Steampunk Star Wars

http://www.vimeo.com/860821/

STEEMPUNK

lowselfesteempunk

steampunk is played out? ;_;

It must be true if the NY Times is writing about it.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/08/fashion/punk_450.3.jpg

lol whaaaaaaaa

i posted this on the noiseboard but:

From this nytimes crap:

“There seems to be this sort of perfect storm of interest in steampunk right now,” Mr. von Slatt said. “If you go to Google Trends and track the number of times it is mentioned, the curve is almost algorithmic from a year and a half ago.” (At this writing, Google cites 1.9 million references.)

BLURGH LOL

its ok to punch these people right

THESE KIDS LOOK LIKE THE KIDS THAT GOT PICKED ON BY THE OTHER DRAMA KIDS

it's legal to hunt them in 8 states

this stuff is like superhero costumes in that it might seem cool in a comic book or something but does not work at ALL in real life

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/07/style/23011173.JPG

...no comment

are those prescription

the goggles, they do something

Gamer Cosplay gone bad

gone

http://steampunkworkshop.com/images/ain25-desk.jpg

It's an understandable enough assumption but I do love the underpinning idea of 'oh everyone dressed like this back then and had handcrafted materials and etc.' Very SCA.

haha i went to college w/ a dude who studied medieval history, he flipped out about the SCA types once: "why in fuck would anyone want to live in that time? life was horrible. we'd all be the 99.9% of the population with no rights." victorian era was only marginally better.

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/images/cinema/wild-wild-west.jpg

i might respect these guys if they ACTUALLY tried to live a steam-powered analytical engine lifestyle using only 19th century tech but brass-covered iphones and flat-screen tvs are for assholes.

brassholes

so glad i had no idea what this was until about 3 days ago

now i'm just like thanks ilx o_O

hahaha

You're welcome!

i guess it's more like o_0 right
i feel uncomfortable

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(I hope this works)

nice

shudder

Wild Wild West, Jim West, desperado, rough rider
No you don't want nada
None of this, six gunin this, brotha runnin this,
Buffalo soldier, look it's like I told ya
Any damsel that's in distress
Be out of that dress when she meet Jim West
Rough neck so go check the law and abide
Watch your step with flex and get a hole in your side
Swallow your pride, don't let your lip react,
You don't wanna see my hand where my hip be at,
With Artemus, from the start of this,
Runnin the game, James West tamin the west so
remember the name
Now who ya gonna call?

I think steampunk is kinda cool. I see no wrong with people wanting to be a bit creative and playing around with the idea, even though I wouldn't do it myself.

You know who else wanted to be a bit creative and play around with ideas?

Satan.

they didn't have phones back then, Smith

anyway this is the only steampunk Star Wars you'll ever need http://gbamedia.gamespy.com/gba/image/article/706/706128/final-fantasy-vi-20060509061309295.jpg

Tuomas OTM. boredom is the real enemy!

Curt1s also otm

steamfunk, now that i'd like to see.

the mothership was coal powered, FYI.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/07/style/23011173.JPG

"I gotta put my shades on so I can see what I'm doin"

Steampunk is perpetual disappointment; an aesthetic ideal that always seems to contain fail, at least a little bit in execution. Seriously wtf is with just slapping random gears on everything.

seriously wtf is with those goggles

Say, didn't they just now complete a fully operational model of Babbage's Analytical Machine?

Say, didn't they just now complete a fully operational model of Babbage's Analytical Machine?

Yes. http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

Think steampunk is harmless? Think again! Steampunks are a bunch of charlatans intent on making fools of us all!

We are being taken for rubes. At worst, the Steampunkers seem to be mediocre hobbyists with great publicists. It seems fine to me that an obscure niche of DIY hobbyists want to create an imaginary Victorian present, no matter how insular or simpleminded it might be. Reality is what you make of it, even if it is apparent that some people prefer reality to look like a discarded sci-fi movie prop.

..."The Whirlygig Emoto" -- oh dear.

I have nothing against Steampunk. Nothing particular for it either, but the howling din of pop cultural criticism currently directed against it is laughable.

Yeah, this article is sledgehammer-against-fly level. Identifying the conceptual fallacies inherent in the romanticized version of steampunk-as-such I'm fine with but I'm hardly feeling like the world's about to collapse.

Personally I prefer my version of it -- a MacMini and its couple-of-years old design on top of a desk assembled by both machine and hand in the 19th century that I've long since inherited down.

This is hilarious -- so I grabbed my copy of the book that arguably helped 'start it all' as much as anything else, Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine, and in flipping through it I had forgotten that:

* they'd both signed this copy's title page (it was a first edition hardcover that a friend of mine had and gave or sold to me some time in the mid-nineties, I don't know where he got them to sign it)

* Sterling had added below the Bantam Books publisher information on the title page '1855'

ILComics poster Matt M, attending Comic-Con, has posted the last thing that needs to be said about steampunk.

ILComics and accomplished Comics Writer Matt M, you mean.

Very much so, yes. (He's also been a friend of mine since 1994 so I mostly think of him that way. :-D )

Arglebargle WTF:

But I don't think the RadioShack name brand is the problem. In fact, I think it's ineffably charming with the potential to be positioned as hip and retro-modern, even steampunk.

