Here’s a great way to add steampunky goodness to your Halloween party. Make a steampunk Jack O’Lantern!
Instructables has a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through the process. There’s a lot more to it than simply stretching a pair of goggles onto the pumpkin.
It’s complete with a fog machine controlled by the ioBridge IO-204 and lit by BlinkM RGB LEDs. The fog shoots out of its ears when motion is detected by a Passive Infrared sensor.
Seriously? Fog shoots out the ears when someone walks by? That is so very, very cool. Great job!
A new browser-based video game should be released any very soon from Muse Games, called Guns of Icarus.
With tagline, “This is not the future I expected,” the player controls a steampunk airship and shoots down other airships and planes while performing missions. Looks pretty fun!
The video trailer says, “Play it Oct. 12″ but it has not yet been released on Muse’s site, which only states “Coming in October.” So I expect this game to be available at any time.
Congratulations to these fine looking steampunk newlyweds! What could be better than a steampunk wedding?
How about this 100% edible steampunk cake? Amazing! What a work of art. And again – the doors, gears, & rivets, EVERYTHING is made of delicious fondant and is entirely edible.
Sigh, this is making my goggles fog up. My steam engine is officially blown.
Captain Harvey D. Winthrop, III has embarked on a perilous quest to explore the inner reaches of darkest Africa. In addition to his expedition’s three main airships, the brave Captain has brought along his Personal Air Conveyance. This compact marvel allows the Captain to explore, reconnoiter and otherwise escape the noisy mass of people and machinery that is a necessary part of such a large campaign.
Powered by a compact little steamer of his own design, and outfitted with enough reserves for three days, the Personal Air Conveyance is a handy tool that has saved Captain Winthrop’s life on more than one occasion.
Wow, what a great job, Aaron. Congratulations on your superb steampunk Lego design!
Cherie Priest’s latest novel, Boneshakers, is an awesome-sounding steampunk zombie tale!
From the publisher:
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
This sound so cool! Makes me wonder – What would a steampunk zombie look like?
I had a little fun searching for Zombie Steampunk on Flickr. I thought these pictures were nicely done.
What a cool steampunk mononcle! Instructables.com has a detailed 13-step tutorial on how to make one yourself.
Like with any other project, we need to start somewhere. Usually I start sketching my ideas, to have some kind of blueprint to follow. This time I decide to do everything following only my creative talent (if we can call it a talent).
Materials needed:
- a 1.5 liter plastic bottle, the harder the better;
- an old leather purse (true or fake, no matter), ready to be dismantled;
- all-purpose glue, like mastic;
- an old pocket watch, not precious, not working and not reparable (maybe also not yours…);
- a piece of cardboard;
- a sheet of transparent plastic;
- elastic;
- 2 small metal hangers;
- gold, copper or bronze permanent marker;
- some uninsulated copper wire, medium thickness.
Instead of a purse and a watch you can use any kind of leather object big enough to provide the required amount of material, and any other mechanical device that can be reduced to a lot of cogs.
The copper wire should be uninsulated for showing the color. If you have a wire with transparent insulation, it will preserve the natural color of copper, otherwise it can develop an ugly oxide patina.
Optional materials:
- acrylic paint, any color you like;
- fixative or transparent varnish.
The paint is needed only if the leather’s color is wrong for your intentions. For a steampunkish style, you can use black, dark brown, dark bordeaux, anthracite or wet sand color paint. It’s up only to you.
I found this over at KittyHell, a website devoted to Hello Kitty.
This shouldn’t really come as a surprise. Steampunk used to celebrate functional mechanical cleverness, but over time has turned into some sort of costume game which is all about decoration. There is no doubt that the evil feline is all about uselessly decorating her face on everything, so the eventual combination of the two should have been predictable. Still, the Hello Kittification of anything is never a step in the right direction.
Very cool! Though some tiny kitty goggles would have been a nice touch.
Artist Tom Banwell has created an amazing collection of steampunk leather masks and helmets. Aren’t these something? These masks look like they easily belong in a big budget movie.
There’s definitely a Star Wars, steampunk Darth Vader feel to them. So awesome!
The steampunk gurus over at Outland Armor showed up at Dragon*Con in full force, with amazing steampunk Star Wars costumes!
According to official Star Wars blog, the team dressed as Queen Amidala, Padme Amidala,
Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade, Princess Leia Organa, Slave Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and Aurra Sing.
