Steampunk World's Expo: 2nd - 7th April!

I am happy to announce that your favorite Drow will take part on the first Steampunk World's Expo! The event is hosted by my friend Cyhtleen Earhart and her partner Debbie on their sim Soigne!

There is hardly a place more suiting for a Steampunk Expo. A spectacular, tasteful and lovely whimsical location!

Cyht has planned a lot for the expo and best I let her tell it in her own words:

"Our goal is more Steampunk, more action, less music and less readings,

and i think we will archive that.

So what will happen at this Expo:

• see a demonstrations what the best SL Steampunk builders/inventors/engineer are able to do at our demo field
• air kraken hunt's
• shows your skills at flying an airship through a course
• shows your skills at a whacky races, yes we don't just offer you to race on an course, nooo be mean to you competitors !
• show your skills at airship dogfights
• a raffle, everyone wins and be prepared for big prizes, and we are not talking 500 lindens!
• a grammophone session with a scary story oh H.P. Lovecraft read for us from Satu Moreau
• a fashion show
• Steampunk Comedy Escarius Luga
• a great Market, with not only small stand, with 8 shops and stands too
• Some great DJ will rock you !! Goat Ebagge, Touche, Nymlet and Rinha
• of course its Steampunk and Jordan Reyne will be there !!!!
• Russel Eponym and DD will be there too
• and all in an true and only countryside steampunk sim

and much more to be announced !!!!!"

I am looking forward lots to the event and of course I have a few new creations - besides a overhauled Aircraft Carrier Prometheus - which will be featured there :-)

More info coming soon!

Lancastert Ltd.-Blog (Cyhtleen's Homepage)

Lancaster Castle

Last Day of The Festival of Steam - Massive Aerial Combat Reported!

It was a truly exciting final day of the festival. A big crowd has gathered before the cathedral of Cologne, listening to a show by Michi Renoir and became witness of the most exciting dogfight ever happen at virtual cologne!

Zaphod Enoch, organizer of the festival of steam took some  photographs as evidence for these astounding events:

The famous cathedral seeing some dense air-traffic over the heads of the spectators.

A Steampunk Triplane getting chased by an aggressively flying biplane Mk2.

The all-metal biplane closes in - ready for the kill.

A Steampunk Fighter Prototype - a unique pusher design rushes to rescue the Triplane.

After a heated chase - the Triplane got away barely - the Prototype intercepts its opponent and opens fire.

How did the fight turn out? A pity you weren't around to see it end ;-)

Perhaps you are more lucky next time we take the skies.  It was my first time we did an airshow - but was certainly not the last! I am really excited now doing more airshows like that. They are great fun and really something different from the usual performances.

Also a big thank you to my daredevil pilots Luvia and Emma - you did great, girls!

Impressions from the Festival of Steam

Steampunk everywhere! The Festival is in full flight now, stuffed with exhibitions and events - some great artists are represented here!

A Time Machine! I remember the film after H. G. Wells novel as one of my earliest encounters with Steampunk - even if I had no idea about that term back then.

If you don't know what it is but it looks cool: call it art!

I guess this is the Nikola Tesla memorial garden - fabulous!

There are a few golden rules about creating Steampunk machines. An important one is: It doesn't needs to fulfill any purpose as long as it moves, rattles, steams, buzzes, blinks and has lots of gears!

Now thats a cool steam locomotive!

War of the Worlds? At least it looks a lot like a Martian war machine.

Bryn Oh has her own exhibit stage featuring an alien world at the SL Planetarium.

As much as it fits to the exhibit, this telescope is a regular exhibit at the Planetarium.

Making Emma an offer she can't refules at vendor at the Steampunk Marketplace.

I really love these electro-installations!

Lots!

Steamy! The racetrack for the Steampunk-vehicle race on March 6th.

Here is your ticket to the Festival. Plan to spend some time there and watch out for dropping jaws ;-)

The Festival of Steam Has Started!

And we were building and scripting on our exhibition till the very last minute! ;-)

But the results are really really pleasing me. We got a nice chunk of land next to the cathedral of Cologne and plenty of free prims for rezzing my Airship Prometheus as well as my fleet of Airplanes - but best look for yourself:

The mighty Prometheus hovering next to the Cathedral of Cologne in the sunset.

Another angle - same motiv. Please note the subtle Drow Science-Sign ;-)

Automatical extending landing strip! Besides that useful gadget Emma also scripted one of my Da Vinci Helicopters as taxi to transport visitors up to the ship.

My Monoplane waiting for me to take it for a ride while the Heli-Taxi automatically closes in for a landing.

Try to count them ;-) I am quite amazed that I made so many!

To my shame I have to admit that I haven't seen much of the festival except my own stuff. But since everything is set up and works fine I can enjoy the relaxing part of the event and just explore and have a good time. See you there!

Festival of Steam Blog (German)

Schedule

New BDSM Toy: RLV Leather Mittens!

It is a great pleasure for me to announce the release of a new RLV item by my partner and submissive Emma: RLV Leather Mittens!

Sunshine Technology RLV Leather Mittens

Starting originally as something for our private use only the mittens turned out to look so nice - we just had to release them :-)

They feature anything a good RLV item needs:

• Timelock
• Keyholder
• Fartouch/Touch-block
• Colour-menu with custom colours
• Comfortable menu with extremely low lag
• Fantastic look with lots of details!

They are of course made with highest attention to detail. Drow and underwear however are not included!

The RLV Mittens are available at Emmas store Sunshine Technology at the Marketplace or at her in-world store at Lady Karenjane Walworth's Estate.

Emmas Store: Sunshine Technology.

Switching is fun - even more with nice mittens on!

Please More Of That Jazz: DJ Goat Ebbage!

This time I present you a very good friend of mine: Goat Ebbage! His great love is the music of the good old times (blues and jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s like) and sharing it as DJ.

DJ Goat spinning the discs!

His shows are always something special. Not only because the fine music selection featuring popular tunes as well as rarities: His anecdotes and stories around legends like Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman make his sets really becoming alive!

Quite a crowd at Birdland!

Birdland Jazzclub & Lounge

Goat is currently DJing at Birdland (they have a blog too!) and Voodoo Blues and also does private parties and weddings. Oh, and lately he is expanding his range into rock and metal sets too - the music of his wild days!

If you like to see (and hear!) him, check out his regular shows at Birdland, on Mondays at 7 PM and Thursdays at 6 PM SL-time and Saturdays at 2 PM at Dizzy Lizzy's.

Coming Soon: Festival Of Steam!

Great news! I will participate on the Festival of Steam!

The centerpiece of my exhibit will be my new Airship, the Prometheus - a mighty flying aircraft-carrier.

Big Lady: The Prometheus during its test-run above my home.

The Prometheus will have a length of 43 meters, 3 Decks and will use up as little as 130-140 prims! It will feature an extendable landing strip, a fully functional main engine and a operator HUD for incoming airplanes!

The presentation of the Prometheus will be at March 2nd 10 am SL time (7 pm european time) at Lancaster Castle the home of my friend Cyhtleen Earhart.

Besides this show event I will also be present with my line of steampunk Furniture and Airplanes at a store at their Steampunk Market during the whole festival!

The Festival of Steam will be held in the first week of March (from the 1st to the 7th, to be precise) and will be held at several locations, as:
Lancaster Castle, Virtual Cologne, Kafe Kruemelkram and the SL Planetarium.

Oh and another good news is that my friend, the fantastic Sioux Nikolaidis, will do a concert at the festival on March 5th at 1 PM SL-time at the Planetarium!

For further information, an artist-list and a schedule check out the Festival-Blog!