Steampunk Wallpaper

i say, is that a gear i see? jolly good, yo.

Not dead! Massive set of guest wallpapers to tide you over.

| June 2, 2010

Hey all! No, I’m not dead, I’ve just been very, very busy. For one, I’ve been running a tabletop RPG for 10 people (ye gods, I must be mad) that has taken up a lot of my free time. Yes, of course there are airships in it. It’s a reality-bending modern game set in Oklahoma. […]

Gas Station

| March 28, 2010

Title: Gas StationDescription: Flying H Aero-Type Gas – Purveyors of Quality Protium since 1840. If it’s too subtle, please leave a comment and let me know.  I’ve already had to explain it to about six people that I’ve shown before posting, so I tried to add a few hints.  Comments are good! Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: […]

A request from Woodguy32 – Rusty pipe 2

| March 7, 2010

Title: Industrial – Rusty pipe 2Description: I got an email from an awesome builder of Steampunk computer systems, Woodguy32. He requested a few wallpapers to display on his amazing monitors, and I am delighted to do so! Also, check out his auction for his latest keyboard (ends Mar 07, 201018:56:28 PST, so hurry!)Type: Widescreen, 1600×900Credits: Textures from the […]

Industrial – Patina wall – Widescreen and Fullscreen

| February 13, 2010

Title: Industrial – Patina wallDescription:Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits:  Base texture from a filter from Filterforge

Guest Wallpaper – Snowmobile Trail by Kyle

| February 6, 2010

Title:Snowmobile Trail by KyleDescription: Kyle is back! YAY! Here’s a lovely subtly steampunky wallpaper you could get away with in a corporate invrio; Oh, look, a nice snow scene… wait, what crossing?Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial. Based on this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/456991220/

Industrial – metal wall with poster – Widescreen and fullscreen

| January 24, 2010

Title:Industrial – metal wall with posterDescription: More industrial stuff. Found the poster on the web, and then again at the Arizona Gold Rush page. I am 99% sure it’s genuine… of course, the 1% is gonna bite my ass, you watch.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base texture from a filter from Filterforge, but I dinked with it […]

Industrial – Metal Plate, widescreen and fullscreen

| January 18, 2010

Title:Industrial – Metal PlateDescription: I’ve been asked for some more grunge/industrial wallpapers, so i’ll be going slightly off-topic for a few posts. This one is a rusted to hell diamond-plate, with some mood lighting.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base texture from a filter made by Crapadilla, with Filterforge.

Tan Remix – widescreen and fullscreen

| January 5, 2010

Title:Tan RemixDescription: Some of our long-time viewers may remember this wallpaper. I decided to play with it a bit.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: PS work with a texture from Lost and Taken.

Repeating Pipes

| December 26, 2009

Title: Repeating pipes.Description: Holidays are done, back to wallpapers!Type: Seamless, 256×256Credits: This awesome picture from Elsie Esq is Creative Commons.  😀 EDIT: uploaded the wrong one. Finished one is now showing. 😀

Simple Walls, 1 – wide and full + note

| December 12, 2009

Hey, all. Thank you for your patience as we work through things. Theme is still odd; we’re working on it. At least it’s not erroring out now, yes? I give you a simple wallpaper in penance; my desktop is so full of icons from hunting down the bugs that I needed something non-distracting. Enjoy! Title:Simple […]

Guest Wallpaper: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob Kleeman

| November 16, 2009

Title: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob KleemanDescription: Rob was kind enough to let us post this. Isn’t it awesome? I love the watercolor look, as if some inventor was scribling on his blotter and grabbed a brush to quickly rough in his designs. Nice job, Rob!Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Created by Rob Kleemen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share […]

Nanowrimo Wallpaper 2 – Widescreen and Fullscreen

| October 31, 2009

Title:Nanowrimo Wallpaper 2Description:More wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month! One day till the madness takes us!Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: mostly straight PS work, with some textures overlayed from Lost and Taken. Again.

Nanowrimo Wallpaper 1 – Widescreen and Fullscreen

| October 24, 2009

Title: Nanowrimo Wallpaper 1Description: A somber, brown wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month, where a bunch of us go insane and each write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Sound like fun? Join us! (pretend that last part isn’t spoken like I’m a zombie, will you?)Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, […]

Steamtrain, leaving the station – widescreen and fullscreen

| October 17, 2009

Title: Steamtrain, leaving the stationDescription: Minor manipulations and tone/color washing, but the train and steam are genuine. I fell in love with this picture when I came across it on Flickr.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Creative Commons Licensed derivative of infomatique‘s beautiful picture “Steam Train – Leaving Connolly Station”

Boiler room, part 3

| October 16, 2009

Title: Boiler room, part 3Description: Exhaust steam from computation engine enters from the pipe on the left, and proceeds to the smokebox, whereby the pressure is directed in an upwards direction through the smokestack and out into the atmosphere with ample velocity.  This drafts the fire, in accordance with the air-less space vacuum state this […]

Spelunk! – Widescreen

| October 11, 2009

Title: Spelunk!Description: Made to be a low contrast “movie poster” wallpaper, so that icons show up well.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Based off the picture by magikstock. She has neat stuff.

Boiler room, part 2 – Fullscreen and widescreen

| October 9, 2009

Title: Boiler room, part 2 Description: Well, I suppose the pipes probably go there…but where else? grungetextures.com/gallery/pic.php?id=626(by-nc when previously available) www.flickr.com/photos/chibijosh/67266910/(by-nc at the time of writing)  www.flickr.com/photos/redcritter86/3916858951/(by-nc-sa at the time of writing)  www.flickr.com/photos/broughturner/2330342519/(by-nc at the time of writing)  www.flickr.com/photos/helzerman/2543318402/(by-sa at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/joeross/2498377434/(by-nc at the time of writing) License: Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, […]

Fullscreen and widescreen: Boiler room, part 1

| October 2, 2009

Title: Boiler room, part 1Description: I wonder where that pipe goes? Based off of these: [link](by-nc as of 2009-06-21) [link](by as of 2011-10-27) [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-27) Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial *EDIT* Made with Adobe Photoshop

Widescreen and fullscreen- Tophat

| September 27, 2009

Title: TophatDescription: A chapeau for those with discriminating tastes…Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Textures from Lost and Taken. Tophat source from rattified.

Fullscreen and widescreen: The Docks

| September 25, 2009

Title: The Docks Description: Better calibrate your monitors for this one – it’s pretty dark. Based off of these: [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-30) [link](by-nc-sa as of 2011-10-30) [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-30) Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike *EDIT* Made with Adobe Photoshop