[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!

Steam Doxies from Suzanne Rachel Forbes

Suzanne Rachel Forbes has worked as the courtroom artist for CBS Television, CNN and several newspapers, as the regular artist on DC ComicsStar Trek, The Original Series, as a book illustrator and as a portraitist. Her paintings, comic art and courtroom illustrations are in collections across the United States. Her current work focuses on traditional portraiture with a gothic flavor, as well as allegories and narrative portraits.

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In the past year she has begun to produce vintage-style pinups using vintage-style pinups using pulp adventure and steampunk imagery. Her art is incredible, and her retro-futurist work is a perfect example of the genre. Her “Defending the Electronic Frontier “, a Steampunk Warrior Girl Painting to raise funds for the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a wonderful and insanely detailed painting that shows her talent and gift for art.

“Steampunk Rising” Article

Posted by on June 7th,2008

ChannelWeb.com was named one of the “Ten Great Media Web Sites” by B2B Magazine’s Media Business In July 2007. This past week they did a very nice 24 page article on Steampunk titled “Steampunk Rising”

You can read the whole 24 pages of it here

Datamancer, Jake Von SlattDoktor AMolly “Porkshanks” Friedrich  and G.D.Falksen are all there with many others.

Speaking of Datamancer, have you ever found your self drooling over his work?  Well you’re in luck he has a one of a kind up for sale here: Custom Brass and Marble 22″ Steampunk LCD by Datamancer.  If you can, go buy your self a work of art that works.

Create Your Own Goggles

Posted by on June 3rd,2008

The great and random patrickwilsonmusic.com has just done us all a great favor. He took his father’s aviation goggles and has made a wonderful tutorial on how to reproduce them, including scale pattens that can be printed from the web site. Easy! & Free!

I’m sure you could have a great deal of fun making your own.

Look here for how to make your own Aviation Goggles.

The International Telectroscope

My loved people who dwell in the wonderful areas of NY and my favorite city across the pond, London.

Let’s have an Event shall we? Let’s wave at each other across those thousands of miles dressed as best as we can, thus in a small way talking over that time and space.

I propose to you The International Telectroscope wave!

On June 7th

NYC area people meet up at the telectroscope at 2pm.

London area people meet up the telectroscope at 7pm your time.

Then in an odd way via the telectoscope we are all meeting up at once and can wave at one another!

For any NY area people who come there will be more stuff to do after this.

London people perhaps you should go to Around The World In 80 Days, from White Mischief afterward, this can be your pre-event before the event.

This could be the first of its kind. An email already has been sent to the site about it and so far they seem to love the idea.

Bring your cameras this could be a great deal of fun.

So who’s in?

(Tinkergirl: Thanks to Kai, Scott, Gothamist, Shawn, John, IceSixxx, David, Rory, Jawdy, Steve, Julian, Novelgazer and Ed for suggesting the Telectroscope as a subject for a post!)

The History of the Phonocrank

Posted by on May 21st,2008

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The best way to know of a new invention is to ask the one who made it, So I did and this is what Aaron/Shadarko ) said of his wonderful Phonocrank.

The History of the Phonocrank:

Thanks for asking about the Phonocrank. I had been dressing steam punk for years before I knew there were anyone else like me. I had also been interested in old things, be it old radios, old tools, old photographs, you name it, if it was old, I pretty much loved it. I am very reluctant to move on to newer things. It was only recently I got an mp3 player, a cell phone, or a lap top. One of the reasons I love the idea of steam punk is, it’s not a denial of today’s technology. Rather its the idea of incorporating either an artistic flair missing in today design, or using alternative technology that can exist into day’s world. The project leading up to the Phonocrank was the Iphonograph. At roughly the same time that Herr Dokter was creating his gramophone styled speakers. I was working on the same idea for my mp3 player. It’s all well and good to use the modern tech, but a pair of speakers just look boring and bland. I wanted something that would go with the rest of my house. The first Iphonograph was a small music box shaped like a phonograph. Add speakers and done. The horn allowed the music to have a great old time sound, using the horn for what it was meant for. I created several more iphonographs of various sizes for myself and friends. The whole time something was nagging me.

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Steam in The New York Times

Posted by on May 15th,2008

Photo (from left): Meaghan, G.D.Falksen, Evelyn, Christine. Meaghan wears a red silk shirt from Retroscope, Evelyn with a clockwork locket from black phoenix alchemy lab, and Christine wears a dress she made herself.

On May 8th,The New York Times published the first article on steampunk fashion and subculture by a major newspaper. The article has already helped introduce new people to the subject of steampunk. As the first major article on this subject it is balanced and respectful.

You can read the whole article and view its whole gallery: Here

The article covers the main points of 21st century steampunk. It includes quotations from interviews with the Steampunk Workshop’s Jake von Slatt, Abney Park’s Robert, and Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich. The article references steampunk fiction, films, and draws a connection with the “neovaudevillian” James Gang in order to make steampunk more accessible to the public. The article is accompanied by photographs from a steampunk meet up in New York City, which The Times reporter,Ruth La Ferla,attended. Among those pictured in the paper are Steampunk couture designer Sidonie of To Die for Designs.

All in all, it was a very well done piece that will likely circumvent initial hostility new subcultures often encounter when first discovered by the mainstream.