Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2009

Inspirational Costumes/ Trash and Treasure











Sweeney Todd must be one of the best musicals ever written it is a very Black and slightly morbid movie by the genius that is Tim Burton, there isnt much that this director and writer dose that doesn't blow my mind, he just has this thing that is uniquely Tim Burton.

The cloths and sets in this movie are some of the best work l have seen on film, The clothes that Sweeney wears are of much inspiration to me and l must get my assistants to get to work and create me some simmler pieces of beauty.
l have also been spending some time looking around at trash and treasure markets finding lots of cool and steamy things that l will take into my Dream Works Laboratory and create some Steampunk inspired inventions as soon as l can l will post some works in progress on these inventions....
IN STEAM WE TRUST
PROFESSOR VON BRADLEY












Thursday, May 7, 2009

Loving being back in a city with culture






l am so happy that l have arrived back in the city of my birth. l love this town l think it is one of the great cities of the world, it might not have the history of some of the other great cities but for music,art dinning,and just beautiful aesthetics it is up there with the best. There is still a lot of the old Victorian styled Melbourne town left, you just have to walk around the city and you can see it everywhere, it would have been an amazing place back in her day. l am so looking forward to my steampunk tram ride dinner that is being planned on the tram car restaurant funnily for the night of my birthday it will be a splendid night. l am also looking forward to seeing some of the beautiful artwork that is on show at the Melbourne Art gallery witch is having a Salvador Dali exhibition next month that is the biggest exhibition of his works to ever be shown in Australia.l will be doing a lot more posts now l am here about the beautiful things my town has to offer..

Monday, March 16, 2009

These are a few of my favorite things





1.simi's spanish guitar
(beautiful instrument)

2.Deep sea diver mask clock
(just love this clock bought it from a second hand shop)

3.Motorcycle goggles
(keep the wind from my eyes and keeps me looking good at the same time)

4.Antique shop card
(great little shop when its open!)

5.Top Hat
(a gentleman's baseball cap)

6.Wholly irresponsible experiments
(fantastic little book full of crazy experiments for the everyday professor)

7.Leather bound book
(this was the first Christmas present from someone very close to me)

8.Pocket watch
(every gentleman should have a pocket watch)

9.The art of Angelique Houtkamp
(this great book is from one of my favorite artists)

10.By any means DVD
(a modern day around the world in 80 days, fantastic adventure story)

11.Make magazine
(just discovered this magazine full of great little projects to be done from home)

12.Make magazine
(how to build your own box guitar issue, cant wait to make this!)

13.Nose picking for pleasure
(interesting book about the different forms and styles of nose picking)

14.Back in the day
(one of my new books 101 things everyone used to know and do)

15.Around the world in 80 days
(classic)

16.Wholly irresponsible Exploits
(sequel to wholly irresponsible experiments)

17.Peking to Paris
(my favorite travel dvd, a group of friends set off from Peking in 100 year old cars retracing the steps of the first ever car race that took place in the early 1900)

18.Black books
(very very funny show)

Friday, March 13, 2009

The first Steampunks 2000 years ago?

Where the ancient Greeks the first Steam Punks?

Back in the early 1900's divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera discovered a 2000 year old computer. The Antikythere mechanism was a dictionary sized assemblage of 37 interlocking dials used to track the movements of the planets and to determine the dates and places of upcoming Olympic games. It was thought that gears of this kind was not invented for at least another 1500 years.

l think there are many things we have yet to discover about our ancient ancestors, they where far more advanced than many of us think....









Friday, February 27, 2009

Finding inspration in a New World from the Old World






l have recently been uninspired by lots of things in this new world and wondered if l will ever be inspired again.

l have recently discovered there is a movement happening where the New and Old world have combined and are creating beautiful fashion and art works, it has inspired the professor to no end that there is hope in this world that the past will not be forgotten but loved and infused buy our generation into our life's with all of the wonders of technology the new century has bought us...