Why I love San Francisco, reason #813 –The Edwardian Ball is an annual event. Plans must be made to attend next year... The 2012 video produced by Mark Day is an extraordinary visual feast (as usual.)
Here is the video from 2011 too...
And finally, head over to their Flickr stream for more stunning images like the one below. Swoon.
Well this looks like ridiculous fun... Based on the book by Seth Grahame Smith (of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.) Movie trailer and painfully awesome book trailer below.
A long overdue post... Riese: Kingdom Falling takes place in Eleysia, a dying kingdom where distrust and anxiety have clouded people's minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself. Riese, a wanderer, travels across the decaying land with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.
This series is shot in Vancouver, BC and it looks like the first book in a novel series to be published by Simon and Schuster, is scheduled to come out in June 2012.
A collaboration between Bicycle and Theory11 via theory11.com –these are beautiful (and yay! high production values.) Visit their site for more images and information about how they were made. *Despite all the nay sayers on the internets, I still think they're pretty while remaining practical.*
On a sun dappled summer day a science expedition propels two children toward an enigmatic encounter at the edge of their known world. Arriving on an isolated beach, they stumble upon the shipwreck of a robotic squid submarine. The secret it holds within changes their lives forever. *Excerpt from the official website.
Trailer for the coming future casting documentary Vintage Tomorrows about what Steampunk can teach us about the future. Via Media Bistro and Cherie Priest