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Steampunk

Buyer's Guide to Steampunk Christmas Ornaments

By Jef With One F Wed., Dec. 19 2012 at 10:00 AM

Categories: Steampunk

If you're like me you've waited till the last minute to put up the tree, but in case you were thinking about having a very steampunk yule then there are plenty of ornaments to help take your tree in a more gentlemanly direction.

Let's start off with the headman himself. Lynn Reno over at Desert Rubble does some amazing polymer ornaments, including this one of St. Nick decked out in goggles to keep his sight free when flying through the air on Christmas Eve. Her biomechanical fish and orchid pendants are also first-rate.

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Pop Culture

Halloween Costumes, Take the Sexy or Vintage Route

By Courtney Riedmann Thu., Oct. 13 2011 at 10:00 AM

Categories: Pop Culture, Steampunk, Style/Fashion

Joe Sam's Fun Shop

The worst thing about Halloween, besides that it doesn't last all year, is deciding what to dress up as. Some choices are redundant (ooh, a witch, yawn), but new options can get you compliments for your creativity.

Looks such as superheroes, pirates and scary masks for men and boys remain preferred choices. Staples for girls are still princesses and anything girly. Guises inspired by popular movies are favorites for all ages.

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Fashion

Death to Digital: Learn Steampunk Techniques in Art Asylum's Earring Class

By Caroline Evans Tue., Sep. 6 2011 at 1:30 PM

Categories: Fashion, Steampunk

Courtesy of Art Asylum

It's been ten years since Wear It Again Sam, the popular Montrose vintage clothing store, shuttered its Westheimer location and moved to the Heights. That location also closed its doors a few years ago, but that hasn't kept Sam VanBibber, the shop's proprietor, from doing what she loves: Making something new out of something old.

"I had boxes and boxes of broken jewelry, and the steampunk movement became more popular, and I thought, 'I can do this,'" VanBibber tells Art Attack.

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Geek

Richard Clarkson Makes Cellphones Steampunk

By Jef With One F Wed., Jul. 27 2011 at 8:30 AM

Categories: Geek, Steampunk

Art Attack is dedicated to bringing you all the latest crafts in the world of steampunk, whether you are looking for something as small as a computer mouse or as large as an entire home, we hope that we can be your guide on who to turn to live out your sci-fi Victorian fantasies. The latest genius of the trend is Richard Clarkson, who has finally brought steampunk to mobile technology.

What you're seeing is a Samsung Envy, the same phone we currently have, retrofitted to incorporate a brass rotary dial. Clarkson is still working the bugs out in the electronics as rotary sends a single pulse while modern button systems use multiple pulses in a matrix to communicate, and the merging the systems is a bit tricky.

Nonetheless, Clarkson is well up to the task. He is currently an industrial design student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and is set to begin pursuing a Masters of Industrial Design specializing in integrating mechanical and analog systems. In other words, he's on his way to being a professional steampunk designer and also making American education look really, really boring.