The Steampunk Empire - The Crossroads of the Aether

Beyond Victoriana | A Multicultural Perspective on Steampunk Steampunk gun Hey, this is a prop for my steampunk costume that I'm working on in stages. I already posted the goggles here and I won't post anything else until it's all done. I just wanted to go ahead and show the gun, because I'm really proud of it, even though there are tons of guns like it posted all over the rest of the internet. Here it is: And here it is before, sitting on our old really ugly kitchen table that has since been replaced: So, yeah, basically I repainted a Nerf gun. There's lots of different kind of paint on it: base coat of black spray paint, then copper spray paint, gold and silver paint pens, metallic sharpies, metallic acrylics, and watered down black acrylic to make it look old and dirty.

Maison en papier Voilà deux petites maisons en papier assez simples à monter et qui possèdent même un template blanc à décorer soi-même. Cliquez sur l’image pour télécharger le fichier au format pdf. Il ne vous reste plus qu’à l’imprimer, le découper et le coller pour arriver à ce résultat. Pour télécharger la version vierge à dessiner vous-même, cliquez ici.On doit ces jolies maisons à Anna Torborg Une fois que vous vous serez fait la main sur ces petites maisons, vous pourrez attaquer le château de la belle au bois dormant. Aliette de Bodard » Blog Archive » Aztec steampunk So, I’ve recently noticed I started writing Aztec steampunk (“Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood”, up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, “Age of Miracles, Age of Wonders” forthcoming in Interzone, and “Prayers of Forges and Furnaces”, which I haven’t sold yet). I’ve had several people mentioning how it’s a bit odd to be mixing Aztecs with the steampunk aesthetic, and that set me wondering about where I was coming from when I was writing that kind of stuff. Insofar as I can express it, it goes like this. Those steampunk stories I’ve read (and I’ll say right here and now that I haven’t read that many of them and don’t consider myself a steampunk expert, not by a large margin) derive a strong appeal as sensaofwunda stories with a retro feel: you have goggles and all sort of tech from dirigibles to odd-shaped machines involving steam and brass; there are explorers and archaelogists, wealthy spinsters and anarchists, mechanical men and proto-computers. I’m not criticising.

Steampunk Rocketeer costume, plus BF's Rorschach. More pics soon. - OCCASIONS AND HOLIDAYS This year, my first idea for a costume was to be a post-apocalyptic survivor, but I decided this would be too obscure for people to understand, plus I picked up some items on a shopping trip that make me change my mind to... a steampunk rocketeer! First off, the jetpack. I assembled and painted most of it the day of Hallowe'en (very late for me) out of four two-litre Coke bottles, some scrap cardboard, bottle caps, a dismantled computer joystick and shower head, and some gears from vintage traveling alarm clocks. I put it all together with a little papier mache and lot of masking tape, hot glue, and spray paint. I was pretty much inhaling those fumes for about 12 hours. BTW, that is my boyfriend as Rorschach, and my friend as Little Dead Riding Hood. Anyways. Thanks so much for looking and please tell me what you think! ~ Schnoogles *EDIT* More photos The bare bones: The pants. Headgear. Whole shebang: Jetpack closeup. And on my back, before adjusting the straps:

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Steam Garden: Tokyo, Japan steampunk party at Christon Cafe Shinjuku. Japanese cosplay fashion event. | LA CARMINA. Japanese Street Fashion The concept of Steampunk is only beginning to gain recognition in Japan, even though there have been many works that incorporate the aesthetic, such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime film Steamboy. My Tokyo-based friends Kenny Creation and Luke Chaos have been passionate about Steampunk for some time, and last year, they founded the event Steam Garden. (Photo above by Aki Saito) On March 10th, I went to their fourth event, themed “Celtic Fantasy.” Each event has a different theme, revolving around a past era. This time, the code word was Celtic Fantasy. Kenny Creation DJ-ed possibly the most original set I’ve ever heard… it was exclusively bagpipe music! In between sets, there were mesmerizing performances by motion capture and stunt performer Kaori Kawabuchi (Final Fantasy 13), live music on a variety of period instruments from medieval group Homonculus… … steamcore music and tribal fire dance from Chaos Royale VS Lyon. With the dapper “philosopher” of Steam Garden, Luke. And Japanese Lolitas.

