Missed Me
More Dresden Dolls! Why? 2 reasons. One, they are always relevant to the show, for as a friend once pointed out, i came up with the entire opera based on a song they wrote about a dildo, so, you know, […]
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The Steampunk Opera Overture Now Available For Download
I keep getting email and occasional comments here on the blog asking to buy the Overture, so obviously, not being a complete buffoon, it would make sense to make it available for purchase, for of course, the reasonable price of $0.99. […]
Bruce Munro: Artist of Light
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: […]
Recording Vocalists
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 […]
The Steampunk Opera Update
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 […]
Old Time Cons: The Kansas City Shuffle
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 […]
Light Sculptures
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 […]
Marque Cornblatt: Kinetic Art of the Media Sapient
“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 […]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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: Wiemar Era Crooner Of Today
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 […]