Archive for October, 2007

StormWinds – Flash Based Steampunk Defence Game

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Mr Xenocryst wrote to point out a lovely little Flash game called StormWinds from Hero Interactive.  It reminds me a little of the Steampunk setting in the Hungry City Chronicles as you are charged with defending your home in the valley beyond the mountain pass from the hoards of attacking airbourne enemies.  Each level sees [...]

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Noticed on BoingBoing today, the most marvellous Chronotheric Fluxing Capacitron, by Flickr user, and Brass Goggles forum member, Absinthetic, is a beautiful creation that just does wonders for Steampunk! Created as as prop to Absinthetic’s 2007 halloween costume as a 19th Century time traveller, this beautiful clock has mysterious energies writhing across its face. [...]

Lost World Research Case – Dinosaurs and Diaries

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

AlexCF of Many Dead Things continues to improve, inspire and amaze with his hard-won relics of a time that never was.  Seeing the above case, known as the Lost World Exploration Case, a collection of samples and discoveries from the mysterious lost plateau in the depths of the Amazonian forest, you might be forgiven for [...]

The Armstrong Siddeley “Horatio” Boarder Repeller

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Mr Willbourn of Stentor Industries, raygun and prop-weapon maker of no small repute, has constructed the above Steampunk device for protecting Her Majesty’s new airship division from the burgeoning (and scurrilous) pirate contingent of the lighter than air international traffic.  The Horatio Boarder Repeller is designed for hand use, and fires both a sonic blast [...]

White Mischief: From the Earth to the Moon

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Well!  It is my great pleasure to pass on to those who might be interested, that the new-Vaudeville group, White Mischief, will be hosting a night of extravagance, delight and debauchery in London on the 10th of November (Saturday).  The night, entitled “From the Earth, to the Moon” takes its inspiration from Steampunk, Verne, HG [...]

Steampunk Doctor Who Fan-Art by Promus-Kaa

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Ms Lyssie Algorithim confesses to being a Doctor Who fan, and I can empathise – while it’s only the most recent Doctors that has really caught my attention (having grown up with the 8th Doctor on my television) I know there’s a lot more to it, and that fans have not so much been transfixed [...]

Aquatic Observation of Channeled Aetheric Energies

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Mr Handbook, from the forum, has recently revealed his scientific apperatus for the study of aetheric energies on lifeforms – in this case, fish.  Known as the “Aquatic Observation of Channeled Aetheric Energies” or A.O.C.A.E. for short, this mostly spherical construction channels aetheric energies through the venusuan crystal in the chamber at the top and [...]

Steampunk Magazine, Issue 3

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

The wondrous publication, The Steampunk Magazine, has recently birthed its third issue! Subtitled “The Sky Is Falling”, this issues theme is the apocalypse, and how it might arrive and be dealt with in a Steampunk manner. From what the best parts of a dead car are to scavenge, to what likelihood that cyberpunk [...]

The Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

The enchantingly named, Dusty Hawthorne, wrote to point out a simply stunning museum in Paris called the Musée des Arts et Métiers – or The Museum of Arts and Trades.  Their ‘virtual museum visit’ in particular is wonderful (if a little flash-based) and has such fantastic categories as Scientific Instruments, Telecommunications, Power and Energy and [...]