The Oxford Museum of History and Science is hosting a complete steampunk exhibition which launched yesterday on 10/13.

Right now the full list of artists and crafters featured is as follows:

Stephane Halleux- Belgium
Tom Banwell- U.S.
Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich- U.S.
Datamancer- U.S.
Doctor Grymm- U.S.
Daniel Proulx- Canada
Eric Freitas- U.S.
Haruo Suekichi- Japan
Herr Doktor- U.K.
Thomas D. Willeford- U.S.
Amanda Scrivener- U.K.
James Richardson Brown- U.K.
Jesse Newhouse- U.S.
Jos De Vink- Netherlands
Kris Kuksi- U.S.
Mad Uncle Cliff- Australia
Vianney Halter- Switzerland
Art Donovan- U.S.

Really excited to see Molly Friedrich on there–I’ve had the pleasure of having several conversations with her in the past and she is a VERY talented artist.  There are a wide range of amazing works from 2d art to 3d sculpture and wearables so be sure to check out the offical exhibit site now and if you’re in the area, well, shame on you if you haven’t visited it yet!

As every crafter’s favorite holiday approaches, Halloween, its time to start planning your steampunk costume for this year. There are a lot of mainstream outlets selling “steampunk” style costumes, but most of them are awful mainstream crap.

If you really want an authentic steampunk costume, consider buying some wares online from actual merchants to specialize in this and you get a completely unique and low-cost costume that will look worlds better than anything you could buy in a costume store. But perhaps the biggest benefit is that you are helping out the skilled crafters who try to make a living creating beautiful wares.

I highly recommend you take a peek right now at our steampunk clothing section and see if anything on eBay catches your fancy. Crafters typically ramp up production this time of year and there are a LOT of very interesting steampunk-style clothes available right now, from corsets and pants to boots and cufflinks.

Every now and then I receive an email from someone who has created something truly unique that they wish to share with the world.  Often times, I get a load of crap (hey, I call them like I see them).  This time, I got a submission that is meant for loads of crap.

Introducing the steampunk toilet, created by Patrick Brawley.  Despite my poor attempt at an opening joke, this is definitely in the upper end of the submissions I have received.  Of course, I couldn’t just blindly post this…I had to find out what possibly inspired Patrick to create such a thing.  Well, it turns out he was replacing his 1954 Standard toilet and couldn’t stand to part with it.  So, after some lots of scavening and hunting around on eBay (I wonder if he found any of the steampunk parts through my site) he came up with this glorious and, most importanly, FULLY FUNCTIONAL steampunk toilet.  And did I mention that it has freaking laser-aiming assist for night time use?  Toilets with freaking laser beams!

According to Patrick, the gorgeous wooden calculators of Andy Aaron served as the primary source of inspiration for this project, and I think they make a nice set.  Now you can crunch numbers while on the can to ensure your water pressure is right!

Well, I would be a big tease if I didn’t show you this baby in action.  The video below explains it all and there are a couple nice pictures below that as well.

Apparently there was a steampunk blog carnival which I was unaware of.  However while reviewing today’s traffic, I noticed a couple hits from a site called MyDisguises.com and low and behold it listed this site!  Thanks guys!  They have a nice listing of steampunk links there to look at and the concept for the blog will surely be of interest to you steam fashion hounds.