Tag Archives: Steampunk

Magpie Monday on Thursday: Art Objects

Posted on 1 August 2013 by Robert

I’ve gone too long without posting links to some of the trés cool art I’ve been seeing across the web. Let’s get started! ◊ SLOW DANCING. David Michalek is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose project Slow Dancing (2007) is pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged Andy Lee, bodypainting, clockwork, dancers, David Michalek, Ellen Jewett, Ellie Lane, Erin Morgenstern, Grnat Snider, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Cornejo, Joel Schekman, Johannes Stötter, Joshua Hoffine, London Transport Museum, Lorenzo Triburgo, Merilee Allred, Nadezhda Illarionova, Once Upon a Blog, Pam Hawkes, photography, Poster Art 150: London Underground's Greatest Designs, sculpture, Slow Dancing (2007), Steampunk, Sue Beatrice, The Little Mermaid, The Wild Swans, Transportraits, World Bodypainting Festival | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 29 July 2013 by Robert

Ah, the last few days of July, soon to give way to what will possibly be some true dog days of Summer. In light of that, let’s stay indoors and enjoy the treasures brought to us by the interwebs all … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged Abbey Library of St. Gall (Switzerland), advice columns, Allen Butt, Anakana Schofield, animation, Aquaman, Art Baltazar, Ask Baba Yaga, Aubrey Plaza, Aw Yeah Comics, Awesome People Reading, Baba Yaga, band names, Beautiful Libraries, Beauty and the Beast (song), Benedict Cumberbatch, bernardk78, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Book Mania!, Building a library is the sanest form of hoarding. - Rachel's mother, Burka Avenger, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cameron Cook, Canadian Library of Parliament (Ottawa), Carlo Carlei, Catherynne M. Valente, Celia Basto, chapter length, Charles Xavier, Charlize Theron, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Rampling, Chateau de Fontainebleau, Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Wendig, Corey Hart, cupcakes, Cynthia Kraack, D. Thomas Minton, Daily Science Fiction, Daria, Daria's High School Reunion, DC Women feminism, DC Women Kicking Ass, Donal Ryan, Dr. Beverly Crusher, dubstep, dust jackets, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Emily Asher-Perrin, Emily Brontë, Emmanuelle, Eric Brown, Erin Morgenstern, Evangeline Walton, Fight Club, file types, film trailers, Flavia Dzodan, flax-golden tales, Franco, Gail Simone, gallery walls, Gates McFadden, George R. R. Martin, Greg Ruth, Hayley Atwell, how about we don't do things?, How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages, Hugo Weaving, I do NOT have too many books!, Ian McKellan, Idris Elba, If Anyone Falls (song), image-wrap covers, Instead of doing things, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Itty Bitty Hellboy, jacketless hardcovers, James McAvoy, Jane Eyre, Jeffrey Ford, Jill Harness, John Jude Palencar, John Stewart (Green Lantern), Joseph Huppard, Kelly Link, Kunstkammer (Cabinet of Curiosity), kylaiajmaa, la Bibliothèque de Napoleon, Labyrinth, Liam Neeson, libraries, Linda Sienkiewicz, Lisa Romeo, LitReactor, Little Book of Rules, Loki, Louis XVI, Madéleine ♥ Flores, Maggie Smith, Magneto, Man Booker Prize, Marc-Antoine Poulin, Martha Stewart, Marvel One Shot: Agent Carter, Marvel Women feminism, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Dean, Mike Jacobsen, Minerva McGonagall, motivation, movie posters, music videos, Napoleon, Niccolò Machiavelli, No, OCD, Once Upon a Blog, Orphan Black, Patrick Stewart, prop library, Rachelle Gardner, reading nooks, rejection, Romeo and Juliet (2013), Rose Byrne, Rose Lemberg, Runaway Bunny, Russell Hinson, Sarah Pinsker, SFCB, Share Your Shelf, She Walks in Darkness, Sherlock, Stand Back (song), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Steampunk, Steven Mathes, Stevie Nicks, story methods (unconventional), StreetDance, Sunglasses at Night (song), Superhero Tan Lines, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Taisia Kitaiskaia, The Hairpin, The Lost Boy, The Super Team Family Blog, The Turning, The Watcher, Thomas Canty, Thor, Tim Winton, Tom Canty, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, traditional gender rolls, Two Delighted, Uatu, unclutterer, USB dead drop, Warren Ellis, Watchmen, weddings, What Rachel Reads, Wonder Woman, word count, writing space, Wuthering Heights, X-Men: Days of Future Past, you're too old for this crap | 1 Comment

