Buongiorno Steamers
Eccoci di ritorno dalle faticose ma fantastiche feste invernali con il suggerimento di un libro che non dovrebbe mancare a casa di ogni appassionato dello Steampunk.
Abbiamo ordinato questo libro su Amazon dato che, come molti altri purtroppo, è reperibile solo all’estero.
The Steampunk Gazette vol. 1 di Major Tinker è una splendida guida illustrata attraverso la cultura che tanto amiamo.
la copertina del libro
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Domenica 13 ottobre 2013 si riparte in grande stile con un evento esplosivo nell’antica capitale del Regno Sabaudo. Steampunk Italia con Otto eventi, la Città di Torino, le biblioteche civiche di Torino, Radio Manila e Primosenso sono lieti di invitarvi al primo Vaporosa Mente che si svolgerà al Mausoleo della Bella Rosin in Torino, Strada Castello di Mirafiori 148/7.
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La League of S.T.E.A.M. sta per partire con la terza serie delle sue avventure a caccia di mostri per chiede una mano al popolo del web. Dalla pagina del kickstarter la Leauge of S.T.E.A.M. ci fa sapere che: “I tuoi cacciatori Steampunk di mostri preferiti stanno tornando per una terza stagione della loro serie web, con più gadget, più mostri e più disavventure!” (altro…)
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Ecco che vi proponiamo la prima locandina dello Steam Camp, un evento steampunk che si terrà in quel di Padova il 6 e 7 Aprile 2013 grazie agli sforzi oeganizzativi di Marco Carrara e Maurizio Galluzzo in collaborazione con noi di Steampunk Italia, Augusto Chiarle e molti altri appassionati del genere nonchè alcuni relatori che stanno collaborando attivamente e che si susseguiranno nella due giorni di full immersion incentrata sullo steampunk e sul suo significato. Tenete i vostri ricevitori audiofonici accesi e ben sintonizzati, il resto arriverà a breve giro di piccione meccanico. (altro…)
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Anteprima la collezione di Prada autunno/inverno 2012 per l’uomo tutta in chiave Steampunk . Panciotti ,doppiopetti nei toni caldi del marrone o nel rigoroso gessato, vestono perfetti gentlemen d’ispirazione vittoriana , con occhiali dalle linee “futuristicamente retrò”. 
Le prime immagini vedono dei modelli d’eccezione : gli attori Jamie Bell (Le avventure di Tin Tin),Garrett Heldlund (Tron :Legacy),Willem Dafoe (Spiderman),Gary Oldman ( Harry Potter). Fanciulli, quest’autunno sapete dove andare a comprare i vostri outfit. O dove trarre ispirazione . 
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La locandina del film
“Un bambino prodigio e il suo lungo viaggio per imparare il Tai Chi, diventare un maestro, affrontare, poi, un esercito di invasori steampunk e aiutare gli abitanti del suo villaggio “.
“A gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead travels far to learn Tai Chi and eventually becomes a master. He then faces an army of steampunk invaders and protect the villagers.”
This is the preamble of the movie Tai Chi 0, the first part of a trilogy of Huayi Brothers (Kung Fu Hustle) leading steampunk, with its steam creations, in China.
Tai Chi 0 will be directed by Stephen Fung and will be choreographed by Sammo Hung (Martial Law).
The release date is set tentatively for 2013.
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La città dei sogni
Dal sito Quite Earth siamo venuti a conoscenza del concept trailer di un film chiamato Oculista che speriamo possa veder presto la luce. È una sorta di fiaba steampunk, un viaggio misterioso all’interno di una fabbrica in cui gli operai sono in sella a biciclette e pedalando danno energia a qualcosa di sconosciuto; in cambio ricevono “esperienze di piacere ipnotico” con la promessa di vivere, un giorno, nella città dei loro sogni.
From the site Quite Earth, we’ve got a taste of the concept trailer of a film called Oculista, that we hope will see the light soon. It is a steampunk fairy tale, a mysterious travel inside a factory in which workers ride bicycles powering something unknown; in exchange they receive “hypnotic leisure experiences” with the promise to live in the city of their dreams.
