Sir John Vincent Hurt (CBE), who will be remembered by so many fondly and with great respect, has passed on aged 77. He was one of the greatest actors of his generation, as his BAFTA awards and nominations clearly show, and his work spanned six decades. To the readers of …
Well, well, 2017… You are hardly four weeks old and from a very personal perspective, you have already had a major impact on my life. In a good way. Let me take a few steps back in time to a time before I started this blog, before I had heard …
Steampunk Hands Around the World is returning for another installment in February 2017 and this year, the participants will be tackling the subject: Steampunk: Making Life Better This is the Press Release, as released by the head organizer and benelovent dictator, the Airship Ambassador: Steampunk Hands Around the World …
I have to thank my friend Stefan Kramperth for this one, he shared it in his stream. I was not aware of this modern parody of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic before, and I almost died laughing. As a heavy internet user and bibliophile who loves Poe almost as much as …
It has been a while since I did a proper steampunk-related post on the blog, so I am going to remedy the situation right now by doing a little feature on this website: SteampunkArtifacts came to my attention via my ætherbox, the owner of the website contacted me …
Something slightly different today: I would like to recommend the Youtube channel of Isaac Arthur to you. It concerns itself with various aspects of futurism, tackling everything from technological utopias, eco-friendly archologies and transhumanism to interstellar colonization and megastructures. All videos cover their respective subject in depth and carry lots …