Make:TV is going to be so awesome!

Nathan Halverson writes:

Some organizers in Santa Rosa, Calif. put together a great event with Steampunk at its base. It was hands down the best event I've been to in Sonoma County in my two years living here. I made a video of it for the local publication.

You'll recall that Meredith wrote about the upcoming Regatta a while back.  Well it's happened and it's wonderful to see something like this become a great success! It also seems there were many twirling moustachios in evidence!

MTV has a piece on Steampunk that's a little different then we've seen before.  There's naturally a greater focus on music and fashion but the intarwebs get a mention too.

My only real criticism is that they didn't pick up on some of the more serious aspects having to do with sustainability and social change, but altogether not too bad even if they did misspell my name.

[Note: there are several videos strung together with commercials in between including vids of Dr. Steel and Abney Park]

Last year I had the privilege of taping a segment for WIRED Science with Chris Hardwick.  As far as I know the piece never aired ("not sciencey enough" I heard through the grapevine!  ;-) ) but it's finally turned up on the WIRED Science website.

There is a larger version of the video on the WIRED Science website here.

Jay Leno turns out to be hardcore when it comes to anachro-tech. The man know what he's talking about. So for the next few weeks Wednesday is Leno day here at the Steampunk Workshop.

Here's Jay giving us a detailed tour of his 1925 Doble Series E.

Everyone has been sending me Telectroscope links! It's been well covered in the blogosphere so I wasn't going to mention it here but Datamancer just sent me a link to a Wall Street Journal video by Andy Jordan, the fellow who profiled Doc a while back. Enjoy!

My buddy Paul Cesewski (and former shop-mate/shipyardian) built this rail-car that tickles all my maker-buttons: made from recycled parts, can go fast, utilizes an obscure form of locomotion, has a good possibility of injury,  and serves no readily logical purpose other than to have a friken' great time.

This video is of him and cohorts riding said mobile on probably the funnest bit of abandoned railway around: the tracks look reminiscent of  'scary' rides designed to look dangerous, decrepit, and flimsy. But, you know, real. I especially love the part where the tracks are a good 3 feet off the ground. Unsupported.