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A Minor History of Giant Spheres The Dyson Sphere Insideout Hypersphere The New Kilo Armillary Sphere
oobject: Object Lists
oobjet has some fantastic object porn and is worth some of your time. Almost Scientific Recommendations: Projectors Turntables Sextants Light-House Lights Retro Ears Mircophones
Eyescapes
Eyescapes by Rankin.
Draft of the brass work
The plan is to cover the top of the tray with etched brass work. Below is a sketch of the brass peices that will be cut and then etched. The holes in the brass will accommodate some of the brass rod which will drop down the tray and fill in […]
Steam Power for the DCA
My buddy Dick Venerbeck of KSW is going to be hooking me up with a small, vintage steam engine to power the DCA. Here are two snapshots he just sent me of one of the two possible candidates he’s got.
Triaparator: Fabrication Photos
These photos were taken during the final fabrication push for the Triaparator. Here you can get a good view of the blade shape and can see them before and during the patina process, which darkened them and made them look older. You can also see the action plate, which is […]
Treehouse And Triaparator Photos
Burningcam has some fantastic photos of the Steampunk Treehouse at Burning Man this year, including these great ones of my Triaparator:
WORC Photoshoot: Kung Pow!
Here are some of my choice photos from the first WORC meeting a few months ago: To see the complete gallery go here.
Rocket and Rituals: Part 2 — Sex and Rockets and Burning Man
Unlike Dark Mission, which appears to be several hundred pages of predictable conspiracy schlock, Sex and Rockets seem to promise an intriguing read. The introduction, by Robert Anton Willson, is itself worth reading if you have even a passing interest in Aliseter Crowley, Masons, psychadelics, American anarchism and, oh yeah, […]
Beautiful Retro-future Galleries
Here are two fantastic retro-future image galleries, both from the Dark Roasted Blend site: To The Stars Glorious Urbanism Below are some of the best:
Dante 01
If you are as big a sci-fi and film fan as I am stop whatever you are doing right now and click here to see clips from the new Marc Caro film. Yes. It’s all in French. No, I have no idea what they are saying. And, yep, I don’t […]
Rocket and Rituals: Part 1 — Dark Mission
Today Boing-Boing posted a link to Feral House a non-fiction publisher of book whose themes are a swirl of sex, crime, conspiracy, satan and a touch of metal music. Two of their books, Dark Mission and Sex and Rockets, jumped out at me given my recent penchant for anything at […]
DCA First mock-up
Here is the first, primitive mock-up of the DCA hemisphere. This is the real copper bowl, however, the banding and brass spiral are scrap pieces. Before I committed to this design idea I wanted to make sure it would look as good in real life as it did in the […]
Percival Lowell
Percival Lowell — Astronomer and Diplomat. From the years 1893-94, Lowell studied Mars. He wrote and spoke extensively about the planet’s surface, specifically, the canals, which he believed to be a “non-natural feature. ” Lowell proposed the canals had been constructed by martians. Lowell’s work on the canals, though largely […]
The Work of Jeff de Boer
If the fantastically cool and blindingly beautiful objects Jeff de Boer creates do not momentarily explode your brain to atoms which are then flung off to a million different neverwheres from which instantly return and reassemble in a configuration of advanced wonder, then I doubt you will be impressed that […]
Remember when I used to ball up ittsy cotton candy bits and flick them into your hair — you know — because I thought it was funny?
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Submission #1
Steam Clock Important events that never occurred Dieselpunk A nice little slice of bullshit Dreams of Space Tick-Tok