A collection of internet links created for my own pleasure. I also dare to hope that it might be of use (or at least provide some small amusement) to the ladies and gentlemen who share my interests.
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----NEW LINKS FOR DECEMBER 2007----
My Favorite Coffee Maker: What the heck is cold-brewed coffee? Who cares! I must have one.
Trilobite Cookies: something different for the holidays!
The Steampunk Workshop: Wonderful things made by the King of Steampunk
The Tesla Christmas Tree: Ho Ho Ho Bzzzzt!
Airship Mechanic T-shirt: a very nice CafePress design
Old Factory: a theme for Firefox (Mozilla) The little gears turn while pages are loading!
Pretend to be a Time Traveller Day: December 8. Read the rules here.
Doctor Steel: Aid in his plans for World Domination, and enjoy the music.
Nefarious Designs of Mad Science: Conquering the 1904 World's Fair (an animated short)
Abney Park: Band/Airship Pirate Crew. Very nice!
Steam Girl: a poem/song lyrics that I stumbled upon while Googling for something else.
The Flying Trilobite: Really nice science-y art, including winged trilobite fossils! Lovely!
----NEW LINKS FOR NOVEMBER 2007----
Stanley London: Swoon-worthy brass instruments. Mmmmm!
Miss Manners: She's tremendously funny, and I can always use her advice. (sigh.)
Gothic Charm School: Good advice for aficianados of many subcultures, and also fun to read.
Voco Clocks: Be awakened by Jeeves every morning!
steamy_stitches: a steampunk buy-and-sell LJ community. Show us your wares!
Giant Squid Scarves: Crocheted squid scarves by Michelle McCoskey.
----NEW LINKS FOR OCTOBER 2007----
Sequential Glass: Steampunk Supplies for Sale. Building a lab? Look for parts here!
Emily Way: Hats and other Victorian Clothes
steamfashion on Livejournal: A community for discussing and showing off Steampunk Fashion.
Steampunk Airship Goggles on Instructables: A tutorial for doing it yourself!
----NEW LINKS FOR SEPTEMBER 2007----
Professor Wright's Horology Experiments: Steampunk wall clocks on Cafe Press. He's still designing them, and we intend to collect them all!
The Steampunk Home: Decorating with Steampunk!
Gentleman's Emporium: Repro clothing for men and women, plus calligraphy supplies
The Science Creative Quarterly: ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE: Among other things, merit badges for scientists. This delights me, especially since the badges are hilarious.
Plans for the Nautilus! These are meant for model-building, but they're just nice to look at, as well.
----Blogs----
Brass Goggles: You'll find the most amazing stuff here!
Makezine.com: See the amazing things people build, and get ideas by the bucketload
Da Vinci Automata: A Blog on the Clockpunk genre of Science Fiction
The Steampunk Home: Decorating with Steampunk!
----Magazines----
Steampunk Magazine : "putting the punk back into steampunk"
MAKE: definitely a magazine for mad scientists
----Events----
Da Vinci Days in Corvallis Oregon
----Art----
RustyClank.com: Steampunk Lego® creations!
Metal and Magic: Gorgeous work from the artist of the critically-acclaimed webcomic Digger
Jessica Joslin: "Brass Menagerie" sculpture. Jewels, brass and animal bones. Lovely stuff.
Eric Poulton's Steampunk Star Wars
The Weta Ray guns
----Books (Fiction)----
----Books (History)----
----Books (Fashion and Costuming)----
Lavolta Press: "high-quality books on historic costuming and vintage clothing"
----Comics (Online)----
Girl Genius: Old-fashioned Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance, and Mad Science. A free webcomic which updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday with all-new pages. Oh, also, I co-write it.
Narbonic: My favorite webcomic! A completed story now in reruns: with author's commentary. Well worth a visit! It's not actually gaslamp, but there's an ongoing fanfic that takes the characters into an alternate, very Victorian, world, and anyway it has delightful mad scientists. So on the list it goes.
Dresden Codak: gorgeous art, with lots of machinery, robots, and a super-smart main character. Also a tiny Carl Jung. Had my heart from the first strip I read. |
