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Pamela Quevedo is the artisan behind the beautiful TotusMel Tats on Etsyworks. Her style leans towards the dark, gothic, steampunk and Neo Victorian – yet also appeals to a wider audience. Pamela was looking for something different from her knitting and crocheting – when she discovered needle tatting, and TotusMel Tats was born.





She started using vintage patterns. She improved and improvised on them with edgings, and starting creating new designs from scratch. The fashion world as well as customers requests provide fresh inspiration. It was such a request for a lace mask that started her entire mask line.





The ankle corsets and several other pieces were created as challenges.



From intricate masquerade masks to lace spats, jewelry and more, Pamela’s shop has some breathtaking pieces.





Pamela also provides needle tatting tutorials on her library of tutorials at Instructables and videos


find her work on Etsy shop
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her blogs on tatting blogs on tatting
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I was raised in Michigan. My older brother was a great influence on me. He was really wrapped up in the fantasy and sci-fi world with just a bit of horror. He was also an artist and a writer. He babysat me much of the time and I watched him draw and tried to do what he did and this is basically how I learned to draw. Aside from that, I’ve always wanted to be a writer but have always been a bit self conscious of that writing and my storytelling, so I actually turned to my art as a way to tell those stories without that self consciousness. As I’ve grown older I’ve been slowly incorporating the two together and trying to give it my own style.



When I was younger I found myself being put into certain niches that limited my audience, so now that I’m older I prefer to just tell people I’m a fantasy artist when they ask what genre I fit into. Then I try to explain to them how beautiful and incredible this world of steampunk and neo-victorian is and how while this is my art style as of late, it’s also my personal aesthetic.



My home, the events I go to, all the way to my circle of friends, we just sort of live this style, lost to this older world. To represent myself I took one of my fictional characters, Etta Diem (an eccentric and slightly supernatural type of character who might fit in a Lovecraft meets Jules Vern world), and used her to represent my art shop as well as to kind of have fun hiding behind a larger than life character that represents everything I like about this genre. And she represents my work well. She’s an example that every idea or piece of art I do represents a story. This is why I like steampunk so much, there is so much wonderful storytelling.

I am taking part in an international art competition called Artprize (artprize.org) for three weeks at the end of Sept through the beginning of October. Our seven artist group is working under the title Cirque Acirca (circus out of time) based on the story that there was a collection of circus/carnival folk moving about a steampunk world in their airship, which crashes. From the remnants of this crash they create a massive steampunk/neo-victorian circus/carnival.



A large portion of the art is based on my work and my partner Myke Amend’s. Our exhibit space covers the space of a football field and literally is a giant steampunk circus. We have performers of all variety in theme, we have art displays, a mural that covers the entire floor of the exhibit and a massive exhibit of our steampunk world across the back of the exhibit that Myke and I are painting.



We also have vendor space and a games midway and fortune telling booths, etc. We had a Ben Stiller movie shoot here and two of our artists worked on set designs. The movie donated their entire sets to us to create this thing –although I’m not allowed to tell anyone about it yet ….. so we’re excited. This has been my major project for the last month and I’m trying to promote it, especially to get steampunk people/costume folk to come to the event. I have a bunch of revamped art on there for Circus Posters I would love to see used too. visit: Cirque Acirca


Links for Etta Diem
Etta Diem’s Attic Shoppe
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Etta Diem’s Etsy Attic Shoppe
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etta diem on Twitter

Bethalynne Bajema:
http://www.bajema.com
http://www.bethalynnebajema.com
http://www.bethalynnebajema.com/sepiastains –this is my tarot card site, my largest current project
http://www.facebook.com/bethalynnebajema

In April of 2008 I started to make rings just for fun after Catherine (My better half) learned how to make simple wire rings. Since then I spent several hours every day perfecting and developing my own technique to create an original design. I quickly started to make very retro-futurist styles of rings. At that time I quit my job to live on my jewelry full-time. Since then I have had over 1900 sales on ETSY and also had the chance to see my work featured at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford during the first Major Steampunk art Exhibition.





