Sam Van Olffen, a French Steampunk Artist
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 he likes to call himself, from Montpellier (South of France) who really deserves to be known among the Steampunk community. The artwork speaks for itself. He worked for the music industry, publishing houses and also did the design of an retro-future exhibition.
I personally enjoy that biomechanical Napoleon !
June 24th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Thats the kind of napoleon that could actually take over all of europe….and the world.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:25 am
A cracking good find, sir! Jolly well done!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:35 am
beautiful!
check out a cool steampunk- like teaser:
http://www.ironsky.net/site/
there is a youtube video
June 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
The brits are testing a modern steamcar and it is expected to break the land speed record (for steam) at 170mph.
Link
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/4270456.html
Fair use quote:
“The Jules-Verne-meets-Batmobile vehicle is being loaded up for a trip across the Atlantic, bound for the Bonneville Salt Flats and a potential rendezvous with racing history in late August. Burning liquid petroleum gas at 750° F to pressurize that 360-hp Curtis turbine, the 25-ft.-long Steam Car can turn 10.5 gallons of water a minute into some boiling-hot action for the record books—and wicked fast, with velocities in excess of 150 mph. That’s not much compared to the absolute land speed record of 763 mph, but it would be enough to top the 88-year-old international steam record of 127.66 mph. The target speed for later this summer: 170 mph.”
June 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
This is very Cool. Would love to have this as a large print in my house.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Maginficent work!
Sam really gets to the graphic heart of all that I love about Steampunk. History, technology, and of course, the great sense of human wonder- without which, science would most likely have stopped somewhere around the creation of the “Clovis Point”
Thank you so much for the post! Best Regards, Art
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
If you want to see some french steampunk go there : http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/ It’s a exposition in the Verne’s native city called Nantes.
Their is also an french street art company who perform big show with things that look kind of steampunk called Royal De Luxe. You can see them on youtube or theire http://www.thesultanselephant.com/gallery/gallery.php (from the perfomance in london).
Sorry for my very scholar english but as you may guess i’m french.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Sam is already a great artist!