What is Steampunk? | Steampunk.com This is a good question that is difficult to answer. To me, Steampunk has always been first and foremost a literary genre, or least a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy that includes social or technological aspects of the 19th century (the steam) usually with some deconstruction of, reimagining of, or rebellion against parts of it (the punk). Unfortunately, it is a poorly defined subgenre, with plenty of disagreement about what is and is not included. For example, steampunk stories may: Take place in the Victorian era but include advanced machines based on 19th century technology (e.g. The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling);Include the supernatural as well (e.g. “It’s sort of Victorian-industrial, but with more whimsy and fewer orphans.”- Caitlin Kittredge There are probably plenty of other combinations I’ve forgotten, but that’s steampunk as a genre in a nutshell. And it isn’t just written fiction anymore. But steampunk has become a lot more.
A Victorian RV Step one is the removal of all of the seats. I invited a bunch of friends over for a mid-winter barbeque and we finished in a couple of hours. An angle-grinder with a cut-off disk made short work of the rusted and frozen bolts and let us get the seats out without having to crawl around underneath the bus. We striped the seats down and I re-used as much of them as I could and separated the rest of the components for recycling. Once you get the seats out the space will seem HUGE and you'll imagine that you can fit all sorts of things in there. There's a ridge down the length of most buses that supports the outer edge of the seats. One we got the bus partially completed we put it on the road and did some camping in what we called our "steel tent." Here's a shot of the painting process before re-installation of all of the trim and lights. If you look carefully you can see the window screens I made. A standard RV hot water heat was installed through the side of the bus under the bathroom sink.
14 Cool and Creative Sunglasses Collection of cool sunglasses and creative eyewear designs that will help you stand out of the crowd. Zipper Sunglasses Creative sunglasses designed by Lee Cooper and high-end eyewear brand Alain Mikli. [link] Steampunk Glasses Beautiful and unique pair of glasses styled in a steampunk fashion. Slanties Eyewear Based on ancient Inuit eyewear, each pair of slanties is handcrafted and engineered to be sturdy and reliable. Solar Powered Sunglasses The lenses of these sunglasses include solar cells that collect energy and then allow you to power your portable electronic devices. Censor Bar Sunglasses These clever black bar glasses will help you hide your identity. Pyramid Sunglasses Creative sunglasses from Oliver Goldsmith’s OG Vintage Collection. Gold Chain Glasses BLESS Duo Fringe glasses from talented design duo of Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag. Kanye West Shutter Shades Shutter Shades made popular by Kanye West in the music video for his song “Stronger”. Pyramid Stud Sunglasses Colorize Sunglasses
150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life [Slideshow] View slideshow Designed nearly 150 years ago but never actually built until recently, the Difference Engine No. 2 designed by Charles Babbage (1791 to 1871) is a piece of Victorian technology meant to tussle with logarithms and trigonometry long before the first modern computer. Technophiles have a rare opportunity beginning May 10 to see one of these devices (only two exist) on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Babbage's automatic computing engine consists of 8,000 bronze, cast iron and steel parts, weighs five tons, and measures eleven feet (3.4 meters) long and seven feet (2.1 meters) high. Museum guest curator Doron Swade used Babbage's own plans to bring the engine to life. Babbage is also credited with inventing the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge and heliograph ophthalmoscope as well as uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses and Greenwich time signals.
A Visit to a Steampunked Home If you dropped by my house you'd probably be disappointed. Because (with the exception of my office, which is more post-apocalytic than anything else) it's simply not very steampunk. I do have plans, but none have come to fruition. Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum started ModVic (Modern Victorian) Home Restoration in June 2007 and have now moved onto steampunk Home Design. Bruce's home is a Craftsman style Victorian built in 1901. We'll start the tour in Bruce's kitchen with a lovely Victorian heater restored by David Erickson, a local craftsman and restorer of antique stoves who's workshop is just down the street from my own. Bruce designed and built the fire-back and hearth to compliment the stove and installed the back-lit stained glass windows to brighten the entire kitchen. The hearth is cultured stone done by Brendan Mostecki of Cultured Masonry. The center of the kitchen is dominated by an antique printer's bench topped with engineered quartz stone.
