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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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Lady of the Steampunk
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Zach Settles
get it girl
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Steampunk girl 1
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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Commentary - Now with more Steam
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So in building this archive, it gave me time to think about what would constitute steampunk; taking an investigative look at this genre. Hunting down pictures, doing interviews, car chases, explosions, suddenly gigantic robot attacks, and at this point I havn’t even left my apartment and I’m still on the internet looking at cat pictures at the same time. However, it wasn’t about the cats, it was never about the cats, except sometimes it was. Now what it was really about is the history of the world. I would say that in definition Steampunk is about mixing Victorian aesthetic with modern technology, but I feel that it could be much more. I feel that it could just begin to become about world history and mixing them all. You could have things like NeanderPunk, or ChromagnumPunk, and it could end up just being an amazing series of great aesthetic for comics or daily living. You could have a computer that is styled after a rock, it would be cool. And in that way of thinking, you could really just say that The Flintstones is a great example of NeanderPunk. Nothing has to just be about what it is in definition, there are ways in which a definition becomes skewed and begins to mean many more things as well.
I would say that this works for most media when you think about it. In comics, movies, literature, and art it is all about the genre. A genre is just a simple way of explaining what exactly you’re getting yourself into and what you may expect along the way. But can something just be much more than it already is? Can you actually just redefine something in that way? I would say so because a genre could be made into anything. You could a story anywhere you wanted to and a genre is really just a guideline to what you may actually want. I learned from the interviews I made that steampunk is really just a jump off genre, it could really be taken as anything. I’ve slowly, but surely come to realize it as a sort of philosophy. It could come to be anything you really wanted. Much more in media you really just don’t see a whole bunch of strictly steampunk things. The only way that you could do this is just to strictly take your audience into a Victorian setting with modern technology, but lately it seems that it doesn’t have to be this way. In the interviews, the comic book store manager was telling me that with comics at least, you don’t really see anything in that sphere, but what you do see is the philosophy. You get technology that should have never happened, and historically didn’t so you would get something like Super Gods where the British has a space program well before anything the Russians or the US ever had available at the time, and it’s a neat idea. It’s a revisionist history of the world.
We could always just use this as a historical basis in that sense, we could review history and see where we had made achievements that were never truly realized. I’ve read of Nikola Tesla’s work with wireless technology that just seems to be out of place because of the time. We really only would think about this technology being available now, but back then it just seems anachronistic. Could it have been possible? Maybe, because at any point in time we could have had technology that broke barriers, but possibly because of political issues it was never realized. Some people speculate that the Egyptians were using batteries and had full blown electricity and lights, so that they might walk through their own temples. I think this is a grand idea and if we use this sort revisionist history as a guideline, maybe we can rationally ponder what really could have been. We can understand ourselves better as a species now and then. Or we could just dress up in crazy costumes for conventions. Either way sounds good to me. These are some things I would like people to think about when they look at this archive.
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Zach Settles
not batman
steampunk
writing stuff
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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Top Five Image Steampunk
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I decided to use this image that I obtained off Shorpy to describe what I was getting from the people that I interviewed; that when you talk about steampunk, you talk about technology and the time period that it does or doesn't go with. Obviously this technology probably works for its time period, though it may have seemed highly advanced at the time, maybe even futuristic.
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Zach Settles
1930
crazy knobs
steampunk
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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What the Double Fudge is Steampunk?
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What might steampunk be? Who knows.
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I unabashedly think antiquate-it-yourself faux retro-futurism is cool, from Jet Age, Eames-inspired modernism applied to PC case design* to the current love/bane of the intertard set, steampunk.
Why there has been an accelerating interest in steampunk seems clear. As Warren Ellis mused:
Is it possible that steampunk is making a comeback as acquiescence to the notion that our more recent apparently plausible models of the future will never come to reality?
More than possible; I’d say probable.
But while some people are certainly not fans of steampunk in any of its forms, I’ve seen a strange backlash against the term burble up over the last couple of months, inscrutably more about steampunk as terminology than the items labeled as steampunk. Some people levy that the term is being tossed around indiscriminately, used to describe things that are simply baroque or old fashioned, but wouldn’t actually use steam as a power source.
So if you save the term “steampunk” for only those things that might actually be driven by vapor, what would you call things that might not use steam themselves, but fit cleanly in the same fantastic genre? I considered “clockwork,” but that implies gears and springs, which often appear as stylistic chrome, but are rarely functional.
Look at Jake von Slatt’s famous Steampunk LCD and Keyboard [pictured above]. It looks like it’s made of brass and marble, could easily be imagined on the oaken desk of a zeppelin captain, but doesn’t appear to use steam or gears at all, real or imagined. But if it’s not steampunk, what is it? “Victorian?” That doesn’t imply the alternate timeline that “steampunk” does.
If there’s a better term, let’s find it. Or maybe I’m wrong about what’s causing the bristling in the first place; it’s possible that some of you are whimsiless bastards who don’t find any appeal in the spats-and-rocket-belt school of daydreaming. Perhaps it’s the echoes of “cyberpunk” causing us to cringe in collective embarrassment for our past optimism and questionable, methylamphetamine-inspired clothing choices. I just think steampunk is a neat confluence of trends, taking a bit of post-goth fashion, mixing it with a little DIY juice from the modding scene, and coming up with something that, by being inherently not of our timeline, should be timeless. But apparently is not.
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Zach Settles
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http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/12/what-the-fuck-is-ste.html
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Joel Johnson
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September 12, 2007
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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Beautiful steampunk lamps
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Lamps
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http://boingboing.net/2009/02/07/beautiful-steampunk.html
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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Stately and elegant steampunk bathroom
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Steam Punk Bathroom
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San Francisco architect Andre Rothblatt and contractor Fredic Grasset recently completed this "Steampunk Bathroom" as part of a residential remodel. Beautiful! More at Todd Lappin's Bernalwood: "Bernal Architect Creates Whimsical Steampunk Bathroom"
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David Pescovitz
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The Anachronistic Anarchist
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A collection of some diverse uses of steam punk in media to show how anachronistic qualities move through time making a comment on how far we have come and how we can get back.
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Zach Settles
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The Steam Punk Pinocchio
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Boiler Pinochio
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The imagining of the Pinocchio fairy tale by describing not as some kind of wooden man granted automation, but being made as a functionally astute "robot" or automaton.
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reddit/r/steampunk
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andyeddy8
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August, 2012
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