Allow to chill. Place the slotted spoon across the top of the glass. Place the sugar cube on the spoon. The esential oils from the plants are very unstable in the alcohol solution, so adding cold water breaks the chemical bonds and releases the oils. Because different flavor molecules are released at slightly different rates of dilution, going slowly allows the flavors to emerge one at a time.
Then drink it at the same leisurely pace, without going to any extra lengths to keep it cold. As the drink warms, the flavors continue to emerge.
The entire family will enjoy the spectacle of Machinist Performances in the Gallery, have lunch at the Cafe, and take in the industrial majesty of the giant metal Tree. Warehouses, and gradually introduced to the public for delights never seen before.
For the Season, the Mechanical Spider is the newest edition, and the park opens on November 3rd and runs through December 31st. The park closes for the Holiday and reopens January 4th through Aprl 7th. For the crafty and hands-on types, it my be fun to try your hand at Mad-Hattery. An iconic staple of any Steampunk wardrobe is the over-accessorized Top Hat, which you can attempt to make yourself here, or can find any number of for sale on Etsy.
Clocks, cogs, and moving parts might indicate an engineer or mechanic, while goggles and glasses might indicate an Airship pirate or captain, and lace and feathers generally indicate an Aristocrat. The strap you see is actually a pair of goggles on the other side, giving the appearance that I can see through the back of the hat, presumably using hidden aether-based technology.
One could even use flowers or a pocketwatch on a chain. The possibilities are only limited by your imagnation. You Will Need: rivet setter hammer knife or rotary cutter cutting mat rulers leather hole punch marking pencil leather dye and a dauber 20 or so rivets mink oil leather finish bailing wire sewing machine.
Take measurements. The Brim. Cut this out of a piece of leather. The Top. Cut this piece also from leather. The Sideband. The length should be the same measurent as the circumference. The Shape.
That rectangle you just made? Cut it into 2 Waves, and then in half. The high part of the wave mark the front and back of the hat, and the low part marks the sides. Cut two large triangle inserts.
These are the tie-together pieces. Step 7 Assembly. Center the side-pieces on the top of the hat, and sew together. Next, sew the Triangles to the Top of the hat to cover the gaps. DO NOT sew them to the sides. Pull the Brim over the sides, lining up the oval long points, and sew together. Roll the outer edeges of the Brim and hem, slowly running the Bailey Wire through.
Slower is better. Carefully mark the overlap of your Sides and Triangles. Punch your rivet holes where marked and set the rivets. Step 9 Steam, Set, Shape!
Using old-fashioned water vapor, iether from a tea kettle or a professional garment steamer, hold the hat over the steam for 20 secends. Bend into shape as it cools. Repeat section by section until desired shape is reached. Step 10 Step Apply the dye color to the hat as desired. Then apply an appropriate finish, such as a heavy coating of mink oil, and let dry 24 hours.
Buff away excess oil. Honorable Mentions Amazing Alice and Wonderland steampunk, mad hatter hat. Made with the highest quality top hat and antiqued metal steampunk goggles. This piece of art makes a wonderful statement. Battery operated butterfly for cool effect! Ivory felt top hat with with baroque black lace overlay, buttoned corset work front section, merry widow face veil, fine tulle rear mid back veil, black ostrich feathers and black and ivory satin ribbons.
Handmade in Scotland. Steamgirl Kato Who exactly is Kato? She is the Steampunk supermodel if ever there was one. She comes from humble beginnings in Wales, an artist father and school principal mother raised four daughters.
Born Kate Lambert, she decided to become a Fashion Illustrator and attended art school. In , she moved to the United States. Los Angeles and then Portland. Modeling her own designs gave way to steamgirl. Think Suicide Girls a la Victoriana.
