Musical stories in fantastical worlds
Several posts ago i featured some lovely pictures of artists who use light as their medium. One of the artists who particularly took my fancy was Bruce Munro, who deserves his own post. Why? Because he does shit like this: […]
And thus we return. Tomorrow i’ll get back to posting fun and interesting bits from the webaverse but today let’s do another little update, shall we? I’ve returned from London where i’ve recorded some wonderful singers singing 10 songs for […]
And so we come around to one of those magic moments where we actually comment on The Steampunk Opera itself and how its creation is proceeding. First, to recap. The entire thing has been written and the music recorded. The […]
As part of our continuing series on old time con men, today we’re going to feature not an actual con man, but a con itself. The infamous Kansas City Shuffle. The con has been around with that name since the […]
And free associated from Kinetic Art, yesterday’s feature, we arrive at Light Art. So today i make sweet, sweet love to your eyes with these photos. Baby. Oh yeah…. Dark Matter: Michael Bosanko: The Traffic Light Tree by Pierre Vivant: Heatherwick […]
“Rubin, in some way that no one quite understands, is a master, a teacher, what the Japanese call a sensei. What he’s the master of, really, is garbage, kipple, refuse, the sea of cast off goods our century floats on. Gomi […]
In our perusement of culture from Weimar era Germany, in particular its ground breaking films, we finally arrive at one of the most astonishingly visionary achievements in film history, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Directed by Robert Wein, it predates the other […]
Max Raabe is a modern day crooner, who sings 20s era songs and stylings (with some modern day songs reworked into a 20s sound). His voice and mannerisms are… perfect. They are exactly what you hear in those old records […]
SOooooooo, Terry Gilliam is doing a steampunk animated movie called 1884: Yesterday’s Future. I’m not sure why nobody told me because Terry Gilliam is an anagram in ancient sanskrit for “fucking awesome”. The man truly behind the movie is digital animation […]
Wtf is this? I don’t know. It’s kind of steampunky. It’s art filmly. It’s slow and meditative and strangely creepy. It’s also kind of awesome. Undoubtedly, all will cease after the deep silence. Only will remain thy daughters, through the […]