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Steampunk Party “The Great Exhibition” – London, March 27

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Tesla Coils and Sparks Fly at White Mischief!
“On Saturday March 27 in London, England, White Mischief is holding a massive multi-room steampunk party called The Great Exhibition. White Mischief will be celebrating three years of neo-Victorian entertainments with its biggest line-up yet.
Some of the UK’s best-known exponents of steampunk craft will be in attendance, including [...]

And now for something a bit — smaller.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

After yesterday’s  set of large steam engines, let’s have a look at the other end of the spectrum.  Here are some of the works of Iqbal Ahmed, an engineer/machinist in India. He currently holds the Guinness World record for the smallest working steam engine.
Small:

Smaller:

Smallest:

“and does one like them…..large?”

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Time to put some steam back into Steampunk. For your enjoyment, a few pics from my collection, showing some rather large stationary steam engines.
Most of these are in the 8000HP range, with  one (the first one shown),  being 12,000hp (it powered the steel rolling equipment in a rolling mill)

“Steam Wars” – an Iphone/Ipod Touch game.

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

illogika Studios (a new indie game developer in Montreal) recently released our first iPhone game called Steam Wars. It is a steampunk styled game where two steam powered robots fight each other on tiny planets using artillery weapons.
Steam Wars Video preview
Steam Wars is currently available in the apps section ofiTunes .

Les Historiettes de Monsieur Sandalette

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

With a brand new website and a full section in english, I invite you to meet French gentleman Maurice Sandalette and his lovely assistant, Miss Prann.
Brilliantly funny and definitely steampunk, “Les Historiettes de Monsieur Sandalette” are a serie of daguerrotype-novels full of aliens, tentacles and sea monsters.
Enjoy!

Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition,Emeryville CA.

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, will be  coming to Emeryville, CA March 12th through the 14th.
The Exhibition is a 3-day event which includes presentations, panel discussions, lectures and interactive workshops, as well as evening entertainment, a huge vendor area, a Museum of Curiosities and more. Open to all ages, Steam-X  takes the best elements of traditional science [...]

Steampunk Culture in Spain!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I literally just stumbled upon this having met the webmaster last night at a party.  For anyone planning travel to, or who may live in Barcelona, they have your fix over at Steampunk SP!
http://www.steampunksp.es/portal/
Also direct link to their Spanish Language Steampunk forum:
http://foro.steampunksp.es/

Volcania Volunteers recreate Harper Goff’s Nautilus

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

This struck my eye back in December but I’m afraid I was lazy and I never mentioned it, so here we are!
The Volcania Volunteers are some incredible artists for design junkies like myself.  First off they have a very nice looking site:  http://www.vulcaniavolunteers.com/
They are an organization which provides highly accurate models of items and diagrams [...]

A Steampunk Gun – that works..

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Denver artist Jonathan Alberico has created two fully functional steam punk guns. Black Betty, a dual barrel pistol uses flash paper to shoot fire balls. Doris is a beastly air cannon that fires bouncey ball at high enough speeds to rip through boxes and even bounce back.

Doris the Blunderbuss

Steampunk and Motorcycles..

Friday, February 5th, 2010

In a recent trawl of the Internet, these turned up. Steampunk and motorcycles, seems a good fit to me..
The Bobster Trike by Zeel Designs:
Or perhaps Baron Margo’s ‘Phantom”  – League of Extraordinary  Gentlemen, anyone?

 

Or, one could take a Huffy bicycle, a 50cc Honda engine, and add lots of creativity:

 
And finally, if you want real steam [...]