Saturday, March 3, 2007

I don't get steampunk

Steampunk magazine: "Cory Doctorow:
Steampunk Magazine is a new $3 print/free PDF zine celebrating the steampunk aesthetic with fiction, art and articles. The premier issue is truly a thing of beauty with fiction by Michael Moorcock, a HOWTO for 'electrolytic etching,' and some very tasty use of recycled, gloomy Victorian woodcuts. Bravo!




Before the age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments. It was a time where art and craft were united, where unique wonders were invented and forgotten, and punks roamed the streets, living in squats and fighting against despotic governance through wit, will and wile.


Even if we had to make it all up.



Link

(via Warren Ellis)


See also:

Steampunk Star Wars

Steampunk watch

Beautiful steampunk laptop

HOWTO make a steampunk keyboard

HOWTO make etched brass steampunk journals

HOWTO make a steampunk spinning-wheel

Steampunk walking robot

Steampunk cartoon from SciFi channel: Amazing Screw-On Head

Homebrew mechanical steampunk lion from Belgium

Steampunk robotics

Steampunk weekly serial - handsome editions

Steampunk rayguns

Steampunk Transformer-bots

Ukrainian steampunk plane

Steampunk casemod with a 'furnace'

Steampunk submarine free paper toy

Steampunk/dead media photoshopping contest

Brighton's steampunk rolling sea-platform

Steampunk Slashdot

Steampunk mecha-wars

Steampunk car-wars

New York's steampunk pneumatic subway

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(Via Boing Boing.)

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