Musical stories in fantastical worlds
Abbas al-Sabba prided himself on being the descendent of the infamous Hassan I Sabbah, the first Grandmaster of the Assassins cult whose mountain fortress in the Alborz mountains of Persia is the stuff of legend. In fact, Abbas’ obsession with […]
Aboard the ship he was simply known as The Dwarf, mostly because often the simple nickname is the best. He was from New Albion, which he spoke of with a mix of fondness and deep bitterness, and he had purposely […]
Well, it had to come up sooner or later. You cannot discuss fantastical takes on the victorian era without sooner or later bring up the most recognized character in literature of ANY era. However, i wish to concentrate on great contemporary […]
What’s the scariest move you’ve ever seen? A lot of people say The Exorcist. And that’s a pretty scary movie. But for me, hands down, it is the classic Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. You know, the OLD one. The one […]
The Absinthe Drinkers are a LitPop band who have embraced a steampunk aesthetic. What is Litpop? Well, basically, they take poems from famous poets like Byron, Rimbaud, Hardy, Lihn Dinh, Gary Stein, Neil Bowers, etc, and read them to music. Like pop/rock/funk/surf […]
HIs name is Eric Freitas. He makes…. clocks. They look like this: and this: and this: He makes is all by hand, down to the actual gears themselves. An interesting blurb of description: “In 2004 Eric began to study the […]
Today we’re going to listen to an immensely fun album i did rather recently which tells a completely ridiculous story featuring some classic H.P. Lovecraft monsters. It pretty much speaks for itself. The story arch occurs over the first 8 […]
I keep waiting for the day when there’s just nothing to post on. When i run out of Steampunky things. It isn’t like i had any real knowledge of steampunk before i thought of writing the opera and began this blog in […]
Two days ago i officially began the composition of the 4th and final act. Before i get too far ahead however, it’s good time to do the final character background. So let’s talk about Priscilla. Priscilla McAlistair is the daughter […]
The very first actual comic strip was printed in 1837 in Switzerland by artist Rudolph Töpffer. It was clearly a series of drawing telling a sequential paneled storyline and was the only thing of its kind until 1895 when Richard Outcault began drawing The Yellow […]