Steampunk AT-AT-Toy
Hübscher Steampunk-AT-AT von jemandem namens Mark, den er seiner Verlobten Caroline geschenkt hat. Nice!
Each one of those rivets was cut out with a punch and applied with tweezers, and we both lost track of the number of coats of spray paint he used to get that gorgeous patina before washing it down and creating the stains and drips. He made the narwhal horn on the front as well. It’s hard to see but the legs and feet are covered in seaweed and barnacles – I can just imagine it tramping up and down the coastline, or standing in a harbour next to a crumbling pier.
Captain Bayley’s Mechano-Perambulator (via Clockworker), mehr Bilder auf Flickr
Theremin Steampunk Goggles
Sarah Petkus hat sich Steampunk-Goggles mit eingebautem Theremin gebastelt. Nerviges Teil, aber auch awesome!
Youtube Direkttheremin, via Adafruit
Blinking, fading, and color changing lights are a standard for eye catching goggles. This being said, I decided to change it up a bit and make a set that would engage the wearer in the production of sound.
As always I wanted my goggles to be interactive. When it comes to audio, I figured there was no better way to achieve this than with some sort of theremin which would invoke hand waving and finger wiggling from the wearer and anyone near by. Now, I realize that traditional theremins are quite complex in their inner workings and tend to run quite large, so I poked around the internet until I found this simplified optical theremin that requires a hand full of basic components and two 555 timers.This particular design also creates a very unique, annoying sound which in this application is perfect!
Vacuum Tube USB-Sticks
Wunderhübsche Steampunk-USB-Sticks aus alten Elektronenröhren aus Russland von SlavaTech. (via Technabob)
Working Steampunk-Wristband-Keyboard
Sehr schickes Steampunk-Armbandkeyboard von Brute Force Studios inklusive Touchpad und Laserpointer. Das Teil funktioniert und meldet sich per Bluetooth bei der Hardware an. Hat wer grade mal 1200 Dollar rumfliegen?
Youtube Direktsteam, via Boing Boing
The keyboard features:
– 3-in-1 multimedia wireless keyboard (Keyboard, TouchPad, Laser Pointer)
– Control your media while sitting on the sofa, lounging in bed, up to 100 feet away
– Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery with a short re-charge time
– Includes mini 2.4 GHz USB wireless receiver
– Wireless receiver stores inside keyboard when not in use
– Stand-by time: 500 – 700 hours
Bugs made from Crap
Mark Oliver macht schicke Käfer und Motten und Viehzeug aus Müll und Found Objects:
Arthropod sub-species of the Insecta class. A creature whose instinctual and physical qualities have adapted so uniquely to the modern urban environment that it has rendered itself, by nature of camouflage, virtually invisible in it’s normal habitat. When seen in isolation ‘Litter Bugs’ appear to be composed of everyday ‘found’ objects.
The Litter Bug – by Mark Oliver, hier die Viecher auf Flickr (via Designboom)
Skull Steam-Engine
Christopher Contes Steampunk-Skulpturen hatte ich hier schon ein paar mal, sein neuestes Teil ist ein Skull mit funktionierender Dampfmaschine: Steam of Consciousness. (via JWZ)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Precognitive Cyborg-Sculpture
Christopher Contes halber Cyborg-Skull aus alten Uhren
Christopher Contes Steam-Cyber-Punk-Skulpturen
Steampunk Da Vinci Cupcake
Von Mikes Amazing Cakes aus Washington inspiriert von den Zeichnungen Da Vincis. (via Nerdalicious)
Miniature Watchpart-Bikes
Deviant-Artist DKart71 macht ziemlich nette Steampunk-Skulpturen, meine Favorites sind der Greif, der Skorpion, diese Zeitmaschine und die Miniatur-Tools. Und dann macht er noch ganz fantastische Mini-Bikes aus alten Armbanduhren, geht in der DevArt-Galerie ab Seite 6 los. (via Designboom)
National Lampoons 1972 SciFi-Magazine
Golden Age Comicbook Stories hat die 72er SciFi-Ausgabe des National Lampoon-Magazines: „Cover art by Frank Frazetta, Interior art by Gray Morrow, Bruce Jones Rodriguez, Gahan Wilson, M. W. Kaluta, Stan Mack, Jeff Jones, Vaughn Bode’ and others!“
U-Ram Choes Guardian of the Hole
Sehr schöne Skulptur von U-Ram Choe: „a kinetic, seal-like creature that appears to be breathing while dozens of intricate “wings,” leaf-like and gold in color, flutter above him. Guardian of the Hole (Custos Cavum in Latin) is the name of the piece, and its creation was inspired by a 10th-century Indian sculpture, Shiva as Lord of Dance“. Das Vieh liegt grade im New Yorker Asia Society Museum rum.