One day a friend told me what I was doing was Steampunk. I researched the subject and quickly fell in love with this culture. I always liked Steampunk but I didn’t know there was a name for it. What attracts me the most about Steampunk is the Aesthetics. Because it is a relatively new style of science fiction and it is not widely known, you can let your imagination create almost anything. There is a lot of space for creativity within the Steampunk genre.





Because I didn’t know about Steampunk when I first started and I had no influence from other Artist, I used my own imagination to create a unique style within the Steampunk genre. I imagined what people would wear in a Steampunk Era and what would match well with the Steampunk outfits I saw people wearing across the web. By combining the mechanical and organic shapes with antiqued metals, brass and copper, I invented my vision of what Steampunk Jewelry would look like.





I was born in 1976 in Montreal. My family was French Canadian until I was orphaned at 12 years old. I was adopted into the family of close friends, of Spanish and French background. In my new family my French father is a Painter and teacher, one of my brothers is a musician, the other a computer analyst director and my Spanish mother the manager of a coffee shop for several years. What they all have in common is the passion they put in what they do and I have learned a lot from each of them.




Since I was young I always been interested in Fantasy, Dungeon and Dragons and Science Fiction. I mixed my passion for D&D and Steampunk together to make one of my most popular pieces: my Steampunk Beholder Robot, which was featured on BoingBoing and also displayed the Oxford Steampunk Exhibition.



I always been of an artistic nature. Most of the time I drew monsters and dragons but I also learned Origami. I sang in a punk band with my brother and I also used to play bass guitar.





I also traveled a lot and it is during my journeys that I learned photography. I had one of my recent pictures of Big Ben UK featured in a travel guide and I also was featured on a photography website: The Incredible Steampunk Jewelry Photography of Daniel Proulx





My work experience went from Working in a Banana Plantation in Australia to School manager and teaching in Japan to Travel agent, working Finance and finally a Jewelry designer.





Each of my rings are One of a Kind pieces. Eventually I developed new techniques that allowed me to widen my collection. I went from very Industrial designs to something that represent the Victorian side of Steampunk. Such as this Bracelet with Czech Glass and the Necklaces with Glass Jewel.





One of Daniel’s rings was worn by Claudia in the 2nd episode of Warehouse 13 ! and is seen in the SyFy clip from Allison Scagliotti:
Do It With Style! – Warehouse 13 : Allison Scagliotti’s Video Blog: Allison gives you a peek into what makes up Claudia’s personal style.



A few recent accomplishments:
21 May 2009 – Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture featured on BoingBoing.com
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13 October 2009 – Participation in The first Steampunk Exhibition to be held at a Major Museum ,The Museum of the History of Science Oxford UK
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14 January 2010 – The Incredible Steampunk Jewelry Photography of Daniel Proulx www.lightstalking.com
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20 February 2010 – Article about Steampunk in the Montreal Gazette Newspaper


Upcoming Events and Features:
31 July 2010 – Vending at the Grand Picnic Victorien Montreal
14 to 22 august – Vending at Hot Air Balloons festival – International de Montgolfieres – Saint -Jean-sur-Richelieu.
27 to 29 August – Guest at FanExpo Canada . Steampunk Meet-and-Greet Soiree at the Royal York Library Bar , participation in the “Steampunk 101” panel
and more … http://www.fanexpocanada.com/
Feature in 1000 Steampunk Inspiration Book


Links :
Etsy : http://www.etsy.com/shop/CatherinetteRings
Facebook Page : http://tinyurl.com/facebooksteampunk
Blog : http://steampunkrings.blogspot.com/
DeviantArt : http://catherinetterings.deviantart.com/
Twitter : http://twitter.com/steampunkrings
Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielproulx/
Artfire : http://www.artfire.com/users/CatherinetteRings

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Myke Amend is an Illustrator, engraver, and painter of strange weird-fiction and pulp-inspired works, combining a strange brand of pop surrealism, fantastic realism combined with landscape styles drawn from the 1800′s era American Artists movement.





