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Saturday, December 06, 2008

Steampunk Art & Gear (DRB Series)






Some hot steam can be unutterably cool

... as well as some pipes, chrome, brass, gears and daughters of intrepid inventors. The grandiose, audacious visions stemming from Victorian style and Age of Scientific Wonders are often translated into very real modern gadgets and some wicked art. As long as this trend continues, we will be serving this steamy dish of clockwork goodness. Bon Appetit!



This page will be constantly updated (just like our Retro-Future page), as we add the material, so bookmark it, or mark its location on our homepage (inside "Features") and come back often. Let's start with unique steampunk-influenced art and deliciously obsolete gear:

ART & GEAR
(convert your garburator into a quantum computing input device)


Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victorian Androids

Industrious Little Clockwork Creatures!
Hansen's Writing Ball & Other Unusual Typewriters

Linear, Ball & Other Gorgeous Writing Machines
Airships & Tentacles

Exclusive Interview with artist Myke Amend
Spectacular Steampunk Art Update

Part 2 of this eye-popping, mind-boggling series
Stunningly Intricate: Curta Mechanical Calculators

Perfected in a concentration camp, as a gift to Hitler!
You Know You Want This...
Steampunk Gear Masterpieces


plus interview with "Aaron Adding Machines"
The New Motor, or
The Steam-Powered Messiah


A locomotive "god" from the Victorian times
Robots: Art & Technology

DRB Series: vintage robots in arts

Streamlined Train Wonders of the Art Deco Era

Trains and Railways Extravaganza
Ugly, Belching Steam-Powered Tractors

Mean (not lean) vintage machines
Steam Buses & Trucks

Loud, Obnoxious, Geek-Dreams on Wheels
Cars with Propellers: an Illustrated Overview

Essential steampunk transportation
The Art of Grotesque

Things that do more than just go "bump" in the night
Steampunk Art Update

Electrifying works from a gaslight era
The Machine-Animals of Nantes

Mechanical Elephants Forever
Awesome Tank Modification

This church means business

OTHER RETRO TECHNOLOGY
(some of these devices could be haunted... or even pregnant)

Gorgeous Espresso Machines

Is it brass you want, or maybe - chrome?
Extraordinary Clocks and Watches

"Time does not exist. Clocks exist."
The Cutting Edge of Retro Tech

They will be renaming HiFi to HyFy, starting April 1st

A Round-up of Unusual Globes

Measure Your Ego with a Globe
Coolest Retro Devices

Some were more portable than others
Unusual Clock Mechanisms

To simply tell the time is not the point
Retro Technology: Cold War Phones

Plus Dialup Computer Mods

Vintage Miniature & Spy Cameras

Collectible Cameras for Inconspicuous Photography

Wooden Laptop
& Other Steampunk'd Computers


working model made out of wood
Retro Technology Update

An eclectic collection of steampunk devices
Automated Music Instruments

Unusual Instrument / Robot Hybrids

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(trying to strictly define "steampunk" is an ungrateful task)

Industrial Photography with a Soul

Iron Bridges, Gothic Bell Towers and Mystery Machines
Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures

Living independent from their creators?
Dieselpunk: Love Affair with a Machine

Surreal industrial art & culture
Monsters on Display

Night in the Museum: Weird Galleries and Fossils
Animal Armor: A New Art Form?

Pretty much invincible cats and mice
Extraordinary Art from Metal

Made from "found" and military scrap objects
Cyberpunk Art Update

Fashion with teeth, shoes with spikes

STEAMPUNK IN LITERATURE
(more reviews forthcoming)




Alastair Reynolds' Epic Novels

"Chasm City" with its steam tech



Interview with Jeff VanderMeer

Triumph of the bizarre... and the rise of squidpunk
DRB Exclusive:
Steampunk Art Store Opens!


Featuring new awesome DRB painting

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  • building that you are asking for is a Madrid (Spain) Building ^^.

    I don't remember where is exactly located, but his inside arcihtecture it is some strange, like the façade.

