The gallery for Saturday and Sunday is now up.
Please feel free to comment.

http://www.lost-letters.com/anomalycon-3-saturday-and-sunday

I have created a new gallery of pictures from AnomalyCon for Friday.

Please feel free to comment.

http://www.lost-letters.com/gallery-anomalycon-3-friday/

Sincerely,

William Randol

Here is an interesting article from Time.. What do you think about Mainstream Steampunk?

Steampunk — a subculture-slash-style that is best known for adding Victorian-inspired flourishes to today’s tech and fashion—has lurked beneath the pop-culture surface long enough. Now, as cultural historian James H. Carrott and futurist Brian David Johnson argue in their new book Vintage Tomorrows, it’s breaking through.

Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/03/20/steampunk/#ixzz2OKfiOhql

This is an interesting artifact from the Minnesota Historical Society. I think the use of the standard hinges is a good sign of the start of the industrial revolution.

Civil War body armor | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Some of the recent steampunk books I have read have the idea of “Darwinists” basically a concept of aggressive breeding, or even dna manipulation. This idea has inspired the updates to my uniform. I have decided that I can be an officer in the Bat Cavalry.

I have updated my standard pork-pie hat to include a cavalry hat cord, a nice laurel wreath, and a bat insignia. I have also added rank. Being former military I didn’t want to wear any real rank that I didn’t actually earn. I turned to imaginary rank systems, I finally decided to base my rank on that used in Star Trek. I have applied the commander rank, the nice thing about this rank system is it simply uses pips, or bars. In my case i am using skull shaped pips. three silver and one bronze.

Let me know what you think.

Sincearly,

William M. Randol