The Enigma Café bar at Cluj-Napoca in Romania whose constantly moving, Steampunk inspired, time-travel themed interior was designed by Alexandru Tohotan and Zoltan Zelenyak.
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The extraordinary creations of ‘insectophile’ sculptor Eduoard Martinet who repurposes carefully selected car, bicycle and typewriter parts to create Steampunk-style insects and other animals.
His degree of virtuosity is unique: he does not solder or weld parts. His sculptures are screwed together. This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness – but not in a way that merely conveys the dry precision of, say, a watchmaker. There is an X-Factor here, a graceful wit, a re-imagining of the obvious in which a beautifully finished object glows not with perfection, but with character, with new life. Martinet takes about a month to make a sculpture and will often work on two or three pieces at the same time. It took him just four weeks to make his first sculpture and 17 years for his most recent completion!
More at the artist’s website.
If you happen to be in London between November 27th and January 31st, Martinet’s work is on display at Sladmore Contemporary off Berkeley Square.
Like Steampunk?
Loathe British imperial-period ‘stuff’?
Talking to a friend a few days ago who is a sean scoil Steampunker I found him frustrated by the way the movement in Ireland is subsumed into the cod-Victoriana of the Pax Britannica, even by Irish adherences, with no distinctive identity of its own.
The conversation actually came about as part of a discussion relating to the Fenian fáinne Chladaigh and other 19th century Irish Republican memorabilia.
Recently he has moved towards the more welcoming environs of the Belle Époque and his Continental peers and it easy to see why. I’ve written a few unpublished stories in the Steampunk genre myself, using the struggle of the Fenian movement against the British colonial powers in the mid to late 1800s as the background…
Hardcore.
Steampunk in Ireland, Séamas Ó Sionnaigh (An Sionnach Fionn)
Pic via Steampunk Ireland
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An ever-so-fancy robotic steampunk gent created for the current solo art show of UK custom toy designer and artist Bruce ‘Doktor A.’ Whistlecraft.
A Postcard from New Yorkshire – New Works by Doktor A. (My Plastic Heart)
$40-$50 (+$15 shipping) from Etsy seller GreenTreeJewelry.
We’d happily install those lever-style switches just to fit these.
Consurgo (‘To Arise’) is a steampunk-style short From the Utrecht School of Arts students who made Mac ‘n’ Cheese.
A lost ball, a heaving clockwork abomination. Something for all the family.
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Duane Flatmo’s flame-spewing steampunk octopus at Burning Man 2011.
Cephalotastic.
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The Tauruscat Thinking Helmet by steampunk mask and helmet maker Tom Banwell.
Don helmet. Collect aether. Solve economic crisis. And we’re done.
Tom Hardwidge’s Arthrobots are sculptural steampunk insectoids made from watch parts, random metal junk and spent ammunition, polished to a mirror shine.
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Steampunk Star Wars: from the portfolio of Brighton-based graphic artist Bjorn Hurri.
Yoda meets the hookah-smoking Caterpillar from Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
Brilliant.