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Review: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities

| 17. August 2011

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is by far the strangest collection of tales I have thus far laid my hands on. It is also one of the most fascinating. Where to start? This whole book is one complete piece of art, within and without. The hardcover is beautifully designed and a gem in [...]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Tesla

| 10. Juli 2011

Today in 1856 Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nikola Tesla has become an icon of the Steampunk scene, Tesla Towers can be found at many of the bigger Steampunk events. Tesla is also rather popular in certain segments of the conspiracy theory subculture, a fact I find regretable. [...]

News from Lightning in the Bottle

| 8. August 2010

I just wanted to pass the following message from the Lightning in the Bottle Team on: BTS – Lightning In The Bottle – Our sincerest Thanks from Drew Hall on Vimeo. There’s also an article on their blog. You should check it out, I guess. *Beam* People who looked at this item also looked at… [...]

Teslapunk

| 16. Juni 2010

Who would have thought it… Another facet of Steampunk is making moves to assert itself. Next to Dieselpunk, there now stands Teslapunk. Obviously, it is inspired by the technology invented by Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла) and takes his ideas into the future. Based on the idea of Teslapunk, a short-film named Bottled Lightning is currently in [...]