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Hello to all Steampunkers in Los Angeles! I KNOW you're out there, but for as big a megalopolis as LA is and as many things as LA offers and even though San Francisco and San Diego have Steampunk groups and conventions, somehow, the Steampunkers of LA have failed to unite and create an annual convention. Well! Things MUST change!

So, my first attempt here, is to simply unite everyone. I have no convention set up, I have no gathering set up, because I don't know where all of you are! But, if we can all get connected, then we can work on getting a group, a gathering and, hopefully, a convention going.

Post a reply to this post with your contact info. Or, contact me at lynda441@yahoo.com. Either way. I want to get a list of people going. My friends and I's first thought is, once we get a good number of people, to simply set up a pot luck gathering in a park, meet, greet and see who's who and where we can take it from there.

Hey there Steam-punk-ins!

To add to the cavalcade of SHINY! I offer my Etsy page and it's Steamy section (though it is wee, it is mighty! And growing!).


Do stop on by and take a peek and hopefully liberate some of these shinies into the wild, they tire of the captivity of my sewing room!

Entertain your dinner party guests with this unique Steampunk Martini Shaker - Drink Mixer...



Cerrious Design - Etsy

Whoo! It's been a while since I logged in as myself. (I've been logged in as girlgeniuscomic for the sake of convenience, but I finally fixed the network so that my work machine can talk to the internet again. Whew.)

My beloved TypeStyler is back! Aaaahhh! I am so very happy. Typestyler choked and died when the Mac went to OSX, so yes, it's been a while. Obviously, I've been doing all right without it, and I also like Art Text, but Typestyler was once one of my favorite tools, and I'm glad to have it back.
The only problem is that it isn't recognizing my old serial number as a TS serial number. Weird. And here I kept it all that time...

So, I am very much behind in posts. Let's start with Steamcon. Amazing! Many of my friends who are less...shall we say... into the things I like (cough, cough, manga and video games, cough) wandered through, and were later wondering out loud why they enjoyed Steamcon more than they usually enjoy conventions. That one was easy. They stripped away all the extras, and cut straight to the tasty Victorian-flavored costumes and "historically-influenced" gadgetry. And Tea. Always tea. Of course my friends who are mostly into historical costuming and vintage everything loved it. Of course they did. I loved it, too.

Next. Windycon. This will probably need its own post. Or series of posts. And I don't have much time tonight. But if I wait until I have time to write about EVERYTHING, well, that's why I haven't been writing a lot. I sort of get bogged down in the sheer volume of things I want to say. Blah.
Oh, peachy. And, in fact, now I must go deal with the real world. Back later...

New songs off Abney Parks new album, Æther Shanties, are available for free download on our MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/abneypark

Just two.


Also: Album Goes On Sale Midnight Tomorrow Night!!


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FREE SAMPLE SONGS

Hello all. In another post about the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco this month, I have some questions. I'd love to go for a steampunk day, but I've seen different dates listen in different places on the interwebs. I've seen a lot about December 5th being an official steampunk day, but I've also seen some things about December 12th or 13th. Does anyone know when the fair is supposed to be at its steamiest?

Even better, is anyone on here planning anything for it? Apparently none of my friends can or want to go, so I'm going to be on my own. If anyone else is BARTing from the East Bay, I'd love to not be the only steamy person on such an unsteamy train.

And, to tie it all in to fashion, I have a hat question. I'm making myself a bonnet that is basically the same shape as this one. The body of the hat will be black and the brim will be made out of a dark gold colored aluminum net that I don't know the official term for. (Side note, all the people in my local ACE must think I'm completely insane when the ring me up and ask what I'm using my items for.) I'm not going to include the ric rac and instead of a bow on the side of the hat I'd like to have a decorative cluster of steamy looking things. I've never made a hat before, so I was hoping some of you fine milliners might have advice about the decorations you use. The ideas I have so far are to use some of the net (which is sturdy, but very thin) to make embellishments on a fabric flower, or to have a clump of keys, cogs, buttons, etc. I've only just started constructing it, so when I have more of it done I can post a picture sans adornment. Until then, I'd appreciate any advice.