His illustrations have been published in, or as covers for Weird Tales Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Gatehouse Gazette, Kilter Magazine, the art collection “Gothic Art Now” (and two more upcoming collections yet to be disclosed).





Myke has commissioned artworks for many names in Steampunk Music, Entertainment, and Literature including Dexter Palmer, The Pickled Brothers Sideshow, Vernian Process, and Captain Robert of Abney Park.





Myke has also been featured in many popular online resources such as IO9, Elfwood, Dark Roasted Blend, WarrenEllis.com, Fantasy Art Magazine, Lines and Colors, and Brass Goggles.





About my work:

I seek to present a great amount of activity, drama, and even chaos, in the most tranquil and serene settings -and through hidden imagery both large and small, I aim for each piece to present something new to each viewer with each and every viewing.





My goal is not only to present a scene, but to place the viewer within the scene, and to provide them with many interesting new worlds within worlds to explore. Of late, my most common vehicle for this sort of exploration has been airships. I hope to round out this series this year, to complete a table-top book this year called “Airships and Tentacles”. My reasoning for this mix includes my love for the sea and ocean life, as well as for old maritime paintings; My surreal fantasy/horror blend is heavily inspired by old pulp fiction, weird tales, and tales of terror from a number of 1800s-era writers in the field, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley. I am also inspired by classic tales of exploration, adventure, and human ingenuity from authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and of course Jules Verne.





My primary inspiration for the airships series however, is my dream of seeing the human race lean towards a more fuel-efficient and eco-friendly means of travel and shipping. It may be hard for most of the US to bring back the sort of relaxed travel that train-lines once offered, we were foolish to ever have sacrificed such a valuable network, and doubly so to not have an abundance of light rails in between, around, and within our larger cities. The difference in fuel needed per-pound to move people and freight by train, vs. that used for semis, is astounding.





Airships, not relying on the rebuilding of this infrastructure, are good solution for the mean time; This, especially now that we have reached the age where not only can their engines be fueled by algae, but the balloons themselves could possibly even be lifted by bio hydrogen.





I suppose I could try to do my part for the world, as an artist, by pointing fingers at the oil industry, and spotlighting the horror that humanity creates for itself; Okay, I actually have, many times… but such works, they do not look good in most people’s living rooms; Such works are also rarely featured on any site worth mention for fear of polarizing one’s reader base. I have found that it is better to try my best to leave others inspired by the idea and the notion, to put the possibility or at least the dream into visible, sharable form, and to hope my fascination infects others.

Links:

MykeAmend.com
Ettadiem.Etsy.com
TheMiskatonicArchive.com
Facebook.com/mykeamend
Twitter.com/Mykeamend
Flickr.com/Photos/MykeAmend
MykeAmend.DeviantArt.com
MykeAmend.Livejournal.com
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O.M.Grey’s Caught in the Cogs Steampunk Spotlight
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Join Mike Perschon for his Steampunk discussions on The Steampunk Scholar
July is Canuk Steampunk month – Starclimber
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On Steamed: The Steampunk Novel Diary: Why Steampunk?? by Author Marie-Claude Bourque

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Matthew Delman at Free The Princess.com -Your resource on Steampunk background — history, science, culture, and more:
Messr Delman’s Aetheric Linkapalooza

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I specialize in Art – with an Obscure, Fantasy Alien Gothic & Victorian SteamPunk style – creating unique works of Esoteric visions: Paintings, Sculptures, Electronic Art, Mechanical Art, Electronic Music, etc. I have designed interiors for Miami Beach night clubs, created custom accessories for homes, illustrated within the underground comic and literature world – A fan of sci-fi, Victorian, Gothic, Eclectic and alternate thinking…

I developed my artistic interest at a very young age when I came into contact with the works of Bosch, M. C. Escher and Dali. Later, I was influenced by Giger and many of the Fantasy artists of the 1970’s and 80’s. I grew up and spent most of my life in Miami / Miami Beach – and have also lived in Copenhagen, Denmark; New Jersey and North Carolina.



