A Gentleman’s Duel is an animation from Blur Studios. It was featured on Wowtion, a now-defunct animation zine, some time back, but has been a bit viral lately. Steampunk transformers and boobies. And the dismissive insult of telling someone offering champagne to the object of one’s affections that alcohol is the French recipe for romance. [...]
here is a tutorial on how to paint clock gears for a really cool looking steampunk, beautiful and dark look with mystery. it is not difficult to do so please give it a try
A couple nights ago, I made cupcakes, for the first time since I was a kid. I learned that (a) there is a reason to have those little paper cups in there, (b) a popover pan is actually not as analgous to a cupcake pan as the uninitiated (i.e. me) might guess, and (c) there [...]
I have to admit that I prefer my science fiction a little grittier and a lot better acted and directed than network television can generally offer. So I don’t usually get my fix from ABC or SyFy. As a Wesleyan alum, I wanted to like Serenity, but I thought the captain character was just way [...]
Are ray gun vibrators steampunk? This is the sort of question I lie awake at night contemplating. Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction, which builds on the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Now H. G. Wells and Jules Verne were both geniuses and can be forgiven for imagining future technology [...]
It is no secret that I love the vampire genre. I received Honors at Wesleyan University for my thesis on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality. And I would like the record to show that I will be speaking on exactly that topic this weekend at Vampire Con in Hollywood. I’ll be [...]
Mike Judge’s Office Space is a hysterically brilliant piece on the soul-sucking nature of certain sorts of employment. The scene where they smash the fax machine is one of the most inspiring moments in American cinema ever. Viewpoint character Peter Gibbons, played with perfect comic timing by Ron Livingston, decides that, rather than quitting his [...]
Corporate Goth is a familiar expression in East Coast cities where people tend to separate their playtime from their workdays. I was living and working mostly in Washington, DC and Baltimore when I founded Blue Blood in print. I did primarily contract design work and most of the companies I worked for were conservative federal [...]