Steam Weekend: machinery in motion
Steam Weekend: day one. I said I was taking the weekend off from Steam Week, so I will keep it short and just show a little eye candy and extra stuff I have collected. Above, a necklace I made last night, dying to put my new stuff into action, even though it is only a flat tile. I just received these brass hinged frames from Ornamentea, and it just happened to fit in perfectly! Most of the rest of the brass is from Vintaj Natural Brass Co. with a few little brass charms and accents from here and there. Below, a few more process shots of works in progress. I used the gear mold and the original carving to make another positive and negative pressing. These will be cleaned up and sharpened, and fired hotter, to shrink them down. In the end, the goal is to have a variety of molds and stamps of the gear design in different sizes that I can press into clay.
I hope you will drop by the Art Bead Scene blog today, I did a post that is sort of a synopsis of my week of steam so far, and there is an opportunity to win a free gear component by leaving a comment and answering my question about inspiration.
I found this great video of some behind the scenes, process clips of steampunk band Abney Park with their song "Airship Pirates". Check out their website, too, its beautiful! I love the idea of a music band, or authour or artist for that matter, dressing in full fantasy costume to perform. I could see myself doing that at a show or convention selling my wares...Chuck and I always wanted to do Renaissance festivals where the vendors dress up in costume. Although the reality of braving the hot summer sun in a corset and velvet sounds like pure hell to me.
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Here is a little more Abney Park, this one is a fan video of "Thorns and Brambles" set to scenes from the movie Mirror Mask, a Neil Gaiman story. I have not seen this yet, it's on my agenda for tonight. It looks really cool!
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