Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Historical Photographic Art


Thursday, August 2, 2012

Repost of : the Steampunk guide to Airships via Doc Fantastique


The Steampunk Guide to Airships (via http://doctorfantastiques.com)
Airships are a familiar technology in the steampunk genre. Aerostat (lighter-than-air) in design, they differ from the simple hot air balloon in their ability to be steered using propellers and rudders. Today, airships have lost out to the speed, manoeuvrability and comparative safety of the airplane…

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Deiselpunk VS Steampunk Part 2 via Dieselpunk blog



Here is the conclusion of this excellent 2 part article comparing Dieselpunk and Steampunk from the mind and insights of Larry Amyett, author and Dieselpunk scholar.

Dieselpunk VS Steampunk a Comparison part 2


Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Look at the Big Three Punk Genres via Dieselpunk blog

Psyche Chimere of Psyche Corporation - Steamy Cyberpunk Siren

My good friend and Dieselpunk aficionado brings class, not only to his wardrobe and many of our local Steampunk events, but to the literature in Cyberspace and this one is an example of his ability to take the complex and make it easy to understand about our world!

(Yes I know my English teachers would roll over in their grave at such a long sentence, but it just seemed very... well... Victorian.  Why use one word when 27 will do eh?)

Genre Punk Linguistic Family Tree

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg Disaster

  75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg Disaster:  A very interesting an insightful article by a good friend of mine and an excellent writer Larry Amyett, details the events leading up to this event and the impact on the Diesel Era around the globe!

  http://dieselpunk44.blogspot.com/2012/05/75th-anniversary-of-crash-of-hindenburg.html