Steampunk: Brain Storming, Rants, Mutual Support, Plots

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:56 pm

karine wrote:What I loved about Prague, was my room for the night was up four flights of stairs and behind three locked gates. I needed a fist full of keys just to check in to my room.

I stayed a block from the astronomical clock in the old town square, towards Wenszenschlaus square............third floor, but, not so many keys...........
fun town.........

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:59 pm

Oh yes - you were much closer to downtown!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:24 pm

Stary novy.

I feel in love with Prague because of that clock in the movie. Never fall in love with a town because of a clock in a movie, it might radically change your life.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:26 pm

there's some great clubs there, one 3 stories under the town square edge at the clocktower............

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:42 pm

Clubs three stories down? I wanna go to Prague.

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:46 pm

Oh YES, le chat. You should go.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:50 pm

I want to go to Prague and live there for a few months. Stairs would b emurder, however.

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:54 pm

Can Prague BE any different?!

I have spent many a day hauling a friend up stairs, on my back, because of the lack of wheelchair accessibility. I can't imagine Europe being easy to manuever.

Fishy - you planning another trip?!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:45 pm

yes, 3 stories down, looked like an old dungeon or something, quite gothic.......great music, free flowing absinthe (where I acquired my taste for same). College students stripping and even screwing on the pianos........

I got "dosed" I'm pretty sure in there, but, it seems I was to big or something, it didn't knock me out, but, I more or less "came to" walking down an alley like from "Pinocchio", with a russian guy cocking a pistol and yelling at me........

I have memories in between the club and that incident, but, am not sure if they're real..........

still had my wallet, and, underwear............and, they were on "fly forward"............hahaha

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:03 am

A friend once told me, of a similarly bizarre situation:

"Everything I saw, I'm not sure that I remember. And everything I remember, I'm not sure that I saw."

bigbluedoggy · Post by **bigbluedoggy** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:28 am

The best things that ever happened to me... well, I'm not sure they really did!!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:58 pm

I'm hoping not to go back to the desert in '10. I wanna go to Africa, but the idea of having no toilets--much less no accessible ones--kinda creeps me out. I would love to do Scandinavia and maybe St. Petersburg and the Baltic states. Asia would be nice, maybe. Yargh! Travel is so much more complicated than it was two years ago. How much am I going to let that limit me, I don't know. Maybe I should sit down and come up with a life list. Everest is not on it.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:01 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:I'm hoping not to go back to the desert in '10. I wanna go to Africa, but the idea of having no toilets--much less no accessible ones--kinda creeps me out. I would love to do Scandinavia and maybe St. Petersburg and the Baltic states. Asia would be nice, maybe. Yargh! Travel is so much more complicated than it was two years ago. How much am I going to let that limit me, I don't know. Maybe I should sit down and come up with a life list. Everest is not on it.

\
I did a month in Estonia and Finland.
I was great, beyond my expectations.
I'd highly recommend it, as far as the Baltic states go.........

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:26 pm

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BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:10 pm

I hate to tell you this, Cryptofishist, but you can't have ALL of those for Christmas!

My favorite crash was the Triphibian! (Those folks in the following section of the video sounded like they were in a cult... the Cult of the Aircraft?)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:50 pm

BAS wrote:I hate to tell you this, Cryptofishist, but you can't have ALL of those for Christmas!

All I need for Christmas, is for 25 eplayans to each send me a box full of oddball crap that they have in their junk drawer.

That's Fishy heaven.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:18 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
BAS wrote:I hate to tell you this, Cryptofishist, but you can't have ALL of those for Christmas!
All I need for Christmas, is for 25 eplayans to each send me a box full of oddball crap that they have in their junk drawer.

That's Fishy heaven.

I wish,
fish,
you were here,
dear...........

