Literature, art, music, events pertaining to the speculative fiction genre often referred to as “Steampunk” or “Clockpunk”
Wallpaper: 1280×1024 made from the piece “Conception”, which is available in my store as a 16×20 Metallic Print, signed in silver archival ink.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License Addendum: You are definitely free to convert it to a Jpeg or Bitmap to match your native environment, and to resize it to fit your desktop, or for blog entries, but that of course falls under “personal use” or “fair use” anyway.
These are images of a recent art project – a birdhouse which will be at a late March Art show (featuring myself, Bethalynne Bajema, and others) at the Genuine Artikle in NYC.
This piece is not yet completely done, but, it is close enough. Mainly I need to color the creature that lives within the box, and add some gold leafing to the birdhouse. So, I figured I could get some pics up while waiting for paint to dry.
It is made of wood (birdhouse and coffin), brass (hinges, feet, handles, eyelets, latches), super sculpie (the creature that will be inside the box), and a lot of lacquer.
In other news, I received a nice plug from this site, which I am most grateful for, as I am for all such mentions. I am, of course returning the favor – not as a courtesy, but because they themselves are well-worth giving a shout out. There are a lot of great artists and crafters listed there, a lot of great blogs about artists and artworks there – it is definitely worth checking out.
[edit – Birdhouse, DONE!]
(My Flickr account images, regardless of what they default to on upload, are always Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported)
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
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)
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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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.
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.
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”:
This is a work in progress being made by Catherinette Rings over at steampunkrings.blogspot.com/, a maker of some pretty awesome jewelry.
A direct link to the post is here.
