Traveler | 16. April 2012
As I said in the previous installment of the travel log, when I arrived, there were about 100 people already there. Most of them were also dressed up steampunk-style, most of the others were either goths or metal-heads. So, do you know how many people live in the Czech Republic? 10,562,214 according to the 2011 [...]
Traveler | 11. April 2012
Now this is something genuinely beautiful and inspired. A Super Mario themed Steampunk Cosplay: There is more cosplay and related photography in Ashley Anderson’s gallery on DeviantArt. I think Steampunk and Super Mario combines rather well. For one thing, Mario is a plumber, a craftsman with a rather dirty and gritty job and he has [...]
Traveler | 5. April 2012
Dr. Jim Marshall, OBE, The Lord of Loud, founder of Marshall Amplification, has passed on. Wherever he will spent his afterlife, I am sure they will turn it to eleven there, now. Right now. Rock on, Dr. Marshall. You are in our hearts, minds and on our stages forever. People who looked at this [...]
Traveler | 2. April 2012
1968 is mostly remembered in the popular conscience for the hippies. But as it usually is, more happened than what is commonly remembered. One of the great movies of 1968 and a milestone of cinema in general was Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001, which premiered April 2nd, 1968. To commemorate this, here is the perhaps most [...]
Traveler | 1. April 2012
Oh the days of the late 1980′s and early 1990′s. When most of the adventure still happened in your head… Now, Google has seen the signs of the times and gone retro. Yes, I know what day it is. Still, would it not be great? And this is what home sweet home and surrounding areas [...]
Traveler | 29. März 2012
Reminiscent of comic book industrialists, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went on an expedition to locate the lost F-1 engines of the Apollo 11 mission. They had rested on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean since July 20, 1969 but now, Bezos is now planning to raise them. More about this endeavour can be found on [...]
Traveler | 20. März 2012
Well, well, what can I say. This truely is a triumph for science and technology. Space science has helped archeology spot new potential sites of ancient habitation. More details in this article by the BBC. And it is not only about science: Every dig is also an adventure, every new discovery is an adventure. The [...]
Traveler | 7. März 2012
Well… Nice video, but do you really want to give Google more and more of your data? Google Play sounds like a cool concept, but this is also just another way for Google to track where you are, when you are where and so on. People who looked at this item also looked [...]
Traveler | 7. März 2012
This is already the third time I feature devices created by J.W.Kinsey’s Artifice on this blog. The first is here, the second here. Now, the master of Steampunk Lamp Designs has yet again send me another one of his creations: The Tessaquinary So beautiful… One of these days, I have to plunder my savings [...]
Traveler | 29. Februar 2012
Want to help in a crowdsourced effort to find life out there in space? The BBC has an interesting article on the subject. Go read it! And then saunter onto setilive.org People who looked at this item also looked at… Please do not define! Shoutout for Science! RED ALERT! The Skeptic Steampunk Related items Ancient [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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