My Steampunk Art

Some of you may have already saw this stuff.  It was a phase I was going through, which really isn't over yet, I just don't have the same amount of time to devote to it.  If you're not familiar with Steampunk, the concept is:  What if current technology had been invented when we were still using steam engines for our main power source?  Movies such as "The Golden Compass", "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" are considered to be in this style.  Whenever you see a lot of rivets, tubes, pipes and gauges mounted to modern technology, it's probably Steampunk.

This is the punishment device from Franz Kafka's "The Penal Colony".  The operator would type in the crimes of the prisoner (I show the input on the back side of the device), the prisoner would be strapped down to the porcelain table (with little built-in troughs) and then the myriad needles would lower down and "write" the crimes into the prisoner's skin.  The story was about cruel-and-unusual punishments and whether or not they are actual crime deterrents, moral, etc.

The upper image is of a DVD Player (the "the Light Disk Optical Reader") and the lower one is of a "Boom Box".

This is my revisioning for the HGWells Time Machine as first envisioned by the George Pal design team.  If you had read my book "The Beatnik, The Gunslinger, and the Movie Star", this is the Master Chronometer George uses to flip back and forth through time.