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Ginny Tonic on Steampunk at the Renaissance Fair

In a recent update to the Charlie Tonic Hour website, Ginny Tonic shares a full look back on the Kentucky Renaissance Festival’s recent Steampunk, Magic and Kaboom weekend. During that weekend, Aloysius, Charlie and Ginny Tonic were on hand representing the Steampunk Empire Symposium, running the themed costume contest and meeting with friends, old and new.

Get all the details on the weekend in our past story here on the Symposium site then head over to the Charlie Tonic Hour where you can catch her take on the weekend. After that, stay tuned as later today the new installment of the show (episode #27) will go live with even more details and stories from the gathering.

The Charlie Tonic Hour serves up an hour-long, weekly show that will take you from alternative music to popular culture and from classic literature to our favorite drinks. Along the way, you will follow the interests (and adventures) of Ginny Tonic and Charlie as they explore the best things in our world when it comes to life, music, reading, technology, alcohol, and all the wonderful events they attend (and sometimes organize). The Charlie Tonic Hour is a Pandora Promotions production and can be found on the web at charlietonic.com.

Steampunk Goes Prada?

Over on BoingBoing, journalist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow points out that Prada’s fall 2012 menswear line is looking awfully steampunk. We agree.

Modelled by Gary Oldman, Jamie Bell, Garrett Hedlund, and Willem Dafoe.

Do you think this is another sign steampunk has begun to hit mainstream attention? Leave your thoughts in the comments section. Let’s discuss!

 

TeslaCon Unveils New Poster

Long time Symposium friend, Lord Hastings R. Bobbins unveiled a new TeslaCon 2 poster which looks amazing…

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Commenting on Facebook he explains, “We look just like a movie!”

The poster is the work of artist Bryan Arendt. During the previous TeslaCon, Bryan delivered a set of posters for purchase to attendee’s of the convention following the theme of Steampunk villains. Subjects of that set included steampunk Jack the Ripper, Dr. Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Fu Manchu, Jekyll and Hyde and The Invisible man.

Lord Bobbins and TeslaCon took part in the 2012 Steampunk Empire Symposium and you can look for our show’s organizers (and a host of our friends from around the Pandora Society) to be well represented at the upcoming November 30th - December 2nd show in Middleton, WI.

Not yet signed up for this year’s show? Tickets are selling fast so get yours and join us at the show. Details at teslacon.com.