Its been a while since I posted some true Steamworks…
Some gorgeous bikes, and rocking early 20th century steam stylins…

 









yea boyiii… 

Regresiones (work in process)

Apparently these are not so new, but I just saw them for the first time yesterday.

A lot of composite work is generally passable, but this work in progress by  Alejandro “Alex” Castro has a really interesting, sensitive and expressive quality to it.



In some ways it is sad and frustrating, a reminder of the destruction we have wrought on our planet.







You can find more of his work here: Behance (he needs to move to Dripbook.) and his blog here: Formamag

The suckiest thing about being a Man who likes to dress well is that you risk looking like a Wanker.  
In fact I can say with assurance that this is the case. In the US dressing well with get you identified as an “asshole”, “a fag” (not my word), or more consistently “an uppity wanna be”.

Even so, the dandy in me says fuck you to all the lazy mother fuckers who for the past 4 decades have reduced male style to 3 options:

• “giant boy in tennies” 
• “metrosexual/dandy/gay” 
• “asshole guido business douche”.

I want to say clearly and loudly, fuck you, useless baby boomers who felt that hats where too formal, traditional and reactionary; who feel that baseball caps are acceptable head gear for men past the age of 15.

Fuck the lazy tards, who believe(d) that putting on a nice suit, and looking like a suave finely dressed man is too much work.

fuck em.

Even in the poorest hood of the poorest town of Haiti; the sketchiest corner of Kinshasa/Dakar/Yaoundé/Cape Town; the smallest town in India; men try their hardest to look and dress with an assurance and style reflecting their self worth.

Some pushing it to the bionic extreme, such as “Les Sapeur”* in Africa and the Caribbean.
 

Sadly the homogenization of style that has been occurring with the domination of hip-hop “culture” since the 80s has also made its mark the world over.

Baggie droopy, and otherwise unflattering jeans dominate the male ‘fashion’, with T-shirts, hoodies, construction worker boots, basketball shoes, and baseball caps further destroying any hope of a real revival of style around the world.

What can you do? 
Well I for one call bullshit. 
I don’t mind becoming even more of a dandy as I grow older, because in the end only you decide how to present yourself to the world.

Here are some western men, in western clothing, the super wanker metrosexual dandies for you.  
Not all are greatly attired necessarily, but all have elements of goodness and fine style, and have at least TRIED! 








 

*I am working on a post on the ‘Sapeur’ very excited about them.

Shader version of workshop desk.

4 different states of a classroom+workshop model.
A really impressive example of modern 3D modeling + compositing skills, by Studio Aiko.
 
 
Daylight version 


Night time version 


Sunny Day version


Flash version 

Skilllllllz.
Definitely check out the site for hi-rez imagery. The level of detail is astonishing.