A colleague's son is attending Fan Expo in Toronto this weekend, and visiting the website to check on the guest speaker list led me on a wonderful wander of weirdness through the web today.
First I noticed that Darwyn Cooke was listed - and after i finished cursing like Captain Haddock for realizing that I'd missed a wicked opportunity to see him in action [he's doing a how-to workshop on page construction and composition] - I drifted through the rest of the site and ended up on the Sci-Fi guest list page.
There among the famous names - William Shatner, Adam West, James Marsters, Felicia Day, Julie Newmar, Peter Mayhew (CHEWIE!)...there was "Daniel Proulx - artisan - Steampunk Jewelry". His blog link was blocked while at the office...but a lunchtime search on Google led me to to Beautiful Life, which supplied a link to Proulx's site on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/CatherinetteRings?ref=top_trail. Some seriously cool gear...and some serious creep factor supplied through the ingenious use of taxidermist lizard eyes. Want. :)
Halleux created the nattily dressed gent to the left, called "the little flying civil servant" as well as numerous other crazily creative and evocative characters. You can see more of his amazing sculptures here: http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/remarkable-collection-of-steampunk-sculptures/.
The Beautiful Life site also featured articles on Bjorg, a jewelry designer from Norway (check out her Forest collection...the rabbit and fox are brill) and a page on a sculptor from Belgium, Stephane Halleux...
Halleux created the nattily dressed gent to the left, called "the little flying civil servant" as well as numerous other crazily creative and evocative characters. You can see more of his amazing sculptures here: http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/remarkable-collection-of-steampunk-sculptures/. And should you perchance have some euros floating around that you would like to put to good use, check out this site: http://www.mrhublot.com/index_gb.htm. ZEILT Productions is trying to get a short animation made featuring models based on Halleaux's sculptures. You can sponsor a frame or a few frames and help make it happen. The site features a short animation test that's well worth a viewing. I for one would love to see all seven minutes of the short film they are proposing...
Somedays I love the web.
Now I'm off to see what the exchange rate is on the euro... :)
(picture copyright Stephane Halleux 2010)
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