Archive for November, 2008

Upgrading away… (COMPLETE!)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

UPDATE: If you’re seeing this, you’re at our new home!  You may notice that your address bar contains ‘74.126.25.104′ instead of ‘brassgoggles.co.uk’; fret not, that should be fixed in a few days (it’s a side effect of moving to the new host).
My apologies for the short notice: we’d intended to manage this a little more [...]

Clive Batkin’s Creations

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Clive Batkin is a new (and hopefully upcoming) steampunk artist of whom we proudly display two perfectly stylish creations here.
The first image depicts a steampunk desk lamp called “The Optimus” by Mr Batkin, after the Swedish-made brass stove that forms the base of the lamp. Simple and beautiful, “The Optimus” should perfectly complement any [...]

Steampunk Cellphone

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

You might not realize at first quite what this contraption is, but it’s the first full-fledged steampunk cellphone! It has, “no display. No 3G. No data plan. No games. It doesn’t even have a dial pad,” write the people at Unplggd “You make your calls with binary-coded punch cards, steampunk.”
The device was created by a [...]

Steampunk Pics

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

A new steampunk blog popped up fairly recently. Steampunk Pics provides the visitor with charming collection of steampunk imagery, always within a certain scope, be it “Steampunk Toys” or “Steampunk Star Wars” or “Zeppelins” or “Clockworks”.
As the author, Mr Tomasz Armatowski puts it: “I’m on a quest, browsing through the Internet in search of pictures.” [...]

Moving Picture Feature…

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Word comes to the Brass Goggles Film Review Dept (via pneumatic chute) of an award winning visual entertainment from Sudden Stop Films…
Professor Dantes and the Severin Conundrum
Further information on Sudden Stop Films can be found here:
http://www.myspace.com/sudden_stop_films
O.S.M.

Steampunk Starwars: Return of the Jedi…

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Sillof’s Workshop continues with his on-going Steam Wars project with a set of figures from Return of The Jedi…
Originally an entry in Customcon XXI.   The line continues the idea of blending original Star Wars elements and industrial aesthetics.
Enough talk, go take a look at the [...]

Halloween Aviator Costume

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Mr Andy Miller was so inspired by the “Steampunk Ornithopter” we wrote about last October, that he decided to built one himself!
Mr Miller crafted the wings out of a variety of parts, the frames made of bamboo sticks, the cloth being a recycled tablecloth, and the steam engine a copy machine toner cartridge, with a [...]

Steam Gear Lab

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

“Our goal is to design items of wonder that are as they would have been in The Time That Never Happened.” That is the motto of Steam Gear Lab, a small company that produces props and makeup effects and provides production design for film, stage and television. All their productions are hand-crafted by two infamous [...]

Gatehouse Gazette #3

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Steampunk is all about “Playing Roles & Dressing-Up” with the third and holiday issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.
Read about the most stylish history maker, Beau Brummell, from Mr James Roberts or discover the glory of the Venetian Carnival in an article by Mr Joost van Ekris. Learn the life story of the first steampunk musician [...]

Essential Headgear For The Modern Astro-Traveller…

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Recently recovered from the archive at Castle d’Arrogance, details of Herr Döktor’s  Vacuum Survival System, or ‘Space Helmet’, have just recently come to light; this object was produced at some, as yet, undetermined time (due to the peculiar and labyrinthine method of personal dating) as a means for ‘personal safety while travelling the Ætheral Void [...]