I exhibited extensively in South Florida and have also had an exhibition in Copenhagen Denmark. I started my “Art Career” by illustrating in Small Press fantasy and Horror publications. I have illustrated a Lovecraft inspired novel by British Horror author, Brian Lumley.

For some time, I was creating functional Mad Max/Alien style pieces – such as Syfy Cannons that actually fired. Starting around the year 2000, I began to incorporate more Victorian and Steampunk ideas into my Dark Gothic Surrealism. By 2005 I was creating Steampunk inspired Clocks and other creations.





In the recent past, I have blended my favorite styles of Dark Syfy, Gothic and Steampunk into a style I call “Alien Gothic Steampunk”. This was a natural progression for someone who was into the Gothic & Science Fiction scene, as well as the Cyberpunk and tech scene. Recently, I have also started incorporating Meteorites in to my creations. Some of these meteorites may be older than the Earth itself. I find this extremely Cosmic.



Find mark Bell’s work at
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The Etsy store Vie Mecanique --
My Blog: Tribal Gothic
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Join Mike Perschon for his Steampunk discussions on The Steampunk Scholar

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For French Steampunk: Vapeur Brouillon

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New and Interesting posts from Matthew Delman at Free The Princess.com

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Steampunk Home Decoration ideas try: The Steampunk Home

I’m primarily a music photographer so I photograph live bands and promotional work. It’s a good thing I really enjoy doing it because there’s not much money in it, especially when shooting live shows. Between photographing concerts and promotional materials for artists I do some work with models on the side but not as much as I would like to.





I am somewhat picky about models and would rather work with a few really good models than a whole lot of bad ones. Living in Maine it’s difficult to find many actual models here that are more than just a Model Mayhem or Myspace account taking their clothes off for guys with cameras or ‘pretty girls’ thinking that just because their friends told them they should model. A former mentor of mine once told me “You are who you shoot.” so any time I start thinking I should shoot whoever I just remind myself of that.

Before this shoot, I had only caught a glimpse of a few examples of actual Steampunk themed work and found it interesting. I have shot Elena as a burlesque performer a few times and when she approached me to be involved in documenting her clothing line I was more than happy to participate. Elena had the location already scouted so all I needed to do was shoot it, easy right?! Well it was a little more challenging than I anticipated, especially not having an assistant with me.

Setting up lighting in the right places to give me options to shoot in was the most challenging part of the evening, aside from that the room was basically narrow grated walkways, step anywhere else and you would be submerged in liquid metal ooze that’s probably been stewing on the ground for 100+ years. I thought for certain one of my lights was going to take a plunge but fortunately none did.

I’m hoping to do more work in this genre, I really enjoyed shooting it and I’m psyched with the results. Of course I couldn’t have done this without the amazing talent of Elena! As well as the great models we had that waited around patiently for their turn inside a steamy hot boiler room. Much appreciation to all of them!

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http://www.tomcouture.com
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http://facebook.com/couturephotos
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http://twitter.com/tomcouturephoto
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Fashion for Tom’s Steamshoot was provided and designed by Elena Sanders:



This collection was inspired by the Steampunk genre. I call it “Steampunk Super Villains” and each outfit is for a specific character. I imagined a gang of people joining forces after a catastrophic time traveling adventure that landed them in a post apocalyptic world. A world that I imagined to look much like this boiler room that I accidentally discovered. When I extended the collection from 5 to 13 pieces i did variations of some of the characters because I thought they needed friends. There are a couple of mutants, a couple of aristocrats, a spy, a mad scientist, and a couple of assassins. and automatons built by the scientist and his friend.