Admittedly the article tries to explain why.

screw the shack. this is where it's at:

http://www.mcmaster.com

was turned onto it when I needed a "woodruff key" to get my 100 year old printing press working. An amazing website.

they are one of my venders. i use them all the time for hard to find stuff.

good morrow i wish to procure a wireless device

Fight Club 1910 (A Masterpiece Theatre/Merchant and Ivory Production)

I order stuff from Mcmaster regularly too (I have somehow ended up in the QC profession). They rule.

The foundation pieces of this stupid genre are all superb: Homunculus and Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock, The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, Infernal Devices by KW Jeter, and The Difference Engine. I'm not sure at what point folks took this and made it into a codified obnoxious fetish trip. The photo evidence in this thread is Pepcid-worthy.

Blaylock is one of my very favorite writers in any genre (actually his non-Victorian stuff is something more like suburban American magic realism). There was an interview with him recently where he talked about how in the late 90s a big studio film almost got made from one of his books; apparently it, and movies based on several other kindred authors, all hinged upon the performance of the Wild, Wild West movie. If WWW was a big hit the studios were poised to indulge a "steampunk" fad and some richly deserving older writers like JPB would get some nice checks. But we all know how that went.

Steamtiki

http://www.carvedfromwood.co.uk/steampunk.html

http://www.carvedfromwood.co.uk/images/steampunk/trilobite.jpg

At this point I'm just waiting on the steampunk prog metal concept albums (except I'm sure they already exist).

Steam Theater

JESUS CHRIST

Wash your mouth out with soap, they'll actually do that.

BIG HOOS aka the steenpunk

Uh Ned...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/steampunkband.jpg

Oh fucking fuck.

re: mcmaster.. my uncle went to the middle east once to help a guy build his boat. the guy ran a gigantic supply warehouse in the middle of nowhere. my uncle walked into this vast place, stacked to the roof with mountains of steel fasteners, plastic bins, etc as far as the eye could see. it turned out the guy ordered every single thing from the mcmaster catalogue.

Arcade Fire attempts to go steampunk, has a mechanical problem.

Yeah GREAT:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/01/20/steampunk-palin-comic/

this is actually really cool. then again its actually old:

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Victorian-artificial-arm-3.jpg

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/11/victorian-artificial-arm/

steampunk terminator

Okay the dude in the first two seconds alone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6-AmXihFsU

"i have an appreciation for our history"

Tom Ewing on said dude, via Twitter: "What I admire about steampunk is its love of large, ridiculous, finely-crafted tools. Like him."

http://www.inquisitr.com/83278/victorian-era-marvel-characters-with-a-touch-of-steampunk/

I am far from a steampunk fan but that guy's work is amazing. he has done the star wars characters as steampunk/WW2/samurai/film noir/LOTR etc etc. god i'm such a nerd but I love this stuff.

http://www.likecool.com/Gear/Steampunk/Darth%20Vapour/Darth-Vapour.jpg

Was Warehouse 13 intended to have more of a Steampunk theme than it wound up with? It does still have all the Tesla equipment but that seems pretty peripheral. Just wondering after seeing this thread.
I do find that Victorian crafted machinery thing pretty attractive as well as some of the clothing. Hadn't really taken in to what extent it had become popular among certain factions though.

hoe abotu a steampunk themed general store? what woul dbe sold ?

http://kotaku.com/5926924/steampunk-lara-croft-sure-looks-like-a-good-idea/gallery/1

I could not follow that link as our "fun stopper" on our firewall at work categorized it as "informational" - now even information is blocked - what's next, steam?

so last night I was invited by a friend to attend the 'steampunkers ball'

There was soooo much plumage, goggles and mustaches. What exactly is this whole subculture about?

other than things being sci-fi and 'old timey' at the same time?

it all reminds me of back to the future 3 and the time traveling train at the end. or that movie 'wild wild west"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Ultima_Worlds_of_Adventure_2_cover.jpg

Whatever happened to cyberpunk? I wonder if it just got swallowed up into Steampunk. It does seem like something appropriately kitschy and stylish enough to warrant rediscovery. Like maybe a cross between ravers and steampunks or something? Maybe people in the 90s would look at Skrillex and hear his music and think he was a cyberpunk.

I dunno if steampunk has been the cultural force it's made out to be. To date, the only mainstream steampunk movie was that Wild Wild West one. There's way more cyberpunk movies (The Matrix, etc...)

Steampunk: brass gears glued to everything, dumb hats
Cyberpunk: microchips glued to everything, mirrorshades

There was some kind of Steampunk party in Atlanta a few weeks ago (sadly i didn't get to go). I don't know how it turned out but some hip local bands played and it sounded like some kind of cool thing. It seems to sort of fit into Etsy DIY culture and "The Dream of the 1890s" etc. Next time i hear about a Steampunk party i really need to make a point to check it out.

I do wish there were Cyberpunk-themed parties though. Maybe that's what raves are like (I've never been to one).

CES is a kind of cyberpunk party, and this year's keynote by qualcomm was um...
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonoberholtzer/files/2013/01/yes2.gif

I just saw a trio of 20-something girls dressed up in Victorian costume i think they were on their way to a tea party. There is a place in Atlanta called Dr. Bombays that has High Tea and stuff. Not sure if that was Steampunk or not but I'm sure a High Tea trend is still working in that direction.

Steampunk spats!

...via Target.

http://www.target.com/p/adult-steampunk-male-spats/-/A-13672815

It never ends

http://www.gsntv.com/show/steampunkd/