First of all, thank you to everybody that responded to my initial post. I took a bit from everybody's ideas and created a jetpack in under a week.

I went to my first ever gathering and joined the Colorado Steampunk group at the Colorado Railroad Museum's free day. Couldn't of asked for a more perfect location. We even got a tour of their normally-closed-to-the-public restoration area because the staff members were so amused by our group.

( photos ahoy! )

The group photos can be seen in a public album on my facebook page

Hello everyone! I'm Amethyst, and I've been a lurker of the community for some time; figured that now was as good a time as any to join and cease my lurker status. I did have a quick question, however, if anyone has the time to indulge in it.

Long story short, I'm trying to put together an outfit for MegaCon 2010. The gist of the story is that myself and two gentleman friends will be part of an small airship pirate crew (yes, cliche, but we love it!), and I'm the ship's chemist. Thing is, I don't want to wear labcoats; I'd like to wear something that shows off both a hint of delicate feminism while also showing that I'm not a damsel in distress. I tried searching in my college's library for references to outfits, to no avail (and it doesn't help that I'm a tomboy, so showing off anything 'girly' is difficult to do...)

If you have any ideas, I'd be quite grateful for the assistance! Thank you very much.

~Amethyst

This is the NCIS ep that is being talked about.
http://www.casttv.com/ext/76zni7
Or you can see here
http://www.sling.com/blog/tag-steampunk

NCIS: LA and Steampunk; or, how not to capitalize on a popular emerging subculture:
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58367
(This is funny)


(Photo from last friday)

Also for any one in the states
http://www.joann.com/joann/home/home.jsp
There having a big sale, patterns for 1$ and such. If you can today check it out, I saved 100$ on 7 patterns I picked up , now I just need to get some one to make them for me.

I love the Great Dickens Christmas Fair. I look forward to it every winter, and seriously wish I had more time for it. Many of my friends and acquaintances work Dickens, and it makes me want to be there to see them.

I'm having a bit of trouble with my costume and will have to rebuild my hoop skirt before next weekend. The rest of my costume was made before I had become a much better seamstress, and I know that I could do better now.
( Look here for my opinions of parts of Dickens )

I think I might have just saved you 150 bucks or more.



And other links on how to do this
http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3659/clone-yourself-a-fitting-assistant
&
http://samstermommy.blogspot.com/2009/08/duct-tape-dress-form-tutorial.html
&
http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/makingem/DuctDummy.htm

For you who do not sew and are in need of doing something with your neck.
Look here at the pretty http://boutique.gtie.fi/epages/Kaupat.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/gtie/Categories
Oh so many pretty things for both boys and girls.

Here's an interesting one! Rather than mount the magazine vertically as in modern firearms, it's mounted horizontally, with individual chambers for each pinfire cartridge.

Yup. community.livejournal.com/ru_glamour/3473562.html

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On the deck of the Flytanic

www.clockworkcouture.com

With the NCIS: LA ep that aired this week.
A casting call was made on this list so some of you I hope made it on there or the ones who made the call can clear this up.
Was any of it shot at the "The Edison" in LA or not?
I hear yes and I hear no and looking about online my self has come up with nothing.
I was told that it was not shot at "The Edison" and was filmed at some random club in LA that they dressed up. I also have been told most of it was shot on a sound stage.

So what is it filmed at The Edison or not, yes or no?

and for you this bores the hell out of.

This is funny , cute and a has costumes.

I have made 8 new cuffs, one of them can be worn as choker too (biomechanical). I have never made so many at once.
Two of them are a part of my upcoming collection, which will be presented at industrial scene subculture house Elektra on FEB 2010.



All my designs can be seen here : http://www.etsy.com/shop/masque242

( more pictures under the cut )

I got this amazing set of Victorian cameo teacups from Plasticland! They're not too bad at $34, a bit pricey for me, but I just had to have them. They would be a lovely decorative item.