Thanks to our good friend Crab Fu, and his friend Indiana Rog, I am able to bring this (unfortunately-named) German company to your attention. These 100% handmade (no CNC, even), spindly-yet-sturdy amalgams of brass and glass would be a bargain even if they were inanimate. Stationary they are NOT, however! Mr. Rog’s YouTube video shows that they are indeed the efficiently whirring devices one would hope them to be. I think one of these engines would look just as comfortable chiffing away on a Victorian tinker’s workbech as it would on the shelf of a certain wizardly headmaster…

Oh, and please do check out Mr. Rog’s website! You will find it a wonderful resource, no matter if you’re a serious model engineer or simply enjoy photos of gleaming mechanations. I would devote an entire post to it, but I don’t want to over do it with the engine articles…

edit  As Copper Sulphate kindly pointed out, I forgot to actually link to the Wiggers site! It would be here. ::Slaps forehead::

The kindly and talented Mr. von Slatt has written to tell us of this excellent Hungarian e-museum of antique telecommunications equipment. Now, the unfortunate part is that the site is rather irritating to navigate.  Direct links to the good pages are impossible, so you’ll have to follow the directions below:

1) Click here

2) Click “Visiting of the Exhibition” in the left-hand menu

3) Click around on the colored “rooms” in the map on your right to view the exhibits.   Some of it is not Steampunk at all, but there is plenty of lovely stuff like the gadget shown above.   The charmingly awkward translations are fun too

Auction here. faints

Found this little beaut today while searching for its table-top counterpart.  Anyone have twelve grand I can borrow?  That rust is so gorgeous…

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it seems that I have yet another fine addition to my Compendium of Phantastic Artisans: one Mr. Keith E. Lo Bue. He has an incredible number of pieces, each at least as stunning as the last. Though they all have quite a bit of Victorian flair to them, the best Steampunk pieces (in your author??Ts humble opinion) are to be found in the Jewels and New Work sections. These deliciously grungy objects were cobbled together from all manner of Victorian junk (read: treasure), including a rusty raccoon trap, door knobs, a bat skull, and false teeth! Good lord, I could spend all day on that site???

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Oh, and here??Ts one for our more eagle-eyed and elephant-minded readers: that brass ???28??? on the piece shown above. You??Tve seen an identical pin somewhere else, bearing the number ???27?????’can you tell me where? Give your answer in the comments, the first one to provide a link to the object I??Tm thinking of will receive a (very) small brass plaque, hand-made by yours truly. Good luck!

Link courtesy of “Haunted_Lady“, via The CWGJ??

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What would happen if Batman were prowling around in the 1880s? Why, he’d take on Jack the Ripper, of course! Yes indeed, in this 1989 DC comic, the Dark Knight encounters the devilish Jack who, for some reason, has journeyed to Gotham. Gotham by Gaslight is considered by most to be the first “Elseworlds” comic–a series where popular characters are put into strange times and realities. You can purchase the 112-page compilation (shown above) of Gotham by Gaslight and its sequel Master of the Future on Amazon for around $10US.

Last year, toy company “DC Direct” came out with this fantastic action figure in the image of this anachronistic avenger. A gentleman by the name of Poe has a nice written review of the figure here, in which (among other things) he makes a rather good point about this Batman’s physique. His seemingly chubby build is in fact quite accurate to what a “he-man” would have looked like in the 1800s. It’s only with today’s exercise techniques that the chiseled body of the modern Batman would be even remotely possible…

There’s also this figure that I simply couldn’t not post. He’s actually from a WWII-era Elseworlds, but come on; goggles!

Dear me, can it get any better than Steampunk and Batman? Heavens, I’m a nerd… *chuckles*

A fellow by the name of Richard sends us word of The Bradbury Building, located in Los Angeles. It was apparently featured in many big-time motion pictures, which means there’s lots of photos available. BRmovie.com has a rather nice set full of interior and exterior shots, from both real life and the movies. The building’s not too spectacular from the outside; but once you get to the atrium? Heavens me!!! You can see many (hundreds!) more pictures on Flickr, and learn all manner of interesting facts on Wikipedia.

Gee, between this and “The Edison”, LA is starting to look like quite the Steampunk destination!

For those of you who are unfamiliar, “Winamp” is a rather popular media player program for PC (though versions for Mac and Linux do exist). One of the features that makes Winamp so favorable is its ability to be “skinned”. This means that you can drastically change the look and user-interface of the program to fit your fancy. There are so many skins available, in fact, that even within the realm of Steampunk, there’s a skin to match your specific taste!

First off, the one shown above. Known as Unison Brainstormed, it embodies the elegantly industrial look that I personally favor. It also has fun little features like the gauges on the equalizer that rotate along with the sliders

Eight more after the jump… (more…)

The beautifully fragile item you see above is one of ten pieces of moving sculpture that are currently available from the terribly skilled Mr. David C. Roy. He has been making these spring-powered illusions since 1975, so he has quite the archive going! The website is very well designed, giving us easy access to videos of the works in action as well as a brief tutorial as to how he creates such delightful machines. Despite their uniqueness, they are all rather hypnotizing and all very steampunk!

Thanks to Mr. Owensby for the link!

Have you ever been challenged to a duel, only to find yourself carrying neither pistol nor sword? I’m quite confident that most of us have. Steampunk is, after all, a rather controversial subject (see post on “The Cassettes”)!

Regardless of past violent encounters, we can all enjoy this fabulously illustrated and written excerpt from a 1901 edition of Pearson’s Magazine. With nothing more than your trusty umbrella or walking stick (which no self respecting gentleman would be caught without), you can easily conquer your foe with a quick series of delightfully elegant maneuvers. Heck, with the moves presented here you could turn yourself into a Victorian John Steed!

Hmm, anybody care to take the idea of “The Steampunk Avengers” further? Seems like it could be a rather smooth adaptation…

Thanks to Tinkergirl for the link, and to Wired News for bringing the page to her attention.