Steampunk Couture designs can be purchsed from Dracula Clothing, based in Romania. Steampunk fashion takes many forms and I think that my style allows for accessorizing and further customizing by the wearer. The Do-It-Yourself mentality is the heart of the steampunk culture. I found the vanity, painted the stool and re-purposed an Ikea frame that I painted and used to frame the mirror.
Then, in a interview for Hollywood Noir, she opened up a bit more about her life, her ambitions, and her achievements. I also play the piano a lot, but nothing spectacular, just lots of Chico Marx impressions. I like nailing film scores and tv show themes like Q: When did your love of steampunk culture first emerge? It was nice to discover that this style had a name. In a Tumblr interview for Alt Girl Botherer, Kato revealed that her interests, and body of works, were expanding into other Q: Besides fashion design what else are you passionate about?
A: Gardening! Q: You started off making couture clothing from your kitchen table. What was it that made you begin this incredible journey in the first place?
Then when I emigrated to the US, I had steady work that allowed me the freedom and time to pursue my career in.
Wearing your beautiful bustle dress with some raggedy, fingerless leather gloves and spraying your hair up into a mohawk. Q: There is a real sense of drama in the clothes you produce. Have you ever been approached to work in the film and TV industry? A: Project Runway bug me every year. I have not watched TV for over 6 years. Are there any styles or particular genres of fashion you would like to branch out into, or do you feel you can explore all elements within your current style?
I would like to move more in to the futuristic, sleeker side of fashion and bring out some show-stopping, utterly unique in every stitch, designs but keep it wearable.
Stay tuned! Q: Do the stylistic choices and flair present in all your clothes infiltrate into other elements of your life? So every room is a live-in set from a grand Victo-. I used to build sets for TV and film so am a dab hand with a power tool and also know how to make something look a million bucks on a shoe string budget.
I gave myself three months to complete my house when I moved in this year, but it ended up taking over five. But what really brought Kato into the limelight was the website, Steamgirl.
In an interview with The Steampunk Chronicle in , she spilled the beans on everything about the erotic project. Q: What inspired you to launch Steamgirl? A: The demand for my photography was as strong as it was for my clothing and people were requesting more than mere posters and prints.
As there was no one creating Steampunk erotic photography or videos, and I have years of experience in fashion, styling, hair, makeup and photography, I decided to go for it. Q: What was the creative process in bringing Steamgirl from idea to live site? A: I first put a little word out about the idea via a private, admin facebook page and immediatelty received a bite from someone who had experience in creating adult websites.
He put me in touch with the current web developer that I work with today. He built the site based on my designs and then referred me to a webmaster who updates it each week with the content that I send him. During this time, I shot about 72 photo sets and 13 videos ready for editing and adding to the site for its launch day.
The reality of spending just over a year trying to create something that, in reality, should have been very simple, was in actual fact, gruesome, expensive, and officially the uttermost stressful thing I have ever dealt with in my entire life. I saw my work and money being stolen, dealing with frauds and a whole host of other issues. But it was a learning experience and one that I obviously needed to go through in order to teach me what to look out for in future and how to avoid another nervous breakdown!
A: Wonderful. A: Steamgirl, in all honesty, is my break from running the clothing company. But in saying that, there is a lot of cross-over in regards to the clothing that I design and make and ultimately, use for both venues. Just a short year later at Wild Wild West Con , Geek News Network got a fantastic look into one of the most famous creative minds of the Steampunk movement. Q: So what are you currently working on? Other than Steamgirl of course.
A: Yes. I wanted to shoot straight for the top and ask J. The series was originally planned in six parts, published infrequently, but is stil ongoing.
Q: So when does that come out? A: Hopefully soon. Q: How did you first hear about the show and the opportunity to actually be on it? A: The network kept pestering me! Actually, Pink Sneakers ap-. Q: What was your interest or motivation to be on the show?
Once you were selected to appear on the show as a judge, what preparations did you have to make before you left for Los Angeles? What were you leaving behind or had to put on hold while you were away for filming? A: I take pride in being a little savvy when it comes to my business running itself in my absence, so I just had to debrief my awesome staff a couple of times before I abandoned them for a whole month.
