SPWS on Make:TV – only three more days!
Just three more days until Episode 103 featuring the Steampunk Workshop! Make:TV first contacted me nearly two years ago to talk about doing a segment in and around my bus project. I was enthusiastic, but after a couple of months of emailing back and forth, the producers I had
Maker Faire, Newcastle, UK 14-15 March 2009 – Huzzah!
Last May’s MakerFaire in San Mateo was the highlight of 2008 for me! I had just about the best time of my life! Now Maker Faire is coming to the U.K.! Ian writes: MakerFaire is coming to the UK as part of the Newcastle Science Festival on 14th/15th March
Dump Finds 1/10/09
This weekend’s dump finds include yet another brass porch lamp, green felt for the bottom of my lamps, a small kerosene lamp (never lit!) and a pair of nautical models, both in sealed boxes, they are ALL WOOD models!
Ira Sherman’s mechanical sculptures: yes sir, may I have another?
Entombed in an ancient Geocities site, Ira Sherman’s mechanized sculpture (Google-cache) is unsettling in a very seductive way. It’s as if medieval doctors were transported to some futuristic-sounding year (what is that year, now that we live in 2009?), given free reign to unwilling subjects and a metal shop.
Macro Machine goodness
(above image: Jeremiah O’Brien steam engine boiler detail by Nick Winterhalter) Greasy machines bare all in camera close ups! Hot gear-on-gear action! ….Knobs!
Laguna Playhouse Presents: Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days
Laura from the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA. wrote to tell me about their performance of Jules Vernes’s Around the World in 80 Days: Adapted by Mark Brown from the classic novel by science fiction pioneer Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days follows the tale
Stonybrook Fine Arts- DIY space in Boston
I’ve been chillaxing for awhile now in Boston. It’s very unusual that I stay in a place for more than 3 nights, and I’ve been here 3 weeks. The reason for my extended stay is Stonybrook Fine Arts, a bad-ass DIY space, classroom, metal shop. This is exactly the
Blanket Magazine
Blanket Magazine has a short piece of Steampunk on the web this month, but that is mainly just the excuse I used to post. Blanket magazine is: . . . is a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art + design + photography from the talented
Workshop Telephone
I started this project quite some time ago, in fact some of you may have seen it at Maker Faire back in May. Originally, this was intended to be an example of ‘how to steampunkify an object.’ The idea being that by removing the casing and exposing the interesting
YASPKB! Yet Another Steampunk Keyboard
Here’s another Steampunk keyboard, and one of the closest copies of the original I’ve seen to date! I was alerted to it by the creator of this wonderful example – Peter Sztojanov jr. from the beautiful city of Budapest – who commented on my MySpace page. There are quite a