I just recently got turned on to this junk. You may be like me. I've seen this steampunk, or stuff like it before but wasn't sure what I was looking at. Steampunk seems to be a sub-genre of fiction set in the Victorian era, when steam power was commonly used. I'm not going to get into any of the stuff that doesn't interest me. Bottom line is, this stuff is bitchin!!! Imagine, if you will, a society that has the romance, etiquette and craftsmanship of the Victorian era, combined with the practicality of ray guns, personal computers, and i-pods... Sturdy elegance and daily necessity dictates to us the need for such devices. These creations are displayed as both functional pieces of daily life as well as artistic expressions of things to come, or that might have been.
The gears and heavy mechanisms remind me of basic theory put to conventional use in an artistic expression of simple functionality. Elegant movement generated by energy that is driven by visual source. Momentum and friction propel these creations. Steam driven or spring driven, the creations of steampunk artisans are slowly seeping out of art studios and into galleries, clothing stores and on the big screen in movies such as Hell Boy (2004) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Don't throw out that old box of keys, or bag of watch parts. Get in gear and build yourself a time machine to take you to those places we dream about at night. The places that exist in our mind to exercise our imaginations. Take your environment and personalize it with a little piece of "history" that is as unique as you are. Steampunk your junk!!!
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