His blog has gone quiet, which is always a good sign! Most likely taking a much needed little vacation, but he usually blogs while “in between” — perhaps Lady Muse have visited him! Anyway, he’s now all doctored up — honorary degree conferred! I like one of the headlines, “Now he’s the Doctor of Cyberspace!” [&hellip
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The NY Times has an article on the Steampunk Culture, which alludes to the fashionable sense of the movement. They’re not all scary like the Goths! And I quote, “Steampunk isn’t all dark and spooky. It’s elegant and beautiful.” I’d have to agree with that given the fabulous steampunk devices popping up!
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Solaris Press in publishing Extraordinary Engines: The definitive Steampunk Anthology. Extraordinary Engines is a brand new anthology of all-original stories from some of the genre’s foremost writers. Read More about it here
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Wow this is a pretty amazing collection of steampunk motorcycles… I have always wanted a Trike myself. Enoc
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One of my favorite blogs is Gizmodo. They have an excellent interview with Rich Nagy who is the “top creator of custom Steampunk objects” around today. Check it out
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Um, wow, I blew out this whole comment! Oh well, google this!!!
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What with the gift giving season fast approaching, I thought it prudent to mention this delicious site I just found via my Google Alerts: Dr Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators and Other Marvelous Contraptions! Just what everyone wants I know — a $700 raygun! Wow! (And yes, the category should have scare quotes around “toys.”) From that [&hellip
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Found via BoingBoing, an article in The Boston Globe with a gallery of steampunk objects. An interesting observation is part of the article wherein it talks about the preservation of objects, taking modern day appliances and rendering them as steampunk items to increase the desire to save them, to make them museum pieces. Interesting. I [&hellip
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Interesting site, A Fistful of Games, has a write-up of playing a steampunk board game, or a modified rule set of another game to encompass steampunk elements. Or something. OK. I didn’t really read it all the way through, but I intend to. So I’m bloggin it here to remind me! Anywho — we’ve really [&hellip
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