Magpie Monday

Posted on 12 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux creates wonderful, whimsical sculptures, vaguely Steampunkish in design. He started working first in animation, but now creates his sculptures full time. If you speak French, … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alan Moore, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Angel, Aniron, Ansa and the Lost Thing by Sophie Wereley, Be Happy for No Reason by Erin Morgenstern, bebionic v3, Ben Towle, Better Than Visiting Sunnydale, Black King, Bound Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Brad Pitt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limerick Episode Guide, Cameron Cook, card catalogs, Carl Sagan, Carl Warner, Cat Mihos, Chuck Wendig, Cosmos, cuckoos, Cullen Bunn, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Horse, Deathbird, deceptive dust covers, Did Someone Say Hellmouth?, Doc Savage, Doctor Strange, Doheny Library (USC), Dr. Light, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Enya, fairy-wrens, film trailers, finding time to write, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, foodscapes, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hamlet, Hannah Jarrett, Hawkman, Henry James, Idris Elba, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino, James Bond, Jimmy's End, Joe Queenan, John Lingan, Just Today by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Justice League Dark, Kevin St. Jarre, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Lightspeed, Locke & Key, London Falling by Paul Cornell, macaroni and cheese, Marnie Dresser, Martha Stewart, Matt Kaplan, Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dirda, Mireille Enos, Misty Knight, Mitch Jenkins, Monsieur Hublot, Mumford and Sons, My Mother's Shadow by Henry Lu, myths about science, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Ackland, Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, parthenogenesis, Perdido Street Station, polar bears, President Barack Obama, prosthetics, Rachelle Gardner, Red at the End of the World by Lynda E. Rucker, Richard Symons, Roderick Constance, Russell Hinson, Sam Wolk, sculpture, Searching for Slave Leia by Sandra McDonald, Seth Abramson, solar system (photographs), Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown, spices, Steampunk, Stéphane Halleux, Swamp Thing, talent and discipline, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, teaching writing, teapots, The Fearless Defenders, The Hellboy Timeline, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, The Super Team Family Blog, The Tides by Ken Liu, Theodora Goss, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Valkyrie, Virginia Woolf, Waffle Meringue Productions, Warren Ellis, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wild Things by Alyx Dellamonica, wildlife photography, Will Ludwigsen, Will Sliney, William Hodge, William James, winter storms, Wired.com, Wonder Woman, World War Z, Yagharek, Yorick | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 10 October 2011 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Spreading the joy and the terror: this week’s recommendations for All Hallow’s Read are two classics by Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree (1972) and Something Wicked This Way Comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged A Wizard of Earthsea, Aaron Diaz, All Hallow's Read, American Gods, bibliomania, Carrie Ann Baade, DC reboot, Earthsea, Hallowe'en, Jess Nevins, Jo Walton, Justice League, Kali, Legion of Doom, Neil Gaiman, NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Ray Bradbury, Ray Russell, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Steampunk, Steve Jobs, Tartarus Press, The Halloween Tree, Ursula K. Le Guin | Comments Off

Steampunk

Posted on 6 October 2011 by Robert

Confession: I have a deep and abiding affection for the Victorian period (no one reading this blog will be surprised to hear it, so the use of the word “confession” is just a little extra melodrama for you). Something about … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Criticism & Reviews | Tagged Ann VanderMeer, Ghosts by Gaslight, James P. Blaylock, Jeff VanderMeer, John Clute, Peter Nicholls, Steampunk, Stepan Chapman, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Victorians | Comments Off

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