This transmission brings you an assortment of oddments, including a sartorial and historical lesson from Sir Brandon Fitzroy Hill, Master of Blades and Hats; and, notably, a partial reconstruction of a most educational conversation with Jake Von Slatt himself ( I am quite hopeful that the rest of that Maurice will be successful in rescuing the rest of that conversation from the damaged communication cylinder). As always, Correspondent Chris Fisher provides the latest in happenings both corporeal and virtual — notations are below.

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If you don’t have a ticket for the Steampunk Convention this weekend (now sold out), fear not.  On Friday, you can attend the INFERNO Paradiso Halloween at The Regency Center in San Francisco.

A Devilishly Angelic Soiree at 1270 Sutter Street @ Van Ness/ SF, 9pm-4am.
Tickets are $30 presale, $40 door – large group discounts available, and can be purchased online @ InTicketing . Tickets are also available through Streetlight Records (3979 24th St. @ Noe) & Tweekin Records (593 Haight St. @Steiner).

Dress to die for, discover paradise, and climb the stairway to sin! Join the Costume Extravaganza, experience the surreal between this world and the afterlife, PARADISO & INFERNO!  Complete info, tickets, links at…
www.paradox-media.com/inferno

Enjoy your All Hallow’s Eve! 

Chris Fisher, CSO HMA Ingenuity (field promotion).  I’ll be attending the steampunk ball at the convention solo as Agatha Heterodyne in a pith helmet (our chief engineer is seeing to some repairs on the Ingenuity), so please ask for a dance!

A few events slipped in after the upcoming episode’s data cylinder was sent to the HMS Astrolabe, but that doesn’t mean everyone should miss them!

This Saturday the 25th, a Steampunk-themed day from 11-6 at the Brooklyn Indie Market will feature a 2pm fashion show.  Look for the red-and-white striped tent in Carroll Gardens at the intersection of Smith and Union Street.  http://brooklynindiemarket.com/images/400x519_bim.jpg

Chris Fisher, CSO HMA Ingenuity (field promotion)

For your amusement and edification, please allow me to present a pair of aethernet essays on the nature of Steampunk.

The first is from Stephen H. Segal’s recent column on Fantasy Magazine.

And I would be extremely remiss if I did not point you towards the words of Bruce Sterling himself in a post on GOGBOT.

Columbus, Ohio has an event this Friday.  http://www.barofmodernart.com/club/images/poster54.jpg

Your Western and Electronic Frontiers Correspondent, Chris Fisher

September 19, Opening of the movie Igor

September, 20 2008 09:00 PM – Unextraordinary Gentlemen playing at the CIA (California Institute of Abnormal Arts) – w/Harlequin Jones, Red Light District & others TBA 11334 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, California 91601 – $10 ALL AGES – w/Harlequin Jones, Red Light District & others TBA

Gears, Goggles and Gilding Saturday September 20th 11:30ishSaint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish New Hampshire After the picnic, the Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont. Cornish is located about 2 hours north of Boston. Admission to the park is $5.

Sept 20- Decatur, Pirate Palooza Expect at least a few Airship Pirates to invade.

Sept 20-21 Unofficial Fop event

Sept 21- The Western Warship Combat Club is engaging in combat. 1/144 scale ship combat to be held at Penitencia Ponds.

September, 26-28 2008 at The NY Anime Festival Voltaire playing.

Sept. 26- Abney Park is playing in Seattle, 9pm, $13, 21 and over at Heaven, 172 South Washington Street. Part of the Seattle Steampark Party.

Saturday Sept 27th, Gainesville, FL. Picnic at the memorial park on Tower Rd (they have a nice wooded area and standing stones) and maybe the fossil room of the museum.

Sept. 27-28…GEEK.KON Madison Wisconsin, a gathering place where all geeks can find their own PG-13 geek fun. news rss feed to keep informed of any updates.

Santa Rosa, CA Sept 28 The Handcar Regatta invites Builders, Tinkerers and Artists to create and then race a Human Powered Rail Bound Vehicle for the adoring public. Also a Steam Trunk Craft Show.

Sept 28, Atlanta, GA, 6pm. Can’t Stop the Serenity event, $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Plaza Atlanta, 1049 Ponce de Leon.

Oct 3-5, Silicon in San Jose, CA at the Doubletree. Science Alley, dancing, and steamy socialization.

Oct 10- Necronomicon in St. Pete. Steampunk Fashion panel on Friday, October 10th at 4pm.

Oct 12- Combat and BBB 15k tons and over at 1/144 scale ship combat to be held at Penitencia Ponds.

Scream Fest 2008, October 17-19th Scream Fest/Wyndham Orlando Resort, Voltaire playing

Oct 18, 2008. The soapbox race takes place in Dolores Park and is sponsored by Redbull -
It’s not only about the fastest car (they’ll be racing against the clock), racers are being judged on “flair” and “an outrageous skit” on stage with their “pit crew”.

Oct. 18th and 19th, 2008, Austin, TX Maker Faire Austin:

Sunday, October 19, 2008 – 11:00 am ‘til 6:00 pm, Capsule Design Festival – Hayes Valley Park – Octavia and Hayes Streets, San Francisco, CA 94102 160 clothing, jewelry, children’s, lifestyle and accessory designers along with artists and musicians. Music on the green, courtesy of Flavor Group, and other special events to be announced.

