Archive for August, 2006

Crabfu: Steampowered Truck

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

The wonderful and many talented Crabfu (Mr Huang) has brought another steam-powered device into existance. This one, - the Steam Hauler - based off a remote control truck is - even to his eyes, less fanciful than some of his other creations, but it is still steam where before there was none.
Possibly more like [...]

Cog shaped cookie-cutter

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

So, a while ago I thought that it’d be nice to have Steampunk food - you may have noticed my Steampunk bento earlier with cog shaped sausage cutouts. However, cog shaped biscuits/cookies sounded like a great idea - but I’d be darned if I was going to hand cut out all those cog teeth! [...]

1890: Eole the bat-plane takes flight!

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Is it a bat?! Is it a plane?! Well, actually, Clément Ader pioneer of flight and the creator of the above contraption, would probably say it’s a lot of both.
But oh - what a story around Clément Ader and his flying machines! In 1890, he took [...]

Brisco County Jr. - TV series

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

The recently DVD released, Brisco County Jr. is a very sneaky little series - it looks for all intents and purposes like a normal, cowboy-style series. However, if you take a closer look at the image above, you will see that Brisco (our hero) is actually riding a rocket with a saddle on it. [...]

The Five Fists of Science: Graphic Novel

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Ok, so it’s old news to many, but I recently got the graphic novel, The Five Fists of Science. I read it today, and it was quite good fun! Started off slowly, and I had a bit of trouble telling apart some of the more minor characters (dressed as they were in near [...]

Steamband - an Angband variant

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Now, I used to be partial to a quick blast of ADOM, and I’m led to believe that Angband and ADOM are very similar beasts - ASCII ‘graphics’ games of dungeon crawling and stat gaining. Much using of arrow keys to move your “@” character around a randomised ASCII text dungeon (while killing “r” [...]

Space 1889: RPG and Radio

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

So, it seems that there’s a pen and paper RPG that had managed to sneak under my radar - it’s been out for a while now (and went in and out of print once or twice) but it looks to be right up my street. Space 1889, by Heliograph ticks a great many Steampunk [...]

Doktor A’s “Professor Whistlecraft”

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

There’s a page of very quirky art, called Spookypop, done by someone calling themselves Doktor A. While there may not be very much for the Steampunk fan, the above toy called “Professor Whistlecraft’s Industrial Copper-Plated Marvel” definitely qualifies. Doktor A seems to do digital art, painted art, sculpture and toys - some quite [...]

Steampunk Lego Article

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Over at RustyClank blog (a blog devoted to Lego constructions, with a heavy Steampunk quota) they’ve got a download for a .pdf of an article written about Steampunk as a Lego construction genre. While it may not bring much new to regulars at Brass Goggles, it’s a good introduction to those who are new. [...]

Steampunk Image Resourse Cornucopia

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I’ve no idea how I missed this until now, but the Classic-Space LEGO page has a huge collection of Steampunk related images that someone there has painstakingly collected for a long time, it seems. 237 images - some photographs of wargaming miniatures, some stills from anime (most obviously, Laputa, Nausicaa and Porco Rosso), and [...]