My Work At Home World: mTurk. Simple, Legit Way To Make Money Online. I have been a worker for Amazon mTurk for over 6 months now. As a worker you have the opportunity to choose from over 1000s of different, simple tasks (HITs) and work whenever is convenient for you. As with every online job, there are pros and cons to this site. The pros? The cons? Another pro is that I can guarantee that they pay! You can see here that I've made over $100 using this site! If you are interested in mTurk, head HERE to learn about how to sign up! Designer Furniture Created from Abandoned Street Signs | 1-800-R Boris Bally believes that there’s more to road signs than meets the eye – which is why he’s made a career out of remixing street furniture for the living room! BroadWay Armchair, 2009. Photo: J.W. Johnson Photography ( jwjimaging.com ) Most people look to street signs for direction, but when “material smith” Boris Bally looks up, he sees inspiration! DETOUR Transit Chair, 2008. As it turns out, street signs are in Bally’s blood. Boris Bally in BroadWay Armchair. “I felt the lettering was beautiful and that destroying the signs was wrong,” he told Jori Finkel of Art & Auction. Bally/Taylor Residence, 2001. He added: “Our resources on the planet are finite, and the best test of an artist is how well we can use what we have at hand.” The process of building the chairs is harder than you might imagine. STOP: Transit Chair, 2008. Clients sometimes request pieces to feature specific designs, but it doesn’t work that way, as Bally works with what he finds. Flow (backed stool).
How To Make A Monoggle » How To | Cut Out (that's a single-lensed goggle) I'd class this as intermediate level, I assume in the directions that you know how to sew the basics and that you've crafted before. I recommend you read through this and then gather all the things you think you'll need. It's a very open tutorial, because the whole point of this thing is embellishment. Make it your own. Just rock it. Another good home-made goggle how-to is available, <a href=" Miss Betsy's Steampunk Monitor If you visit the google library in these days, the librarian will find plenty of articles and depictions of so called "Steampunk Monitors". In my imagination though, I envisioned the creation of a device that could show static but also moving pictures generated by means of computation and modulation of waves generated by my ingenious new invention.... (Any resemblance to devices used in "City of Lost Children" is purely coincidental). I also wanted to add "loudspeakers" (E. The device will be able to reproduce sound and static/moving pictures and will be powered by another invention of mine , based on the works of my fellow researchers Nikola Tesla, using hyper-condensed steam applied to a turbine by the same name, Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta and Michail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, able to produce alternating current in the amount of 110 Volts. The glass storing containers and part of this generator will be visible atop the base cabinet.
How to Plant Tomatoes in Raised Beds Growing your own tomatoes can be a fun and rewarding experience. Even if you’ve had less than a stellar experience with tomatoes in the past, every spring we are afforded a new opportunity to learn from your previous mistakes and get your tomato plants in the garden off on the right foot. Below are some tips on how to plant tomatoes in a raised bed that will put you on a path to a delicious and ripe harvest come summer. If your tomato plants were slow to get started in previous years it may have been as a result of cool temperatures. Just because it’s warm enough to wear shorts and short-sleeved shirts doesn’t mean it’s tomato-planting weather. Direct seed sowing tomatoes. Tomatoes are usually started from seeds indoors weeks before they are going to be planted in the garden. Photo via Shutterstock/basel101658 Planting tomato seedlings. You probably have be warned not to plant your plants too deep. Every garden is different and there really isn’t a “wrong” way to grow tomatoes.
Order Full Light, Full Steam: A Roleplaying Game with Character | Kallisti Press Over at Yog Shoggoth's Dice, Brand responded to a challenge from me on how a games company could publish non-Illusionist games and not go bankrupt. The conversation developed from there to begin just touching on the outskirts of marketing issues the likes of which gaming tends to avoid. These are the issues that I had written that post about but Blogger ate. At present, the 'Generic RPG Marketing Model' goes thusly: Core Book (sometimes Player Book and GM Book) which generates the majority of the revenue, and Supplements which do much worse, but keep the game 'alive' and the Core Book selling. This is as seen in White Wolf, 7th Sea, GURPS, Rifts, et cetera, with a few elaborations (World of Darkness now has two hardcover player books necessary to play). The Generic model tends to assume play will go for years; the supplements are designed to keep the line going for years.