Find Elena at her website: www.elenasanders.com

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O.M.Grey’s Caught in the Cogs Steampunk Spotlight:

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Join Mike Perschon for his Steampunk discussions on The Steampunk Scholar

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For French Steampunk

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New and Interesting posts from Matthew Delman at Free The Princess.com

Interzone Inc is an ongoing process whose aim is to explore different sonic and harmonic landscapes, their attributes and the energies within. Interzone has existed in different shapes and formations since 1980. Its output is a combination of experiences drawn from the past years of sonic experimentation and collaboration, and the ambition to explore completely new areas.


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Interzone Inc is the compositions of Göran Kinnander, a music creator from Sweden, who has been exploring “…sonic and harmonic landscapes…” since 1980. It is both experimentation and, sometimes, collaboration with other artists who understand the essential philosophy behind Interzone Inc.


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Göran was intrigued from a young age with music which defied conventional rules of melodies, rhythms, and structures. In fact, “sonic and harmonic landscapes” is an interesting description to use because, listening to the music, I do tend to go on a journey through imagined places; even through the vast land inside my own mind.


The output ranges from soft and minimal ambient, to noise and experimental. Sometimes dark, disturbing and devouring, sometimes soft, warm and soothing. Close your eyes, listen and experience the journey through different landscapes, atmospheres and moods.





Ambient music is just one of the fields Göran is exploring. It has been a part of the Interzone output from the very beginning. He has also done some exploring into the Steampunk genre:
“I believe my music relates to steampunk in two ways. Since most of the Steampunk material is visual or written/drawn, I asked myself the question – How does Steampunk really sound? In the Flesh from Desires is a good example of how I interpret Steampunk into sound/music.


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For me also, Steampunk is the fantastic result of the merger of two very different styles, almost opposing, and that merge can be found in many of my tracks. Sometimes in Rain from n3Xt is a good example.


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The combination of two or more things into something brand new is also a significant part of my creative process, and even though I do admit that some of my work is not so much related to Steampunk, the major part is.”


Other fields that Interzone is exploring is how noisy darkness sounds. Göran doesn’t typically say that “I make this-and-that style music”. Rather, he responds to whatever ignited the creative spark, the final output is – of course – related to that. For Göran “ it‟s just as natural for me to make warm and lush ambient soundscapes as it is to make brutal and disturbing noises or focusing on arrangements.”


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Göran developed a lust to explore and experiment with sound back when he was about the age of seven at the Stockholm library, flipping through their vinyl collection. (Yes, in those days – late 1960‟s – you could go and borrow a vinyl record.) He saw an album named “A Rainbow in Curved Air” and thought –”Wow, an album with such a cool name must sound just great!” He brought it home, listened to it a love affair with experimental music began. Since then that kind of music have always been a part of what he listened to. It was a natural evolution to eventually begin making his own versions of it.


Göran has provided us with a previously unreleased track called Divinity, a pleasure to be among the first to hear it: Divinity

Visit Interzone Inc’s website: www.interzones.se to learn more about this music and how it all got started; then fasten on your headphones and take a journey!



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“The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”
- Galileo Galilei


Niffer Desmond of 19 Moons





My name is Niffer and I stand on the earth through space and time. For me creation and life and learning go hand in hand (in hand); As Sun to Earth to Moon, may they ever spin and dance! A lifelong tinkerer in the arts and traveler of worlds, I have for the past several years been creating jewelry as 19 Moons. Evolving as the planet revolves and seasons turn, so does this craft spin its tale.





It all started at an early age with drawing creatures on napkins and picking up interesting things off the ground- telling their stories or making them into other things. I have always had an affinity for finding treasure and creating ritual objects. Having lived in and around nature I sought and retrieved her bounty of gifts. A shiny chip of obsidian, a beetle wing, an ocean tumbled glass or shell, a sun melted plastic toy- all were game for the treasure chest! Thirty some years late I am still seek out treasure in found objects- putting them together in ways that adorn as well as evoke tales in the imagination.


