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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 10:22 am. 15 comments
Steampunk (n.) A literary and cultural movement based on the principle that Jules Verne should have been right, that both people and things should be elegant and functional, and that I want a zepplin.
Family (n.) People you love, live with, are related to, or cannot otherwise avoid.
We, the Steampunk Family, like to make things. We like to make beautiful, and when possible, functional things. If a thing cannot be useful, let it at least be beautiful, and if it cannot be beautiful, do we really need it?
We want better, not more. We curb skim and dumpster dive proudly, to make the unused and unappreciated into the unique and useful. We want the work of our hearts, hands, minds, and tongues to be art. We ourselves want to live as art.
photo by Stephen Lesnik
3:20 am
I saw you all at ConBust, I was the one who took your picture with the girl in the green Hot Topic dress. I have to say I really admire your pursuit of steampunk, especially being a fan of both Phil Foglio and Jules Verne in their own rights… and I dream of zeppelins. Keep up the good/hard work and perhaps next time we meet I’ll bring my death ray.
5:13 pm
It was nice meeting you. Con Bust was a fabulous event. Please bring your death ray, always interested in other inventors work.
4:14 pm
Hi
I am a photographer in Richmond that has a steampunk themed shoot in a couple of weeks so I am working on background research. Luckily my model does have a good bit of knowledge in this area and her creativity may carry the project to success. Still if anyone has time and is interested I would appreciate it if you could email me and maybe we can bounce some ideas back and forth. Thanks
5:19 pm
I am not that familiar with the Richmond area. I’d check out a few groups on flickr for inspiration. TOR, steampunk fashion, and of course the von Hegwig.
10:27 am
Thanks
I have a couple of really good locations as Richmond still has a several victorian gothic revival buildings preserved and we have two buildings brought over from england and reassembled here ( one is a tudor home the other a 12′th century priory. The initial test shoot will be in a victorian gothic reviaval building built in 1882 . I will try those other flickr groups and thank you for the advice.
5:22 pm
I posted some photos from the preliminary shoot on your flickr. The main one got moved to Jan due to location issues. Thanks again for the earlier info
12:38 am
You Will LOVE LOVE LOVE this:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1945343,00.html
8:47 am
Thank you, sir. What an excellent article!
5:33 pm
Hello, this is just a shout out, so you know that your website was linked on a steampunk article I wrote on my blog.
You can find the link under “extremelly cool site”, which reflects precisely my opinion on it. Many congrats!
Ah, if you’d like to take a peek at the article, here’s the address:
http://mariblaser.blogspot.com/2010/01/steampunk-hilarities.html
All the best,
Mariana
3:45 pm
Thank you for the linkage! I’m so glad you like our humble efforts.
2:32 pm
In combo with Preachain. Glad you like it!
2:53 pm
Just stumbled across you site whil;e searching for smoking hats. Excellent site, I’ve bookmarked it for future reference. Keep on steaming.
8:46 am
Thank you! Glad we could help. If you make a smoking cap, will you send me a picture?
2:15 pm
Someone is creating a pattern for me at present, I will be glad to send a picture.
4:53 am
Greetings Madame vonHedwig, it’s been awhile but at last I have my smoking hat. As promised here is a picture.
http://www.steampunkkaleidoscopes.com/fleamkt/skull%20smkng%20hat.jpg