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On Aug 24, 6:44*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21*pm, Guzzistimo wrote: What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on youtube. -- John H "If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!" --Anonymous Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still used. *It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to modern implements. This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/ In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an "Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. *Steampunk crazies always wear cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their devices produce. Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. you might say it'[s ssomething like a Cyborg gets trapped in Davey Jones's locker and writes 20,000 leagues under the sea" League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a good example http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311429/ |