Willeford grew up in a Victorian house with a “mad scientist” grandfather who ... It’s not surprising that Willeford became interested in steampunk as early as 1988, long before he even ...

"Every mad scientist needs a death ray," said Thomas Willeford, steampunk designer and judge of the TV series "Steampunk'd," as he presented his laser cutter. The machine, which is housed in ...

An inconspicuous, old Victorian home in Harrisburg houses a mad scientist's steampunk laboratory. Thomas Willeford, owner of Brute Force Studios, lives in a house of clockwork scorpions ...

That is an understatement coming from a man known as the “mad scientist” of electric guitar effects ... finished box case covered with small mechanical watch parts, to be a “steampunk” edition. In a ...

Steampunk borrows elements such as fantastic voyages, mad scientists and automatons from ... and the use of rudimentary electricity similar to the work of Nikola Tesla.Magic: Some steampunk ...

Willeford explains, as he and his companion unhook a gleaming metal contraption from his arm, that some people call him the Tony Stark of Steampunk ... influences from science fiction writers ...

Steampunk defies easy categorization, but in broad terms, it's mad science mixed with Victorian-era costumes, with influences ranging from Jules Verne to Charles Dickens to Star Wars to Wild Wild ...