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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…

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…

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…

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.

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"