So the eggheads at International Business Machines have spun the cogs of their infernal contabulation machine, and declared that steampunk is an up and coming trend, and will reach new heights this year.
Well, yes. Of course.
Analysts have gone …
Archive for the ‘Steampunk’ Category
Steampunks well aware of IBM predicted trend
Jan
21
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Tribune Does Not Declare Steampunk Dead!
Jan
15
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In the January 13 Chicago Tribune Magazine article “Punked,” Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz makes a tongue in cheek point about the mainstreaming of steampunk style. ModVic provides salvaged home-restoration. Sherwin-Williams has announced a line of steampunk-inspired colors. Justin Bieber’s Christmas video is …
Spears & Gears Looking for Musicians
Jan
02
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Spears & Gears: the steampunk Britney Spears Tribute is looking for musicians to flesh out the band’s sound.
We’re a new band. We’ve just begun (having our fun) and would like additional people to join us. Currently the band consists …
My Field Trip to Borri Audio Laboratories
Dec
24
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Princeton, IL, is a two hour drive from Chicago. Down the street from the antique shops, upstairs from the dance studio and down the cramped hallway, you can find Borri Audio Laboratories. It’s the home of Shawn Borri, who …
The White City Rippers Release Old-Timey Mad Scientist Music EP
Dec
17
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Releasing music is not magical. You don’t need some record label A&R rep discovering your band and signing you over to the label’s indentured servitude. It’s all business. If you want to record, you book time in a …
Let Me Take You Down to Candy Town
Dec
10
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I was hooked on Candy Town the first time I saw them. They put on a review. There were costumes and make up and ragtime and a hint of malice. Ringleader Sean Guinan conducted an e-mail interview for Steampunk Chicago.…
TeslaCon 3 : An Overview
Dec
04
So it is that once again TeslaCon has come and gone and it took me two and a half days of sleep to compensate. Yet it was fun, a lot of fun, the kind of fun you only get when …
TeslaCon 3: A Trip to the Moon
Nov
26
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The adventure and excitement continue next November in 2012 as Lord Bobbins and his crew take you to the edge of your imagination. We launch from South Hampton and go all the way to the lunar surface.
Cross trackless voids …
A Mansion Off the Magnificent Mile
Nov
15
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Chicago banker Samuel Nickerson Mayo commissioned his mansion in 1879. Chicago philanthropist Richard H. Dreihaus founded his museum there in 2003 to preserve architecture and design of the Gilded Age.
The …
Terra Mysterium Presents: In the Observarium
Nov
02
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Terra Mysterium theatre troupe presents a series of unsettling, intertwined tales from the pen of the late Dr. Alastair Tarquin Blackwell. a notorious absinthe drinker and creative from the Belle Epoch. Come meet and interact with his creations in the …