A: heir understanding of the steampunk aesthetic, their ability to apply their own take on it and their craftsmanship with creating something of quality with limited tools and materials. Q: How often was there some involved discussions amongst the judges in choosing a winning, or losing, design?
A: Every bloody episode! The amount of back and forth between Matt, Thomas and I was insane. We were allocated on-camera time to deliberate but the behind-the-scenes discussions continued and often ended in yelling at each other. Of course, all the viewers would be yelling back from their couches and chairs, too. What are some memorable moments you had during filming? A: The energy became more and more intense each episode as the contestants were put under greater pressure, so in attempt to counteract that, there was often a lot of banter and humour between the other judges and I and sneaky jokes with the contestants.
By the end of filming, we had several inside jokes and quotes and the audio tech people had to put up with all of it as we were miccd the entire time. A: I would hope that this show will introduce mainstream America to the genre of Steampunk and inspire people to create their own pieces and apply it to their own homes and lives.
Cherokee actor Wes Studi has nearly film and television credits to his name. Wes has many hobbies, titles, and awards. He is a musician, a horse trainer, a sculptor, and a First Speaker of the Cherokee Language. So what does it mean to a Native American to have representation on the Big and Small screens?
Even as Hollywood perpetuates the stereotypes of Natives as historic people, which Wes has portrayed, most of Indian Country is just happy to have someone on screen who looks like them. As I was growing up, I remember watching Pocahontas for the first time. I was just happy to finally see a kids cartoon with people who looked like me, my family, and my community.
For one, the show actually uses the Apache language. For another, they carefully considered the culture and attitudes of the time in regards to racism in the Victorian age, which is also seen in the African character of Sambene.
It is an open door for Native cultures in the Steampunk community, as well as the comicon and cosplay realms. He is able to pull on the emotions of war, siege, anger, betrayal, and facing extinction because he actually served in the United States Armed Forces and came home to join the American Indian Movement following his honorable discharge for his service.
He is grounded in his culture, in the crimes of his country, and in the modern attitudes of how the world sees Native People. In discussing the role of Kaeteeye-opening. To me, it was a surprise to be asked to be a part of this traditionally gothic bunch of characters. Everything here is extremely Anglo. So I found it to be extremely inclusive, and with a new twist to a traditional storyline.
And this particular storyline — the inclusiveness of it and the diversity of the story — adds to that. At nearly 70 years old, Studi is still going strong and staying busy. Whether historical or fictional, Studi has studied his culture through the lens of both an actor for the screen, and an educator to his own people.
Though he did attend a boarding school, Studi is a rare breed for his people: a First Speaker. That is, his first language, the only language he knew before age 5, is the Cherokee Language, which has allowed him to give back to Indian Country through advocacy,. The public is tired of the same old romanticized stereotypical tropes, and coming to recognizde the beauty and validdity that lies in authentic portrayals of Native Americans as a modern people.
Assisting in this view is the efforts of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to hold the United States government accountable to historic treaties and respect their cultural and spiritual beliefs by opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, aka DAPL. The movement has found support in celebrities like Shailene Woodley of the Divergent film series and several actors from Marvel Studios Avengers films, as well as elders in Guatamala, the Maori of New Zealand, and children of Japan.
When the town of Bismarck, ND voted against the proposed pipeline running north of their town due to concerns of polluting the water supply in the event of an oil spill, Energy Transfer Partners rerouted south, through protected lands given in treaty to the Lakota tribe, Standing Rock. As early as April of this year, hundreds of Native Americans flocked to the reservation in support and protest of the pipeline.
