Jasper Morello

Jasper Morello
Navigator, 3rd Royal Cartographers, Difference Engine Operator 2nd Class.
Morello’s career was in some doubt after the collision at Weather Station 2C41 in the Lawrencian quarter, and the subsequent loss of a crew member.
Re-instated to the Resolution, after pressure was applied by his wife, Mrs Amelia Morello [surviving daughter of Rear Admiral Balthazar Fortinbras of the Royal Navy] and her society connections. Protest by Captain Griswald has been duly noted.


The short films are set in a world styled after Victorian England with iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, where giant mechanical airships are the main mode of transport. The characters are animated in the style of Wayang (Indonesian shadow puppets) best described as silhouettes. The style is similar to that used by the 1926 film The Adventures of Prince Achmed (one of the oldest-surviving animated feature film).

The scenes featuring characters were composed out of a variety of materials, including various found objects. The backgrounds often have added textures and colours rendered using CGI, while certain sequences (notably those featuring airships) are entirely computer-rendered 3-dimensional scenes. The final product consists of all of these elements brought together using a compositing program.
Via ESPVisuals

Ben Mauro

Ben Mauro
definitely stirred up some internet buzz with his Bioshock 2 concept art which was actually part of his architecture 2 project. "It was for a class at Art Center, the assignment was to design a sequel for a videogame or film. So I picked one of my favorite games from last year." 2K Games community manager even tried to contact Ben Mauro to thank him. Hopefully he'll get a job offer out of it. ;)








Via Xbox360 Fanboy

Lisa Black

Lisa Black
The following pieces are made by taxidermist/sculptor Lisa Black:




The wind-up baby crocodile has actual working gears.
The Bambi is the kind of pet I would like to have.

Via Coilhouse

Motorized Madness

Motorized Madness
A PC mod by Rendermandan who clearly has too much time on his hands but knows how to make true steampunk geek bliss. This creation is probably how a Analytical Engine should have looked like, replete with the usual complement of colored lamps and fans, as well as a full outfit of unnecessary rotating, extending, and moving external displays, switches, gears, and toggles with a turbine water cooler on top.

Freak Angels

Freak Angels
"23 years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago the world ended. This is the story of what happened next."

Freak Angels is written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Paul Duffield, it is a free online comic book from Avatar Press and is set in a Steampunk universe of a Post Apocalyptic England.
The comic will be updated every friday with a new 5 page installment, always free, so you have no excuse to at least give it a look.

The Retrosic

The Retrosic

When the history of THE RETROSIC starts in April 2001 with the release of PROPHECY, no one can foresee that the first album will already enjoy considerable resonance in the electro scene. For keeping full control over his music Cyrus founds his own label TRIBUNE RECORDS, which became RETROSIC’s very own platform from its beginning.

Followed by MESSA DA REQUIEM hardly a year later, the mini album hits the top of the European Alternative Charts. It is celebrating “Record of the Year” of the DUTCH ALTERNATIVE CHARTS (DUC) after three months’ constantly holding the top position. The song GROUND ZERO establishes itself as a club hit overnight skilfully linking hard electronics with an oriental theme. For the first time here, THE RETROSIC is enriched by the classical singing of soprano Zaide who gives the EP its name quoting passages from the requiem by Verdi under the same name.

2002 and the following year also sees the band challenging various remix works for Bruderschaft, Clan of Xymox and a collaboration with [:SITD:] feat. Cyrus on vocals for the comic-soundtrack ERYNIS with the song DECOY and on the RETROSIC-Remix for LAUGHING STOCK.

Almost two years after MESSA DA REQUIEM, THE RETROSIC's second full-time release is brought to daylight with GOD OF HELL. Harsh arrangements combined with biting vocals remain the immovable centre of THE RETROSIC, now expanding to a fully band line-up behind Cyrus.

Discography:
* Prophecy (2001)
* Messa da Requiem (2002)
* God of Hell (2004)
* Nightcrawler (2006)

The Retrosic - The Storm

The Retrosic - Desperate Youth

Insect Lab

Insect Lab:

Insect Lab is an artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components. Offering specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each insect is individually adorned, each is one of a kind and unique.

Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab's customized insects are a celebration of natural and manmade function. Specimens are presented in custom black shadow boxes or glass dome display, allowing for presentation anywhere.

How did insect lab begin?
One day I found a dead intact beetle. I then located an old wristwatch, thinking of how the beetle also operated and looked like a little mechanical device and so decided to combine the two. After some time dissecting the beetle and outfitting it with watch parts and gears, I had a convincing little cybernetic sculpture. I soon made many more with other found insects and have been exploring and developing the theme ever since.

Artist Bio: I'm a multi-disciplinary artist who makes highly detailed sculptures, models, collages and drawings. Through diverse materials and methodologies, I explore themes of science, nature, fantasy, history and autobiography; highlighting illogical and acute correspondences between the real and unreal.

For the past 8 years, alongside my other body of work, I have enjoyed developing the work presented here as Insect Lab. Insects have always fascinated me and so does human technology, or maybe its more the need for humans to create and use technology that is more intriguing. Either way, the interest for me, and it is slightly a romantic interest, is combining two elements that are very opposite, yet compliment each other conceptually and visually.

Libby Graduated with a degree in Sculpture from RISD in 1999 and has since attended the Vermont Studio Center, been artist-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono. He has been in many solo and group exhibits, in Maine, throughout the US and Canada and is in collections worldwide. He has future shows in Boston, Philadelphia and San Diego and in Februsry 2008 his work from Insect Lab will be featured on the cover of Tachyon Publications "New Weird" anthology, a collection of contemporary science fiction writing.