MetaFilter posts tagged with steampunk

Closer to Disney than punk

Artw — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:20 -0800

"I haven’t figured out whether cracking open your computer, attaching it to an Underwood typewriter, then inserting it into a combination Victorian mantel clock/desk and calling it “The Nagy Magical-Movable-Type Pixello-Dynamotronic Computational Engine” is some sort of daft wit or evidence of a pedantry bordering on the pathological. " - Steampunk'd, Or Humbug by Design, design writer Randy Nakamura takes a look at the Steampunk phenomenon.

Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam

Dave Faris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:39:55 -0800

Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam ... The year is 1897. For five long years Europe has been ravaged by Baron Battenberg's Steam powered war machines. Led by Great Britain, a handful of defiant countries remain free of the Baron's tyrannical rule. But time is running out for them as his forces grow stronger every day. As dawn breaks high above the Atlantic, a tiny airship arrives at its secret destination. Onboard, Britain's greatest explorer, spy, and master of esoteric fighting arts readies to strike at the heart of the Baron's empire!

Steampunk recumbent.

fixedgear — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:32:22 -0800

Steampunk recumbent. That is all. I'm speechless but awed.

Telectroscope

Phanx — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:29:58 -0800

A transatlantic tunnel, hurrah!

Who's going to break the news to Cory Doctorow?

dersins — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:47:27 -0800

Nothing signals the death of a trend like an article in the NY Times Style section. Steampunk: "The subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world..." Our long (inter)national nightmare is over.

Figures of Anachronistic Action

Eideteker — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:19:46 -0800

Sillof's Workshop features steampunk/gaslight versions of some pop culture's most-loved heroes, as well as dioramas based on Star Wars scenes.

It Can't All Be Brass, Dear

cosmonik — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:43:48 -0800

There’s more than a few valve’s worth of pressurized love for steampunk on MeFi [previously 1 2 3]. Naturally, we’ve also had to replace many a sump filter due to the vitriol sluicing from the very same. Regardless how you may feel about it, Steampunk Magazine seeks to accompany the genre along its transmogrification from a form of fiction into fashion, music, and ‘misapplied technology’. "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." Yet the clever adventurer may wish to ignore the anemic, spluttering blog of this budding contraption and enjoy the gilded gas-lit forum or go straight for the high-mineral content of its sturdily constructed journal, the four extant issues of which being entirely downloadable. Riveting. Brace for interviews with the likes of Michael Moorcock; art from the likes of Molly Crabapple (of Dr Sketchy’s fame) and Colin Foran; as well as contributions by the Catastrophone Orchestra collective, inter alia. Of course, they’re not alone; others have refined the steampunk blog into a well-oiled engine: Brass Goggles; Aether Emporium; Voyages Extraordinaires; and of course the Steampunk Spectacular.

Do not forsake me oh my android

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:17:24 -0800

High-Tech Noon. What makes a classic Western even more classic? Blasters and force-fields, that's what. (SLYT)

Kleine Dampfblöcke

Smedleyman — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:29:53 -0800

First there was the Dardenbahst now comes:Kriegerhund, Sentinel of the Deutsches Reich. Plenty more lego steampunk goodness at the Brothers Brick. Via

Lego Steampunk Star Wars

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:39:22 -0800

The rules of the contest are simple: create the best Steampunk version of a Star Wars vehicle. Out of Legos.