January 6, 2009
Screenshot from The Golden Compass, with more available at Vidal’s Picasa gallery. The Golden Compass is a 2007 film in which a parallel universe to ours undergoes major political conflict, with a domineering Majesterium looking to conquer our plane from their own. In this world of mystical Dust, animal spirits, witches and warrior bears, the world as we know it has been re-imagined as gentle steampunk. Dirigibles like this one, belonging to Lady Coulter, fly over the art deco landscape like brass clouds, propelled by alien magics.

Screenshot from The Golden Compass, with more available at Vidal’s Picasa gallery.

The Golden Compass is a 2007 film in which a parallel universe to ours undergoes major political conflict, with a domineering Majesterium looking to conquer our plane from their own. In this world of mystical Dust, animal spirits, witches and warrior bears, the world as we know it has been re-imagined as gentle steampunk. Dirigibles like this one, belonging to Lady Coulter, fly over the art deco landscape like brass clouds, propelled by alien magics.