31.5.2009 by Traveler.

Lang lebe der Kaiser (Friedrich III that is)!

Today’s  featured article in the English Wikipedia is the Imperial German battlecruiser SMS von der Tann.

Oh happy day!

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31.5.2009 by Traveler.

The Air Kraken is the bane of every, Steampunk, Gentleman /Lady Explorer and Zeppelin captain. The species has become rare in recent years, migrational patterns suggest it has largely relocated into the deep æther. However, Simoan Cephalopod was lucky enough to be able to take this picture:

Also, please visit the gallery.

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25.5.2009 by Traveler.

the site Revealing the Link.

Everything about the aformentioned fossil Ida,  Darwinisimus Masillae.

Enjoy!

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23.5.2009 by Traveler.

I just have to share this:

While browsing the ætherweb for steam-related stuff I came across the following image, looks rather like Penny-farthing with a minature steam engine attached to it. very nifty, enterprising and definitely steampunk!

I really need to come up with a little bit more but I do not feel particularily creative right now.

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20.5.2009 by Traveler.

Today is a beautiful day for a Steampunk and amateur Scientist

And it is such a day in at least three ways and you neer know what else this day holds in store, but three fortunate things have already come to pass:

1. Steampunk and Cthulhu

While browsing Brassgoggles again, as I do almost every day, I stumbled across the private aetherdomain of a fellow Steampunk who shares the love of Lovecraft and his work and is far more capable than I am to visualize this love in art.
Visit the Miskatonic Archive. Do it! Do not delay!

2. Another missing link has been found

Take that creationists! Darwinius Masillae. A transitional fossil and yet another piece in the line of human evolution.
Google actually celebrates this groundbreaking discovery with the following image (all rights reserved by Google, no challenge to copyright intended, I just thought this image is so great, I had to put it up here):

3. It is a fine and sunny day

And finally, it is simply a really nice, sun-shiny and warm day. Great!

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19.5.2009 by Traveler.

Imagine that:

Travelling to R’lyeh by Zeppelin… What an epic journey this would be!

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16.5.2009 by Traveler.

I’ve been wondering about the whole Steampunk-Dieselpunk-Cyberpunk connection again… Where does which subculture end and where does the other begin? It is kind of an irrelevant question, really. Dieselpunk and Steampunk have a lot in common anyway and a lot of it happens in and on the ætherweb, so there is a deffinite connection to cyberpunk there. But this is actually just a random musing, because this entry is about something else:

How normal is normal for one our kind? In this specific case I am talking (or writing, as the case may be) once again about clothing. In todays environment, there are so many deviations from the fashion mainstream that even as a Steampunk or Dieselpunk you have to dress up in full gear in order to attract attention (which reminds me, I plan to wear my breaches and riding boots tmorrow…) but this is often not entirely practical, especially if you have a day job.

A good suit - High quality Steampunk-Dieselpunk gear for the office

My prefered solution to the problem is simple: Dress up! And in this context I mean: Simply be well dressed. In a world which is often dominated by overly casual dresscodes, you can make a stand and a point by wearing a suit, if you choose a classic style and not a more recent, fashionable one, you stand out and noone can call you a freak and you will not endadnger your day job (provided you don’t have a very fixed dress code at work), which in these times would be a really bad idea.

So, just dress smartly, wear a suit, black or tan colours. Being well dressed is no longer very normal and a good way of standing out and setting an example to the masses (oh I am so elitist).

Besides: Suits are steamy and diesely, as far as I am concerned, especially if you combine them with the right shirt.

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14.5.2009 by Traveler.

As anounced in the previous post, two images of Nini!

かわいい の チホウアホウア (Cute Chihuahua)

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10.5.2009 by Traveler.

Yesterday the usual crew went on extended outing in two stages:

1. As a surrogate trip to Japan we went to a highly recommended Japanese restaurant(not the one I frequnt every week, which is the Kushiage Enn) that’s the cuisine part of the adventure
2. The new Star Trek movie which was released in Germany last Thursday, we went to watch that one afterwards.

As a Steampunk and a gentleman I enjoy a good meal in the company of my wife and friends and we were all looking foreward to the dinner. It started out really well. The entrée, I had Goma Ae, Japanese spinach with sesame sauce, was absolutely delicous and really enjoyable. After that, the trouble started:

The staff was really slow to deliver the main courses, the second drink I received was not the one I ordered and when the main course finally did arrive (15 minutes before we had to leave for the cinema and after having waited for almost an hour) they got things mixed up and my wife got something she hadn’t ordered and which was not vegetarian. The Ebi I had (my favourite Japanese dish) were also not quite up to the standrds my good friend Matsubara-san provides.

However: We made the acquaintance of some very nice young Japanese people who were sitting at the table next to us. They were quite surprised, when I told the girl “Daijobu desu” when her Chihuahua, Nini, crawled onto my wife’s velvet jacket.  Apparently they did not expect us to be able to speak Japanese, well. I can’t really. I just know enough to find my way around. Nevertheless, we got into a little conversation, partly in German and partly in Japanese and now are friends with Nini. I shall put up a dew photos of Nini later.

So, this dinner wasn’t all that great an experience which was more than made up for by the Star Trek movie:

Without wanting to spoil it anything, I have to say this:

The movie is so much fun and has action, humor, unexpected romance, some nice twists and some plot holes and a convoluted time line, but that’s OK since the plot revolves around a spacetime anomaly anyway. I would have prfered a slightly different ending but as my friend Timo suggested: “Now they can again go on and make a dozen more films.”

And this would be a great prospect with this new crew on board the Enterprise!

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7.5.2009 by Traveler.

Yesterday was the day the Hindenburg went up in flames at Lakehurst in 1937, and with her, all the dreams and visions of the glorious age of Zeppelins cruising majestically around the globe. But who knows, perhaps one day Zeppelins return in style and glory.

 May the Zeppelins rise again like Phoenix from the ashes!

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