Have you ever seen Wild Wild West? Ever horribly disappointed by it’s lack of a cohesive plot and painfully dated soundtrack? I know I was. One thing in that movie that slightly redeems itself, is it’s set production and design. Another one, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. These movies were designed on top of a new movement called Steampunk. Steampunk is defined by taking industrial revolution era technology and applying it to modern technology. For example, try designing a computer simply with steam power, brass, mahogany, and rivets.

Following these rules precisely, of course, wouldn’t be all that interesting, I mean with today’s nano technology of motherboards and circuits, how do you design these things with rudimentary tools like hammers and wrenches. So Steampunk bends the rules a little bit. With the exception of hollywood movies, it is pretty much all underground, DIY production too. I have compiled some interesting Steampunk photos and resources, all I know is I really want that brass trimmed keyboard.

Steampunk has even broken into the fashion scene:

Steampunk Links:
http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/fashion/08PUNK.html
http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/woodenvso/woodenvso.htm
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_steampunk?slide=3&slideView=7

This post is tagged