U-Ram Choe’s Mesmerizing Animatronic Sculpture, ‘Guardian of the Hole’ (via Make)
Little Rocketeer
Ihr erinnert Euch noch an Little Robocop von Halloween letztes Jahr? Dieses Jahr ist er Little Rocketeer. Aaaaaaw! (via Buzzfeed)
Nicholas Robattos Steampunk-Rayguns
Nicholas Robatto baut Steampunk-Rayguns… aber was für welche! Whoa! Das da oben ist der Clockwork Vaporizer, „Best enjoyed with a fine cuban cigar and a tumbler of twenty year old oak barrel aged whisky.“ Die Dinger kann man in seinem Etsy-Shop kaufen, billig sind sie allerdings nicht. Der Mann baut übrigens hauptberuflich Requisiten für Dr.Who.
The mother of all dueling ray-pistols, the Clockwork Vaporizer can blast an opponent to kingdom come at approximately fifty space paces (the earth equivalent being approx. 60 miles) without leaving so much as a mark on one’s attire. This leaves one free to take tea under the jacaranda bushes with the colonel’s lady immediately afterwards without one’s sartorial elegance being compromised. Jolly good.
The Clockwork Vaporizer’s cylinder is a real innovation, and the hand cast conical muzzle gives the pistol deadly accuracy. The Clockwork Vaporizer is also quite simply a stunning piece. Brass filigree decoration on the sides, carved oak handle with distressed leather grip, green lighting detail on the barrel, the list goes on and on. Best enjoyed with a fine cuban cigar and a tumbler of twenty year old oak barrel aged whisky.
Rubbertoe Rayguns (via Technabob)
Custom Steampunk-Toys
Joseph Drust bastelt tolle Steampunk-Remixe von Kidrobot Munny-Toys, viele mit LED- oder Plasmalampen oben oder links mit eingebautem, funktionierendem NES. Die Toys gibt’s auch hier auf Flickr. Hübsch!
A collection of Industrial Steampunk Munnys, part of the ‘Piggyson Steam’ series.
The majority of the Industrial Steampunk Style creations are powered by USB intended to fill the void next to your computer monitor. Some of them light up, some react to music , and some even play old school Nintendo NES games.
Bookmarks for July 22nd: Pizza Jingles, Tom Waits for no one, Why People eat Dirt
Pudgies Pizza Radio Jingles 1970s & 1980s – YouTube: Pudgies Pizza is a chain of pizza restaurants located in Upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania. To me, this was the only pizza there was. <br />
Here's two radio jingles that bring back the memories of when all it took was a slice of pizza, some sunshine and smile on your face to make everything A-OK! I like the 70s jingle the best; short, catchy and funky! In typical 80s fashion, the jingle was doubled in length and the drums machine is pounding away while girls work out in leg warmers. But hey, it's all good. By the way, you'll hear mention of "Horseheads" in the 80s song. Horseheads is a small town in New York. Seems each Pudgies battles for superiority with other Pudgies!
Make: | Are Google+ Hangouts the Next Hackerspaces?: For makers, something interesting started to happen almost immediately with the video collaboration feature. The video chat within Google+ is called “Hangouts” and you can have up to 10 people interact via video, text chat, YouTube, and screen images. Within the first week, makers started to experiment with Google+ Hangout video, and I immediately helped arrange the first “DIY electronics show-and-tell.” It was like a mini Maker Faire, Instructables front page, and hackerspace all rolled into one.
The Ruins of Villa Epecuen – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic: Back in the 1920s, a tourist village was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort town, named Villa Epucuen, soon had a railroad station, and it thrived for several decades, peaking in the 1970s with a population of more than 5,000. Around the same time, a long-term weather event was delivering far more rain than usual to the surrounding hills for years, and Lago Epecuen began to swell. In 1985, the salty waters broke through an earthen dam, and Villa Epecuen was doomed. A slow-growing flood consumed the town until it reached a depth of 10 meters (33 feet) in 1993. The wet weather later reversed, and the waters began to recede in 2009. AFP photographer Juan Mabromata recently visited the ruins of Villa Epecuen, met its sole inhabitant, and returned with these images.
