What a sad world we live in

when legal Copyright is under threat from those who would steal our work. Follow the link and read about John Unger, a wonderful original artist and his fight to retain the copyright to his original work. If you can support him, please do.

John Unger

Below is a small portion of John's fight...

Imitator Sues Artist to Overturn Copyright on Sculptural Art

FirePitArt.com, LLC and owner Rick Wittrig have filed suit against me in federal court seeking to overturn my formally registered copyrights in order to continue selling unlicensed knockoffs of my work. He argues that my original Artisanal Firebowls are not properly classified as sculptural artwork, despite the fact that Wittrig sells his copies at art fairs, describes himself publicly as an artist, and even uses the word art in the name of his business. When Wittrig first launched his website he offered only six designs of firepits all of which bear an uncanny resemblance to my Artisanal Firebowl sculptures. One of these even initially bore the exact same name as my Waves O' Fire. He appears to be mass-producing these designs, and is selling them at discounted prices on several of the largest internet retail sites devoted to outdoor living.

Please, if you can, help John fight this. Because what is happening to him, will happen to more and more original artists. This MUST stop...for all our sakes...

Please repost...get the word out there...it doesn't matter what country you're in, eventually, someone, somewhere, will try the same thing, because a precedent will have been set for their attempt.

Blast the day!

It is too wet to go out and spray paint my steamy walking stick!!!! *muttermuttermutter* Maybe I can spray it out side and race back in doors and let it dry there....hmmmm....could work....I'll make sure I take photos of my progress. ^_^

Just because I can...

And I left it as a response to a post on LiveJournal...

But it does make an interesting question...what is your Steampunk? Are you a neo-Victorian, an Abney Park style Steampunk or something a little different from that? Here is what I left as a reply:

Alright, this is "MY" Steampunk world....I live in the year 2009... Place: Sydney, Australia.
Britannia still rules the waves.
Queen Victoria still reigns over the Empire. (Don't ask...it has something to do with a cup of tea and a Marconi set)
The use of steam power never ended. Why reinvent the wheel?
And my Elegant Steam has a lot of Punk in it.
It is where the past meets the future in the present.

And if anyone wants to tell me that I'm playing make believe wrong, well, I will be a lady and politely blow a raspberry at you and wander off.

And it is true...I live in the here and now. My Victorian England never ended.

Shades of wrong!

I'm posting this as a warning.....

Steampunk Wallpaper -

This will also be appearing on my LiveJournal account and may even get posted to a couple of the communities, if I haven't been beaten to it!

This will show you just how much I care!!!

Yet again, I've toiled to bring you yet more ethernet linkages for you to play with to your heart's desire!

How To Draw Steampunk Machines - Yes, alright! I'll admit it! Fine! I like to draw. Happy now, are we? And no, you won't ever get to see what I draw...I don't think my work is good enough and that is all there is to it.... :P

When Steam meet Wars - Oh yes...I have succumbed to the siren call of Darth Vader and the Dark Side of the Force...did you know that the Dark Side has cookies????

Brass Goggles - The one. The only.

Steampunk Pics - They have some really nice images there.

Library Thing ~ Steampunk - Want to read rather than surf. Here is the place to start!

Steampunkopedia - Oh...my....

Have fun.

Alright my pretties...

I have been searching and trawling and generally making a nuisance of myself on the etherweb, but I have found some wonderful places for you to go and play at!

Instructables ~ Steampunk (general search) - You have to love a bunch of mad tinker-makers!

Instructables ~ Reverse Clock - Oh, how I wish I was better at playing with gears and such! The Steamy potential this has is amazing!

Instructables ~ Electrified Monopoly - Oh Gods! I SO want this!!!!!

Wonder How To ~ Steampunk (general search) - Wonder How To is one of those sites that once you find, you keep going back to.

Artfire Handmade Artisan Items ~ Steampunk (general search) - Never heard of this one? Don't worry, neither had I until a few days ago. They're kind of like Etsy, but far more elitist...*snicker*

Steampunk Wallpapers - I take such joy in wandering through this site!

Darkrising Art - Not all of Aly Fell's work is Steamy, though a lot of it is funny! *If you have a dark, twisted sense of humour, like I do*

Now, take my "work" and spread it near and far...I won't mind...