    For example, some flats has a sync on the end of the corridor,
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  • Hello, the building with the big hole in the facade is a design of the holland architecture studio MVRDV. It´s called "El Mirador", and it´s on the Sanchinarro neighbourhood. Google it and you will found a lot of info.
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  • about Kazakhstan arhitetury: these buildings are not in Almaty and Astana (the capital). And the first - it's just a monument, and the second - building of the Ministry of Transport.
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  • Is that helium jeans thing actually plausible? Is that actually directed as a film, or amateurishly shot?
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  • ummm i think thoes Terminator Posters are for Terminator 4. not 3.

    to be honest i initaily didnt know what version they were up to since T3 was a total stinker. T4 should be heaps better tho Christian Bale should do a pretty good job of it, so long as the script doesnt suk to badly.
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  • The unknown image of the "thing" on the beach is created by an artist under the name "Manicho". You can find his work on DeviantArt.

    http://manicho.deviantart.com/
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  • Thank you everybody, I updated the page with all the info.
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  • the shimizu mega city pyramid will stand 2km high, that huge!!!
    http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/shimizu-mega-city-pyramid-is-impressive/
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  • So the guy admits to driving at 90MPH on a country road.... where he couldnt see what was coming???
    Where are the speed cameras when you need them??
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  • blah blah blah....
    envious?
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  • no quite the same, but I did a driving experience in the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage at Thruxton, which was amazing - felt like bond for half a day as least! cehck out the company here www.thruxtonracing.co.uk
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  • why the car has a fake italian plate?
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  • hey anonymous
    cos in the movie, the chase is set in italy- rent the movie (its out now) and check the license plate- same plates.
    and Glyn- what do you think motoring journalists DO when they're given a fast car??? ever heard of Jeremy Clarkson?
    :-)
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  • Yeah ... But i got put in hospital for 5 weeks with some kids doing the same thing... only difference was it was a BMW, that ran me off the road!!
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  • It's technically amazing, but what a bland-looking car. A watered-down Aston Martin for a watered-down Bond.
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  • Note: that image of the fallen Wall St. Bull originally appeared with a Portfolio article entitled The End, and is credited to Ji Lee.
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  • Thank you Brian, page updated.
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  • Steve Brooks and his chums used a vehicle with screw drive technology (similar to the design of the Holzleim 95) to be the first to cross the Bering Strait in 2001. www.icechallenger.com
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  • At first i thought that this is some kind of an amphibious vehicle. But when i read the Wikipedia article about them, i realized that this is a Russian all terrain vehicle. It's build this way because of the harsh conditions in the Russian forests.

    ***update
    http://fulgerica.com/en/2007/07/04/in-soviet-russia-cars-screw-you/
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  • hahaha favelas, i live in Brazil, i've seen many favelas, but that kind of favela is new for me hahaha
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  • There's a wrecked car like that in Williams Lake, BC. It's pretty much a twisted hunk of metal and the sign beside it says something like "160 to 0 in 4 seconds... Don't Drink and Drive". It was installed by the family of the deceased.
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  • "Reason for this crash / not paying attention to the road because they were gawking at this sign and wrecked auto..."
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  • I think the roundnose grenadier looks like Admiral Akbar!
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  • Wow, also, the Swiss were extremely fine makers of Doll houses.
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  • The detail that goes into those doll houses is amazing to me! I can't imagine the patience it takes to make them.
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  • I own a 1" scale Streamline Art Deco house. see here http://www.oceanboulevard.co.uk/2.html
    Until I started furnishing it, I had no idea how much it would cost me to furnish it accurately. For instance, if you look in the dining room, there's a circular display cabinet, which cost me £80!
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  • I went to school in chicago and fell in love with this collection of miniature rooms at the art institute of chicago:

    http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorne
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  • Kalos, you're absolutely correct. It also takes months if not years to finish a dollhouse or roombox with this kind of attention to detail. We've built a few dollhouses, and although not museum quality, they do take patience and craft.

    Cheers,

    Nonnie
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  • I restore vintage dolls houses and love to see older houses.

    www.dollshouserestoration.com
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  • As a miniature food maker, I found this a very interesting read, thank you.margaretcassidy
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  • It's not true that 'true' dollhouses are for children to play with.
    check out the miniatures on my blog, they're all for adults only! And still true dollhouses.
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  • thanks, waiting for next post
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  • Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
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  • Wonder how much it would cost to buy and renovate this kind of old rig. It would be great to live in such a place :p
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  • Looks like a cool place to visit!
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  • Hey, get me to all that nice place.-smile-
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  • You can see it on Google satellite maps, very high resolution actually.
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  • is the island of LOST!!!
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  • Absolutely fascinating! I want to go there, as I'm sure many others do too. It's best we don't though as it'd get ruined pretty quickly. I'm glad there are sites like this to learn from.
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  • Back before Mac OS X, the Macintosh operating system had a Map control panel. If you typed "Middle of nowhere" in the text box and hit Enter, the map cursor would land on Tristan da Cunha.
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  • It's a paradise.. I would love to visit the island. Hope I can do it one day..
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  • anyone know the coordinates?
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  • 37° 6'18.90"S
    12°16'39.66"O
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  • How about the Easter Island?
    How remote is that?
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  • I am from St Helena! Everyone should see this place!
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  • This is, in fact, a fantastic world!...The island was first sighted in 1506 by a Portuguese sailor, Tristão da Cunha, but he didn´t land due to high clifs all arround the island. I just can imagine what these explorers, such as Livingstone and Magellan (Magalhães), may wonder when they discover places like this. Imagine you start hearing some distant but intense noise in middle of inexplored jungle in Central Africa and finally get a first sight of the Victoria Falls... Feel so envy!
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  • I looked on Google Earth, but couldn't find the oil rig.
    Those islands look like my kind of place, wonder if they have a radio station!
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  • They DO have a radio station! Wonder if they need a broadcast engineer!?!?
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  • Great post, very interesting. Thanks
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  • Abandoned oil rig; nice! The responsible company who abandoned it should dismantle it.

