Sunday Miscellany – Sunday Submissions..
Its a quiet fall Sunday, so here are a few bits of msicellany submitted by our readers.
(From Patron Vectras via PM)
“I just found The Art of Manliness again and immediately went to search BG for any mention of it.
Using this website and the respective book (which I now remember stopping into a bookstore distinctly because I saw it in the window) it is quite possible for even the most contemporary fool to regain the manliness of yore.” – Good article on the art of shaving with a straight razor (which I still do, having been taught how by my granfather some 45 years ago..)
(From Kriz, via email)
Steampunk with a Japanese twist – Steampanku “What if we set the industrial revolution as originating in Japan, or more logically, reaching and taking off in Japan long before the Black Ships? Realistically, this is a plausible train of thought, considering that the Japanese were not isolated in the most literal sense of the word. Rangaku, or literally Western Learning, had its roots in Dejima, the sole foreign outpost in Japan during the isolated years of the Edo Period.”
(From Hazel Fisher, via email)
The fictional town of Hexley ”Steampunk helped to inspire my illustrations on a fictional town called Hexley. I thought that you might be interested to see some of my work.
The town of Hexley and its surrounding area is a centre for learning and discovery, full of strange inventions. My illustrations of Hexley are set in the late Victorian era and include clockwork birds, steam powered transporation and submarines”
