May we wish you all a Happy New Year, and to celebrate, here’s an image of what Santa’s visit in 2007* looked like one hundred and one years ago:

Normality will be resumed posthaste…
*Shamelessly borrowed from ‘Girl Genius’

Sadly, the latest blog posts all seem to be about the inner workings of the site.  You may have noticed down time for a day or two — our MySQL server crashed for an unknown reason; I was on holiday and didn’t notice.
My apologies for the inconvenience.  For those who care about such things, the [...]

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.” [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

News comes to Brass Goggles from Jason of Fez-O-Rama  of a Limited Edition Fez! Made of beautiful mahogany velvet with an embroidered  clockwork motif suggestive of the proverbial “thinking cap” that many of us find essential to our tinkerisational conceptual ruminations…
22 of these have been made with a possibility of up to 12 more in [...]

Word comes to the Brass Goggles in-tray of a leap forward in goggluar technology from Mr. Mike Brown principal artist of Highmoon Studios…
Mr. Brown acknowledges Mikest’s work, that was appeared on the forum, in influencing his design.  I recommend a peep at the full details and pictures here:
Titanium Goggles…
O.S.M.

Should one find one’s self in the environs of New York City, why not treat yourself to a visit to the American Primitive Gallery where an exhibiton entitled ‘Visual Steampunk’ has been mounted for your edification and delight…
Featuring the work of such artistic luminaries as Gerard Cambon, Taras Von Hrechniw (who’s work is featured at [...]

A Miss Amy Pearson made us aware about the existence of her steampunk-esque comic and kindly requested that we report on it here. Her web-comic, titled “Mathema,” is set in Victorian London and is characterized by steam and clockworks intertwined with themes of magic and mathematics. The comic can be Read Online by everyone and [...]