Captain Robert

Still going...

2008-05-11T22:27:50Z

I thought of somthing else I wanted to add to that keyboard:

robert_from_ap @ 2008-05-11T01:47:00

2008-05-11T01:47:24Z

robert_from_ap @ 2008-05-10T04:33:00

2008-05-10T04:33:51Z

Making progress...

2008-05-10T04:05:29Z

KRISTINAS STEAMPUNK KEYBOARD, V2

2008-05-09T23:32:24Z

Okay, so anybody who's seen us live in the last year or so might have been able to tell us sooner then now that it was about time Kristina got a new Keyboard. Which basically means I've got some work to do. Yikes.

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K's old keyboard was gorgeous, but since it's on its' last legs, I got some improvements I want to make. The old one (details above) had neat touches, but only stuff Kristina could see. Most of its beauty was hidden from the audience. The new one I am making to "face" the crowd; the details will be front of stage. I also didn't the old ones square "wind shield". Square is NOT Steampunk.

This weekend is the only time I have to build this between now and The Edison. I will post updates as i go. Here is the sketch I whipped up in Photoshop based on the supplies I have. Lets see if i can pull this off:

(click for details)

Notice it has built in speakers. This is so Kristina can play off stage, as well as on. Why should Nathaniel and me get all the fun?

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2008-05-09T21:18:56Z

Villians, victims and heros.

2008-05-09T06:07:29Z

The world can be sorted into victims villians and heroes. If you're not a hereo then you probaly think you're a victim...but even villians think they are victims.

...admittedly, I've been drinking.

Bong

2008-05-09T01:16:06Z

How does a bong work? Whats the benefit of the bubbles?

Robert
Abney Park

A gift I got at Makers Faire

2008-05-09T00:27:50Z

1900's trench lighter made from a bullet shell.

Jake Von Slatt & Datamancer

2008-05-08T18:56:15Z

Hey, email me: robert at abney park dot com.

A venue I'm currently working with wants to commission you, and figured I'd know how to get a hold of you.

Captian Robert in NY Times

2008-05-08T05:30:08Z

> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/fashion/08PUNK.html?_r=1&oref=slogan

Me and and a bunch of other pirates

2008-05-07T20:48:29Z

Here is me with some of the crew of the H.M.S. Chronabelle the day of the Makers Faire show. They may look tough here, but I can tell you they squeeled like little girls when I started crooning Dear Ophelia.

Actually, come to think of it, they don't look at all tough here...they look...cute and perky! What the hell kind of pirates are pretty, cute and perky!?!?

"arrrr, gimme all your booty, or I'll...I'll um...or I won't baby sit for you on friday!"

COMING UP LATER IN THIS THREAD:

Makers Faire - Holy Brass Buckets!

2008-05-07T17:09:00Z

I can't even begin to tell you how cool and Bizare Makers Faire was. Seriosuly, every square inch was just....mind blowing. Let me explain:

Nathaniel shocked us all by showing something to us something none of us had ever seen before! Right in front of a crowd of fans he whipped out his...

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..new violin !!

Amazing work by Molly "porkshanks"

So, this thing has a sound reasponsive lighting array of vacume tubes that fires different colors in pitch to the music he plays on it! Hot damn!

Dispite Nathaneil exposing himself, we had a huge crowd for our concert, and played between to 30 foot statues that exploded in flames in time to the music! (no, seriosously. I watched the crowd illuminate by fire!)

Our show went off with out a hitch (LAIR!). We were introduced with the Jake Von Slatt himself:

With a flattering and funny as hell little write up on ABney Park. It was fantastic, Jake if your reading this, consider posting it!

Then we got onstage and made a mess of the whole thing ;)

VIDEO CLIP
(cool Stage, huh?)

Actually, other then a few now almost required keyboard malfuntions, we did a perfect (for us) job!

My view

2008-05-05T01:02:10Z

The view from here.

2008-05-04T17:25:17Z

Okay, I'm fed, pressed and cleaned, swam, and I'm getting dressed for
another day of duty.

robert_from_ap @ 2008-05-04T01:05:00

2008-05-04T01:05:14Z

Buy this:

The fwiw from were Im at.

2008-05-03T23:00:17Z

Gunna take care of somthing before this interview onbsteampunk culture.

robert_from_ap @ 2008-05-03T20:29:00

2008-05-03T20:29:19Z

View here. Damn this is cool.

2008-05-03T20:22:24Z

robert_from_ap @ 2008-05-03T20:13:00

2008-05-03T20:13:41Z

Fwiw from where I'm at

2008-05-03T20:07:34Z

Makers faire, San mateo fair grounds.

View form where I'm sitting.

2008-05-03T17:24:32Z

Makers faire, right now, San mateo fair grounds.

LIVE IN LA, MAY 25th

2008-04-29T17:41:54Z

www.AbneyPark.com | www.EdisonDownTown.com

This is likely to be the most beautiful show Abney Park will every play,
and we are playing all night long. If you only go to one Abney Park
show in your life, it should be this one. Memorial Day Weekend.

Steampunk Stowaway

2008-04-28T19:52:38Z

As many of you have noticed, we do have an infestation on board the ~~H.M.S.~~ Ophelia. Little rodent like stowaways climb the ropes in various ports and are always scurring underfoot. We tried hosing them out the portholes, but the little buggers are quick! Plus, if you piss 'em off, they sneak into your bunk at night and torture you!

Anyway, I caught one on film, and thought I'd let you see what we suffer:

If you have suffering of your own, do share. Its comforting to know when other suffer your own fate.

Scedual for Next Weekends Show (Saterday)

2008-04-28T18:01:11Z

People keep asking me about this, so here it is. We are on at 8:30.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Music Stage 1	TripKnight TripKnight A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Music Stage 1	TripKnight TripKnight A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Music Stage 1	Eddy Demon Total Annihilation Brendan Thorn A rock and roll alternative that's hip and surreal rock with awesome lyrics, great drummer, experimental guitarist, and a bass player. It is most excellent with a new wave of licks.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Music Stage 1	Microfiche Tim Lillis Microfiche is an instrumental four-piece from San Francisco who draw diagrams for your ears and mind. If you were to use the pinnacle of nineteenth-century signal processing technology to transpose the sounds of hope, despair, patterns, the lack of patterns, fear of mechanical men, and whale calls, you would almost have the sound of Microfiche. They have been playing together since the beginning of 2007, and are currently unsigned. Microfiche have an old microfiche reader - turned light-sensitive MIDI instrument and an interactive LED Graphic EQ backdrop to accompany and augment their sound.
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Music Stage 1	Gowns Ezra Buchla From the ashes of West Coast spazz combo the Mae Shi and legendary woodworking noiseniks Amps for Christ has emerged a Frankenstein assembly of minimal percussion, a cappella harmonizing, and raw folk melodies christened Gowns. Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla have married personal, intelligent lyrics and homemade bent electronics to create remarkably haunting drone-pop masterpieces. Their whispered vocals mingle with hushed instrumentation, only to collide, explode, and slowly burn a hole in your frontal lobe by the night's end. - flavorpill
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Music Stage 1	TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup TradeMark Gunderson Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup!
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Music Stage 1	Culann's Hounds Culann's Hounds San Francisco-based high-energy, virtuosic musicians playing traditional Irish, hoe-down, zydeco, and original music. Their other influences include punk, rock, country, and reggae. Violin, Accordion, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal Harmonies; jumping, dancing, rebel yells. Headliners for the San Francisco Irish festival.
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Music Stage 1	TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup TradeMark Gunderson Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup!
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Music Stage 1	Abney Park Abney Park Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.