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Steampunk Gift Guide @ Make:Blog
Jake von Slatt — Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:16
Greetings everyone! It's hard to imagine that an entire year has passed since MAKE asked me to write last year's Steampunk gift guide. What a year it's been too! Last year, I still had some doubt that Steampunk was a bona fide subculture, but so much has happened in the course of the year that there can be no question now that it is. 2009 is already promising to be an even bigger year for Steampunk!Here at the Steampunk Workshop some very cool things have been happening! Last month Jeff VanderMeer and I announced our collaboration on a project-oriented book about the Steampunk subculture and in January you will see something I'm really excited about; the Victorian Technology issue of Make: Magazine and the debut of Make:TV - both of which I've had the honor and great pleasure of making some small contribution.
So without further adieu here is the gift guide! This year I've tried for a somewhat more accessible array of items that are best thought of a 'gifts for the Steampunk' rather than 'Steampunk gifts' as I think that will be of greater utility those those of you choosing presents for the Steampunks in your lives!. - Jake.
Dead Simple Charging Station
Jake von Slatt — Fri, 12/05/2008 - 13:59
Here's a dead simple cell phone charging station I installed next to our main entrance. It's just a pair of hangers of the sort you'd use in the garage to store a shovel or a rake. If your wall isn't made of barn-board like ours, you can screw the hangers into a block of wood and use regular drywall anchors to attach it.
[Bigger pics behind the cut]
Jake's Busy Weekend, Make:TV and HUMANWINE
Jake von Slatt — Wed, 07/30/2008 - 23:39
Continuing the tale of my long and busy weekend . . .
So a crew from PBS's new show Make:TV spent the weekend with me in the shop filming me at work. I re-created a couple of projects and made a coach lamp for the car, start to finish. That turned out to be really hard as I was creating from scrap brass and found objects a whole new piece that needed to be completed while the crew was still there.
When Make:TV was blocking out the schedule for their visit to Boston they asked me if there were more 'steampunk' people in the area doing big projects. I pointed them in the direction of M@ (Matt) and Holly and HUMANWINE.
. . .
The Handcar Regatta
Meredith Scheff — Tue, 05/27/2008 - 18:18
I am sorely tempted to build an entry for Dr. Erasmus P. Kitty's Great Hand-Car Regatta. There's not much info, but it looks like some great things are already being built. I love the idea of human powered vehicles to put to use some of the vast swaths of abandoned railway in this country.
That, and I can already see myself furiously peddling my creation down the tracks (cackleling!); twirling my moustachio, threatening iminent doom upon a damsel, tied to the tracks, vainly trying to wiggle free her bonds.
I'm sure the event will be fun, too.
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