http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog The lighter side of Steampunk Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200907/robert-shuttleworths-shuttlewerks 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200907/edge-of-twilight   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. http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200907/nautilus-cinema The nice people producing the motion picture "9" have given us another morsel from the forthcoming film:   About 5 Voiced by Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly, 5 is a caring, nurturing engineer - the loyal, big-hearted "common man" who always tries to play the peacemaker. He is also an apprentice of ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200906/9-another-sneak-peak maduncle writes from the Antipodes:   A long time ago in a basement far, far away...    Mr. Jake of All Trades faces the daunting task of building the ultimate gaming PC for the launch of the new Steampunk themed game 'Damnation' and also knock up a modified PS3 in the same genre.   Both ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200906/damnation-timberclad-ps3 This post briefly covers two topics - the June 16/17 unplanned downtime, and upcoming planned downtime. Unplanned Downtime On June 16, at approximately 17:00 UTC, the web hosting provider used by Brass Goggles began a short planned downtime for security updates and routine maintenance to their VPS hosting services.  Our VPS node ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200906/downtime  Pheobsky writes:   The Science museum (London) is running a poll to decide which out of "10 scientific objects that changed the world" is most favoured in the world- All of the things have a little spiel on them, and inventions include items such as Stevenson's Rocket, the model T ford and ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200906/10-scientific-objects-that-changed-the-world-poll The nice people producing the motion picture "9" have graciously allowed us to see some images from the film: A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's distinctively ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200906/9-a-sneak-peek   A film by Peculiar Pictures, from their website:   A story of outstanding heroism in the face of deception, subterfuge and treachery. Conjuring up the belief that it was made forty years before film was even invented, 1884: Yesterday's Future tells of a future that might have been but never was. Directed by Tim ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200905/1884-yesterdays-future Mr Gazongola writes: Yes, Jake of all Trades is at it again. With the release of the computer game Damnation, he was commissioned to create a computer to be given away to a winner of the competition held by Destructoid. It weighs nearly a metric tonne, and is full of wood ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200905/the-telecalculograph-mark-2