Ignored by mainstream media until August, the protest grew to thousands, with representatives of hundreeds of separate Sovereign Nations and tribes. Through the turmoil and the eventual media attention, the American public on social media is overwhelmingly behind the Standing Rock and their fight. Currently, there are discussions of rerouting the pipeline again, but the controversy keeps getting bigger because the State of North Dakota enacted an emergency pact made with 6 states to call in other State departments of Law enforcement against the protestors, who call themselves Water Protectors.
This is seen as a misuse of the law, and an expensive one. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion—to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.
And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Chills, right? I was so excited about this adventure to fill the Jackelian World void Stephen Hunt left behind that I pre-ordered at my local independent bookstore a month, or more, in advance. Thanks, Chris! At the same time, I was sorely disappointed that this monster of a book, pages, was not an installment of my beloved Dresden Files.
Still totally worth it. While I got emotionally attached to the Predator and a few other characters, I have to wonder, just how in the world did he come up with this? Butcher has proven himself to be an authentic builder of worlds, as The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera have absolutely nothing to do with each other, yet offer rich, textured, nigh tangible experiences with relatable character perspectives.
For 15 novels and countless short-stories betweeen, devoted readers have followed Harry Dresden, Wizard from magical case to magical case. From the intricacies of the Fairy Courts to the various types of Vampires, and the unique and difficult situations Harry finds himself in, it is with the help of lovable sidekicks Detective Murphy, Medical Examiner Butters, and a few Werewolf RPG buddies, Harry always comes out on top.
He has a murky past, regrets, but always stands in the Light, which many readers indentify with and are inspired by. Naturally, expectations were high on the announcement of a new series, The Cinder Spires. Butcher is incredibly talented at conveying in excrutiating detail, the most emotionally-gratifying tales in the seeming of a blink of an eye.
The reader is fully immersed in his worlds, regardless of series, which is only a Master Talent. So how did he break into being published?
Though in recent cover pictures of the author herself, Hamilton is both a Steampunk and a Whovian. It was horrible. Really bad. I wrote another. And one after that. And then I took three novels worth of experience, and rewrote the first one! And they were still terrible. I wrote my fourth novel or fifth, depending on how you look at it , breaking away from standard fantasy to write this paranormy X-files like thing.
A real stinker. Big time. But evidently THAT was when I had started putting together enough craft skills to overcome the lack of inborn talent. Grid ratio. Display info. Pictures definition. Layout Type. Last update Grid List. Gallery List. Classic Large.
SteamGirl Steampunk Erotica Madeleine. No more posts Connect with a social network : Facebook Google. Register with a social network : Facebook Google. Unfortunately the connection with Facebook is currently unavailable. However, you can connect with the email address associated with your facebook account: Email. Offline detected You are offline, do you want to try reload the page? You know how it's like when you're wearing glasses and you open the door to your dishwasher after it's just finished drying and you can't see anything because the blast of hot steam just covered your lenses?
Professor Falconer, how did you and Kato become friends? What prompted you to become her assistant? Congratulations on your engagement! Who is the lucky lady and how did you propose? And why bunnies? Steel's fan site, Toy Soldiers Unite. We got to talking and then eventually met when we were working on a Flat Stanley-esque game and I was next on the list of recipients. We went out that night, had some burgers and saw a movie, and since then we'd stayed in touch.
One day Kato said "Hey, why don't I pay you and you can be my official assistant" or something to that effect and I accepted! At first I was just handling fan mail, but now I'm her personal assistant and right-hand man! The lady I'm the lucky one is staying anonymous for now, but I proposed at Disneyland last Saturday. I tricked her into posing with me for a photo in front of the Partners statue and then dropped to one knee and popped the question.
I'm happy to say that I got just the answer I wanted! Or because Kato used a picture of a rabbit when she announced me on her Facebook page and we've been running with it since then.
Your choice. Florixia 1 karma UTC. But seriously, Kato has an in-house photographer who prefers to remain anonymous due to some other work they do. My bunny has a crush on Professor Falconer. He's not quite comfortable with his sexuality yet, poor fluff. I'm sure he'll come around.
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