Steampunk and rust

Fiona and I visited Oamaru - known to some as the home of Steampunk - or at least those 'in the know' see it as being the home of Steampunk HQ.

We loved the town for its many many artists and galleries - making great use of many derelict white sandstone buildings - our kind of town. And what made it even more our sort of town was the many pieces of rusting machinery etc that were 'preserved' around the Steampunk HQ and foreshore.

Thought I might share a few photos of the Steampunk HQ; and rust associated with it.

Steampunk HQ - great use of a derelict building

Steampunk loco

Rescued rust - rusted team train rescued from the harbour?

Rusted shipping marker

On its way to becoming a post apocalyptic steampunk machine?

Another steampunk creation

Part of the Steampunk HQ rust collection

Rusted links

Layers of rust

Rusted stone cutting blades

Fragment of rusted tractor wheels

What I loved about SPHQ and the folk who ran it was that whilst they had a leaning towards the steampunk genre they also had a love of recycling, rust, making stuff - and a good sense of fun in their creations. I felt there was a fun post apolcalyptic leaning to there work.

And given all the photos were taken with the iPhone some of the rust provided a good opportunity for alterations.

Layers of rust - altered

The Steampunk Ghost Train???

The beauty of altered rust

And of course I have many more rust photos to share at a later date and maybe on the Rustlust Tumblr site.