Steampunk Vampire Hunter So last night was the Vampire Ball in PDX, I agreed to help Noxenlux in her vending booth. But we needed outfits. So about 3 months ago we agreed to do a steampunk theme. is handmade to match the rest of the outfit. My Boyfriend made me a steampunk vampire detector, of course he made is special to fit my arm. We also customized a Nerf Maverick to match the vampire detector. Here is the holster to match the rest of the The costume went over very well even though i was down in the dealers room all night. More pictures including the vampire killer ammo are available here: xoxoGothfox Designs

32372 1607185 entry hall 2 queering steampunk UPDATED: Donate now at to get this off the ground! One of the really wonderful things about Steampunk is that it, more than any other sub-culture, seems to want to teach us things. I have always been very interested in the technology of the 19th Century, it's been a passion since a very young age. this passion is certainly part of what got me interested in Steampunk in the first place. However, as I delved deeper into the history of technology I got really interested in other aspects of how the world changed during the Industrial Revolution. In particular I became interested in the Women's Movement, which began in the late 19th century, feminism, and gender theory. Chasing down this rabbit hole has lead me to books like Marilyn French's Beyond Power, which is currently blowing my mind and has the feel of one of those books that forever changes to way you view the world. And that brings me to the subject of today's post. Cheers! Jake.

steampunk netbook (img heavy) - MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS I got a cute little Lenovo ideapad a year ago with the intent to redecorate it like the baddest-ass steampunk netbook you ever did saw. After a couple aborted efforts with veneer and some gold leafing, I switched to wood-grained vinyl, a sweet gear-patterned decal that I found on etsy, and added some silver-leafed gears and dichroic glass cabs. It didn't turn out quite as I'd hoped, but I learned a lot while I did this and have some great ideas for what I'm going to do for the next iteration...and, oh, there will be more steampunkish netbooks coming out of my studio! But I'll admit, my little Magpie is quite cute and inspiring to work on. Completed book - lid: Completed book - inside! The "Before" photo - with a Diet Coke can so you can get a sense of scale, here. The keys, when I was making them. Profile-view of the finished book: Thanks for looking!

Old World, Gothic, and Victorian Interior Design: Old World interior design Featuring Old World, Victorian, gothic, traditional, castle, and row house interiors with exterior pictures of row houses. My style is Old World with a touch of Victorian, gothic, and traditional without antique furniture. Here you will find numerous photos of these things complete with all out Victorian interiors. Below is real Old World. Taken from Ksiaz castle in Poland. Another castle. Row house interior Old World interior design. More real Old World interior from a castle. Tuscan interior is about the same as Old World to me. Below is Sting’s music room.

vaporpunko First, introductions via Wikipedia & Vikipedio. While I have encountered manifestations of what is now called Steampunk, the term--the named genre--is new to me. Back in the 1960s I watched the TV series The Wild Wild West, an obvious precursor or example of the genre. (And, a few days ago, I made it halfway through the ineptly executed film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.) I wrote about the increasing profile of self-referential cultural artifacts in a 1993 essay: Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope? Owing to the acceleration of social and cultural change, it becomes obvious how drastically basic social assumptions are different now than from decades past, which has long been a device pursued by TV series, most recently the runaway hit Mad Men. I have already blogged about Andrew Drummond's novel A Hand-Book of Volapük, which is in the neighborhood of steampunk, a genre admired by Drummond.

Steampunk Sidearm! (nerf mod) - TOYS, DOLLS AND PLAYTHINGS Tadaa! She started life as a Nerf Nitefinder. I took her all apart, primed her up, then spent a week or so painting and detailing and ect. Plastic-friendly primer, and a whole bunch of acrylic paint! Then I buffed it up with some Rub'n'Buff in something like spanish copper - Rub'n'Buff is my new favorite favorite when it comes to steampunking. I will now forever swear by it. Then I took the Amaryllisroze's method of doing rivets - aka puff paint.