May 2010 Blog Posts (52)

The most recent change to my day has been the constant desire, or dare I say it, need to look at the world through the eyes of an airship captain. The need to see if that clock on the wall has metal gears and the hold that a pair of welding goggles now takes over my imagination.



Steampunk has become a way of living. It is a fashion,…

I so want this t-shirt! It was designed by the amazing David Malki of Wondermark fame.…

These are great 3D renderings of the core concept for my right-arm weapon.

I'm thinking I can make the internal cylinders out of coffe cans (the two in front cut in half to make the shorter cylinder). Anyone see any downside to this idea?

Also, here is the artist's full gallery:…

Jim Martin has a LONG list of movies he's worked on. He's a magic maker. Check out his full site here: http://www.jimmartindesign.com/cont.htm

I love his work, especially on "Atlantis" and some of his guns and sketches. You gotta check these out!…

THE MUSE:

"Still air

Stagnant night

4AM...

Can't sleep. Summer insomnia.

Strange!

to be thinking of

Theophelia Guindon...

Lady from a distant past

100 years or so..

Ancestor?

Perhaps.

Mystery lady...named on a faded document:

Mother of Peter Arthur LeBlanc,

who became... my grandfather.

His father: Lewis LeBlanc,

his mother...Mary Yandow...or

was it Theophelia Guindon?

A…

Here are some of my initial sketches that I did before and during Imagicon. The concept has changed a good bit since I did these, but these are my first reference points.

I decided to go with the round viewport design though, with LED lights on the top and on each side of the collar.

I thought about adding a respirator like device to the front, but felt that that would be a bit…

So I’m taking a page out of my fiance’s book and putting down my costume ideas to date. DragonCon is only 3 months away and I want to have already done a test run in my costume before I go. So I’ve got less than 3 months to get something together and make it good. Let’s go bottom to top.…

I have been putting a lot of thought into my persona, as I learned at Imagicon that knowing who you are will help determine your appearance.

My persona actually ties in with the persona of my soon-to-be in real life wife. After tossing ideas back and forth for a while, we've decided that the nation of Atlantis…

So, here I am hopped up on muscle relaxer (did something to my arm at Imagicon) thinking more about my first costume. In case someone else is just starting out, maybe my examples, issues and thoughts can help out.

The main issue(s) I'm realizing I am having is...delusions of grandeur. Here is my basic costume…

As a newcomer to the steampunk world, I was led on a quite diverse course to discover everything about the genre. This strange path led me to decide to edit and publish a special steampunk issue of Fissure to be realeased at the Upstate Steampunk Con in Greenville, SC in Nov. 2010.

This was the first stage of my travels to this exciting, terrifying, amazing, offbeat, colorful road.

First I was…

Quite a very long time without a blog entry, eh? I confess, my life on MySpace and account on LiveJournal have both ben put on life support, and I rarely show my face on FaceBook these days, so please don't think I am neglecting the Empire in specific. What time I have for electronic pursuits ends up spent on DeviantArt and FanFiction. So, I must offer my apologies for my absence here, and hope you will forgive me.

We have recently returned from our sojourn to the Steampunk…