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Uma Bauhaus
Renascene
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
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08-24-2006 14:46
Kendra Bancroft has created a lot of amazing steampunk wares, I've heard folks discuss steampunk in the forums, and I just read an article about RL steampunk guns on boingboing. Then it hit me -- I don't know what steampunk is. What is it?
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Ordinal Malaprop
really very ordinary
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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08-24-2006 14:47
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Psyra Extraordinaire
Corra Nacunda Chieftain
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
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08-24-2006 14:49
Good ideas of Steampunk that share my "favorite fantasy era" would be....
- Crimson Skies - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. - You might even count League of Extraordinairy Gentlemen in that.  _____________________
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Uma Bauhaus
Renascene
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
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08-24-2006 14:58
You might even count League of Extraordinairy Gentlemen in that. In addition to Kendra's wares, are there any other Steampunk artisans or sims out there? _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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08-24-2006 15:46
All of Caledon is at least marginaly Steampunk, including several stores there. There are others... A quick search in world will turn up a few, as I recall.
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Ananda Sandgrain
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Join date: 16 May 2003
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08-24-2006 16:05
The Diamond Age and Hayao Miyazaki get mentioned in that article. Although they might not be "steampunk" canon to a lot of people, I think they do the best at expressing the aesthetic motivations behind it.
Essentially, what if the world had reached higher and higher levels of technology without abandoning the traditional styles of the 19th century in favor of Modernism? |
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Ralph Doctorow
Registered User
Join date: 16 Oct 2005
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08-24-2006 17:11
Don't forget China Mieville - Perdido Street Station and The Scar particularly.
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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08-24-2006 17:15
Two of my favorite steampunk books are "The Difference Engine", by Gibson, and "Fitzpatrick's War" by Theodore Judson. Ulrika, you should really read Fitzpatrick's War... I think it will speak to you.
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Lo Jacobs
Awesome Possum
Join date: 28 May 2004
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08-24-2006 17:16
I enjoyed Dinotopia quite a bit (the original children's illustrated book, that is, not the TV series, or the video game, or whatever they've done to fuck up the original idea).
 Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass is also mildly steampunk. _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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08-24-2006 17:23
I dunno if I'd really call Dinotopia /steampunk/. The only thing remotely steamypunky I can recall from it is the submarine the father makes near the end, and that was pretty marginal.
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Lo Jacobs
Awesome Possum
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08-24-2006 17:27
I dunno if I'd really call Dinotopia /steampunk/. The only thing remotely steamypunky I can recall from it is the submarine the father makes near the end, and that was pretty marginal. You're probably right if you want to be strict about it ... There was a lot of stuff concerning their technology in the book anyway, and, it's the correct time period. It's always had a whiff of steampunk to me. _____________________
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Kendra Bancroft
Rhine Maiden
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
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08-24-2006 17:32
How precient! My Burning Life Exhibit is going to be a trip through my own bizarre "Steampunkesque" concept of...
Time Traveling Vikings! Imagine a world where Vikings shaped the landscape and invented their own technology for raiding cultures through a temporal slipstream! I do hope everyone will come visit and see whatta true nutjob I really am! _____________________
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jrrdraco Oe
Insanity Fair
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 372
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08-24-2006 17:33
This is all about Steampunk Guns
http://www.wetanz.com/updates/rayguns/about.html and it is teh future! Hear me infidels! You can find many anime in thet subject too, likes of Steamboy _____________________
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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08-25-2006 04:15
I love the mention of Trigun as steampunk. I guess it sort of is, now that I read that. I<3 Trigun!!! |
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
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08-25-2006 06:29
Kendra Bancroft has created a lot of amazing steampunk wares, I've heard folks discuss steampunk in the forums, and I just read an article about RL steampunk guns on boingboing. Then it hit me -- I don't know what steampunk is. What is it? Steampunk is to Ordinal, as water is to a goldfish. Help us usher in a Better, New Scientific Age, by harnessing the Power of Steam! _____________________
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Billybob Goodliffe
NINJA WIZARDS!
Join date: 22 Dec 2005
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08-25-2006 06:32
and to think, I thought it was a bunch of people who like me were disgruntled after Valve introduced Steam as the verification tool for Half-Life and its various descendants _____________________
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Psyra Extraordinaire
Corra Nacunda Chieftain
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
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08-25-2006 06:43
*Has been a Dinotopia nut since they first appeared here in the mid-90's*
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Coyote Momiji
Pintsized Plutonium
Join date: 13 Aug 2006
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08-25-2006 08:54
I love the aesthetic of steampunk.
I love gears, springs, cogs, coal-burning furnaces. _____________________
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DolphPun Somme
The Pun is its own reword
Join date: 18 Nov 2005
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SteamPunk goes 3d
08-25-2006 09:01
Daz3d did a series of SteamPunk specific models for the dazoholics.
http://www.daz3d.com/shop.php?op=catmain&cat=206 _____________________
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Coyote Momiji
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08-25-2006 09:24
Oh god.
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Maklin Deckard
Disillusioned
Join date: 9 Apr 2005
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08-25-2006 11:59
Got it! In addition to Kendra's wares, are there any other Steampunk artisans or sims out there? I have a store in Port Caledon. Steam engines, a machine shop for them, a few vehicles and assorted lab equipment and miscellaneous items. Deckard & Quinn Co. in the find or in my profile. |
