Traveler | 31. Januar 2010
Oh joy! Tomorrow (judged by CET standards) the next chapter of Riese the Series will be released on their website and on Youtube (and a few other platforms). For me this means that when I get up tomorrow at around six in the morning, by the time I am finished with my breakfast I will [...]
Traveler | 30. Januar 2010
The classical Steampunk era, i.e. when the grand old masters were still around (the lifetimes of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells etc.), also featured a lot of then-contemporary authors who wrote about supernatural occurences. Dracula and Frankenstein comes to mind. Now, what I have found so far, although most Steampuks would not deny the influence of [...]
Traveler | 29. Januar 2010
Right, for a number of reasons I have decided to do a little bit more Steampunk related things in German. I have therefor started another blog (in German) which, unsurprisingly, is also named Daily Steampunk. The Blog can be seen here Daily Steampunk auf Deutsch. It is not much yet, just one post and I [...]
Traveler | 28. Januar 2010
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Traveler | 27. Januar 2010
According to various sources, the US military plans to deploy a high-altitude spy blimp for missions you need a spy-blimp for… As a Zeppelin Enthusiast™ I am looking forward to it and am quite excited about it. As a military ley person, I ask myself: What can this expensive piece of equipment do that satellites [...]
Traveler | 26. Januar 2010
What I consider really interesting, is the comperatively large number of videos on Youtube with a Dieselpunk theme. Quite a sizable fraction of thse deal with matters pertaining to World War II. One such jewel was pointed out to me in the Smoking Lounge (see previous post) and it would be a shame not to [...]
Traveler | 25. Januar 2010
In the late 1990′s, oh dear, that’s already over a decade ago, I was a big fan of the games Myst and Riven. I just had a look at the two games again recently and one thing just jumped at me: There are loads of Steampunk elements found in the game. I did a little [...]
Traveler | 24. Januar 2010
Check out Bob Basset‘s site. You will find a lot of cool if rather pricy stuff there, like this: Reminds me of a Steampunk Tie-Fighter pilot’s helmet. People who looked at this item also looked at… Teslapunk Iron Grip: Marauders – Martial Artwork Steampunk Visuals – Various Formats New Steampunk Home Dieselpunk hits Reality Related [...]
Traveler | 23. Januar 2010
Special Steampunk Holiday for airship and zeppelin enthusiasts On this day in 1911 the Siemens-Schuckert I took to air, it was semi-rigid and therefor something of a transitional form between previous airships and the zeppelins that have become so iconic in steampunk. And it proves: Evolution works in fields other than nature. People who looked [...]
Traveler | 23. Januar 2010
Today we held our first Munich Steampunk Get Together and decided it was not going to be the last. So here is the very short version of what happened: We met in the Victorian House at 10 o’clock for a late breakfast (which, unfortunately, was less enjoyable than the last time, the waiter was a [...]
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