I know it’s the wrong season for this, but I just came upon this video of a fellow dressed like Ben Franklin playing “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” on a glass armonica. For those who do not know, the glass armonica is a musical instrument invented by old Bennie...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine has just announced that they will be publishing the Mammoth Book of Steampunk sometime next year. The book will include “A Serpent in the Gears,” by Margaret Ronald, from BCS #34,as well as stories authors Genevieve Valentine, Cat Rambo, Matthew Kressel, and Megan Arkenberg, and new...
This is a rather fantastic steampunk music video — it’s not a fan piece, but rather is the actual music video for Ben Lovett’s “Eye of the Storm”, from the album Highway Collection, and directed by Christopher Alender. So turn up the volume, click the HD resolution setting, blow it up...
I’ve been so busy lately, I’ve been forgetting to post neat, nifty, and otherwise various nefarious and noteworthy news to this site. Ah well–perhaps one day I will perfect my chrono-differential aetheric oscillator to regulate the flow of time more in my favor. In the meanwhile, I must sit by...
Today (February 8th, 2011) is Jules Verne’s 183th birthday. I think it should be a national holiday. Although since he’s French, I suppose it would just be a French national holiday. Regardless, today is most certainly a day for all steampunk and neo-Victorian enthusiasts, as well anyone who considers themselves...
In 1837, the engineering genius and great-grand-father of the computer, Charles Babbage, laid down the details of a marvelous mechanical computer that would have revolutionized the world and ushered in the computer age 100 years before its time… had anyone bothered to finance the visionary endeavor. Sadly, no one did,...
I truly regret the fact that I’m going to miss Dragon*Con 2010, and the insufferable agony is only exacerbated by the fact that there will be a motley presence of fellow steampunk frea… I mean geeks… attending this year. From the release on Dragon*Con’s Daily Dragon: “Don’t miss “The Steampunk...
Clint Wolf of the Satellite Show rants about the “Scope Creep” of Steampunk, and I heartily agree. I’ve been noticing this gradual scope creep too, and it has tended to give me a bit of an uneasy feeling these past few years. There seems to be such a profusion of...
I recently stumbled upon this rather stupendous blog called Yours in White Wine Sauce! which has nothing to do with wine or wine sauces (much to the chagrin of many visiting chefs and wine aficionados), but rather, a plethora of Victorian-esque science fiction and steampunk subject matter. The blog claims...
Here’s a nice high quality video of Abney Park playing their most excellent steampunk shanty, Airship Pirates, at the Edison Club. Check it out! Be sure to observe their outfits and instruments. This is what makes steampunk rock… Literally.
