Need some inspiration for your Halloween costume? Check out this video for how to make your own creepy post-apocolyptic Steampunk mash up mask Continue reading Another Steampunk Halloween Resource – Mask Tutorial Video
Check out this gallery of Steampunk dogs in their finest attire. And come back tomorrow for an article by Victoria L. Szulc about Queen Victoria and her beloved dogs. Continue reading Mechanical Menagerie: Steam-pups
A Traveling We Go, Reporting from the St. Louis Ball-Jointed Doll Convention Steampunk is seeping into everyday life and other fandoms. A walk through any home décor department store will reveal clock themed pillows, key and lock printed sheets, and … Continue reading A Traveling We Go, Reporting from the St. Louis Ball-Jointed Doll Convention
Steampunk III Art Show, Soulard Art Gallery St. Louis, MO Visual art can be very subjective. Steampunk art even more so, as the genre is very loosely defined. At “Steampunk III”, you could say that steampunk art is alive, well, … Continue reading One Week Left to See the “Steampunk III” Art Show in St. Louis
Clockwork insects and mechanical spiders show up in Steampunk from time to time. For instance, the “spy flies” in Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass (AKA Northern Lights). … Continue reading Mechanical Menagerie – Creepy Crawlers
Etching When I was in college, I figured out that the most dangerous room on campus wasn’t what you might expect. It was the print-making lab where I spent a goodly portion of freshman year. There were several large and … Continue reading Part 4 – Taming Metal from Weekend at the Asylum 2014
Fun with Fire Even though it is strongly associated with the Industrial Revolution and the World Wars, welding has been around for thousands of years in one form or another. The Bronze Age (in Europe 3200-600 BCE) and the Iron Age … Continue reading Part 3 – Taming Metal from Weekend at the Asylum 2014
Last time I covered some of the kinder, gentler ways to work with metal. In this post, I want to tell you about soldering. This is the metallurgical technique with which I have the most personal experience. I have used it to … Continue reading Part 2 – Soldering – Taming Metal from Weekend at the Asylum 2014
Friends, makers, cosplayers, lend me your ears! (Or eyes as the case would be) I attended several different sessions during my awesome convention experience in Lincoln in 2014. At the time, I was most interested the sessions about making the cool … Continue reading Taming Metal From Weekend at the Asylum 2014 (Part 1)
