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Steampunk chic
posted by Rob on 22 Feb 2008
Click on that thumbnail, why don't you. So, that's a keyboard and monitor, Steampunk style. Aren't people on the Internet clever. I just find that Victorianesque aesthetic (when done well) gorgeous and quite needful. Go here to see how the monitor was made, or here for the wonderful typewriter keyboard. More pics of the finished products at the bottom of those pages. The brass monitor controls are particularly appealing.
Comments: 6
Obviously something to add to my wants list, along with the 18C gold toothpaste tube squeezer.
Posted by: NaomiM | February 22, 2008 03:43 PM
I feel I could write a really good gothic with this. Isn't it gorgeous?
Posted by: Sarah Bower | February 22, 2008 05:08 PM
I didn't realize it was faux-brass. Oh, now I'm crushed.
Posted by: NaomiM | February 22, 2008 05:20 PM
Well, yes the monitor shell is only recoloured to look like brass, but the ornamentation and the re-purposed grandfather clock parts are 'real'.
I think it would be the ideal thing to write 'penny dreadfuls' on. If only gothic computers weren't so expensive.
Posted by: Rob | February 22, 2008 06:45 PM
It's all that software for screening out ghosts!
Posted by: Sarah Bower | February 23, 2008 10:54 AM
Hi Rob
Have you seen the Brass Goggles blog (http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/)? There's some fantastic stuff on show over there, and if you scroll to the bottom of the page at the moment you can see a steampunk mouse that would suit your computer admirably!
Posted by: George Mann | February 24, 2008 04:14 PM