2 posts tagged “newspapers”
Due to various real-life issues and a large amount of links to share, today's entry will be in bulleted, fragmented sentence format. Enjoy!
- Datamancer now has a blog!
- Warehouse 13, a new show on the sci-fi channel now called SyFy, is heavy on the steampunk.
- a 40-minute bio on H.G. Wells is online.
- Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre!
- Beats Antique, a band for the 21st century.
- How to make your own spats.
- Ice: A Victorian Romance. (Ice usually wins.)
- NYPL looks at Victorian fashion.
- Everyone was on opium and cocaine back in the good old days!
- The New York Tribune pages from 1909 onward.
- Mark your calendars now for the PanKinetic Exposition in April 2010!
The amazing, incredible people of Royal de Lux are at it again. A giant diver appeared in Nantes last weekend, walking the streets and looking for his niece, who was on the Titanic. Yes, really. There are additional photos on many French websites, including this nice compilation, and there's even video.
We can't travel through time like the marionettes of Royal de Lux do (and someone really needs to get working on that, by the way), but we can look back via gorgeous photos, like the Field Museum's set on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, or by reading papers from a hundred years ago, as the New York Times is doing with its Times Traveler section. Today's is especially fun, not only for the bishop ranting against the "new woman [as] a freak" (talking about suffragettes) but for the story about Cincinnati fruit dealers getting shaken down by a gang. One shop, Cianciolo's, is still on Main Street downtown! (Another unfortunate dealer died "after eating a banana given to him by a stranger." Those gangs were sneaky.)
Fortunately there is an increasingly steampunkish appreciation of the past. Arcattack presents popular music performed by Tesla coils! Slouching Toward Bedlam is a text-based game (no grues, however) set in 1885 London! There are specific tutorials for steampunking a photograph now, and best of all, the people who brought you the Steampunk Treehouse at Burning Man are now hard at work on the Raygun Gothic Rocketship.
