Steampunk Archive

Steampunk Snowboard!

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Flickr is both wonderful for the amazing images it brings you and frustrating for the all too common lack of story to go with those pictures! I want to know the whole tale behind the creation of this snowboard!  Be sure to click through to see it in action

Dr. Steel speaks truth

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I do not always agree with the good Doctor's methods. I do not believe in hierarchy and Doctor Steel's army of toy soldiers gives me great pause.  But here the Doctor speaks truth.  (via Porkshanks)

G4 Underground on Steampunk

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UPDATE: Aw hey! No fair! They pulled the full story from Youtube and the segment on the G4 site just has the Abney Park part. Boo. G4 Underground does Steampunk! Wow this came out pretty nicely. I don't look like a complete idiot and all of my Abney Park

Meet Tom Sepe: Steampunk Artist, Fabricator, Performer

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I had the great pleasure to meet Tom Sepe at Maker Faire last year, in addition to being a fine artist he’s a fun and entertaining fellow to be around.  Tom recently produced the above video to aid him in what I’ll call a journey of “Discovery” and I

VivaLaModa does Steampunk

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A new online magazine VivaLaModa has a nice little write up on Steampunk fashion in their current issue. VivaLaModa is a magazine that focuses on Fashion, handmade goods, and green products, from their website: VivaLaModa is a bi-monthly magazine created to show the greatest and coolest fashionable and hand

The fragment of Empire – by Filimon

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Bohema writes: I’ve been followin’ your site for quite long time. Always enjoyed it. Keyboard mods are awesome. Speaking about mods. Don’t know if your know about Filimon. That’s a Russian modder producing steampunk various mods. They are insanely jaw dropping mods that leave me every time speachless .

Wooden Steampunk Keyboard Mod

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Markus, who wrote in earlier with an alternative to typewriter keys, has finished his keyboard mod.  He writes: . . . I decided to use a wooden frame – but not any wood molding from the DIY shop would do. I found old furniture ‘spare parts’ – this wood

New art by Aaron Ristau

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Back in October Meredith visited briefly with Aaron Ristau at Maker Faire Austin. Aaron is a sculptor who works primarily with found bits of technological detritus, from his website: Technology surrounds us. Products are obsolete within an ever decreasing amount of time, putting an increasing strain on our ability

Berkeley Opera goes Steampunk!

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Diane writes: See what you’ll be missing next week! (Yeah, yeah, rub it in that I am perpetually 5000 miles away from the action!  😉 ) Ten years ago the Oakland Tribune raved about David Scott Marley‘s sparkling English adaptation of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann: "Marley’s neat,

Gatehouse Gazette #5

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Ottens writes: Commemorating the anniversary of the birthday of Jules Verne, the Gatehouse Gazette celebrates “Extraordinary Voyages” this issue! Read an interview with the extraordinary fashion designer Miss Vecona and learn more about the adventure look from Miss Hilde Heyvaert’s “The Steampunk Wardrobe” column. She also tells you just