Cyberpunk. Collage Supplies: How-To & Clip Art Magazines/Books/CDs. Online : Maker Faire: M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. One of the group installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. A nostalgic throw-back to carnivals of old, this exhibit is a self-contained window into yesteryear, when the carnival would roll into town and create a magical environment. We conversed with Marcus Guillard of One Hat One Hand Productions for some insight, and it’s clear this crew walks the walk. 1.
Tell us about the project(s) you’re bringing to Maker Faire. M.T. M.T. M.T. Solvo Fervens Cani: The human-powered target-shooting booth.The Great Airship Race: Take your aim, fill up your basket, and watch your airship fly the skies.Bucksome Betty’s: Enter our burlesque tent, and watch these sexy ladies dance. Are you in the need for a little life advice? M.T. M.T. Our very own carnies come dressed and ready to work. 2. 3.
It’s a long story, but a simple one to tell. 4. 5. 6. 7. Goli Mohammadi. The Steampunk World's Fair – May 14-16, 2010 in Piscataway, NJ. Morella & The Wheels of If - CD Release Party. Blog : How-To: Hardware Store Jewelry. Steampunk World's Fair. Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition. Children's Lab | Steampunk Family. Steampunk's subculture revealed. Jake Von Slatt's steampunk persona is of a gentleman scientist tinkering on his clockwork contraptions, hoping to one day present his discoveries to the Royal Academy in London. By day Linux systems administrator Sean Slattery, in his other life as the top-hatted "Hieronymus Isambard 'Jake' Von Slatt," Slattery applies Neo-Victorian modifications to cars, buses and computers in his Steampunk Workshop outside Boston.
Steampunk originated in the 1990s to describe science fiction that was an offshoot of the cyberpunk genre, but has since gained a real-world footing in fashion and design that evokes the Victorian era. Now a full-fledged subculture, Steampunk in increasingly visible at gathering such as Burning Man and Goth "Convergence" festivals. The elegant creations of self-styled "steampunk contraptors" such as Von Slatt have a growing network of fans and have been getting the press to prove it.
Von Slatt, Richard "Dr. The beginnings Mainstreaming Steampunk. The Magic Lantern Society. Steampunk fashion - A sense of structure. Ladies and gentlemen, I have noticed recently a general interest in having rules; or perhaps not rules, but a framework in which to explore. I suppose this makes sense, for people are generally most comfortable if they have a structure to be free in. Often people post here wondering if their outfits are "steampunk," or if there is a way to integrate their personal style into the steampunk environment.
Given this situation, I would like to offer those of you interested in having some basic rules the following list of points to use as guidelines. Those of you who are already confident in your steampunk style have no need to dwell upon these, but anyone who is concerned or hesitant about how to approach a "steampunk outfit" should feel free to use these points as reference. As a disclaimer, I should like to state that these points are based upon my own experiences, observations, reading of steampunk literature, and academic understanding of history. Rule Six: Have fun and be yourself. Steampunk Fashion group pool. Concentric Studio™ Sometimes there are things that are obviously popular or have a huge following and I’m just oblivious to it. Steampunk is one of those things. Actually, to be honest, I knew of the stylings of steampunk… I’ve seen it in various movies (The City of Lost Children, 12 Monkeys, Hellboy, Van Helsing, The Time Machine, etc…) but I guess I didn’t know there was such a huge following.
After I did a little more online research, I found out it’s quite huge… pretty much anything and everything has a steampunk interpretation. Dolls, jewelry, action figures, cars, boats… the list goes on. ——-Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H.
G. Steampunkopedia. Steampunk Scholar. Home (Vagabond Theorist) “All who appear suspicious, hostile and dangerous to the good bourgeois can be brought together under the name of ‘vagabond’; the entire vagabond way of life displeases the bourgeoisie. And there are intellectual vagabonds as well, those who find the hereditary, ancestral home cramped and oppressive. So they go out to find more space and light far away. Instead of curling up in the family cave stirring the ashes of moderate opinion, instead of accepting the things that gave comfort and relief to thousands of generations as irrefutable truths, they go beyond all boundaries of tradition and run wild with their impudent critique and untamed mania for doubt.
