http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles The lighter side of Steampunk Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:43:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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' http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200901/happy-new-year-6-days-late 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200812/had-a-little-crash 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/upgrading-away 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/clive-batkins-creations 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/steampunk-cellphone 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/steampunk-pics 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 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfM3HJujIU[/youtube] Further information on Sudden Stop Films can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/sudden_stop_films O.S.M. http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/moving-picture-feature 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/steampunk-starwars-return-of-the-jedi 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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/halloween-aviator-costume "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 ... http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200811/steam-gear-lab