all very steampunk!

Thanks to Mr. Owensby for the link!

These are just unbelievably marvelous!  I was reading the Honky-Tonk Dragon’s site, and saw that he had posted about these most Steampunk of photographs by Mr and Mrs ParkeHarrison.  They’re just amazing!  From the above image of an everyman (actually Mr Parkeharrison) sent out to adjust one of the underturf cogs – to another image showing the tethering of cloud clusters – to a monocyclic eccentric, trying to catch the lightning!  It’s all beautiful stuff – and all the moreso for being done with old style collage and paper negatives, as well as setting up the scenes and props themselves.

What an amazing world they have created in black and white images – one where the land is bleak and overcast, and nameless toilers tweak and fix and try to make it better.

Have you ever been challenged to a duel, only to find yourself carrying neither pistol nor sword? I’m quite confident that most of us have. Steampunk is, after all, a rather controversial subject (see post on “The Cassettes”)!

Regardless of past violent encounters, we can all enjoy this fabulously illustrated and written excerpt from a 1901 edition of Pearson’s Magazine. With nothing more than your trusty umbrella or walking stick (which no self respecting gentleman would be caught without), you can easily conquer your foe with a quick series of delightfully elegant maneuvers. Heck, with the moves presented here you could turn yourself into a Victorian John Steed!

Hmm, anybody care to take the idea of “The Steampunk Avengers” further? Seems like it could be a rather smooth adaptation…

Thanks to Tinkergirl for the link, and to Wired News for bringing the page to her attention.

I will be away up to Scotland to visit my mother for a few days – from Sunday to Thursday (17th to the 22nd) – and while I’m away, Mr Hildebrandt has kindly offered to keep the boiler stoked here at Brass Goggles.  Please make him feel welcome in my absence.
And because I really cannot bear to post something so content bereft, I’ll add in this little nugget of Steampunk info – (and thank you to Mr Iversen for being my ear to the ground on this one) apparently New Line Cinema are intending to do a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!  It’s too early to tell anything much about it – a 2009 release estimate – but it’s interesting to know.  Surely, with a film such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there cannot help but be a whole new generation of Steampunk fans!

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The good Mr Suverkropp kindly wrote to tell me about the lovely Steampunk wargaming page of a delightfully lighthearted group somewhere in Texas – Major General Tremorden Rederring’s page!  They’re pleasantly free and easy about their lack of historical accuracy – steam velocipede torpedo’s are fired across the landscape of Ouargistan from experimental landships, desperately trying to fight back the martian menace!

In particular, I very much like the ‘contest’ that one of the players set the others – someone had turned up with their own landship (the above Her Majesty’s Land Ship Ogress), and a long time fan of Mr Wells work was so impressed, that he collected a hefty pile of junk, parts and components, and distributed them to the other players with the challege to make their own!  You can see the results here – I particularly like “The Bronze Bunny of Ouargistan”, but that may be due to too much Monty Python.  Lovely page, and definitely convey’s the lighter side of Steampunk!

Ooh!  Via BoingBoing today, I read about one of the latest Worth1000 photo manipulation contest they’re running – and the theme this time is ‘Antique Photoshop‘! From an excellent, and very Georges Méliès, theme post of a lady on her lighter-than-air-biwheeled device, floating politely past a monocled moon, to the above image of the triumphant (no pun intended) hunting party after a jolly exciting hunt in the land that time may have forgotten about for a while.

Some of the entries are less than great, but others, such as the ones mentioned, are wonderfully Steampunk.  I even have a fondness for the chthulu-esk tentacled officer and the spring-necked gentleman.