These extravagant vagabonds form the class of the unstable, the restless, the volatile, that is born from the proletariat; and when they give voice to their unsettled natures, they are called unruly, hot heads, fanatics.” —Max Stirner. Wire for Wire-Wrapping & Jewelry-Making. Whether your design calls for precious metal or stainless steel, colorful copper or aluminum, you’ll find the right jewelry-making wire for your projects here: A variety of materials, shapes and gauges for wire-wrapping and wire crochet, including sterling silver wire and gold-filled wire. Zebra Wire™ colored-copper wire, niobium wire and coated aluminum wire bring color to designs. Memory wire easily creates necklaces, bracelets and rings that hold their shape. French wire protects threads and beading wire. And more! Sterling Silver Wire Gold-Filled Wire Sterling Silver-Filled Wire Zebra Wire™ Colored Copper Wire Color-Coated Aluminum Wire French Wire Memory Wire Stainless Steel Wire Niobium Wire Wrapit® for wire-wrapping Knitted Wire Other Wire Viking Knit Wire Weaving Tools Save money per item – and save time reordering – by bulking up on the memory wire end beads you use most.
12 Coolest Steampunk Gadgets. Steampunk is a speculative intersection of technology and romance where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities. What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an amazing urban art form which delights in making real-life inventions that are a blend of the modern and anachronistic. From steampunk jewelry to an arcade game and a toilet, meet some of the coolest steampunk gadgets we've seen! --Thanks to our reader, Nicodemus, for the idea! Steampunk Headphones A guy from Chicago who calls himself Nicrosin made this “Mechanical Aural Communication Device” as a prop with “sculpey, rubber, and… various pocket watch parts,” the earpieces have a suede lining. Unfortunatly, this awesome set of Steampunk headphones that you see pictured above is actually just a non-functional model.
Pretty cool anyway. Steampunk Toilet Yes! Steampunk Vibrator Steampunk Copper USB Drive Steampunk R2D2 Steampunk Mouse Steampunk Laptop Steampunk Cake. 039;s WORKSHOP: featuring the custom figures and dioramas of sillof. Steampunk Star Wars Figures in Victorian Style. Steampunk Star Wars Figures in Victorian Style Posted on 13 April 2010 Crni What do you get when you combine steampunk with Star Wars? The result is simply awesomeness. Under the text you will found out some of the outstanding SILLOF’s creation, a set of steampunk Star Wars figures in Victorian style. These remarkable masterpieces are called the Steam Wars: A Hew Hope. Maybe you remember that we have published recently stormtrooper steampunk helmet that is also a kind of crazy stuff but this one is simply different, more creative and a little bit more crazier.
Chewbacca Luke Skywalker Obi Wan Kenobi Princess Leila Stormtrooper Darth Vader As you can see all of those figures costumes has been changed for a steampunk purpose. Via SILLOW WORKSHOP. Steampunk Cities: Altered Reality Art & Photography | Designs & Ideas on Dornob. Composite creations, these surrealistic structures and miniature urban landscapes are made from real photographs.
The so-called Habitat Machines and Industrial Parkland series by David Trautrimas appropriate everyday housewares – from pots and pans to faucets and fans – in fantastical Steampunk-esque city-scapes. In everything from individual buildings to entire neighborhoods, this approach incorporates technologies with which we are naggingly familiar – even when they are not always easy to recognize when first viewing one these curious artworks.
As with Steampunk, the art is in the the remix. As cues to their origins, names are assigned to these projects including: Waffle Iron Heights, Oil Can Residence, Vacuum Tower, Hole Punch Flats, Space Heater Place, Razor Cooperative, Film Projector Factory, The Fishing Complex and The Measurement District. By shifting the scale and editing the details of this ordinary objects, this artist taps into patterns we recognize from our everyday lives. Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).
