Make:TV is going to be so awesome!

Nathan Halverson writes:

Some organizers in Santa Rosa, Calif. put together a great event with Steampunk at its base. It was hands down the best event I've been to in Sonoma County in my two years living here. I made a video of it for the local publication.

You'll recall that Meredith wrote about the upcoming Regatta a while back.  Well it's happened and it's wonderful to see something like this become a great success! It also seems there were many twirling moustachios in evidence!

MTV has a piece on Steampunk that's a little different then we've seen before.  There's naturally a greater focus on music and fashion but the intarwebs get a mention too.

My only real criticism is that they didn't pick up on some of the more serious aspects having to do with sustainability and social change, but altogether not too bad even if they did misspell my name.

[Note: there are several videos strung together with commercials in between including vids of Dr. Steel and Abney Park]

Last year I had the privilege of taping a segment for WIRED Science with Chris Hardwick.  As far as I know the piece never aired ("not sciencey enough" I heard through the grapevine!  ;-) ) but it's finally turned up on the WIRED Science website.

There is a larger version of the video on the WIRED Science website here.

Hi Everyone, sorry I missed the last two Jay Leno Wednesday posts! I was in Hawaii on holiday and with Meredith at Burning Man things have been kind of quiet. Well I'm back and so is Jay and his 1906 Stanley.

Jay Leno turns out to be hardcore when it comes to anachro-tech. The man know what he's talking about. So for the next few weeks Wednesday is Leno day here at the Steampunk Workshop.

Here's Jay giving us a detailed tour of his 1925 Doble Series E.

Everyone has been sending me Telectroscope links! It's been well covered in the blogosphere so I wasn't going to mention it here but Datamancer just sent me a link to a Wall Street Journal video by Andy Jordan, the fellow who profiled Doc a while back. Enjoy!

There has been a lot of talk lately about 'Steampunk 'sub-culture' and to be quite honest, I don't really know what Steampunk sub-culture will turn out to be. I do hope that at its core will be people getting together and making things.

I also hope that it turns out to be a positive sub-culture, since one that brings people together for the sake of creating is more resistant to co-opting by commercial interest and ultimately more deeply subversive to the mainstream.

I completely forgot that The Boston Phoenix shot video when they came out to the workshop to interview me! They've just put it up on their site and I've embedded it here:

If you haven't read the whole piece you should! It contains a LOT more then just me, in fact I'm in less then 20% of the written article.

I am so pleased that my home town really seems to "get" Steampunk!

So you probably all saw Merlin Mann's Steampunk DIY video blog monologue on Boing Boing yesterday, well I thought he was being a little bit mean and I happen to know a couple of things about the future of SteamPunk . . .