tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92443892007-01-17T13:18:31.229-08:00JinnetBlogger201tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9244389.post-86543125990570989552007-01-17T13:17:00.000-08:002007-01-17T13:18:31.293-08:00

At long last, the Steampunk Librarian has packed up the links and has moved over to Vox, which promises to be friendlier to regular posting! Come over and have some tea.

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The Steampunk Librarian is currently transmogrifying and migrating and rearranging itself into a new form (and possibly a new home). Hang on and the new information will be up soon. Sorry for the dust around here. (an addendum: since it's taken a few hours to publish this very small entry on Blogger, I think the new home is more "probable" than "possible"!)

Jinnettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9244389.post-1143495311970059342006-03-27T13:27:00.000-08:002006-03-27T13:35:12.020-08:00

Steampunk, by its very definition, lends itself to a great deal of wind-up clinking and clanking noises. This virtual museum of electrochemical & electronic instruments makes quite a racket, no doubt, and the towering, behemoth-like GM FuturLiners must have roared as they zoomed along. Today, the marvelous CrabFu steamtoys provide the clickety-clackety noises, while Tubular Rails, Inc. dreams of

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Just a quick heads-up post here: check out SubdivisionModeling.com's SteamPunk Engine Competition! I can't wait to see the designs! More soon. Honest. Really!

Jinnettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9244389.post-1136930983997570292006-01-10T13:59:00.000-08:002006-01-10T14:09:44.086-08:00

The term "steampunk" is terribly nebulous in its definition. There are all sorts of arguments as to whether it's even a viable label in the first place, much less using it to define objects or concepts. My own personal (and therefore very subjective!) definition of steampunk is always changing as well, but it starts with the idea of combining new technology with Victorian style and goes from

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Happy 2006 to all! One resolution of mine is to update the Steampunk Librarian at least twice a week. Let's see how well I do. Has BMW got a steampunk lover in their planning department? The "Turbosteamer" uses good old-fashioned steam to increase efficiency. Perhaps they could add a horse, too, just in case... Meanwhile, a wristwatch billed as the "sundial for the 22nd century" uses the sky

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(I wonder how long a title can be in Blogger's parameters...) In going through the backlog of old links, a collection of Verne-related links was found. I am somewhat tempted to turn this weblog into a purely Wells and Verne-related endeavor. At any rate: The Smithsonian observes the centennial of Verne's death, and explores his influence on today's literary world.if anyone should say Verne is no

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Moving house is hard. I'm still not sure where everything is. However! We get back on schedule by catching up with some overdue links, including two sent by the Graveworm: Video iPod: An Improvement on H.G. Wells' 1899 Device?a man uses scrap cars to create abbey gargoyles.Speaking of cars, the Drive Back in Time website, while not strictly Victorian, is a lovely homage to the vehicles of

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Updates are coming soon, and regular posting will resume. (Modern life can get hectic.)

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Nearly everything about Jules Verne is amazing, even his gravestone.

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The quintessential Victorian city, of course, is London. Fortunately, the Victorians loved to analyze their surroundings, and preserve it for posterity. (Take this report from Vol. III: "The street musicians are of two kinds, the skilful and the blind.") As time went on, the concept of cities changed. The vision of the shining city of the future lasted throughout the 20th century, through the

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(Part 1 of what promises to be a voluminous series.) The BitForms of Andrew NeumannThe Termespheres of Dick TermesThe Art of the First World War (a retrospective encompassing many artists)The Miniature Masterworks of Colonel MarblesThe Airships of Harry Grant DartThe Scheltrum MiniaturesThe Land of Evermor (aka A Reason to Visit Wisconsin ASAP)

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This and many more methods of expressing oneself can be found at LetterJames. The old typewriter is another fave of mine.

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Imagine, if you will, that you are a bespectacled person whose glasses seem to levitate in front of you, due to a strategically placed piercing. Now imagine that your piercing gaze (ha, sorry) includes some tiny eye jewelry. (Images included are not for the squeamish.) Your clothes, washed in UV laundry detergent and held together with t-a-p-e, give way to shoes which vibrate with each

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Happy 2005! In honor of the new year, we look back (of course) to the ultimate logician, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Despite his prowess as a violinist, most people think of Sherlock Holmes in a literary, not auditory, sense. However, this impressive collection of radio shows in mp3 format may change readers' minds. And if that doesn't succeed, there's always the new Holmes musical (?!?), The

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Part I: The Ghost of Transportation Past Behold the works of Alfred Beach and the history of New York City's rapid transit system. Part II: The Ghost of Transportation Present Quadracycles, which look rather like rickshaws, and Toyota's new "joint vehicle," which looks a little like a mechanized camel. Part III: The Ghost of Transportation Yet to Come Self-navigating vehicles!

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A correction to the previous entry: the linked site was nondigital. (I guess I got carried away with the old-fashionedness of it all.) A more correct link is in the comments. Thanks to Anon, who caught the glitch. To match the ambient dashboard, satellite radio can be retro too. The 19th century gives us another option for gathering solar energy. They also had an idea for a fax machine, but

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There are many photographers out there using techniques to make their work look like it could be found in an antique store, but Michele Clement is the best I've seen by far. If you're interested in doing the same to your photos digitally, there are several tutorials online just waiting to help you turn back the clock.

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A DVD player that can camouflage itself as a piece of veneer wood, and ambient dashboards that control whatever you like. Oh, yes.

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(Don't worry, I'm not going to title every entry in this manner. It would be sort of interesting to see how long I could keep it up before going insane, though.) I have been fascinated with steampunk since way before I had a word for it. Old favorites of mine -- Jules Verne's stories, Young Sherlock Holmes, the short-lived TV show Voyagers! and more recent fare like The League of

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