Eccentrik Festival is an annual music festival held in the Raleigh, NC area in the month of October Eccentrik Festival V (2008) will be held October 23 to 26, 2008. All events will be held at HELL in Chapel Hill, NC. Post-mortem brunch to be held on Sunday (10.26.08). Bands and DJs from around the world. art show, vendors, and we also hope to add variety acts and a fashion show as we grow.

October, 25 2008 at Flint’s Vampire Ball, Historic Masonic Temple , 755 S. Saginaw Street, Flint, Michigan Voltaire playing. Cost : $20 in advance, $25 at the door- 21 and over ONLY please – must have valid ID.. doors open at 9:00 (tentative).. Voltaire Showtime TBA.

Unused Online Delights for Your amusement:

TV Transmitter goes Portable via the Modern Mechanix- Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today!

A Gentleman’s Duel via a delightfully animated video. Site plays immediately with audio.

The Typing Ball is shiny.

Good heavens, the retrofuture is exciting.

Photographs of WW1 aviation related uniforms from the collection of the 1914-18 Aviation Heritage Trust.

Even experienced sewers can find themselves confused by vintage patterns. This article explains some of the differences in markings to unravel the mysteries.

Rube Goldberg lives, and he wants your Cadbury candy!

As mentioned during the interview: How to tie an Ascot

Share your event, info, or favorite site with the rest of the Spectacular listeners by emailing it to podcast@gettingby.net.

 

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Chris Fisher, CSO HMA Ingenuity (field promotion), loading data cylinder now.  In all the rush of the rescue mission, the hyperlink actuators were damaged.  Here are the links for sites mentioned in the News and Online Delights segment for the fourth RSS communique from the HMS Astrolabe.  More September info will be text-posted or audio-transmitted when I have had the lab cadets analyze the masses of info from DragonCon.

August 2008: A few new steamy groups have coalesced!

http://community.livejournal.com/steamconsortium/ Houston, you now have a steampunk consortium. 

http://www.myspace.com/ozarksteampunksociety

http://groups.google.com/group/DorkbotBoston/browse_thread/thread/349110fe7d5b4e74?hl=en Boston area workspace collective is… well, collecting.

Unofficial Fop Day in the UK http://www.stoneorchid.co.uk/ufd/cofe.htm

Malediction and/or the LA Dead http://www.ladead.com/ lists several recurring performances, I’m assuming in LA,  and details can be found through that site.

-Sept 6, San Francisco Bay Area- PEERS’ third venture in a Victorian Steampunk event: Space 1899 – a Victorian Ball in Space.  Pre-ball dance class at 7:00 pm.  http://www.peers.org/events.html

anachrotechnofetishism art show link Seattle  September 12th-October 3rd. The usual suspects are all there.

Saturday, September 13= Egypt Explorer’s Picnic: San Jose’s Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Picnic Tea at 2pm, museum at 3 p.m.  Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose. $35 per person — admisson to museum and themed favor included). Advanced registration required.  For more information, or to R.S.V.P., contact southbayladiesteaguild@yahoo.com. The South Bay Ladies’ Tea Guild always open to new members and guests.

Sept 13th & 14th…..Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago (pending)   www.renegadecraft.com

http://www.salonconvention.com/ Sept 13,F-Sun,  Somerset NJ a Victorian convention for the 21t century.  The event will include a performance by Abney Park and a tea.  This sounds just lovely…

Online Delights for Your Amusement: 

http://www.bathsheba.com/

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/ a cross-Atlantic art installation of the steamy variety occurring in London and New York.

http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2008/04/automaton-by-vichy-clockwork-mechanism.html “This is the repaired inner mechanism of a Vichy automaton made in France in 1875. The complete automaton depicts a lady who breathes, closes her eyes, turns her head, fans herself, and lifts her glasses to her eyes.”

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/05/art-center-pasadena-shows-yama.html A wearable motorcycle concept machine that is sleek and lovely.  Wearable, functional art.

http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/720619.html the creature case tutorial, of interest to the hunter and unfortunate hunted alike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Fantasia Japan has a new Steampunk-styled game for the Xbox 360 and PS3.  The Guilty Gear people are behind this one.  No news yet on ex-Japan release dates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceq6wKRM-Jg the Adventures of Captain Mouse, for your viewing pleasure.  Music immediately upon opening site.

http://www.airshipventures.com/ Commercial zeppelins live again in Germany and now the U.S.!!

Share your event, info, or favorite site with the rest of the Spectacular listeners by emailing it to podcast@gettingby.net.  Until next month, this is Chris Fisher, CSO HMA Ingenuity, your Elec and W Frontiers correspondent, signing out.

Greetings, long lost friends! The HMS Astrolabe makes port once again, after and extended journey to exotic parts. Correspondent Chris Fisher has all kinds of steamy news, The Archivist Matt Wallace brings us some more lessons of an interesting nature, and you just might have the opportunity to meet one of the other members of our rather motley band of travelers.

If perchance you are attending the festivities known as DragonCon, keep a wary eye out. Correspondent Chris Fisher and I will be skulking about, and we would be delighted to make your acquaintance.

I do apologize for the lack of show notes for this episode. The crew of the HMS Astrolabe is grateful to have made port at all, and while I do hope to be able to post notations for your edification, it is of utmost importance that I join my crew for a spot of much-needed Rest and Recreation.

 

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