I friend in England told me via Facebook that she saw me in Bizarre magazine. It was a photo of me as Doktor Von Crankenshaft from the last NYC Fangoria Convention in fall 2009. That was the con I got second place for my costume ( Read more... )

See pictures of me, my wife nex0s and our Steampunk baby Jaeger. You can hear my really bad accent at the end of the mini documentary. It was nice to hang with my friends on one of the days this was shot. Please watch and listen.

BTW ( Read more... )

Can someone tell em the proper time period for this garment? Also is there a specific region that this type of coat design is from? I know military designs tended to be a bit similar in Europe ( Read more... )

I like the classic look. I like timeless silhouettes that are iconic. I am also a person who loves the fall weather. I like coats. I like layers of cloths. I like the cold breeze on my skin and the smell of rotting leaves of an Autumn night ( Read more... )

The most wonderful photographer and historian JR Pepper had a photo of me used for a Steampunk article. The photo was taken by the wonderful tyrus The article is here ( Read more... )

Thanks to jaborwhalky for the links ( Read more... )

Guess who got third place in the Fangoria 1009 NYC convention. No! Not my MOM. ME ( Read more... )

I need to dye the arms of a shirt so they look like they were dyed with blood. I do not want realistic as it would be more orange than red in real life. I want to re-create a shirt I ahve seen where the arms are dyed red to look like the person was just doing surgery ( Read more... )

I forget that there are people on my F-list that are not part of the Steampunk kollectives out in LJ land ( Read more... )

tyrus took some great photos from the Friday night Steampunk Meet-up that happened before Salon Con officially opened. He got some wicked cool shots of my Doktor/Mad Scientist outfit. I used one for my icon. =)

tyrus is the "unofficial" photographer of Salon Con. I prefer to call him the "Official Photographer of Salon Con". He has been there all the years ( Read more... )