You know, I would give you something to watch, but, being the techno-ditz that I am, I have yet to work out how to do that here... so I shall link you to it and you will just have to deal with the fact that your loving dictator can't work this etherweb thing!

Steampunk Duel

*giggles and wanders off*

Online Mags and Steampunk...who'da thunk it????

This I found because of The Steampunk Workshop .... VivaLaModa Handmade Fashion. I am actually impressed with a fashion mag!!!! How strange is that? I'm NEVER impressed with fashion mags...mostly because they are populated by vapid bints who need to go and have a good meal, and arses who think they can tell me what size I should be, who I should try and emulate, and that, in actual fact I'm not good enough to be part of the "in" crowd...~issues or what?~ Who said that????

I think it is about time.....

I actually posted something Steampunk related...don't you??? Thought so...

Wandering the interwebs yesterday I came across this site, Antipodean Steampunk Adventures, which is run by the witty Mad Uncle Cliff.
Now, I do have an Uncle Cliff, but this isn't my Uncle Cliff. My Uncle Cliff doesn't bill himself as "Mad", even though he's as mad as a hatter!....this is a different Uncle Cliff, this is Mad Uncle Cliff, who lives south of the border...whereas my Uncle Cliff lives south and west of the border...hehehehe...have I confused you yet????

So, anyway, Mad Uncle Cliff has inspired me!

The moment I saw his Steampunk Webcam, I knew that I wanted to give it a try! It is something simple that I could give a go and not be intimidated by, which has been the trouble with most of the things I'd like to make...they require more time on my feet than my broken body will allow me...so something I can figure out in my head, time-wise, and then attack is perfect!
I'll have to sit down sometime before payday and work out what I'll need...and where I'll get it all from, and then write up my attack plan for putting it all together.

*shivers*

Sounds like almost as much fun as plotting world domination!

Which reminds me.......*wanders off muttering*

Why, she's human after all!

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Life is so strange.

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This that and the other...

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Well, how the h3ll am I....

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This just bites!!!!

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The end of things is never easy...

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Gods, I have no idea what is wrong with me today.

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My Country

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die-
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold-
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Dorothea Mackellar

They REALLY need to give me....

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Not knowing is the hardest thing....

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Freakin' Heat Waves!

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Kicking Habits...

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And life can be sad too

This morning we lost a beautiful, cheeky light from this mortal coil...my wonderful neighbour, friend, adopted Grandfather, Francis Roy Hines. Goodbye my darling old man...you will be missed by all of us. And though we are left to weep at your passing, we know that you are now begining your greatest adventure to date.
Rest well you cheeky bugger, and no trying to put your smooth moves on the ladies! We love you Roy.

Life and other joys.

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Sadness...

Won't be doing Supanova in Melbourne this year...:( Much in the way of sadness. And it isn't money, for once stopping it. Damn family obligations!!! Ah well, I'll deal, though that doesn't stop the dissapointment. I had plans to goose all the superheros I could find. *pouting now*

George...world....World...George...play nice with each other now!

Heat waves

I feel so sorry for my friends down in Victoria and South Australia! I know what you are suffering through right now with that horrid heat wave! It isn't fun...all you can do is hide from the sun and heat as best you can and keep the fluid intake up. Just know that I'm sending you all cooling thoughts and I'm crossing my fingers that it'll break soon and you'll get a wonderful southerly!

Now here is something to take your minds off that heat....


Nothing better than a sexy Ioan Gruffudd in a cold shower to cool you off some!!!! *insert evil laugh here*

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What is it....

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To state the blindingly obvious...

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The First one...

Alright...where do I start?

About me?

How about I describe myself and we can go from there? Sound good?

OK.

I'm 5'8" or thereabouts. I have blue eyes, though they have been known to change colour depending on my mood. I have redhair. And I want to rule the world. Yes folks, you read that right. I Want To Rule The World. But, I don't want to be elected to that post...oh, no no no...I want world domination..I want to take over and never let anyone take it away from me!

Do you think that is too grand? Am I biting off more than I can chew? Meh... it's not like I could do a worse job than those that are in power now.

So if I'm bright and perky and making you want to grab the nearest nail gun to hold to my head, just know that I'll snarl at you and then make you laugh. It's what I do. Can't help myself. Honest.