Saturday Steampunk – Sam Van Olffen

There is steampunk art and then there is art produced by the likes of Sam Van Olffen.  His work is dark, but not without humour – enjoy!
ABBEY ROAD

BABEL CENTRAL STATION

 
More artwork can be found at his blog

Saturday Steampunk – Steampunk in Oxford

Its almost cool enough for me to begin working on my Steampunk specimen drawers.  But not quite.
Thus I have for your viewing pleasure, found a cinematograph for your viewing pleasure. Wherein is described the Steampunk exhibition and Oxford.

Slightly concerned about the examples that the gentleman pictured above uses to explain certain temporal devices.

Saturday Steampunk – Steampunk Cosplay

One of the things I love about Steampunk (though this probably goes for most sub genres and sub cultures) is the wide variety of creative input .  I mean you have people that build working models, people who recycle or up-cycle, you have companies like WETA Workshop making life size replicas, you have miniature sculptors [...]

Steampunk Saturday – Bartitsu and the Violence of Victorian era fighting

It’s not often that I get to write about two favourite past times of mine and apply a skeptical eye to both.  If you are lucky enough to have seen the new Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jnr. then you will have seen the fight seen below.

So what do you think?  Was the fight scene [...]

Steampunk Saturday – BONESHAKER !

What could be better than Steampunk?  Why, Steampunk plus Zombies of course.
And who do we have to thank for this delightful mix of subgenres?  The very appropriately named Cherie Priest(hey I think her name is steampunk-ish).
Boneshaker is Cherie’s first novel set in The Clockwork Century world.  One thing that impresses me is that Cherrie seems [...]