A subculture hand-tools today's gadgets with Victorian style.
Comment: This is truly awesome...H.G. Wells would be proud. I feel compelled to feature this on the team blog, "The Pursuit of Awesome". Come see us at: http://www.pursuitofawesome.blogspot.com !
Comment: There are a few that you over looked.
One being
G D Falksen
http://www.myspace.com/gdfalksen
and
Jay lake
http://www.myspace.com/mainspring_the_book
and
http://www.myspace.com/vernianprocess
Ok that is better now.
Comment: Awesomness personified--er--computerfied.
Comment: Awesomness personified--er--computerfied.
Comment: ..........cough........................................................................................................................................sniff........
Comment: There are a few that you over looked.
One being
G D Falksen
http://www.myspace.com/gdfalksen
and
Jay lake
http://www.myspace.com/mainspring_the_book
and
http://www.myspace.com/vernianprocess
Ok that is better now.
Comment: I hate you, Mr. Brian Braiker.
Comment: I hate you Mr. Brian Braiker.
Comment: What if YouTube had existed 100 years ago? I made a short video about the Steampunk Internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBpXlZumNg
It has been well received in the Steampunk community.
Comment: What if YouTube had been around 100 years ago? I made a short video about the Steampunk Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBpXlZumNg
Comment: Cool, it should be in Wal-Mart
Comment: Cool, I would like them to be in stores. Possibly Wal-Mart?
Comment: i command to get
Comment: Just as there is steampunk there is also a sub-subculture of Clockpunk!
Here is the link to a Clockpunk blog
http://davinciautomata.wordpress.com/
Comment: Just as there is steampunk there is also a sub-subculture of Clockpunk. Here is a link to a Clockpunk blog.
http://davinciautomata.wordpress.com/
Comment: God, lay off. Mother nature? Put down the joint and appreciate the art.
Comment: God, lay off. Mother nature? Put down the joint long enough to appreciate the art, okay?
Comment: You left out a few things, but that is to be expected given that this is a new trend. There is so much going on it???s hard to put everything about it in a two-page article. If you do a follow up article I would highly suggest that you try to have an interview on the subject with G. D. Falksen. He is one of the best new writers I???ve seen, and he???s the only reason I read Steampunk Magazine. He has an absolutely wonderful serial novel in the magazine called ???An Unfortunate Engagement.??? I don???t know if he has a website but I do know his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/gdfalksen
His story is the best part of the magazine and it???s surprising that such a polished piece of fiction is being written by a 25 year old guy.
Comment: This is like a nostalgic yearning for the era of the Titanic. What good are stylized keyboards if your house is either flooding or burning down? When mother nature gives us our wake up call, it will be more than a tap on the shoulder. Let's prioritize our priorities!
Comment: This is like a nostalgic yearning for the era of the Titanic. What good are stylized keyboards if your house is either flooding or burning down? When mother nature gives us our wake up call, it will be more than a tap on the shoulder. Let's prioritize our priorities!
Comment: One of the deepest psychological roots of Steampunking must be the yearning for permanency expressed by the "nostalgia" for Victorian aesthetics, which suggest substance, solidity and endurance. By contrast, today's cultural artifacts are hardly less transient and disposable than Bic pens. Very few consumer electronics have a life span more than a few years; how long does the average laptop computer, cell phone or digital camera last in the consumer's lifecycle? Most people change cell phones every couple of years; cameras and computers obsolesce at a blistering pace. This phenomenon clearly grows out of our need to be comforted by things that have a permanence beyond that of a fruit fly.
Comment: Hey, Tim! Maybe that could be the theme of your term paper! You know - disposable versus permanent. Your student advisor will marvel at your insight, not to mention your ability to render and conflate aesthetics with mechanics with overwrought, pseudoacademic prose. Oh yeah! There's your secondary theme! Form versus function in a material, consumer driven world! Be sure to let us know when you're asked to present it to the class!
Comment: Actually, for those of you who game online, the game City of Heroes/City of Villians has, as one of the main bad guys you fight against, a group named Nemesis. They're all based on steampunk tech, with mechanical robots that look like steampowered kegs, guys in Prussian drag shooting weapons that look like giant trombones with bayonets, and their leader, Nemesis, has a giant battle suit that is 1 part "mecha" and 3 parts "Victorian brass" and looks like a carved 1880's statue come to life. It's a very neat nod to the "steampunk" genre.
Comment: "...doesn't have the same appeal." Yet. Of course, there have already been things like iPod cases made out of 1980's Walkmen, so the loop may be getting smaller. Hmm...I wonder if you could fit a new, small iPod into the case of an old, bulky... iPod from six years ago?
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