Loving Steampunk
A friend sent me a link to the NYTimes Style section article on streampunk, whose “definition is loose enough to accommodate a stew of influences, including the streamlined retro-futurism of Flash Gordon and Japanese animation with its goggle-wearing hackers, the postapocalyptic scavenger style of “Mad Max,” and vaudeville, burlesque and the structured gentility of the Victorian age”
It really reminds me of Moulin Rouge – which I watched at a drive in movie theater in Vermont one summer so long ago and loved the infectious energy of it in the mountain air.
My favorite quote: ‘If steampunk has a mission, it is, in part, to restore a sense of wonder to a technology-jaded world. “Today satellite photos make the planet seem so small,” Mr. Brown lamented. “Where is the adventure it that?” In contrast, steampunk, with its airships, test tubes and time machines, is, he said, “sort of a dream , the way we used to daydream. It’s like part of your childhood’s just bursting forward again.”‘
Genius. More here.
I’ll be the girl with the vintage aviator goggles and burlesque striped tights.
I’m kidding.
Sort of.
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May 8th, 2008 10:30
This is amazing! I agree that we have become jaded about technology. This reminds us to dream.
May 8th, 2008 17:03
I was just reading about them too, very cool! Just because technology is primarily functional, doesn’t mean it can’t be aesthetically pleasing.