music and tales
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, […]
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 […]
So clearly we’re on a silhouette animation kick here. Let’s stay on this just a hair longer. After yesterday’s example of Lotte Reiniger pioneering the style in the west, let’s see how it looks today. I offer this up as […]
One of the most iconic works to come out of steampunk culture has been the short film Jasper Morello, which uses silhouette puppetry as its style. Recently we just showed a very lovely short film ‘The Invention Of Love‘ which […]
Well hell and high water if today don’t mark the one year annaverserary of this here blog. Reckon it was zackly one year ago i declared i was gonna make a gdamn steampunk musically opera thingamajig. Jan. 11, 2011: “I […]
You know what’s kind of steampunk? Mary Poppins. You know what’s awesome? Mary Poppins. You got a problem with Mary Poppins? Gtf outta here right now. You and i have nothing to discuss. Dudes. Dudettes. The Mary Poppins movie is […]
Let’s see…. wordy, wordy… time for some visual oriented posts. Y’all have seen this, right? I meant to post this MONTHS ago but you know how it is. The endless prostitutes, hyperspace excursions, blasphemous experiments, bodies to bury… So here. Have some […]
The Story Of Burlap Molly: Once upon a time there was a little girl named Holly who lived in darkness. Her mother was one of the Mole People, people who for various reasons had turned their backs on the world and chosen […]
The streets were pandemonium. Molly and John followed the swath Ironitsa cut through the bedlam while Jack scrambled to the rooftops to catch a glimpse of the White Queen’s Castle. They kept moving throughout the day and into the night. […]
The Whispering came out of nowhere. The fairytales ran but the sound was soon loud and vicious and the flickering Shadow was upon them like a thousand flies of darkness. Deidre tripped and it was on her in an instant. She screamed and […]