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The Utrecht School of Arts students who brought you the Team Fortress 2-inspired, PB&J-fueled animated short “Mac ‘n’ Cheese” have uploaded another gorgeously animated school project to Vimeo.
On November 6th, the 1st Annual Palm Beach Art & Music Festival will be taking place at the Meyer Amphitheater from 4 PM till 11 PM. One of our very own Steampunkers from Palm Beach, Maricruz Gonzalez will be there selling some fine Steampunk Jewelry! Please help support this event, and the vendors that will be attending! Admission is free, so come on down!
Here’s a small tutorial from Threadbanger.com by one of their members, AuskaNova, with a How-To tutorial on making Steampunk gloves. With minimal work, you too can have a pretty amazing looking pair of gloves for your Steampunk outfit!
Youtube user EmmyLouAngel created this nifty little video showing off her Steampunk monocle goggles two years ago. The video, unfortunately doesn’t show any tutorials as to how these were created, but you can bet we’ll be attempting to contact her for some tutorials, because her work is amazing! Check out the video below!
We have a pretty nifty treat for you all today! Steampunk enthusiast, John Knight has developed a way to control Google Earth on his iPad with an actual globe. The secret is in the RFID tags placed upon the globe itself. The setup is still in the works, but it show’s some pretty innovative thinking on Knight’s part! Hopefully he can get this thing up and running smoothly, and eventually produce these globes! We’re looking at the creation of the Map Room for the 21st Century! Get your dirigibles and submarines prepped for these bad boys!
Speculative Minds will be attending AFO up in Orlando this year. If any of you Florida Steampunkers would like to meet up, and perhaps grab a drink, you should search me out! I’ll be attending all three days (will be there on Thursday as well to help friends set up a booth, but will not be dressed out). Just look for my top hat and goggles making their way through the crowds! Also, I’ll (if they turn out as well as I hope) be sporting a pair of striped pants put together from our striped pants guide over at this link here! So look out for me, and my massive array of modded Nerf guns and say “Hi!” Just no glomping allowed!
- Matthew Alexander
Navigator Extraordinaire
Garrett’s Note: I will not be attending so if you will be carrying a Nerf Gun as well, please shoot him the back of the head for me (from a comfortable distance, no unnecessary pain).
Is Disney going steampunk? It seems so. Recently on the Disney blog, Project Manager Steven Miller (not of the Steve Miller band) has announced some new new things going on, particularly one called The Mechanical Kingdom. So far, all The Mechanical Kingdom has is a pin set that accompanies some stories. We at SteampunkGuides.com and SpeculativeMinds.com are hopeing some other merchandise is in the works, along with maybe a section of Orlando Florida’s, The Magic Kingdom theme park. Imagine a whole steampunk section of a Disney theme park! You can be sure that if that happens, we’ll have it covered. What we’re wondering is if this has anything to do with Epic Mickey, the new Disney/Mickey game on the Wii that has many steampunk elements. I guess we’ll see. You can check out or pre-order Epic Mickey here.
Alexia Tarabotti is a swarthy, parasol-wielding, tea-drinking, treacle-tart loving spinster with a pension for poking her substantial nose where it otherwise does not belong. Making matters worse, she is also Italian. If that still were not enough, Alexia Tarabotti has no soul. Having just accidentally killed an oh-so-unmannerly vampire whom attacked her for no apparent reason, Alexia succeeds in setting the whole of the Supernatural population of Victorian London abash. With her ability to render Vampire and Werewolf alike back to a mortal state, everyone seems to be pointing the finger at her, especially what with a certain amount of Supernatural folk disappearing without a trace. With the help of a rather flamboyant Vampire rove and the rather impossible, rather Werewolf, and rather Scottish Lord Maccon, Alexia seeks to find answers.
Review:
Gail Carriger’s Soulless was an absolutely fantastic read- a truly refreshing approach to the supernatural realm, complete with silly vampires, large and painfully Scottish werewolves, evil scientists, Parasols, and absolutely ridiculous hats, all blended with a simply splendid sprinkling of Steampunkery! Miss Carriger certainly spins a wonderful tale that kept me completely entranced. I absolutely loved her characters, and her writing style is quite pristine and enjoyable! She mixes just the right amount of comedy into the story to make you laugh, but teeter on the edge of your seat in suspense! Alexia is definitely a main character that is incredibly fun to follow. She is loud-mouthed, opinionated, and says the most outrageous things in the presence of esteemed company! I simply love how Miss Carriger takes a new approach to writing about Werewolves and Vampires. Lord Akeldama is quite ridiculous and keeps a gaggle of giggling boys about, while Lord Maccon, the Alpha wolf of the Woolsey pack, is abhorrently messy, loud, and secretly fancies Alexia. Throw in Alexia’s best friend, Miss Ivy Hisselpenny, who has a terrible habit of wearing the most abominable hats, and hilarity ensues! This book is a must read, for sure!
