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Steampunk fashion show organized by Jules Verne Adventures and Steam Rocket at 20 years of Jules Verne Festival at the Grand Rex, Paris, 11 October 2012.
Miss Riko Misery, Image by Tom Row
The Hollywood Reporter recently revealed that ABC is developing a television series centering on Mark Twain’s classic characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Dubbed “Finn & Sawyer,” the show will chronicle the adventures of the two characters as young men who set up a detective agency in a steampunk version of New Orleans. Jason Richman and David Zabel are currently working on the pilot.
The adaptation may have Twain purists up in arms, but sometimes sticking too closely to the original material is a bad thing (after all Huck Finn did make his first literary appearance swinging a dead cat by the tail). Whether the show hits or misses, it’s still impressive that even 130 years after publication, there is still plenty of material to be mined from Twain’s body of work.
And Xerposa would like to ask you which two Hollywood actors do you think would be up to the task?
When I first saw these images I thought they had to be digital paintings or video game concept art. But these industrial beauties are the real deal.
Photographer Phil Pantano has two amazing series of photographs depicting the Col. Ward Pump Station in Buffalo, New York. The steam pumps were used to deliver water to the city of Buffalo in the early 1900s. The massive pumps are five stories tall.
Pantano writes that “the building’s expansive interior is breathtaking. It’s the size of several football fields and has a 90′ peak. Brass railings and steel staircases are prominent, along with a series of turn-of-the-century light posts. There are just 8 massive steam engines like this left in the world and 5 are here.”