music and tales
In order to round out the featured excerpts from The Steampunk Opera, we’re posting a selection from the 2nd Act, mostly featuring Edgar with some Narrator bits in spots. As usual, the vocals are all demo, but since they’re written […]
Basically, in my research for yesterday’s retro future prefab stuff, i cam across so much batshit awesome prefab architecture ideas happening now, that i simply have to do another prefab post. This is not the past imagining the future, this is us now imagining […]
Although Prefab seems so very Atompunk (post WWII-70s) it actually began Steampunk, in Victorian times. Prefab or previsouly fabricated refers to housing that is built off site than put together later, on the actual housing plot. Our modern concept of […]
A loft totally decked out in steampunk regalia by owner and filmmaker Jeremy Noritz is for sale in the Chelsea area of manhattan for 1.75 Million, which, having lived in new York, is a perfectly reasonable price even if the walls […]
The caves became more convoluted, cluttered with all sizes and manners of pipes, while the ground beneath them was growing muddier and stickier. Trickles of thick, congealed, psychedelic liquid ran across the floor, and Deacon warned her emphatically not to […]
They were now in a new cavern of dark, almost black, crinkled rock, the floor a thick, soft dirt. Small, glowing snowflakes of light drifted down around them, illuminating the cavern. A series of metallic clanging sounds echoed throughout the […]
Having no choice really, but to trust the mouse, she made her way carefully down the black, cold, stone corridors, feeling the wall as she walked, and following the mouse’s tiny voice as he kept her abreast of turns, gaps, […]
When Lora awoke in the underground cavern to find everything, walls and all, in the exact opposite configuration as when she had laid down to sleep, the full enormity of the non-reality of her situation bore down upon her. She […]
In 1869, Alfred Beach began construction of an underground pneumatic subway; a tube containing commuters that would be propelled by the air pressure generated by giant fans. His endeavor was challenged at every turn by then mayor of New Albion, […]
Lora giggled. It began deep within her chest and slowly quivered its way up towards her throat as she closed her eyes and desperately tried to stop it. It was happening frequently now, and she feared a moment was coming […]