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• 07:11 I am an auntie. Mazel tov, E and C! #
• 09:02 Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux (1797-1880), French physician, improved and popularized anatomical papier-mâché models: tinyurl.com/Auzoux #
• 09:08 The SV Chronometer is a GPS based, interactive master clock w/ a binocular sight and hand crank: http://tinyurl.com/chronometerSV #
• 09:27 @_ahs: You were asking about 19th Century post-mortem photography; thought you might like Paul Frecker's site: tinyurl.com/Frecke ... #
• 09:32 Also: Memento Mori-Photography and Loss in the 19th century: brightbytes.com/collection/memento.html #
• 22:22 Once in a lifetime / The longed for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme. ~Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy #
• 23:04 Gunpowder and treason and whatnot... #
• 23:12 ZOMG. We're on the MAKE Magazine site: tinyurl.com/steamteamMAKE (Thanks, Gareth!) #
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MAKE covers Etsy Steam Team at SteamPowered

MAKE Magazine profiles the Etsy Steam Team at SteamPowered '08

Gareth Branwyn writes (Nov 5, 2008):
The Etsy Steam Team at the Steampunk Con (From left to right, by username: lilibat, PinkPeacock, nullalux [chalepa_ta_kala], 19Moons, Choklit, OrpheusAlchemy, IndustrialFairytale, FaradayBags, and figments. Photo by Andrew/shoutingboy).

I finally met members of the Etsy Steam Team at last week's Steampunk Convention. As you may or may not know, Etsy (think: Amazon meets eBay at a craft's fair) allows sellers to organize themselves into "teams" based on similar interests or product lines (to network, share promotion, skills, etc.). Obviously, the Steam Team is gathered around their mutual interest in making and selling steampunk and Victorian-inspired art and crafts. At the con, they offered everything from watchwork and church key jewelry to surreal antique assemblage, clockwork bugs, potion bottles and other alchemical chotsky. It was a wonderful and talented group of artists and crafters that I was happy to meet and with whom I hope to stay in touch."

Thanks, Gareth!


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