I must be drawn (no pun intended) to concept art today – I found myself quite enamoured with the few Steampunk works of Ms Juzo-kun sent in link form by their friend, Ms Enui.  Apparently based on an idea had some time ago for a Steampunk world of magic and science, with Etherships somewhat of [...]

Mr Huang sent a link to the upcoming MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.  Now, despite being an ex-Warhammer Fantasy player myself, I’d let this slip off my radar a little, but looking at the concept art for the Dwarves has brought it all back – and with rivets on!  There’s Dwarven steamtrains, ironclads, what [...]

Mr Huang (Crabfu, who is most likely at Maker Faire today showing his wonderful contraptions), has the most interesting friends! Mr Walas constructs and mods model trains into things quite unique and beautiful – constructing a whole micro-mythology to place them within! Rogue County seems to be a 19th Century fictional part of [...]

Mr J Roberts had a soft spot for the game, American McGee’s Alice – a violent variation on the tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Caroll). In this variation, a broken Alice must return to a far darker Wonderland (though never exactly quite right in the first place) to do [...]

Both Crabfu and Worthstream wrote to point out an article at Gizmondo about the ‘News Brews’ coffee machine.  As you can see, it’s a lovely brass and copper device with delightful valves, rotating dispensers, pipes and flashing lights, and were that all it did, then it’d be a lovely thing on it’s own.  But what [...]

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Thanks so much to Mr Payphone for pointing out the lovely music video above. For the song Je Suis Jalous (I Am Jealous) by Emily Loizeau, it shows an amusingly wicked tale involving a happy steam(punk?) fairground couple, and the retro-futurist, electric rocket sporting ‘other woman’. Such good fun!
I’d recommend the above, non-subtitled [...]

Surely this is the height of polite gentlemen rivalry? Some may know of ‘the two Jakes’ – two of the most prolific Steampunk creators that share a first name, and a rivaly to outdo the other in terms of Steampunk creation. One of them, Mr Jake Von Slatt (he of the Steampunk keyboard [...]

Via Neatorama, I saw the terrible beauty that is the Cauac Twins – a giant Tesla coil pair at the Coachella 2007 music festival (I believe BoingBoing did a big post about it, a while ago, though I may be mistaken).  40ft (12m) apart and 16ft (almost 5m) tall, they’re the largest twin Tesla coils [...]

How many goggles are too many?  Alas, I may never know the answer to this, as my appetite seems impossibly voracious, so thank you to Mr Van Zoelen for sending word of his new goggles!  Created from a gas mask originally, they look simply marvelous and very sturdy indeed.  There’s even a little tale to [...]

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Crabfu’s latest creation!  (Danger – high pitched noise will either make you wince with memories of painful dentist visits, or cause you to grin at the sound of a turbine doing what it does best.)
This is Mr Huang’s Steam Turbine Tank, a new remote control beastie with a difference – instead of a piston engine, [...]