Showing posts with label zeppelin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zeppelin. Show all posts

Ben Lovett's new video features an airship and a baby dragon

Steampunk meets Sin City's visual style in the video by Soapbox Films for Ben Lovett's Eye of the Storm:






And here, director Christopher Alender and producer Kris Eber give an in-depth behind the scenes look (Lovett is the pilot and his scarf was puppeteered to simulate wind):



Via these sites.

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Lockheed Martin's silver airship



HALE-D:
High Altitude Long Endurance – Demonstrator (HALE-D). The HALE-D is a proof of concept for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command’s High Altitude Airship (HAA) program.
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Concept art for new giant army blimp (link roundup)



Northrop Grumman has a contract to build three of these football field-long spy blimps for the military. Via.

And a few more links:

1. We're closer and closer to home holodecks - - the new game from Harmonix for Microsoft's Kinect will teach you to dance.

2. Boy on trial for murder appeared on Cops as a toddler when police responded to a domestic dispute involving his grandparents. Via.

3. There's no such dinosaur called a Brontosaurus - - it's really called an Apatosaurus, and the story behind the name is a tale of highly competitive paleontologists. Via these sites.

*Previously: Walking war blimp.

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Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec poster (link roundup)




Poster and trailer for Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Download Command and Conquer 1-3 for free. Via.

2. $50 gets you a commission and sketchbook from Ryan Cody. Here are a couple of good drawings by him.

3. New airship by Myke Amend.

*Previously: Command and Conquer inspired Lego walker.

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Airships and Alice in Wonderland

Gallery Nucleus has posted all of the art from its current show, Lift Off: The Art of Airships. Below are a few highlights, with links to the artists' personal sites.


Balloon 13 by Jake Parker.



Sabicu by Myke Amend.



First Flight by Jason Caffoe.



Escapement by Stephan Martiniere.



Relatedly, I noticed that Gallery Nucleus will be hosting an Alice in Wonderland-themed show on February 27. The image you see above is by Alina Chau.

*Previously: Zeppelin push toy.

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Zeppelin and portal



Airship and Giger-esque portal creature by Myke Amend, who has prints of this and other airships on sale here.

*Previously: Giger cake.

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Steampunk push toy






Leather zeppelin push toy by Bob Basset. He says it's not steampunk, it's "tehnoromantizmom" (or at least that's how Google translates it). No purchasing information, but he has various items on sale at eBay.

*Previously: This is why we can't have nice blimps.

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Steampunk month at Tor



October is steampunk month at Tor, which will be featuring stories, interviews, and art. This handy link is the guide to what has been and will be posted, including Gregory Manchess' various designs for the festivities' airship logo.

*Previously: Bullet Bill as a Victorian gentleman.

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Skyscraper Airport (and the weirdest phone service mascot ever)



The Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow features parking spots for zeppelins big and small. The airport was featured in the November 1939 issue of Popular Science, which is loaded with other gems, including this ad for Bell Telephone System, which features a bizarre phone/Highlander creature:



Link via x planes, where it's all vintage aircraft, all the time. Via.

UPDATE: As Rob points out, the stereotype, at least at some point, was that Scottish people were tight with money.

*Previously: Airship cake.

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