    Yeah, let's to that to the Artic refuge in Alaska!
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  • I would live there... no problems! Would mean going back a few decades in technology, but id find a way to bring some wind turbines to get me enough electricity to run a few luxuries
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  • Why are there no trees? It isn't that far south.
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  • This is not the remotest place on earth. Go to Google Earth and find this island. Now pan back. You'll notice a little green baloon a bit down and to the right.
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  • dammit, someone beat me to the punch. i was going to say "craphole island!".
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  • When the zombie outbreak happens, this is where i will move. hehehe
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  • If I'm ever featured on America's Most Wanted, this is the place I would run to!

    Looks like a cool place to visit, but how long and where would you stay? I didn't read anything about an airport, and even the South Pole gets mail more often than once a year.

    I wonder how the diving is?
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  • Any attractive women there?
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  • Tristan da Cunha is not the most remote island in the world! Bouvet is!

    Tristan da Cunha is the most remote archipelago in the world.
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  • I'd love to go urban exploring on that oil rig.
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  • That oil rig demands its own post.... let us know if you'd get more pictures!
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  • Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
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  • Wonderful posting, really !
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  • Great post, I wish there were more pictures and meet some people from the island. How much would a boat trip be and how long would it take? Thanks again.
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  • Any attractive women there??
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  • would love to visit one of these places
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  • I thought that that oil rig would be the coolest place in the world to live. Then I found this.
    Oh Noes! Oh well... Nothing lasts forever.
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  • Looks like an amazing place to visit, but I couldn’t handle it for more than a couple of weeks, unless there were lots of beautiful virgins.
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  • I have been here! I was sailing across the Atlantic and stopped here for about six hours. It is a fascinating place, I have never seen anything like it. the people are incredibly friendly, and their homes can become a restaurant or a doctor's office whenever the need arises! I visited the school and the kids love to play soccer. We were careful to not buy out the tiny supermarket when we were there-only one chocolate bar per person! the surrounding landscape is also quite beautiful. Very remote, and a long lasting memory!
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  • Right about now I would love to send my wife there, on a one way ticket.lol. Seriously, what an amazing place.
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  • Amazing! it kinda makes me want to visit. Simply to see how it must feel to be sooo remote.
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  • wow, nice review
    and a hell of a site, congrats!
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  • I'm from a place not as remote but once shrouded in as much mystery. We have been transformed over the years from a small piece of "escape to paradise" to a busy, bustling, almost completely urban and modern comopolitan destination. The current generation thinks they are living the life. (But)It's a shame for the next generation and a heartbreak for the last one.
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  • Great photos... How do you get there?
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  • What a beautiful place. And for the rock-hopper penguin - Nice hair!
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  • Oil rig was disposed of in February 2007.

    http://www.gard.no/ikbViewer/page/iknowbook/ajax/view?p_document_id=52750
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  • The building in 'post-apocalyptic Moscow' is actually in Warszawa, Poland (see here)
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  • Re: Aerocar - Gorgeous! And it's especially darling with the wings and tail removed.

    When I finally get around to writing the mixed-up 1930s-60s vacuum-tube-punk pulp masterpiece, my heroine will certainly drive something just like that.

    And then when I become filthy rich by selling the option to Hollywood, I'll buy that one.
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  • Wow, the wife in that video is suicidal or something...

    Especially love that crazy monster plate. I want dishes like that in my cupboard
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  • The angel statue is the "Angel of grief".
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Grief
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  • I want one of those fancy blood orange KitKats.
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  • The angels hiding their faces are pretty cool -- but don't look away. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead.

    Beware of the weeping angels....
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  • I want the silverware in that dish picture.
    The plate is pretty awesome too. XD
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  • Most of the "If Women Controlled the World" images are from Worth1000:
    http://www.worth1000.com/galleries.asp?rel=If+Women+Ruled&display=photoshop&id=10467
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  • Warsaw (World) without us, more info
    http://www.mondolithic.com/?p=64
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  • Thanks!
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