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aka Tanooki Suit Mario is the best Mario is a 24.36 year old boy, has been a member since January 7, 2006, has scored 13716 submissions, giving an average score of 2.09.
i like the style. a lot. when i was in college, i used to build fountains and sculptures out of industrial trash and such. my art professors weren't sure what to think of it, but it would have fit in really well with this style.
haha nah, steampunk isn't actually real. it's just a "what if" concept of mixing old industrial stuff with sci-fi/fantasy a la H.G. Wells, etc., but on the assumption that everything is still powered by steam.
unfortunately, i have no pics. :( what was awesome is that, in santa barbara, there's this place called art from scrap, and you can go and pick up all sorts of fun trash for really cheap. i am not sure if there's one here in portland. i bet there is.
i'll build a new fountain-a small indoor one. that will be a nice project, actually.
Its really become a big art movement that has really picked up steam in the past couple years. Haaa, see what I did there. Anywhoo, Im a 3D artist and have noticed on a lot of forums and art sites that a lot of 2D and 3D artists alike have embraced this style. Not sure how I feel about it myself though.
I think it's pretty cool, if done right. Now that it's become a sort of 'genre' it can, of course, be just trite and boring. But it can make awesome things awesomer (cf. Final Fantasy VI).
I like it because of the what-iffiness of it...like "o hay, whatif we'd discovered how to split the atom in time for the 1900 Exposition in Paris, and we had the Eiffel Linac instead of the Eiffel Tower?" and what would that mean for today? or like, how photography could for-real have been invented in the 1500s or something, but nobody thought to put all the pieces together until later. can you imagine that? can you imagine what we might have photos of?
also it's often what-iffy with what-if-there-was-really-obvious-magic-in-the-world, which is usually a romp
also it allows for the craziest experimental machines, and I've always liked them (the people and the machines)
also I like older popular fiction, because it so often leaves me with the feeling of noticing a previously unknown comrade give me a sly and knowing wink from two tables over at the bar
also it's funny, because steampunk style stuff is all sepia-toned, because those with a clear allegiance to the style do focus so much on the Victorian era, and we have all these dusty yellow photographs, ergo everyone in the late 1800s wore brown clothes.
I am not so much into cosplay generally because I don't like wearing impractical shoes. I have no strong opinions about that aspect.
Has anyone seen Hero of Alexandria? He invented this steampowered thing in the first century AD. It was a ball called an aeolipile that would spin powered by steam but people probably never hooked it up to anything to drive a turbine or anything like what happened once the steam engine was invented for real in the industrial revolution. But imagine if they had, we could have had industrialisation 200 years earlier than we did.
I'm not too comfortable putting "punk" at the end of a word, to describe something that is not really punk. Since punk is a completely different lifestyle and mindset. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the look and style of "steampunk", but unless it has some punk-like features, I don't think that moniker really fits what it actually is. It's more of a vintage-tech mesh/restyling. Though, for lack of a better term, I guess I can live with it; there's also SteamTech, SteamMech, and probably others I can't recall. Of course for every genre, style and design there are gray areas, variations and crossovers, and inter-meshing. We just have to label stuff so we can reference it and communicate to someone else what we're talking a out. It's so confusing.
@squatterjohn; yeah, crazy, isn't it? This kind of stuff has happened so many times throughout history. Discoveries and inventions simply not being fully realized, or destroyed. Some people conjecture we could be traveling the stars by now had many of these discoveries and inventions managed to propagate sooner.
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whisper in water on Jun 13 '06 at 9:37pm
Bjork scares most people. Personally, I want her to have my children, and they can run around like crazy little bastards in Iceland. And I won't live with them, because Bjork is already married, but once I move to Iceland I can live down the street and visit them on weekends, and Bjork will call me on the telephone to remind me to bring their boots when I come down, but she won't just say it, she'll fucking sing it into the phone at me!
hannabear on Dec 09 '06 at 10:16pm
they should make a blogger's version of word where everything just translates. like 'lol' could become 'they laughed uproariously, as if they'd been friends for years.'
Jackanapes mk.II on Jul 31 '07 at 1:57pm
They should hand out oversized novelty vaginas at baseball games. You could use them to catch foul balls.
outline on Oct 13 '09 at 2:19pm
i can't fit brian in my mouth
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