Here’s a short description of the trailer:
“Henri Grotowski looks out of the window of an old train speeding through the night with the excitable naivety of someone who has left his small town to make his fortune in the big world; on his lap a battered suitcase and a portable Gramophone. Instead of the ticket inspector, Henri is visited by the mysterious Oculista who offers Henri a look through his magical glasses…”
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Locandina
Un film che stordisce sia visivamente che emotivamente e non a caso basato sul libro per bambini di Brian Selznick “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, vincitore della medaglia Caldecott nel 2008.
A film that is visually stunning and emotionally and based on children’s book by Brian Selznick’s “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, winner of the Caldecott Medal in 2008.
Hugo, Martin Scorsese‘s latest film, tells the story of the orphan Hugo Cabret, son of a watchmaker, who lives in the depths of a railway station in Paris of the ’30s, where he repaired watches and observes the lives and loves of people coming and going. His dream is to be able to repair an automaton left him as inheritance from his father, tragically missing in a fire. Hugo, alone and bitter, concentrated all his efforts on this clockwork doll, shabby but ingeniously elegant, until his destiny crosses the one of the station’s toy store owner and his goddaughter Isabella.
Hugo, masterfully played by Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), is in equal parts a little abandoned orphan and a bold and admirable survivor. On Butterfield’s shoulders rest the kaleidoscope of emotion of the whole film and the young actor shines of its own light.
Each of the characters found in Hugo reminds to the audience that, in one way or another, we all like broken clocks, and in the end, all we have are the others. Our daily struggle is to overcome our past and not give in to pain.
Scorsese delivers this message in a stunning beauty, painted with a palette of colors perfectly balanced between brass and steam, sun and snow, in direct contrast with the black and white illustrations on the book by Selznick. The constant movement of gears and pendulums in the world of Hugo mingle with the unstoppable emotions of the boy up to imitate the most fascinating pantomimes of silent film’s era. There is no dialogue really necessary, messages come clearly through an experience extraordinarily delicate and relaxing.
Is it Steampunk? Probably, but without the exaggerated tones like “Look at me, I’m a Steampunk film!”
Scorsese, staunch supporter of the preservation of film heritage, pays homage to the masters of early movies through his love letter to the past using the most futuristic and cutting-edge techniques such as 3D. Whether you are orphans or artists, the themes of this delicate film will strike your heart as to say that we are all irreplaceable many small gears of this great clock called existence.
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too.” Hugo
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Locandina
The Witches of Oz è una mini-serie televisiva diretta da Leigh Scott, basato sui romanzi “Il Mago di Oz”, “Ozma of Oz”, “The Road to Oz” e “The Magic of Oz” di L. Frank Baum.
The Witches of Oz is a television mini-series directed by Leigh Scott, based on the novels The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of a grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful author of children’s books and his journey from Kansas to New York City. Dorothy quickly realizes that his popular books are based on repressed memories of childhood, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West comes to Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop it.
Special mention to the actor Christopher Lloyd (the legendary Doc of Back to the Future) in his steam interpretation of The Wizard of Oz, nestled between gears and strange mechanisms.
The series was released recently overseas, we hope will come soon here.
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Jackson e le copertine dei romanzi
Il noto regista Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Brain Dead, Il Signore Degli Anelli La Trilogia, King Kong) ha acquistato i diritti di Temeraire, serie di nove libri di Naomi Novik ambientati in un epoca alternativa in cui le battaglie napoleoniche vengono combattute su armate aeree di draghi.
The renowned director Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Brain Dead, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, King Kong) has acquired the rights to Temeraire, a series of nine books by Naomi Novik set in an era where alternative Napoleonic battles are fought on armed aerial dragons.
In addition, between one take and the other on the set of The Hobbit, the director is working with Weta Workshop on a film adaptation of Mortal Engines, the first novel of a post-apocalyptic tetralogy written by Philip Reeve. The series is set in a future where self-propelled cities travel the world eating up the resources of the smaller towns, according to a system called Municipal Darwinism.It’s not clear whether Jackson will work only as director or he will also produced these movies, the thing that interests us most is that these novels have a Steampunk ground behind them.
The idea of seeing a great city move on belts is exciting, stay tuned!
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