Steampunk of a Different Sort, Part II

Here’s the updated Steampunk Condom.  Needs a steam source, a valve, a big honking condom-packet analogue, and lots of fancy-shmancy lettering.  Five dollar words and bizarre typography.  The lettering is nowhere near my satisfaction at present.

Click to embiggenify. Or rub it.

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I haven’t put anything substantive to say down today because I have nothing to say.

Oh, wait, I do.  I ran across another Open-Source piece of software.  If you know me even a little bit you know that I love GIMP, am totally loving Inkscape, and have a relationship with Blender 3D that has gone stagnant but was passionate at one time.

This week I found Scribus.  Open-Source desktop publishing.  Nice.  Now if only I can figure out how to use it since it has no “Help” and precious little documentation.  It uses GIMP as an external editor (if you have it) and can import Inkscape SVG files.  I like it.  I can’t use it (yet) but I like it.

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Steampunk of a Different Sort

Was reading a funny editorial about a lady who went to Walgreens and started seeing it as a sex-toy store.

Then I went over to McGoo’s and saw this Steampunk Vaporinatorinator.  Waycool.

Then it hit me… Steampunk Sex Toys and Products.

Very first crack – gotta go to bed…

It hasn’t been aged, dirt mapped, adjusted in tone, and I want to put it in Scribus and make an old time advert out of it, with sepia tone and period text.

But you do recognize it as an extendible condom with a pressure gauge, right?

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