Over the years, the expression has expanded to mean any confusing or complicated system. For example, news headlines include "Is Rep. Bill Thomas the Rube Goldberg of Legislative Reform? " Origin[edit] Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin In 1931, the Merriam–Webster dictionary adopted the word "Rube Goldberg" as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complicated means.[4] Similar expressions worldwide[edit] Professional artists[edit] Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Swiss artists known for their art installation movie Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go, 1987). Competitions[edit] Examples in media[edit] iMac Steampunk Mod Is Retro Awesome [PICS]
Are you a modern tech geek with retro sensibilities? Old Time Computer might be able to help you out with these gorgeous handcrafted oak and brass mods. Inflation renders these kinds of antiques pricier than their original counterparts, but you can pick up your own custom antique skin on Etsy or order yourself a full custom build. More pics below. Watson, come here. [via Wired] Deranged-imposed.pdf (application/pdf Object) Dodgem Logic. Fighting_for_our_lives_lo.pdf (application/pdf Object) Personal » Birds Before The Storm. Apparently the US government thinks I owe them nearly $500 because I got upset that they hogtied me overnight. In 2002 I participated in “The People’s Strike” in Washington, DC against the International Monetary Fund (who are basically loansharks writ large). I got arrested, along with 700 other people. Almost none of us were charged with any kind of crime.
Most people they ransomed back into the world for like $70 or something. I’m stubborn, so I refused. I also didn’t answer any questions (like “what is your name”) or cooperate with them. All 700 of us ended in a giant gym somewhere, I guess some cop training school. In one memorable moment, a guard told me that they were never going to let me go, that I would get raped by some guy named Bubba. Some years later (2008, I believe), I joined a class action lawsuit against the D.C. 2D Goggles » Lovelace– The Origin. This brief biographical sketch was done for Ada Lovelace Day 2009. I think I in was a pub at the time. From a humble beginning as a joke in a pub, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is now an Eisner-nominated graphic novel! New York Times Bestseller and winner of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Neumann Prize!
For more on Ada Lovelace not in the form of a comic book, an excellent in-depth summation of Lovelace and Babbage’s work can be found at Steven Wolfram’s blog. Read More About Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage would totally have become a street-music destroying Masked Avenger if he could have. Actually he kind of did. For more on the Analytical Engine, I have some animations and visualisations of it here. For the hardcore: Ada Lovelace’s Paper on the Analytical Engine (are you HARD ENOUGH?) Charles Babbage’s Autobiography (awesome, hilarious, fascinating, with VOLCANOES and MATH, why is this not in print?!?) 2D Goggles.
Silver Goggles. Tactile. Brass Goggles: The lighter side of Steampunk. Posted by proteus on December 23rd,2013 Two things I love in one photo: [via Brian Kesinger’s Tea Girls] Posted by proteus on October 17th,2013 A Steampunk Badminton tournament sounds like a fantastic idea. Posted by proteus on October 11th,2013 Our Forum User “Bolt Face” brings this lovely coverage of a Steampunk Coffee House from The Chive: Image from The Chive Many more images in the original article, and a discussion here on our forums. This clock may not be exactly “steampunk”, but it certainly tickles the dials-and-knobs delight! [Via Boing Boing] Posted by proteus on October 8th,2013 Described as inspired by Steampunk and Warhammer-like games, Diesel Tactics looks like an interesting project that’s still in development. Posted by proteus on February 28th,2013 Hand made from savaged Arbutus, Western Red Cedar, and Black Walnut, these articulated Steamy Icarus wings are a beautiful handmade addition to any dirigible captain’s safety gear: And they’re not just static decoration, either: (more…)
Girl Genius Online Comics! Strangers in a tangled wilderness › Zine - The Seduction of the Wind. Strangers in a tangled wilderness › producers of things both fine & sundry. SteamPunk Magazine » Download. (please consider donating a dollar or two) Steampunk Magazine #9 Steampunk Magazine #8 Steampunk Magazine #7 Steampunk Magazine #6 Steampunk Magazine #5 Steampunk Magazine #4 Steampunk Magazine #3 Steampunk Magazine #2 Steampunk Magazine #1 A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse: Second Edition A Guide to our Formats: web – A standard, web-viewable format. legal imposed – This document is suitable for printing on any home printer that can print legal sized paper. 8.5″ x 11″ is the document we gave to our printer, and is suitable for readers with high-end printers that can automatically impose documents. 11″ x 17″ is for people who are printing at home.
A4 is like 8.5″ x 11″, but for the non-US world. Note that we are unaware of a non-US equivalent to our Legal sized paper (which is 8.5″ x 14″), so we weren’t certain how to format some zines for the rest of the world. Many thanks to the people who have helped impose the zine! Be Sociable, Share! Projects. Ladies Victorian Parasols. The Steampunk Workshop | Technology & Romance - Fashion, Style, & Science.