Steampunk
I'm normally not crazy about tattoos, but I'm crazy about good
design ... here we encounter some of the best of steampunk. This post is
probably the greatest on my blog … I got carried away some. But if you’re
patient and leasurely scroll down you will be rewarded with some outrageous
imagery. In the objects section we have computers, even USB sticks. How
about the motorbikes … or steampunk Yoda! Awesome. My favourites are in the fashion department … some of the photography and the styling are inspirational.
Don't miss the jewellery, the guitars and the fountain pens at the bottom ... and the Mini interior.
Please note: These are not my own photos.
Steampunk (this now is from Wikipedia) is a sub-genre
of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery, especially
in a setting inspired by industrialised Western civilization during the 19th
century. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th
century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic
future during which steam power has regained mainstream use, or in a fantasy
world that similarly employs steam power.
Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic
technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might
have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on
fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include
fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules
Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and
China Miéville. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style
presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog
computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical
Engine.
Steampunk may also, though not necessarily, incorporate
additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction,
alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a
hybrid genre. The term steampunk's first known appearance was in 1987, though
it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created even as far back
as the 1950s or 1960s.
Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing
fashions, or subcultures, that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk
fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th
century. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a
number of musical artists have been described as steampunk.