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Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
Hey, all. I know that I’ve been MIA, but I’m still working on some things. Still taking submissions, though. 😀
Site is NOT dead. I repeat, the site is NOT DEAD.
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Title: CyberHippie’s Steampunk wallpaper Description: Great, simple wallpaper from CyberHippie. Thanks, man! Type: Fullscreen?, 1398×916 Credits: Copyright CyberHippie. (http://customsteampunk.com/ looks like a landing page. Cyber, is that the correct URL?
Title: Steam Organ Description: …otherwise known as a calliope. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024, Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Original by Nick Treby http://www.flickr.com/photos/biggleswadeblue/3071236476/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Notes: Sorry, folks, for not posting in a while. I was out of town for about a week, and felt like I was getting into a rut, so I thought I’d take a breather for a while.
**EDIT** If you haven’t seen a real calliope before, please do. They’re quite cool.
Title: Absinthe Lab Description: Here at J.M. Smythe Absinthe Co., we take pride in our product. “Experimentation is the key to the perfect taste!” Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits:
Title: Steam Train Gears Description: That was its original title. A close-up shot of some Walschaerts valve gear on a steam locomotive. Valve gear is (fittingly enough) what drives the valves, to offset the valve movement from that of the piston, and controls whether the engine runs forward or backward. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Again, by Curious Expeditions http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/633609178/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Title: Inner Workings Description: No idea what this thing is, but it’s cool! Cropped, resized, and minor retouching. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Another wonderful original by Curious Expeditions http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/632777127/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Title: Disused gear Description: Nice shot of an old gear, rotated, cropped, and resized. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Original by Stef Lewandowski http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeioux/107522319/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
Title: Airship Cabin Description: The cabin of an airship! I’ve actually been working on this one for months now, and just decided to call it done and post it. Type: Widescreen, 1920×1080 & 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits:
Title: Dynamo Description: A really cool shot of a dynamo at Strasburg (which is known far and wide for their repair shop). Pretty much straight from the source, with just some cropping and resizing. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinkemmerer/2593678907/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Title: Clockwork 2 Description: Somewhat of an experiment, color-wise. Let me know what you think. Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glamhag/1815409643/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
I finally bought my new Wacom pen for my tablet, so as soon as it gets here I’ll be doing more orginal stuff. In the mean time, here’s an awesome wallpaper submitted by Brigid Ashwood!
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Title: Firefly Description: Cool steampunkian fairy by Brigid Ashwood. A lot of her stuff is awesome. Go look. She also has this totally KICK ASS (but non wallpaper) Steam Bee locket… Type: Fullscreen, 1024×768 Credits: Copyright Brigid Ashwood.
Title: Steampunk Graffiti Description: Brad says “Latest graffiti design using Steampunk style.” This is a pretty cool reimagining of the steampunk style. It’s got a lot of steampunk elements, but is very different from a purely Victorian or classical feel. This is the more subversive side of steampunk. Thanks, Brad! Type: Widescreen, 1920×1080 Credits:http://www.graffititechnica.com/Graffiti_steampunk.html License: Brad says “My whole take on the license is do whatever you want, don’t sell it, modify it but link back to original or keep the graffiti tech logo on it.” I’d call that a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
Also, Brad gave us the PSD to play with! I want remixes, people. Put them in the comments or send them to me. There may be prizes… you never know.
Title: Clockwork Description: What can I say, it’s just a really cool photo. Pretty much no retouching – just resizing/cropping. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Joseph O’Connellhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joconnell/539761408/ License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Same as above. License: Same as above.
Hey, all. Kyle is reporting some weird behavior: the website seems to be ‘double’ on some computers. Please let me know if the website ‘starts over’ at the bottom of the page. If this is something a lot of people are seeing, then it might be the source of the persistent site slowness.
If you ARE seeing it, can you drop a comment with your browser type in the post? I’m going to try to get this quantified and fixed as soon as possible.
Thanks all!
Mouse
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EDIT: Wow. Looks like a lot of you are seeing this. Ironically, as soon as I posted the poll, the same behavior started happening for me. I’ll dig into it, see what’s going on. I’d still appreciate comments; more symptoms = better diagnosis.
Thanks all!
EDIT 2: Looks like Patch may have figured it out. I had the WP-cache module turned on to try to speed the site up; it was the cached pages that were showing up so oddly. If you read this, please try reloading the page and tell me if you are still getting the problem. I’ve put a new option up in that poll. 😀
Mouse has decided to take me on as an apprentice SteampunkWallpaper-er! I only hope I can be useful enough to merit it (and not mess everything up too bad ). But please, if you see anything I can improve on, let me know. Feedback is welcome, good or bad.
Anyway, this one’s pretty much just an extended version of this photo:
). But please, if you see anything I can improve on, let me know. Feedback is welcome, good or bad.