This has been a bit of a week for steampunk fans. Geek Native has been part of a swashbuckling blog tour. It began with a review of The Alyesford Skull, the first full-length steampunk novel by one of the founding fathers of steampunk James P Blaylock, it continued with news of competition to win signed […]
8 impressive steampunk top hats
As part of Geek Native’s James P Blaylock season, one of the founding fathers of steampunk and author of The Aylesford Skull, here are eight options for skull decoration. There’s bound to be steampunk top hat here that takes your fancy. Steampunk belt, bra and hat [Little Daisy Head at Deviant Art] Raven Gothic Steampunk […]
Steampunk DC cosplay
Hazel Chua of Fashionably Geek reblogged this collection of DC superheroes as steampunk girls. The pictures come via Women of Comicbook Cosplay. I recognise the bottom left as the Steampunk Huntress cosplay of Star Wars and Wine. Can anyone credit the other three cosplayers?
Skulls for Blue Monday
Photograph by FirefuryAmahira Today is Blue Monday. This means, if you believe the spin, today is the most depressing day of the year. Has a necromancer cast a gloom spell across the whole country? There’s also The Aylesford Skull. The Aylesford Skull is the first novel from James P. Blaylock in twenty years. Blaylock is […]
IBM brainiacs predict steampunk success
International Business Machines, aka IBM, are predicting… steampunk. In fact, they’ve been monitoring social media like Facebook and Twitter, have noticed this steampunk thing and think it’ll catch on. There’s a whitepaper here all about the birth of a trend. The question is; will this be the steampunk we know and love or will Paris […]
Star Wars helmets steampunk style
Kevin Mowrer describes the process of creating these steampunk Star Wars helmets as a “total blast”. Writing on his blog he says that the Stormtrooper was actually the most challenging to do and that it was son who had the idea for a giant monocle for the eye. I think it makes the piece work […]
Steampunk Batman Nerf blaster pistol
Super design and wonderful skill on display in this mod. We have a Nerf gun that’s experimenting with a bit of Gotham gothic and a bit of Steampunk sizzle too. Created by the Nerfenstein talent at Girlygamer.com.au.
Mechanical Dragon for Pure Steam RPG
This mechanical dragon was shared by BomarrPunk on reddit. The illustration is by Alejandro Lee for the steampunk RPG Pure Steam. BomarrPunk was asked what the status of the game was. This was his response; We are in backers-only beta playtesting right now. Once our beta doc is cleaned up, we’re posting it on Paizo.com […]
The awesome Otto and Victoria
Otto and Victoria are a popular series of sketches by Brian Kesinger. I’d seen the famous illustration of Victoria walking Otto as a Tea Girl calendar and knew I had to come back to it. As Kesinger explains the drawing is a study of the juxtaposition between the squiggly Otto and rigid Victoria. I’m not […]
K-1889 is steampunk K-9
Are you a K-9 fan or not? Rumour has it that he was a pain to film with but at least he’s currently gainfully employed stopping a black hole from exploding. This steampunk K-9, called K-1889, was created by deviant artist Sydeian.
