Check out Panic! At The Disco’s new song, The Ballad Of Mona Lisa with all of its Steampunk goodness!

Coming to the Webster Hall in New York City, on November 21st, is The Anachronism’s very first Steampunk Extravaganza! The night will start at 8 PM with performances and finish with a fashion show! The lineup of performers include:
Jordana’s Steampunk Circus
This Way to the Egress
Psyche Corporation
The Absinthe Drinkers

Also in attendance, will be G.D. Falksen, The Wandering Legion, The Royal Baritarian Players, and the artist David Brunnell Brutman!

And we can’t forget about the fashion show! Designers include:
Karen von Oppen, Blooms in the Night, and Mayfaire Moon Corsets

This even is expected to be jam packed with fun, excitement, and STEAM! Check out the Facebook event page here!

For ticketing info, please contact the Webster Hall box office at (212)353-1600!

For general information about the event, contact Jeff Mach at jeffmach@wickedfaire.com

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!

A list of vendors and bands can be found here!

If you’d like to check out Maricruz’s jewelry, but cannot attend the event, check out her etsy store, The Kanzashi & SteamPunk Jewelry Garage!

Remember, FREE ADMISSION! So there is no reason not to attend!!!

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!

Check out a brief video here!

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.