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)

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

Your Western and Electronic Frontiers Correspondent, Chris Fisher

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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.

Thanks to listener Adam Morey, our little endeavor now has a wallpaper that you can place upon your very own aether-ready difference engine, should you desire. It is available in two resolutions, please choose the one that suits your needs.  You can find both sized in the shiny new flickr feed.  Enjoy!

Greetings, adventurers!  Due to unforeseen circumstances, the second episode of Steampunk Spectacular is going to be a wee bit late.  It will be worthwhile, I promise you.  Your patience is greatly appreciated.