‘I am a Thing-Finder, and when you’re a Thing-Finder, you don’t have a minute to spare.”‘ -Pippi Longstocking


Another pillar in the foundation of a young creative psyche was a very early exposure to science fiction- most prominently Star Trek. The adventure as we all know, to seek out new worlds and new civilizations- to boldly go where no other show had gone before! Even now it persists in our culture as a compass of morality and adventure, airing on TV (again over 30 years later) as I write this. Along with Dr. Who and The Time Machine, this show kindled my first trust in the future and creative potential of Man- with all our glorious technology to take us to the limits of time and space.





My work reflects all these seemingly disparate influences- from the wild grandeur nature and the science driven future in manmade. Organic forms like birds or rocks are on equal footing with perfect circles and squares of type-keys and clocks. I like the fantasy that these juxtapositions make- and some even make real sense. A hummingbird does seem to be wound up like clockwork. With what mechanical precision and speed do they fly! Insects are another favorite theme; they too are so alien and mechanistic in their movement. Other pieces are evoke more conceptual or mythological themes. Dreamlike images imbued in the collective unconscious from which they sprang.





You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ -George Bernard Shaw


In both my material and method it is all about taking the old and reshaping it into a new form. Repurposing came into my jewelry initially with using little gears, bolts and telephone wire along with beads. Now I make an effort to use any and every part of my pieces as something vintage or re-used- giving the work not only a historical authenticity but an eco-friendly aspect as well. I like the idea of discarded technology appreciated for its beauty as much as its former function. The hardware behind clocks, phones typewriters and other old tech have much to offer. A treasure chest and a time machine both.





Revering this window into a past vision of the future is aesthetic banner of SteamPunk When I was first introduced to the idea it was defined as science fiction as seen through the lens of the 1800′s, with a specifically Victorian bent. Though it definitely started out that way, the time periods and styles have proliferated as Steampunk culture grows. I recently vended at first Steampunk World Fair- a very exciting event that attracted many hundreds of enthusiasts from all walks of life. The more costumes I saw , the more it confirmed what I’ve seen in my own work and others; Steampunk has embraced the ideas of many cultures and time periods, held together with a common thread of Time Travel and anachronism. Steampunk is the new frontier of the imagination, a trek through adventures of the mind. In this same spirit I have created the recent tagline~
19 Moons ~ Jewelry Design that’s out of its Time.


Find 19 Moons on the Web~
Etsy
Facebook Page
Follow me on twitter
Blog & News
Flickr photos



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My Wife, Lora and I have a passion for Steampunk and all things Gothic and Neo-Victorian. We own an Etsy shop called London Particulars which is named after the heavy fogs which used to shroud Victorian London, as mentioned by Charles Dickens in Bleak House.


Our shop mainly carries handmade Steampunk Jewelry (by Lora) and my whimsical Neo-Victorian artwork, which is loosely based on Victorian Silhouettes.


I‘m from London and after I met Lora we soon relocated to America. Before leaving England, we spent a lot of time exploring London, the major attractions as well as the less frequented places. We soon discovered London’s secret and often missed history and we took a lot of photographs on these explorations.


Whilst settling into my new home in Seattle, I spent a day idling and browsing through our photographs of London and I found a particularly bewitching shot of Primrose Hill, a place referenced in Mary Poppins, War of the Worlds and a Blur song (For Tomorrow). The landscape was timeless and the image of a gentlemen cycling along on a Penny Farthing, pursuing a cat flying away on balloons soon materialized in my mind’s eye (as it will)…





The Gentlemen on his Penny Farthing is Professor Thistlequick and his cat goes by the name of Happiness. The Professor is in hot pursuit of Happiness after her balloons took her adrift whilst they were out taking the air. Their journey across London is portrayed in a series of seven pictures, including a dash over the gothic splendor of the House of Lords:





Professor Thistlequick is inspired by mad Victorian inventors and whilst the imagery might be more whimsical than a lot of Steampunk art, the novel I’m writing is much darker, with leanings to a more gothic, Dickensian London.


Through our love of all things vintage, strange and bizarre, we were drawn to the burgeoning Steampunk revival and Lora turned her creativity to fashioning Steampunk Jewelry.





