music and tales
Robert Darnton, Professor and director of the Harvard University Library has been delivering a number of “cabaret lectures” in which he discusses how in mid 18th century France, information and political opinion was spread throughout the street of Paris through pop songs. He […]
One old genre of theater i am absolutely fascinated with is the old Italian and French Commedia Dell’arte, where travelling theater troupes went town to town performing improvisational comedy plays before the crowds. Instead of the written comedies of the Greek and […]
After WWI, Germany entered the Weimar era, an explosive era of creativity rarely seen in any culture at any time. Amongst the incredible artistic forays was film making, still a relatively new art form. One of the Weimar era takes on this […]
At the beginning of the 1800s in Britain, popular places one could go and amuse themselves would be fairs for the more rural, pleasure gardens for the more suburban, and of course taverns and saloons. Especially in the fairs and the pleasure […]
There are 3 web comics i follow religiously. The first is not an ongoing story, it’s xkcd, which come on, if you don’t know about what rock have you been hiding under? The 2nd is far dorkier comic i found […]
The Steampunk Opera contains a sort of mad scientist type, Annabel McAlistair, who i’ve put a lot of thought into, half of which doesn’t actually make it into the show since her story is only the first Act and i’ve […]
I could call it steampunk sculpture because he does have a few pieces that are steampunk, but this guy’s work is so flat out amazing why limit ourselves to just showing the steampunk stuff? This is the piece that caught […]
Mary Lin & Ben Sargent over at Inventing Earth have stumbled upon an idea that i personally think is pure genius. A Steampunk Opera! Called Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders: and Prometheus Petrobust, a Play Within […]
Here’s a quarky little steampunk band. Their music is very much the type of instrumentation one would expect from something labelled “steampunk”. There is a very theatrical style to the vocals and the songs all tell stories. Much like most […]
So check this thing out, it’s a post apocalyptic steampunk city made out of legos. I might point out this thing actually works. It runs, has working cranes and windmills… From the creator, and i quote: “Crawler town roams the […]