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This just in....

STEAMPUNK MOVES BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/f...10910400&en=3b9ed4dedca8f170&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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From left, Deacon Boondini, the Great Gatsby and Giovanni James of the James Gang share a vision with the designer Alexander McQueen

(Looks like they have the Will Smith WILD, WILD WEST thing goin')

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/05/07/style/0508-PUNK_index.html

“MEET Showtime,” said Giovanni James, a musician, magician and inventor of sorts, introducing his prized dove, who occupies a spacious cage in Mr. James’s apartment in Midtown Manhattan. Showtime is integral to Mr. James’s magic act and to his décor, a sepia-tone universe straight out of the gaslight era.

The lead singer of a neovaudevillian performance troupe called the James Gang, Mr. James has assembled his universe from oddly assorted props and castoffs: a gramophone with a crank and velvet turntable, an old wooden icebox and a wardrobe rack made from brass pipes that were ballet bars in a previous incarnation.

Yes, he owns a flat-screen television, but he has modified it with a burlap frame. He uses an iPhone, but it is encased in burnished brass. Even his clothing — an unlikely fusion of current and neo-Edwardian pieces (polo shirt, gentleman’s waistcoat, paisley bow tie), not unlike those he plans to sell this summer at his own Manhattan haberdashery — is an expression of his keenly romantic worldview.


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This is steampunkishly real -
http://www.armchairgunshow.com/ot57-pix/CU-ZNDA.jpg
Montenegrin - Gasser revolver - from Stembridge Armory, used in movies including use by Stewart Granger or James Mason in PRISONER OF ZENDA. - .44 cal. - 5.5" barrel. - Good condition. - Fairly smooth brown metal; markings probably from Stembridge include "120 S" (inventory number?) and "5 in 1" & "5-1" (indicates to be used with five-in-one blanks). Original markings include various proofs & "For 44 Winchester Cartridge". Needs trigger return spring, otherwise working; very dirty bore. Nicely yellowed old bone grips. - With tags of poster & photos from the movie, including stills of the gun being used in the film. - This gun is documented by photo, s/n & description as a Stembridge gun with specific movie attribution in the Little John’s Auction catalog, 6/5/07. s/n - 19 - antq - item #CU-Znda - $2,700
 

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I read the NYT article this morning... the James Gang looked fabulous. Steampunk is one of those things that is stunning when it's well-done. Forget the clean look! I want tweed patterns, ruffles, tea-stained silks, cavalry coats, jabots, bustles, walking sticks, brass fittings and... doohickeys! :D

It mentions Mr. James is opening a haberdashery sometime this summer... I'll have to dig up the info for it. I'll be itching to get in there.
 

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I look forward to checking out the place.
Mr. James, who performs with his troupe at the Box, the music-hall hideaway on the Lower East Side, has just leased space for a steampunk shop in NoLIta. He plans to offer brass Rubik’s cubes, riding boots, early-20th-century-style motorbikes, handmade leather mailbags and brass or wooden iPhone cases, all under the label TJG Engineering.
 

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Feraud said:
I look forward to checking out the place.

Field trip!

And on another topic: someone tell winter to come back. The beginning of summer and I just now find this coat for sale? Unfair, I say.

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For you steampunk loving ladies, it's from Newport News of all places and comes in mulberry, black, and double espresso shades.
 

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Several words jump out at me from that post above about the James Gang....

re the ipod covered in burnished brass..... I'd love an ipod cover made out of brass.....
 

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Shearer said:

I was thinking Sam Kinnison, but that'll work too.

Shearer said:
I'm getting a lot of peer pressure to buy it... I'll just have to move to a colder climate at some point :p

Then wear less clothes underneath the coat... :D


Edward said:
re the ipod covered in burnished brass..... I'd love an ipod cover made out of brass.....

A smart man... a fast man.. * would stock such a thing, when he opened his shop (as mentioned in the article). You should email him or have one of the NewYawk FLers ask, on their first visit.


* Mad Max reference
 

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The NYT steampunk article that never was...

(From my view, all the replys from Story's post about the steampunk article in the Times are gone! FL seems to have eaten everything in the thread since February. Who knows if it will come back, and who knows if this will show up, but here goes...)

From Richard Morgan:

In the summer of 2007, I suggested to the New York Times that they should run a story on steampunk culture -- how it had broken beyond mere tinkerers into domestic life. They gave it a green light and then killed the story for reasons unknown. I usually don't exhibit unpublished work, but after the Times ran its own new steampunk culture story, I thought -- in the vein of steampunk's attention to revisionist alternative histories -- that it would appropriate. So here it is, untitled and unaccredited.

And a link to his unpublished steampunk article.
 

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Good Lord, the Eater of Threads has struck!

Yay! Good job, whoever brought this back!

Now, whose French is up to par?
http://www.worldtempus.com/wt/1/11615/7859

And I found this slightly disturbing video
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Story said:
And I found this slightly disturbing video
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Oooh!! I love you all of a sudden!

I saw this on TV with my brother a while back (I think it was over Christmas) and couldn't remember what it was called!
 

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TheKitschGoth said:
Oooh!! I love you all of a sudden!!

Just buy me breakfast then. ;) Noodle around youtube using 'Steampunk', there's some pretty imaginative vids out there.
 

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