Whilst a lot of our Steampunk Designs are unadulterated clockwork pieces, we also likes to add color, a flash of crimson and a dash of deepest blue and whilst the original clockwork mechanisms look beautiful and unique in their own right, it’s nice to compliment them with a hint of color.

The “Cthulhu” necklace, a reference to the fearsome old God from HP Lovecraft’s hugely influential and odd tale “The Call of Cthulhu”. Whilst the tales of HP Lovecraft proceeded the Victorian age, they still conjure the strange and peculiar which ties in with the ethos of London Particulars.

As one of the most unique and beautiful of men’s fashion accessories, Steampunk Cufflinks are one of our biggest sellers. Often purchased for weddings, we always strive for the “perfect match” when pairing our cuff links…a befitting detail on your big day!

The Victorians were known for their fascination with all things occult and esoteric, hence the creation of the Steampunk Scarab necklace. The Egyptians used the symbol of the Scarab (which symbolized rebirth) on a lot of their magical seals and amulets which were used as protection from evil spirits. Whilst we can’t promise our customers protection from evil, every little helps!





I think part of the allure of Steampunk Jewelry is that every piece of clockwork jewelry is completely unique. When you’re hunting for new watch movements and stripping away the old watch covers, you never know what you’re going to find. The people that made vintage watches were true artisans, I really appreciate their craftsmanship and it’s wonderful to think that rather ending up as landfill, these old watches are given a new lease of life, reborn as Steampunk Jewelry.





Steampunk is such a fluid art form, there are no particular rules; you can make whatever you like, the only limit being your imagination. This Steampunk Bee is one of my favorite pieces; I’d love to have a whole hive of them buzzing around the garden!

You can find out more about our Steampunk Jewelry and artwork, by visiting us at:
Etsy shop: LondonParticulars
www.steampunkjewelry.ffxoh.com/
http://professorthistlequick.com/
London Particulars Facebook page
Twitter @Steampunkshoppe

I am a newly established photographer but a lifelong lover of both photography and fashion and costuming. I’ve been following all manner of alternative fashion and historical and creative costuming since I did my first search for a corset online in ’96. Everything from goth and lolita to reenactment garb to bellydance costuming to fetish fashion to cosplay peaks my interest. I first heard the term “steampunk” in 2001, when it began to crop up in discussions within the neo-victorian and US elegant gothic aristocrat fashion movements. I’ve been hooked ever since.

In early 2008 I decided to take up photography as a hobby and that December I shot a series of “steamhunk” portraits of author Emmy Jackson at the historic Sloss Furnaces in Alabama.

I became equally hooked on portrait photography, and I’ve spent the last year and some change gaining skills more specific to that trade and creating a body of work as Lex Machina that I hope appeals to fans of the aesthetic.

Fashion photography and steampunk portraiture combines my love of all of these wonderful garments and accessories, my more than 10 years of retouching and graphics experience and making people look and feel cool, which I love almost as much as I love clothes. I enjoy shooting regular everyday steampunks just as much as professional models and performers. Each expects something different from me, as an artist and I enjoy the challenges and rewards each provides.

In ’09 I was able to travel extensively and work with some amazing steampunks, both pillars of community and supporters of it. Some noted steampunk personalities I’ve captured include The League of STEAM, Parliament and Wake, and most recently a set with Evelyn Kriete and G D Falksen, which I’m working on now.

While I frequently style my own shoots and many of the garments and accessories in my images are from my personal wardrobe, I can only shoot and reinvent my own pieces so many times before my viewers are as tired of them as I am. So far I’ve had the pleasure of working with incredible companies and creators like Lastwear Clothing, Clockwork Zero, Atelier Choklit, EJPCreations, TotusMel, and Miss Monster to name a few. I’m a huge fan of handmade garments and accessories and always looking for designers to collaborate with.

I am currently shooting steampunk events, creative portraiture, alternative, and of course steampunk fashion in and around Detroit, MI while traveling for shoots, art shows, and conventions as much as possible throughout 2010.

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