Mr Donovan creates some beautifully distinctive Steampunk lamps, which we’ve seen before, laden with brass mesh, naked lightbulbs and curled ornate metals. He is also the very fortunate (and hard working) curator of the upcoming Steampunk Exhibition being held in Bridgehampton, New York next month!

As you can see from the list above, there are some very well loved members of the Steampunk community involved and I think it’d be utterly wonderful to see a whole exhibition devoted to the art and design of some of these very inspiring people.

So, if you can manage to get to Bridgehampton, NY, some time between the 16th and the 24th of August, then perhaps you’ll find yourself surrounded by works of art and engineering in a concentrated bubble of Steampunk. And if you do – please let me know all about it!

We have known since 1862 (thank you James Glaisher) that high altitude was a cold place to be, and no Steampunk explorer worth their salt hasn’t considered the arctic, the antactic and the peaks of mountains a challenging place to go, (not to mention hunting down the 1930’s Shangri-La) but in places such as these, perhaps your usual brass goggles are not quite up to the task.

Enter Mr Rice, engineer, and his brass snow goggles with optional attenuators (shown in the up-position above). With thin slits to prevent against snow blindness, as might be seen in traditional snow goggles, these handsome and comfortable looking alternatives could probably be used for signalling too! In unrelated news, the inuit also had some rather impressive snow goggles too. Very nicely done, Mr Rice.

If you are the lucky ones who have friends/family/holidays in Brittany. You have to go to Nantes. First of all, the city saw the birth of one of our beloved genius, Jules Vernes. But I will not talk literature now, but mechanics. When you go downtown, near the river Loire, there is a very particular island in which dwell many stange creatures, half steel, half wood. The Machines de L’île is an artistic project situated in the former warehouses of the Nantes shipyard. Part Vernes, part Vinci and definitely part Dr Moreau, you cannot miss the gallery of the Machines, the Heron Tree and the Great Elephant (dare you ride it?). It is worth the travel for any steampunk lover! Picture : Nautilus Nantes

“The new steampunk & dieselpunk magazine” is here with the release of the first issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.

In this first issue, the reader with find an introduction to the genre of dieselpunk by Piecraft and Ottens, an interview with Toby Frost, author of the steampunk-in-space novel, Space Captain Smith, an article about the gentleman in modern times by Delphinius Tucker, steampunk fashion and couture by Hilde Heyvaert, a review of the latest Indiana Jones film by Jack Rose, steampunk poetry, essays, cartoons—and more!

Please click here to download it.

Our talented friend, Sillof (he of the impressive action-figure re-imagining) has taken his previous efforts in creating Star Wars as if it were Steampunk, and lovingly applied it to the Empire Strikes Back entry in the series. Look here for ornately engraved snowtroopers, a dashingly dapper Mr Calrissian, and a hard on his luck out of work professor with a curious accent, who is short of stature and looking a little green these days! Still, I doubt I’d look as good when I get to be his age.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNl-_7dGmL0[/youtube] The Winterbottom universe is a macabre Victorian landscape full of unfamiliar proportions and quirky obstacles. The Winterbottom art style is inspired by the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey and silent film greats Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin. Our gluttonous hero, P.B. Winterbottom, exists within a distinctly 1920’s city complete with back alleys, tall buildings, and of course a clock tower. Enter a macabre and comical silent film world filled with mischief, time travel, and delicious pie. Record yourself and harness your time bending abilities to cooperate, compete against, and disrupt your past, present, and future selves. Winterbottom’s debut misadventures present whimsical spin on the notions of time, space, and play. Mr. P.B. Winterbottom is a villainous gentleman with a predilection for pies. Swiping the mysterious Cherry Chronoberry pie changed everything for our beloved Winterbottom.One bite made him more than an ordinary pie-grabbing humbug. That first taste changed him into something quite extraordinary, granting him the ability to break the rules of time. With these newfound time recording tricks up his cufflink, and with the help of his time clones, Winterbottom can now snatch pies with the greatest of ease. But on his journey to devour every pie, Winterbottom must mind the signs. the perils of being unstuck in time.

Create Your Own Paradox for the Love of Pie!

Mouse of our Steampunk Forum has searched in vain all over the internet for Steampunk wallpapers. Finding a shortage, he she decided to amend that by creating SteampunkWallpaper.com. She has started this project with the ambitious idea to create a wallpaper a day for a year. She has many so far, yetshe is on the lookout for new ideas! So, she is asking the good citizens of the internet for new ideas for steampunk wallpaper! You can visit her thread at our forum about the topic here.

This beautiful “Retro Alarm Clock” should make a most fashionable addition to any steampunk enthusiasts’ sleeping quarters! Devised by a Mr Ulrik Nielsen from Denmark, the clock is painted in appropriate brass, which, with the emarald green of the inner parts of the little machine, makes for a perfect steampunk contraption!

Please do delight Mr Nielsen with a visit to his Profile, where further photographs of his creation may be appreciated in the Stock category. (I must warn though, that some of the imagery on display there might not be considered entirely “work-safe”!)

Over at the Rat Rod Bikes forum (which seems to have quite a few Steampunk bikes now), member Gaskill has created the above beautifully bewheeled septuacycle (seven wheels, if I’ve not miscounted) called The Rag And Bone. With what looks like a suspended amber headlamp, and to be honest, more wheels than three conventional bikes put together, it’s eye catching and delightful. Not sure how it’ll go over bumps, but I suppose you don’t really care if you have a bike like that! Thank you very much to Mr Danny, the Lobsterboy, for pointing it out.

Every once in a while, it’s good to appreciate the beauty of some fine aerial pirate’s dirigible, so here goes! This lovely artwork was done by the talented artist(s) of Studio Octavia and called the Dragonship. More depictions of the Dragonship are available at the Studio’s website, where also much more wonderful imagery of other (sometimes steam-powered) devices may be appreciated!