<3 Steampunk! ;D

The pipe really makes it.

Buying air... sounds like Spaceballs xD

Clue me in please! I've been seeing a lot of Steampunk related stuff, but what started it all?

The picture is fairly typical of Steampunk. As for a definition of the term it is a genre of science fiction that is fairly retro. The Age of Steam it represented never actually existed but a lot of folks like to pretend it might have done so. William Gibson and Bruce Cordell, two of the fathers of Cyberpunk as a literary genre created it because they want to do some alternative history combined with what they already were used to. So among other things they described a world in which Babbage actually got his analytical engine to work as he wanted and ushered in bits of the information age about a century earlier than it actually occurred. They also included many of the works of Jules Verne and Howard George Wells into their mythology. Then it kind of snowballed as these things sometimes do. At it's heart is an aesthetic in which Victorian Age dress and some of the values are simulated with very modern type things. It's also an age where steam engines and zeppelins are literally kings of transportation. Mad scientists are everywhere and wondrous things are happening all the time. But it's also primarily a sub genre of science fiction that has caught on with a lot of folks.

That is one of the best descriptions for the genre I have read thus far.

Thank you, Steam Punk is a favorite genre of mine. I love cyberpunk as well but the idea of steam punk appeals to me as an alternative history that lends itself to the addition of fantasy quite well as FMA showed us. The Japanese love it as well. Last Exile was great as well. Steam Punk has a certain aesthetic to it that I rather like. One site you might want to look at is www.girlgeniusonline.com for an on-line comic that will be a good introduction to many of the ideas of the genre.

Steampunk: here's a good band that does this very well. Abney Park. This vid on YouTube shows the band, and shows a great deal of steampunk styling, and a great description of what its all about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtEVaTr6F0

I ordered their one CD through CD Baby earlier today.

If ya go to www.abneypark.com they have a better selection of music there, plus you can do the "unlock the vault thingie" and get about 5CD's worth of music including some very odd christmas carols.

I may do that some point in the future. I tried doing that about a month or two earlier but nothing came of it. Some glitch more than likely. And what I thought I ordered ended up not happening.

I'm all about the steam, not so much the punk. Damn punks

Nice, very nice :)

*kick gotten* X3

Very nice.

so is steam punk a movie or a style? or both?

I believe it's a sci-fi genre :)

it's both in many ways. when you dress up as someone from the Victorian period it's a style and a fashion. Movies that are steam punk in their style include:

League of Extraordinary Gentleman

20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea (any version set in the time when Verne lived)

Island of Dr. Moreau (the novella is but since I have yet to see any version of the movie I can't comment)

Dracula

Frankenstein

Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde

From Hell (or any other movie dealing with Jack the Ripper)

Wild Wild West (westerns are in the right Era for Steam Punk and the train used is one of the genre's hallmarks)

I think you get a good idea of the world this genre of Sci-Fi is trying to simulate. Fantasy worlds based on this replicate much of this time frame and add in things that were never mentioned or intended like elves and magic. Full Metal Alchemist might also be considered part of this genre as part of Science Fantasy

"Yeah I know the air outside of this mask is potentialy deadly, but damnit I'll smoke if I want to!" XD

For some reason I entirely expect to come across a sign like this in Fallout 3...

I want a print of this, to hang on my wall p3o *monocle*

lovin it! XD

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