Descent Into The Underworld
We all know i’m writing a Dieselpunk Opera so there’s no point being coy about it. We all know i won’t actually begin making music for some time (months) but in my spare time i work out the stories (although […]
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Battle Royal, The Count Meets The Duke
Speaking of swing, here is one of the greatest big band knockdowns you’ll ever hear. Duke Ellington and Count Basie teamed up to rock the house on this track and honestly, if this doesn’t do it for you, you have […]
Modern Swing(s)
In my spare time i research 20s, 30s and 40s music and tropes for…uh…. no reason, never mind. But in one of the cheaper ideas for a post, i typed in modern swing and got really cool pictures..of… swings! No […]
Victorian Puppet Opera: Master Peter’s Puppet Show
A Puppet Opera. How could i pass this post opportunity up? You think such a thing would be by some daring new theater company, at the very least a contemporary work, since the, say, 90s, but no. Mater Peter’s Puppet Show is […]
The Franklin Expedition (or People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World)
In 1845 Capt. Sir John Franklin, famed Artic explorer, set off to finish what he started: mapping a sailing route through the Arctic above Canada so ships could sail from Greenland to Russia across a Northwest Passage. He had lead […]
I, Pet Goat II
Well THIS is rather interesting. Heliofant, a small independent animation studio based out of Montreal has made this REALLY interesting short which passionately depicts the film makers’ thoughts on the political and spiritual state of the current world. Heavy handed? […]
Russian Futurism
Futurism was embraced in Pre-Revolutionary Russian heartily by a small but ambitious group of artists and poets. They published their own manifesto (OF COURSE) called A Slap In The Face Of Public Taste. (points for a good title) They spawned […]
Futurist Architecture
The first wave of Futurists, the Italians from 1909 until WWI sparked a lot of fires with their vision of bold, vehemently modern, machine and industry industry loving, confrontationally daring art. One such fire was in the field of architecture. […]
Italian Futurism
As we here at The Steampunk Opera blog are interested in all aspects of the past imagining the future, the time has come to turn our wayward attention to the early 20th century art movement that named itself after the […]
Steampunk Kung Fu
I don’t know what to say other than it’s about time. The movie Tai Chi O is set to be released in theaters on Sept, 27, 2012. It’s Chinese of course, because let’s face it, no one, and i mean […]