Archive for July, 2009

Steampunk’d!

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

The wonderful David Malki of Wondermark fame takes on Steampunk with a comic “In which pipes continue to leak”.
For those not familiar with Wondermark, Mr. Malki takes public-domain Victorian images (mostly woodcuts) and reprocesses them into rather amusing comics.

9Experiment.com Talisman Challenge Clue

Monday, July 27th, 2009

9 shoes by Pony

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

In support of the upcoming film “9″, the shoe manufacturer Pony is producing a limited edition pair of shoes:

A close-up peak at the iconic zipper on the outer rear of the shoe, which represents one of the main design cues of the “9” character, and reveals the neon green ‘9′ movie logo printed underneath.

War Of The Worlds: GOLIATH

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Coming next year from the producers of “Heavy Metal” magazine and films, comes this sequel to H.G. Wells’ “War Of The Worlds”, a brief synopsis may be read below:
“Synopsis by Joe Pearson; “It’s an R rated, retro-history, steam punk epic set in [the year] 1914, fourteen years after the first failed Martian invasion. Mankind has [...]

“9″- More images from the forthcoming Film

Friday, July 17th, 2009

The nice folk producing the film “9″ have graciously given us some more preview pictures:
 

#2(at right, voiced by Martin Landau) shows #9(at left, voiced by Elijah Wood) the post-apocalyptic environment they exist in, in Shane Acker’s epic adventure fantasy 9, which Focus Features releases nationwide on 9/09/09.
Photo Credit:  Focus Features

#9(at left voiced by Elijah Wood [...]

Robert Shuttleworth’s shuttlewerks

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Mr Robert Shuttleworth from Toronto, Canada makes some excellent steampunk machines and miniature robots too!
The creation depicted here is a “remake of a heater to a web cam with 1890s optics yields Alice Through the Looking Glass style view,” according to the artist. Combined, it makes for sheer brilliance, don’t you agree? It goes to [...]

Edge of Twilight

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Edge of Twilight is an upcoming steampunk fantasy video game, developed by Fuzzyeyes Studios for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
“The story of the Edge of Twilight,” writes Mr Finch Adelbrecht, “is about a fantasy world after the Rift, an occurrence that split the world into two separate realms of Day and Night. In [...]

Nautilus cinema

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

 

The one thing always lacking from Captain Nemo’s Nautilus submarine has now finally been built by one Olly Klassen. Behold here what is undoubtedly the most steampunk home cinema in the world! Visit the website for more pictures.