January 2011 Blog Posts (113)

This is my skirt for a dress i'm currently making the corset you see isn't the one i'm going to wear i'm making one myself.

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Note: This is part 2 of our roundtable interview with several contributors to Steam-Powered.

Read part 1 here.

Ohayocon had a steampunk theme this year soI was, of course, going to go. In preparation I did some experimentation with mustache wax and found that I just couldn't get it to work the way I wanted. The several formulae I tried each caused my mustache to curl (which I didn't want) or was too heavy and thick (which I didn't want) or smelled and was goopy (which I didn't want). In the end I settled for what I had been doing, merely twisting the hair into shape periodically to keep it under…

As I embark on my journey with Steampunk, I am nervous, excited, intrigued, and eager to learn. This genre was introduced to me a couple of years to ago and I quickly became hooked. However, I have been on the fringes just watching and learning. Now I am beginning to feel my way and are developing some ideas and persona that I want to nurture and watch grow. So this is where I am going...

Thoughts on my initial persona:

Name: Dr. Eliza Jane…

A fine fellow by the name of Richard Cherry has crafted a marvellous paper craft kit that is free for the download.

It is a PDF file that when printed, provides the colorful graphics and instructions to make a model steampunk aircraft with a 24" wingspand.

Good luck and here is the link: http://siriusartworks.deviantart.com/art/Aero-Carriage-Paper-Model-195232049

If…

Julien has come back to me! I'm so excited I've had to start this page over because I spilled my ink well on the previous page. It happened yesterday while I was sweeping the floor in the pub. I was sweeping by the Utility Closet wondering how I was going to find Julien as I had made up my mind to let him go to be with the Ducesa. I've developed the habit of talking to myself when I'm alone in the pub and was doing so then when the door to the closet popped open and gave me a start. I went…

So much has happened in the last few days I hardly know where to start anymore. I suppose I shall start with the events of two days ago. Jack finally managed to propose to Tangle properly, he'd asked her parents, spoken to preacher, courted her and was now finally able to present her with a diamond the size of a robins egg. She said yes and there was such a clamor as people gave their congratulations. I was happy for them, I am still but I confess at that moment I was putting on a brave…

For some reason... this poem by Yeats has always made me very nervous. It is perhaps the greatest definition of humanity's tendencies:

               THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre

    The falcon…

http://tylean.bandcamp.com/album/the-tylean-compilation

For those of you in the UK, you have a rare chance indeed... to see San Francisco's Unwoman perform! Four glorious dates, details below!



Near Leeds:

Facebook Event Page

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188347584511813

Event Page on SteamPunk Empire…

Everything that is transpiring is doing so according to my design.

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I'm writin' this from the safety of my quarters... my cell these days...

My captor is sleepin now, sprawled out at his post, mouth agape, great, roarin' snores practically shudderin the ship.  I give a real thought to coverin' his face with a pillow, but I ent the kind to kill somebody in cold blood.

I cried today, thinkin' of bygone days, when we were so happy, and I wish for my love to find me, to rescue me from this hell.  But he is out…

Captain Abigail Storm:  Captians Log  6:30a.m.

My ship and crew have just returned from a night of raiding ships from East Asia.  The crew is currently tethering the Stormfyre* to the ground tether we have in the woods nearby my estate manor.  My ships crew have done an amazing job of painting the outer portion of the ship in camofloge colors of greens and browns so anyone passing by the woods does not even notice a huge airship is tethered there. We do  most of our raiding…

Well, here I am in the grand Steampunk Empire! It's a wonder and a swell privilege to be here. For anyone out there deciding to read this, I'm a bit of an amateur, but I completely feel that this is my calling. I have been obsessed with the steam era for quite some time, but wished there was some sort of fantasy/science fiction element to it. I knew what it was, but not what to call it. And finally, someone mentioned that a pendant I had made was "very steampunk." I looked it up and have…