The title of this piece, by Pablo Lavezzari, is “Utopia”. More Amazing videos and images of his kinetic works (some even more impressive than this, if you can imagine) are available at his site.
Story found through the Automata /Automaton Blog
Steampunk Wallpaper: Behold the Machine
I’m submitting this to SteampunkWallPaper.com tonight, but I thought I would offer it here as well.
Coming soon will be other wallpapers from my artworks – I plan to do one a week, if all goes well. Though my source images for prints are each over 30,000 pixels wide, and these only 1680 – I have a bit of anxiety when it comes to these things, expecting to find Chinese mades on Ebay or people offering them as scrap papers on Etsy.
But, I am not going to make new friendships being so paranoid, and I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. You know – I have an easier time stripping at a bar than I do putting images out there without watermarks in them – this *should* feel somewhat exhilarating. Perhaps it will after I post.
I don’t care if you send these to your friends. All is fine if you email them, give them to others on disk or via upload, put them on your site… as long as my copyright stays intact, and they are not used for any commercial purpose, or resold, and as long as no derivative works are made from them (prints, web graphics, hand bags, ice cream flavors, broadway musicals, etc…). Actually, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported sums up my terms nicely.
Anyway here goes:
Behold the Machine desktop widescreen (1680×1050)
(Note: Desktop is not the tiny image, but the big image clicking the tiny image takes you to)
The Nautilus
I’ve always wanted to go to Paris, but I’ve never wanted to go to Disneyland…
… One of these days, I’ll have to do both:
Anyway, there are more images of the Nautilus in all its glory at Disneyland, Paris up at Voyages Extraordinaires
The Mysteries of the Nautilus attraction at Disneyland Paris was prefigured a long time past by the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea exhibit at the original Disneyland, which showed from park opening in 1955 to the redevelopment of Tomorrowland in 1966. Needing something to fill the empty spaces spotting his own world of tomorrow, Walt Disney pulled the set pieces for 20,000 Leagues out of storage…
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Octopus Me
I’ve never been the biggest fan of jewelry.
What my metal allergies do allow me to wear, are things I find myself fidgeting with, taking off repeatedly.
I have the feeling if I had these, I would never want to shed them, not for a second – they are just that fantastic.
These pieces are all hand-cast, most from Sushi-grade Octopi
Found Via Cephalopod Tea Party
Baby Octopus Tie Tack
Octopus Tentacle Earrings
Octopus Tentacle Ring
Many, Many more amazing creations can be found at The Octopus Me Etsy Store
Oh… and I found a wonderful Etsy group through Octopus Me: The Cabinet of Curiousities. Also check out the Etsy Dark Team, which we at EttaDiem are a part of. If I find any others worth joining, I will try to remember to post them here.
Just a bit of Nostalgia
So, I am working away at several paintings at once currently.
In the damp and cold of Michigan, oil paints dry really slowly, especially when one’s work space is in the basement. Michigan, for those who did not already know this, does not have a sun.
There is a glowing ball that pops up here and there for minutes out of each day, but it really gives off no heat at all. My suspicions are that the heavenly bodies surrounding Michigan are primarily fluorescent or LED powered, so as not to harm the delicate ice-age flora, fauna, and population of the chilly North.
So, I am painting in thin layers, moving the painting to the garage to dry after each stage, and rotating back and forth between the others during these drying stages.
Waiting. Waiting for paints to dry, and waiting for some gateway between Michigan and Earth to open up again, the below song came to mind. Fortunately, someone was kind enough to write, record, and even video tape it in a good amount of time before I chose to make this post – else I might have been a bit embarrassed to have typed all this way in with nothing more than a concept to allude to…
The Take Away Shows present Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer, with broken foot, and troupe, doing their music on the road in, what must have been, a rather amazing unConcert:
Taken from the lovely, talented, and even literate Jhayne Holmes (Porphyre/Foxtongue), who is one of over several people living in Canada.
I highly recommend the larger HD videos, which can be found here.
Amanda Palmer – Icarus (A Take Away Show) from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
Amanda Palmer – Amsterdam (A Take Away Show) from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
Crucify
There isn’t an instrument I love more than the Cello, and the contrabass/double bass/upright bass; Put an instrument like this with a lovely voice, and a great deal of talent, and it is pure magick.
Melora Creager of Rasputina would be one example, Erica Mulkey of Unwoman would most certainly be another. She is a profoundly talented up and coming artist who you will likely be hearing, and hopefully seeing a lot in these coming years.
Erica, By the Way, will be touring this year with Voltaire as a part of The Skeletal Orchestra. Tour Dates can be found on Voltaire’s Myspace Profile
The Unwoman cover of Tori Amos’ “Crucify”:
