Steampunk Zeppelins
Hey, remember when we used to occasionally post on things that are actually…. steampunky? Yeah, good times those were. Ah hell, let’s be steampunky. Awesome steampunky Zeppelins it is:
Month: January 2012
The Temples of Damanhur
Sounds like a sequel to the Temples of Syrinx, but the temples of Damanhur are instead a very real, underground complex of… temples, built for about 16 years in utter secrecy by a small group of artsy, new agey folks […]
The Winchester House Of Ghosts And Insanity
I know some of you will be familiar with this, but for those who are not here’s a great story for you: Once upon a time there was woman named Sarah Winchester. Winichester was her married name, for in 1862 she […]
Dark Cabaret: Harlequin Jones
Fiona Apple meets The Dresden Dolls. That is what this first track from the Dark Cabaret band Harlequin Jones sounds like. Which is a good thing. Check it out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPi1490lvE] Pretty sweet, right? Harlequin Jones are the duo of singer/pianist Amanda […]
Princess Caraboo
Totally true story. 1817. Almondsbury in +. On the evening of Thursday, April 3rd a bizarre young woman with black hair, black eyes and a black turban showed up at the house of a cobbler. The woman spoke an indecipherable language, […]
Stop. Bowie Time.
We must stop all posts immediately and play 3 David Bowie videos. Why? Because he made ******** Life On Mars. Do you NOT like Life On Mars? Whatta you, some kind of douchebag? It’s ******* Life On Mars. We need […]
Symbolism
So we’re going have one more paintings/art movement day. From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn’t much of a line between these genres. […]
The Decadent Movement: The Great Grandparent of Goth
Following what occured after the PreRaphaelites leads us to Aestheticism, which i have already covered. So let us delve into a subsection of the aesthetic movement, the Decadents. Like Aestheticism’s battle cry: ‘Art for art’s sake!’ the Decadents, as an […]
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first President of Britain’s Royal Arts Academy in the mid 1700s. He trumpeted a style known as Grand Style or History Painting, in which he contended that painters should perceive their subjects through generalization and idealization, […]
A Steampunk Murder Mystery Opera
Well this is quite interesting. So yet ANOTHER steampunk opera has arisen (there is already a second one in addition to mine, Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders. I’ve posted on it before but if you can also […]