Steampunk Teatime
Thursday 21 February 2013
My fiance is an aficionado of tea and tea sets, so for her some steampunk inspired tea sets.
What Would Victorian Era Computer Games Be Like?
Monday 18 February 2013
Let us consider what if Charles Babbage had completed his Analytical Engine, ushering in the computer age somewhat earlier than in reality.
What would games have been like on it, considering that there would be no screens?
This article by Austin Sirkin proposes they would have been text games, printed out, much in the way of Zork and the old text based classics.
He even wrote a game, Trouble in the Workshop, which is an old style text based adventure with a decidedly steampunk feel, the type that may have been played on the Analytical Engine.
What would games have been like on it, considering that there would be no screens?
This article by Austin Sirkin proposes they would have been text games, printed out, much in the way of Zork and the old text based classics.
He even wrote a game, Trouble in the Workshop, which is an old style text based adventure with a decidedly steampunk feel, the type that may have been played on the Analytical Engine.
Steampunk Weddings
Saturday 16 February 2013
Given my upcoming wedding and my interest in steampunk and the fact our wedding is having a steampunk influence, it is little wonder then that I have been perusing photographs of how others before it have run their big day for ideas and inspiration. Her are are few more of them, and most likely not the last ones to come either.
Steampunk Valentine's Day
Friday 15 February 2013
Like most other people, the steampunk community also celebrates Valentine's Day, so here are some samples of Steampunk love.
Steampunk Fairy
Wednesday 13 February 2013
This is an amazing bit of artisanship, given how small it is.
Steampunk India
Monday 11 February 2013
Steampunk, given as how its period of inspiration was at the height of Empire and Imperialism, is sometimes seen to ignore other cultures of the world, or to have the people of those cultures in servile roles to their overlords.
The model is being more an more broken nowadays. One such occurance is a new website, Steampunk India, which endeavours to explore steampunk through a decidedly Indian perspective. If India has featured in steampunk previous, it is usually as part of the British Empire (or equivalent thereof).
I look forward to seeing the site grow and a new perspective of steampunk.
The model is being more an more broken nowadays. One such occurance is a new website, Steampunk India, which endeavours to explore steampunk through a decidedly Indian perspective. If India has featured in steampunk previous, it is usually as part of the British Empire (or equivalent thereof).
I look forward to seeing the site grow and a new perspective of steampunk.
Steampunk Clocks
Friday 8 February 2013
And now it is time for some steampunk clocks. As can be imagined, gears are prominent.
Steampunk in Gallifreyan
Thursday 7 February 2013
Doctor Who isn't steampunk. It does on occasions have a few steampunk elements and has visited Victorian times, inlcuding a meeting with Queen Victoria. It also has a rather unique written langauge, that being Gallifreyan, the language of the Time Lords.
The BBC has never formalised the lnaguge, and so enterprising fans took it upon themselves to do so, and one in particular, Loren Sherman. As can be seen by the wiki, the language is quite complex. Luckily there is an app you can download that will do it all for you.
As an example, here is Steampunk as depicted in Gallifreyan.
The BBC has never formalised the lnaguge, and so enterprising fans took it upon themselves to do so, and one in particular, Loren Sherman. As can be seen by the wiki, the language is quite complex. Luckily there is an app you can download that will do it all for you.
As an example, here is Steampunk as depicted in Gallifreyan.
Moving Pictures - Lantern City News
I have previously made mention of Lantern City, an upcoming steampunk television show.
Over on their facebook page, they have made an annoucement of a new actress joing the cast, that beign Gigi Edgley, who will play the role of Naomi Jones. An Australian actress, she is best known outside of the antipodes for her role as Chiana in the quirky sci-fi series Farscape.
Over on their facebook page, they have made an annoucement of a new actress joing the cast, that beign Gigi Edgley, who will play the role of Naomi Jones. An Australian actress, she is best known outside of the antipodes for her role as Chiana in the quirky sci-fi series Farscape.
Flying Policemen
Sunday 3 February 2013
Coming via the BBC is this Punch cartoon of 1901 vintage is this glimpse of what people of the era thought the future may look like.
Caption: "Now then, thirty miles an hour won't do up here! I've timed you with my aneroid barometrical check clock and you'll have to come down to the station!" [Source]
Caption: "Now then, thirty miles an hour won't do up here! I've timed you with my aneroid barometrical check clock and you'll have to come down to the station!" [Source]
Steampunk Motorcycles
Saturday 2 February 2013
For a gentleman approaching that exestential crisis that marks the middle of life, what better way to capture their youth than by traveling in style.
This is of course the perfect and approriate time to wear goggles.
This is of course the perfect and approriate time to wear goggles.
Hammer and the Detective - A Sir Richard Hammerman Adventure
The second of my Sir Richard Hammerman adventures has been completed and is now out there in the aethernet, available to be obtained for a number of mechanical devices.
A novelette of 10,000 words, in this adventure Sir Richard and his companions, including his brother, Captain Archibald Hammerman, have to delve into the murky fields of espionage, detectives and secret agents when a friend is abducted, aided by a somewhat eccentric detective. Also appearing; Sir Joseph Banks.
Hammer and the Detective can be perused at Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
A novelette of 10,000 words, in this adventure Sir Richard and his companions, including his brother, Captain Archibald Hammerman, have to delve into the murky fields of espionage, detectives and secret agents when a friend is abducted, aided by a somewhat eccentric detective. Also appearing; Sir Joseph Banks.
Hammer and the Detective can be perused at Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
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