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Gianni Fanelli: Dream of iron
From Social Design Zine in Italy comes this article about sculptor and metalworker Gianni Fanelli. It appears to be a review of the artist’s recent show and the reviewer clearly liked what they saw – at least that’s sure what it looks like to me viewing the Google translated
Hey San Francisco!
Boston Favorites HUMANWINE are in town and you can hear them play! Saturday February 7th 8:30pm – The Mad Maggies CD Release Party: Pirates Delight The Accordion Apocalypse 2626 Jennings St. San Francisco, CA 94124 Cost: $10 fer pirate, $15 for regular human ALL AGES Pirate’s Delight with: The
Orrery (kit?) from Japan
I am not quite sure what is going on here, but as near as I can tell this is an offer for a beautiful brass orrery kit. An orrery is a mechanical simulacrum of the Solar System with clockwork designed such that the planets of the orrery move in
Music – The Clockwork Quartet
Edward writes: Dear Mr. von Slatt, Allow me to introduce myself; My name is Edward Saperia, and I run The Clockwork Quartet. You blogged about us a couple of months ago when a photo of the Steamdrone was leaked onto the net. A little background around the band; despite
Steampunk Monitor Stand
Some of the very best letters I get come from people who have built things to give as gifts, a case in point: Dear jake, I really have enjoyed your site, especially the bus conversion. I really like how you talk about using found objects and have so many
Alternative to Typewriter Keys
Marcus writes: There are only so many broken typewriters in the world – so it’s going to be difficult to get my hands on a decent set of keys. You can’t get them on ebay here in Europe, importing them from the US would’ve been hilariously expensive – so
Mad Uncle’s Webcam – For Sale
Mad Uncle Cliff blogs: My first steampunked webcam – tested and fully functional. I call it finished but I will probably cloth bind the cable. Now this one is for sale. I have decided to fund my Dremel set with the sale of this ‘one off’ design steampunk webcam.
Tim See’s Steampunk Ceramics
Tim See is an exhibitor in this year’s Smithsonia Crafts Show and he has chosen to produce a series of works in the Steampunk style. Pictured is the Teacup Presevation System and an as yet un-named Steampunk air conditioner is in the works. You can see more on Tim’s
Geissler Tubes
Geissler tubes were made primarily at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th as curiosities. They came in a great variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. From Wikipedia: Geissler tubes were mass produced from the 1880s as entertainment devices, with various spherical chambers and decorative serpentine
Captured Lightning Scuplture – Lichtenberg Figures
Stoneridge Engineering creates these Lichtenberg figures by using a particle accelerator to create a charge cloud inside of a highly insulating block of acrylic and then discharging that cloud by poking it with what is essential a nail in a board connected to ground. This grounding probe causes the