Archive for June, 2008

Sam Van Olffen, a French Steampunk Artist

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

There is a kind of Steampunk fever spreading little by little over France.
Now and then, clockwork designs, XIXth century flavoured ads, gears can be seen on TV, posters or magazines. I was browsing recently one of my favourite literature leaflet when I fell on Sam Van Olffen’s pictures.
This artist is a young graphic sampler, as [...]

Jesse van Dijk’s Vertical Seaside City

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Mr Jesse van Dijk is a conceptual artist and illustrator from The Netherlands, whose Project Indigo may be of particular interest to the steampunk enthusiasts (though his portfolio in general is of extraordinary quality).
Project Indigo envisions a vertical seaside metropolis in a world where dry land is extremely precious. The city is constructed around [...]

Steampunk On One’s Commute

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

By golly, I love seeing steampunk in the everyday, even if it is a country that I don’t live in. This particular photograph, taken by anesterik, is taken in the Arts & Métiers metro station in Paris. The Musée des Arts + Metiers is a deliciously fun museum, full of Victorian machines, laboratories, [...]

“Steampunk Rising” Article

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

ChannelWeb.com was named one of the “Ten Great Media Web Sites” by B2B Magazine’s Media Business In July 2007. This past week they did a very nice 24 page article on Steampunk titled “Steampunk Rising”
You can read the whole 24 pages of it here
Datamancer, Jake Von Slatt, Doktor A, Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich  and G.D.Falksen are all there [...]

Telecroscope Meeting Today (And White Mischief)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

A quick reminder (as I shall be travelling and preparing soon) that today is the day (the 7th) for getting yourself down to your nearest Telectroscope end (London or New York), encountering other Steampunk fans, and waving to those across the pond! 
London: 7pm
New York: 2pm
For those in the London area, remember that White Mischief – 80 Days Around [...]

Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Dearest Bretheren and Sisteren:
Dr. Ding courteously invites you to gaze upon the many fine and mystical offerings of Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow™. It is a decidedy bizarre place, not for the feeble of constitution, containing many gruesome and spectral offerings for your consumption. No, not the tubercular kind of consumption. My but you are rather [...]

Art Donovan’s Steampunk Designs

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Mr Art Donovan is a most talented inventor who has been building lovely steampunk lamps for quite some time now, and clocks lately too!
This photograph depicts the crown of the “Thin White Duke,” a steampunk table lamp standing 50″ tall and measuring 21″ wide at its lampshade. It is entirely hand-made of solid mahogany, brass, [...]

Create Your Own Goggles

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The great and random patrickwilsonmusic.com has just done us all a great favor. He took his father’s aviation goggles and has made a wonderful tutorial on how to reproduce them, including scale pattens that can be printed from the web site. Easy! & Free!
I’m sure you could have a great deal of fun making [...]

Movie Review: First Men in the Moon

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Tell me what you think of this premise: An international team of astronauts lands on the Moon in the 1960’s. While exploring their landing site, they come across a dusty Union Flag and a scrip of paper claiming the moon in the name of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen [...]