All Blog Posts Tagged 'gothic' (7)

Happy Mother's Day Steam-punk Members...as I look at the Milliners by Degas ...and Vintage Hats

Victorian Lace on Mother’s Day

Let’s take a journey back in time

To centuries long ago

When everything was beautiful

And gentle streams did…

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Added by mlle. deedee gauzot... on May 12, 2013 at 4:57am — 2 Comments

Taking Great Aunt Bertha to the Steampunk Festival at the Asylum - Lincoln, England.

We're going to the Steampunk Festival at the Asylum in Lincoln, England this weekend. I'm taking my invention Great Aunt Bertha and have written a post which has a short video of me in The Laboratory getting Great Aunt Bertha ready for the Asylum. Unfortunately, I had trouble uploading the video directly onto here, so I have added a link if you would like to watch it.

Writing – Great Aunt Bertha…

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Added by Michelle Barber on September 6, 2012 at 5:12am — No Comments

NEW GHOSTFIRE ALBUM - OUT HALLOWE'EN!

Ghostfire's debut album is released on Monday October 31st.

That's Hallowe'en!!

'The Tyburn Jig (and other popular dances)' contains ten stonking steampunk tracks including live favourites, 'Vaudevillain', 'Drinkski Song' and 'Smoke & Mirrors'.

It's available to pre-order now…

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Added by Ghostfire on October 7, 2011 at 8:21am — No Comments

Serialized

I haven't been around lately because I've been working my spats off! It all payed off though! I've signed two short stories with Tease. One, The Alchemist's Perfect Instrument, is going to be the first e-short release in a serialized collection of Steampunk Shorts! TAPI should be coming out by the end of the summer, so keep you eyes peeled! And, if you like what you read, don't be afraid to pick up the rest of the City Steam:Tales From the Heart of Dormorn… Continue

Added by A.L. Davroe on July 12, 2011 at 8:21pm — 1 Comment

QUAINT #18 Roots of the Yellow Peril, Part I

Note: Jess Nevins' entry on the Yellow Peril was just too fascinating to be abridged, and so it will be posted in two parts. Follow along next Wednesday for Part II.

Film poster for The Face of Fu Manchu, who is one of the best known examples of the Yellow Peril stereotype. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

The Yellow Peril. Although the anti-Asian stereotype of the “Yellow… Continue

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on May 11, 2011 at 3:36pm — No Comments

QUAINT #16 Vathek: An Arabian Tale by William Beckford

Vathek was created by William Beckford and appeared in Vathek: An Arabian Tale from an Unpublished Manuscript, with Notes Critical and Explanatory (1786). Beckford (1760-1844) was one of English literature's real oddities. He lived a life of scandal and extravagance, both financial and sexual, and even in the 21st century his name retains the… Continue

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on April 20, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments