Photo taken by Abby Armada

Why the Ghostbusters, of course! This dapper gent answers to the name Josh Freeman and for his attendance to the Comic-Con International 2007, he meticulously constructed this fine wood and brass “proton accelerator” complete with a deployable ghost trap.

Keeping the decorum of a true Gentleman, Mr. Freeman traded in the traditional though utilitarian jumpsuit for a ten button vest, ascot, and top hat which sports a Steampunk translation of the “No Ghosts” standard. You may examine more closely his phantasm extinguishing disguise by clicking thusly: Josh Freeman.

Sculpted by the artful hands of one Monsieur Pierre Matter, comes a conglomeration of wonderful artifacts amalgamating bronze and steel with the resemblance of various members of the animal kingdom.

I give pause to wonder if these inspire my imagination of a bleak future in which mechanical animals are man’s answer to some blighting of fauna, or if perhaps the are more of a thing you would see in the laboratory of a grease smudged engineer hand crafting metal pets for his own amusement and study.

Kindly direct your aethernet viewer of choice here to see a gallery of his works.

In the year 1769 the first Horseless Carriage prototype was hammered out by a French engineer named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. His rudimentary design borrowed primary design aspects of the great Iron Horse bearing a steam based engine to power the vehicle. This revolution of self propelled machine forged the path for the Brass Era which would see the schematic lowered dramatically in scale with an experimental and unstable combustion engine replacing the tried and true steam powered model.

Some years later a gentleman by name of Stephen Rothwell would paint the portrait seen above titled “Journeyman” which can only be, as I surmise, a missing link of sorts gaping the time span between Cugnot’s original design and the Brass Era. One can clearly see depicted an apparatus in which the name “Horseless Carriage” would be aptly succinct, replacing a beast of flesh and bone with a more reliable and ever tireless mechanical model.

While there is a lot to like about this particular machine, I am partial to the tank treads. It adds a certain “Why yes Sir, I can traverse over all terrains” feeling that I am quite fond of.