Billionaire in Abu Dhabi makes his name visible from space
BibliOdyssey: The Artillery Book – 16th century explosives and fireworks
World’s heaviest spider title challenged at Museum | Natural History Museum: The contenders were the Hercules baboon spider, and the current Guinness World Records (GWR) holder for world’s heaviest spider, the Goliath bird-eater.Museum bug expert George Beccaloni was contacted by GWR life sciences consultant Karl Shuker after reports of a possible rival. Karl asked George if he could check the size of the Hercules baboon spider as the Natural History Museum has the world’s only known specimen and George is the author of the Museum book, Big Bugs Life-Size.GWR Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday came in to adjudicate when George measured the two spiders. Using a jar of alcohol and the Archimedes' Principle, both specimens were submerged to discover the volume of alcohol they displaced, and therefore the volume of their bodies.
Visualizing TV Dialog Using Closed Caption Data
Tom Waits For No One – Animated 1979 … John Lamb – YouTube: Tom Waits performed in 1978 live at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, photographed and rotoscoped.The original live action was shot with 5 cameras – 2 high, 2 low and one hand held.. shot by Dan O'Dowd and crew..The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang the lyrics. Donna Gordon is the dancer performing as the stripper, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were captured, re-drawn, inked and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to create this film.
The WWI British Biplane on a Rooftop in Lower Manhattan – Metropolis – WSJ: For years, Shawn Hakimian has wondered why a World War I fighter plane sits on the roof of 77 Water Street.
Marlowe on Vimeo: We explore the life of a collector, artist and retired teacher and his history with a 40-year old Dodge Charger.
Why Some People Eat Dirt : Discovery News: After examining 482 cases of human geophagy and 330 records of the practice among animals in a meta-analysis, researchers led by Sera Young of Cornell University discovered that eating dirt had little to do with being hungry or seeking minerals the body might be lacking. Rather, the team found that geophagy may help stave off pathogens in the gut, especially for pregnant women and pre-adolescent children.
Bringing Parkour Back to Nature – Verzasca Run – YouTube: [Brausehersteller] relocated four of the world's top free runners from their urban turf to the place where parkour got its start: the great outdoors.Obstacles abound as far as the eye can see along the turquoise waters and elephant sized rocks of the Verzasca Valley in Switzerland – making it the perfect parkour playground.
The longest and shortest Videos on Youtube (571 Hours!)
What is Steampunk? | ChristWire: Steampunk is a new sexual fetish that is sweeping across hipster groups in liberal urban areas. It is a sub-genre of hipsters that like Star Wars, books from the wild west, and World of Warcraft.<br />
Steampunks like to pretend that they live in a futurist Victorian era with a hint of MMO cosplay and emo-like makeup and hair styles. It is like a acid overdose of a raped and ravaged version of a Julius Vernes novel. Think Mark Twain and Disney having a red headed, atheist step child.<br />
Steampunkers dress up like mechanical human train robots and goto festivals like “Burning Man” where they can have “steam sex” with other steampunkers. It is almost what a 1800′s version of Transformers porn would look like, or a back in time 4chan furry sex convention.
Miniature Hong Kong Exhibition July 2011 – a set on Flickr: Super cool mini models of old Hong Kong.
YouTube DMCA Takedown Grabs Track For Eminem | TorrentFreak: “I Just got a f*%king CRAZY email,” Skepta tweeted last Thursday. “I don’t know if I should be angry or privileged. This explains why the f*%k YouTube took ‘Dare To Dream’ off.”” It happened like this.
After “Dare to Dream” was put up on YouTube one of its early listeners was Jimmy Iovine, founder of Interscope records. Recognizing quality, Iovine had plans in his mind for Skepta’s track so, with help from parent company Universal, they had YouTube remove the song on copyright grounds. Armed with cash Interscope approached Boy Better Known, a group and record label founded in 2005 by Skepta and the team behind Dare to Dream. “Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the ‘Dare To Dream’ project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope,” says Skepta.
So who is the lucky recipient of the track? None other than Interscope giant Eminem.
Steampunk Mac from a 114 Year old Typewriter
Hübscher Steampunk-MOD von Steve LaRiccia aus einem 1991er Mac und einer 114 Jahre alten Remington Schreibmaschine. Die Mouse ist aus einem Morsecode-Telegraphending, das Modem aus alten Telefon-Teilen. Schick!
[Steve La Riccias] fully functional steampunk computer is an amalgam of a 1991 Mac and a 114-year old Remington typewriter.
Aside from the typewriter, the mod also has a couple of other pieces ancient equipment. The mouse for instance, is a repurposed Morse code telegraph key, and the 56K modem is made up of old telephone parts. And it has a floppy drive.
Wozniak’s Conundrum: A steampunk PC modded off Apple’s 1991 Mac (via Technabob)
