Jessica Joslin, whose work BG has featured in the past, is having a solo show opening next week at The Lisa Sette Gallery , April 1- 24, 2010.
More of her work can be seen at her website.
The folks over at the The Steampunk Magazine are pleased to announce:
“Hot off the back of the Second-Ever SteamPunk Magazine Steampunk Soiree in December last year, the folks over at SteamPunk Magazine are organising another knees-up. This time the party is taking place at the Little Marlborough Theatre in Brighton on the 19th and 20th June. Someone suggested the name ‘The SteamPunk Magazine Seaside Spectacular’, and now there’s no stopping them.
With prizes for the best steampunk seaside costume, an art and photography competition on the theme of ‘What the Butler Saw’, music, burlesque, market stalls, dance lessons and a variety performance spread across the entire weekend, SteamPunk Magazine have decided that they do like to be beside the seaside, and would like very much for you to join them.
With music from the laudable, Brighton-based bands Bitter Ruin and Trousseaux, comedy courtesy of Marc Burrows of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing and with the wonderful Hooray Henry as the host and compere, as well as dance instruction from Lady Jillian Spagthorpe (who will be teaching Victorian waltz and polka, as well as a Regency set dance), there is certainly no shortage of stuff going on.”
Due to a limited amount of space at the venue, there are only 150 tickets available for this event, so if you’re interested then you had better get there fast!
Tickets and more information are available on the SteamPunk Magazine website ,or via their Facebook site for the event.
From Marhsall Hunter, via email: “We are aiming at Steamcon in Seattle this year for the release of our 1st edition book. We have a web ad up for the first episode called “The Captain’s Table” which can be downloaded for free from our website as well as what we are calling our “Interim Rules” that are complete, including character creation so that people can begin to explore the world in character.
We’ve been in development for about the last two years and have finally gotten up enough steam to really get going and I’d love to put some of our stuff up on Brass Goggles. We have fiction, artwork, and are in the process of producing a web based serial set in the world. ….. Part of the mandate I have put down for what we do is that this is not only a game but is also a creative community. So, we not only have a game, but a group of artists, builders, writers and many others who we are encouraging in what they do. Right now, our local group here in Seattle is working on set pieces and props for an exhibition we are doing at the Northwest Regional Event for the Camarilla and we are also putting work in on the Steampunk Film Exhibition here in Seattle to repair the century old steam clock at the Museum of History and Industry.
We make a point of trying to promote Steampunk in the most positive light possible and to expose more people to it that might not have realized what it’s all about. “
Are those pesky Air Krakens plaguing your airship routes, terrorizing (and perhaps devouring) your crew? Professor Wilfred Singleton Fate has been researching this very issue and has come up with some amazing discoveries.
Read all about it at: Air Kraken Research! (and if you’re a drunken bagpiper, well, you have nothing to worry about from the pesky critters!)
Billed as “Canada’s First Steampunk Festival” The Victoria Steam Expo will take place May 22-23, 2010. Cherie Priest, author of “Boneshaker” will be the guest of honour.
Information is available at their website.
St.Martin’s press has just released a Steampunk novel entitled “The Dream of Perpetual Motion“:
“Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.
The tale of Harold’s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Harold’s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Harold’s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Miranda’s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine.
Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology”
In addition, check out their Steampunk Art Gallery and download their Free Screensaver.
Fowlers of Leeds was a well known traction engine manufacturer. in 1877, they hosted a “Field Day”
The Fowler Plant:
The Boiler Shop:
The Large Tool Shop:
The “Smalls” Shop (where such things as pistons, slides, eccentrics, crossheads and the like were made):
The Erecting shop, where it all came together:
and an example of what the end result was – a K5 ploughing engine.
The League of Steam have released their latest video episode, just in time for St.Patrick’s Day..
Gail Carriger has taken it upon her self to give the world a Series of wonderful , whimsical and unique steampunk books.
The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set in Victorian London: full of vampires, dirigibles, and tea. If you have yet to pick up the first book in the set “Soulless“, now is the time to do so before you fall so far behind.
It also should be noted that Soulless can be nominated for a Hugo Award .
That you might enjoy..
Queen Street Mill 500Hp tandem steam engine
Milton Rally – 2004
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