More interesting sites about the past: Vitaphone Varieties examines films and photos from an earlier age, while the Classic Typewriter Page celebrates the instruments we used before computers showed up.
Jeff de Boer creates elaborate, beautiful, steampunk things...like jetpacks! If you like this sort of thing, be sure to visit the rooms of the Internet Craftsmanship Museum . Lots of inspiring stuff is lurking there.
And lastly but not leastly, a wonderful weblog: Yours in a White Wine Sauce!
I pre-ordered my copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier yesterday. It sounds like it will be less Victorian and range across the centuries, which makes it even more fun to me. For those dedicated to Victorian literature, however, there is 221 Baker Street in Los Angeles, which looks to be a faithful recreation of the Sherlock Holmes residence. (I particularly like the Chemist's Corner.) If you are a Holmes fan, by the way, the Sherlockiana weblog is a must.
Due to inflation, the penny dreadful of yesteryear has transmogrified into the Dollar Dreadful. It still looks like the olden days, though!
Pretty photos of gears and clockwork from a talented watchmaker make me happy. I expect it makes other steampunky people happy too.
A futuristic link from my other half: batteries made from paper? Amazing! Think of how small mechanized bits could become! Also becoming reality: bones made with the help of inkjet printers.
Alas, this post will be brief. But fun!
- for edification: there's a Paleo-Future Wiki now.
- for images: Shorpy (and its sibling, Shorpy Shared) show life over the past hundred years. Neat, neat stuff.
- for tinkering: The Gemmary has a wealth of fabulous antique scientific instruments (I am especially intrigued by the Mystery Object), while Klockwerks features intricately designed timepieces.
- for pretty accoutrements: Louise Black's Etsy shop.
- for transportation: I would like a ride in an Aeroscraft, please!
Hello. I have not abandoned ye! Not yet, anyway. I finally got myself on a schedule by dedicating Tuesdays to steampunk on my other weblog at spookylibrarians.com. I am going to mirror Tuesday's entries here. I've got a few that I will put up this week so we're all nicely caught up.
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I've been engrossed by Daymare Town and its similarly spooky (and rather steampunky) siblings lately. It's especially fun playing these at night! I told someone the other day that I thought these sorts of games should be used in place of the logic section in standardized testing. Creative problem-solving, I can do. Logic puzzles, not so much.
The rest of today's links are the result of following trails along the web and finding interesting things along the way. I started out reading about flying tanks, and then somehow ended up finding Just Imagine, a film from 1930 I've never seen (but need to!). In the process, I found out that what I really like is now called Raygun Gothic. Hee. (A lot of steampunk aficianados ignore everything from 1910 or so on. I am not one of those aficianados; I'm fascinated with everything through the 1930s, including the pulp stuff and the art deco and all that.)
You knew it was only a matter of time: behold, Steam Trek!
If you know Russian, you can breeze through the amazing Moscow Metro site a little more easily than the rest of us. Fortunately, you can click away merrily without worrying too much and see some amazing photos and scans (also, the URLs are in English, which helps). This is mostly from 1935 on, but some photos look like they're right out of a steampunk set.
Insects + gears = wow.
And lastly, I love how "analog" is becoming a synonym for retro these days. Ooooh, analog!