I've got boxes of stuff.
in the duff,
but, time..........
does this all rhyme?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:14 am

Careful ? U wish 4.

nuts & bolts & springs & things

fatal_GRACE · Post by **fatal_GRACE** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:17 pm

I love Steampunk! Will there be a theme camp?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:13 pm

Bomb Bay Tea Company debuted this year. There was another that didn't make it, but they may try again. Le Chat Noir and Karine are not in either Steampunk camp, but they have the most marvelous steampunk artifact: the Contraption.
Pics and more are to be found in these two threads.
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 62&start=0

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 58&start=0

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:17 pm

Fishy, I always love the vids you post. That third one had me waiting for the Chariot to roll across the screen

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Captain Hazard · Post by **Captain Hazard** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:44 pm

fatal_GRACE wrote:I love Steampunk! Will there be a theme camp?

I know Brass Goggles forum members talked about it, but whether it ever happened I don't know. They were going to be called "Recolonizing the Americas", but I never saw anything with that name on the listings. They were going to build what looked like a landed airship as their public space. I hope to see them next year!

The Time Colony will embrace the philosophy and style with our art, and steampunk dress will be strongly encouraged at our Time Warp (historical music mashup) dance in our Time Machine. But we're not strictly steampunk, just time travel in general.

And of course there's lots of steampunk art scattered, often crawling across the playa.

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:14 am

Cap'n Hazard,

Bomb Bay Tea Co. was the camp that came out of the Brass Goggles thread (Recolonising.... was the thread subject.) The best set of pictures is here. Located just beyond the wheel at 5:30 and Corvair. Sorry that you missed us, shoulda followed that BG thread more carefully

Not sure what we have planned for next year, discussion will resume in January. I'll put an update in here.

Captain Hazard · Post by **Captain Hazard** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:25 pm

Damn! I'll be sure to watch for that January thread, and thanks for sharing the fine pictures.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:48 pm

Dreamy

The weird thing is that I bet state of the art for most of the 20th Century was worse than this. Well if the description is accurate.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:50 pm

This is amazing. Abkhazian railway station, built by Soviets.

http://englishrussia.com/images/jungle_railway/10.jpg

Many more pictures.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:25 pm

cullen wrote:steampunk style trike any decorating ideas or tips?

http://www.andysinger.com/bikesample15.html

http://www.andysinger.com/bikesample13.html

http://www.andysinger.com/bikesample12.html

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:55 pm

Steampunk gone horribly, horribly wrong:

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:59 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Steampunk gone horribly, horribly wrong:

Steampunk is dead! Move along, nothing to see here.

stormfeather · Post by **stormfeather** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:52 am

Steampunks on the playa and in Portland, OR
We are quite Steamy in Portland and welcome newcomers.

For more info : Rose City Steampunks, Local 23
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rcsteam
we gather once or twice a month for tea/coffee, or beer and Craftertorium!

BTW we are meeting up next week in honor of a Utopian Playland:

Dr. Steel's Toy Soldier Day @ Voodoo Two Portland, OR
Date: Wednesday March 4, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Voodoo Donuts Too 1501 NE Davis St.
Portland, OR 97232

ATTENTION, CALLING OUT the 503rd Tentacle Farce and Toy Soldiers from throught Cacadia.!
Dr Steele's Toy Soldiers Unite!
http://worlddominationtoys.com/drsteel/enter.html

We start our plans of conquest, in the name of fun, where the roads
Sandy, Davis, and 15th meet right across the street from The Sandy
Hut.
http://www.voodoodoughnut.com/locations.php

Follow this link to apply for Membership in the 503rd Tentacle Farce
http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/members/division/204/
Headquarters Portland, Oregon

This year hubby and I are working with a group to build a sand worm Mutant Vehicle aka Shai-Hulud from Dune from a short bus... Our costuming will be slightly steampunk. the the movie had some steamy elements so you can be assured that the meme will be worked in....

-Stormfeather

2009 Shai-Hulud
2008 Bombay Tea Company and Burning Sam Camp
2008 sTEAp Tea House @ SOAK & Burnout
2007 Shipwreck Corner
Navigator the Heart of Gold Airship
Free range Pirate of Portlandia

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