Wind Beneath My Pneumatic Wings

I love these wings. The wingtip lights are very cool. Only $550. There's lots of other cool (if a little fetishy) stuff there too.

Yay Area Steampunk Event

The Steampunk Treehouse camp of 07 Burners is having a fundraiser event on June 9

The treehouse project details are so tantalizing. We will need to make this a stop on the perambulator tour and maybe, if schedules permit, have an excursion to the fundraiser together.

Salvation!

Memorial Day sale - 50% off clothing and linen, we go in.

What can we find in a ghetto salv-army that could be steam punk and burnin'? Or, how cheap can our steam-punk be?
We figure accessories - lots of buckles and such - will be key. I find this belt with a powerful emblem.

We find a bunch of other clothing - a tan shirt with buckles, a black layered skirt that has shorts underneath (Lauren loves wearing that stuff). I find a very appropriate vest that too small for me (I'll bring it to the meet-up last-next week). I get a grandma frock with a buckle pattern to it that I hope to split down the front and turn into some sort of coat - or something.



Then we also find a pair of curtains - a velvety-shiny texture with a victorian pattern - $5 each. This will be great for Perambulator upholstery.



At $8, the belt was the most expensive thing we got.

Recent New Findings...

In my eternal quest to further clutter up the Zensius' home, I have come across several items which may prove useful. They may also serve to accessorize and beauteafie our glorious roving apothecary and period camp.

These include the pictured cushions taken from some poor sod's couch he'd left curbside with a "free things" sign on it. Unfortunately, the removal of said cushions may require them to actually take the damn thing to the dump (it was a freakin sofabed! who the heck is gonna pick that up? Wait. Should I go back for the mattress?). There are two large (35" x 26", about 7" thick with good quality foam and some batting) and two small (17" square, pretty flat) cushions and the upholstery is suitably tacky and period, but quite worn out. I've also hauled in a swath of carpet (about 53" x 105"), perhaps for our camp, perhaps for the dump, perhaps to be left at the Zensius' and forgotten? Finally, I have a roll of batting (110" square, about 1/2" thick) we can use to make our seat cushions extra fantastic.

Oh. And I found a serviceable bicycle chain on the side of the road too.

Steampunk Band

Here's a nice looking site belonging to a self-proclaimed steampunk band. I'm not too sure about the music (you can listen to them right on their front page, just rotate the dial on the compass) but the site is clever and steampunk from begining to end. I'm especially fond of their version of a flying machine.

I Can See Clearly Now

AP and I managed to barter ourselves some very fancy bi-ocular viewpieces. Each has it's own steamy character and charm. Only $3 each! All we need now are some leather cases or straps to carry them on our person. Onward!

Peram Moves Ahead

So our Secrets and Means Department (S & M) has asked that I protect our members' identities as well as the location of the workshop. Apparently they've been getting some alarming information at the head office and want to keep the advancing work on the down-low. I will try to enact the new security measures to the letter.














Above we see a man removing pricing info from the bottom of all the cans. We'll call him Mr. Price for simplicity. Mr. Price spearheaded the can bottom/scales project. The idea is to cover certain parts of the peram. with soda cans, much like the back of a fish. We'll call Mr. Price's cohort Mrs. Fishback. (Silly I know.)First all the cans were cleaned. Then a jig was set up to slice off the bottoms. A hundred or so cans were put through the process leaving a bag of shiny scales. We might even use the rest of the can scraps to cover other parts. Mrs. Fishback's male friend flew from project to project. We'll call him Mr. Soares. Below you can see him helping with the can project. Good job agents! - Mr. Rhymes with benches.

Perambulator 2.0

We had a very successful meeting last night. Many of the camp projects were moved forward, especially the items for barter and trade. AP's apothecary idea was a great one and should go over well.
The Great Leslie volunteered to get our finances in order and is sitting next to me plugging away at it as I type.
TBone gave us his updated idea for the cyclorama project. Which has now become a whole-camp decoration.
The most up to date version of the Perambulator was presented as well. It's still a work in progress and has a long way to go 'til it's playa ready.

I'm hosting a Peram work party on 5/20 at the usual place. Here's a small list of on-going construction stuff that we need that I'd like to avoid buying; bike chains, bike chain rings, rear deraileurs, rear wheels, soda cans, velvet, leather, lace, shade fabric, foam for cushions, and anything brass or copper. I've been finding a lot of cool detail stuff from old light fixtures and towel bars. Keep your eyes open.- Professor Fate

Nice period costumes

This site has some very nice period correct formal costumes for men and women. I don't think that I'd buy from this site (I'd rather thrift-store-it), but it's a great reference. Their pocketwatches are neat as well. I'm thinking I'd like to have two different costumes to wear when Perambulating. One would be the crazy Steampunk Captain similar to my previous post. And one would be a gentleman's outfit similar to this one at left.
A funny coincidence-this guys name is Alexander Parrish (AP), Medical Doctor. Take that Bugger.

The Apothecary is open for business

Here's a few examples of those bottles that I've been messing around with. Thrown in for effect are some old coins and a bag I picked up at 826 Valencia. A pirate store. Steampunk skypirate coins, of course.

And if you're in the market for a new digital camera, here's one that is both damn cool, and will fit our theme pretty well:

Amazing animation

Here's a beautiful little movie I found at Brass Goggles. The best site on the net for all your Steampunk curiousities.