The Steampunk Librarian

spinning toys and dark nostalgia

2009-12-08T19:23:49Z

'Tis the season for the mainstream media to discover steampunk all over again! The BBC discusses the trend, as does Time. (The BBC's version talks about the impact of Doctor Who, which is an interesting point.) It's also the season for steampun...

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Dances of Vice and more

2009-11-17T18:47:08Z

Over the weekend, I will be at the third annual Dances of Vice Festival! You should be there, too. It looks like it's going to be an amazing time. (DOV is also on Facebook, where they are posting additional details.) Related to DOV is Zelda Ma...

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leviathans and glaciers and salons

2009-11-10T18:34:34Z

We had some local steampunks over to our place last Friday, and it seems like a good time was had by all. There are photos over at the Steampunk Empire as tangible proof! LA Weekly discovered Clockwork Couture and featured them, and Issue 9 of ...

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music and anarchy and loss

2009-11-03T19:01:32Z

Pressed for time today, so here are the week's steampunky bits in quick-time format! PhonoVault -- your resource for steampunk and seriously retro music. Machinarium looks like a very cool new game. MSNBC discovers steampunk and provides a ...

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the beautiful people of steam

2009-10-27T17:16:15Z

This week's steampunk entry consists mainly of steampunky people looking pretty. Enjoy and be inspired! Exhibit 1: The tor.com meetup at Brooklyn's Way Station was well attended, from the looks of it. Exhibit 2: The Oxford steampunk exhibit...

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Poll results (yours and mine), plus more

2009-10-20T17:37:45Z

Many thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey about the future of the Steampunk Librarian. The overwhelming majority told me to keep everything as is, and so it shall be! -------------------------------- I took this last summer and was...

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It's never too early to start thinking of the future

2009-10-15T16:08:11Z

We interrupt our regular schedule to ask you, the reader, about...regular schedules. I recently discovered that there are more readers out there than I thought, which is thrilling and surprising and has led to me thinking about what to do in the ...

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hidden treasures and diesel dreams

2009-10-13T15:22:56Z

Over the weekend, we discovered that our awful carpeting (which had covered the living room floor for who knows how long) was hiding a wood floor with a border design. I was sort of hoping that we would uncover an intricate design in the ce...

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the steampunk and the spooky

2009-10-06T18:46:16Z

Royal De Luxe was at it again over the weekend, this time in Berlin! They never cease to amaze. The good people at Tor.com have dedicated October to steampunk, so you should get over there and immerse yourself in some good writing. On the graphi...

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art and the word which must not be said

2009-09-29T17:09:41Z

According to the blogosphere, I am under strict instructions not to label this panorama of Grand Central Station's largest clock as "steampunk." So I will say, instead, that if you like gears and clockwork and century-old architecture design, you...

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