“2013” Archive

AnomalyCon 3 Pictures from friday

Saturday the 30th of March in the year 2013 ~ William Randol

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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

Get Ready for Mainstream Steampunk | 5 Reasons You’ll Be Talking About Steampunk in 2013 | TIME.com

Friday the 22nd of March in the year 2013 ~ William Randol

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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.

Bat Cavalry Uniform

Saturday the 2nd of March in the year 2013 ~ William Randol

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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