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More Office Nostalgia It's a steampunk mouse. Duh! [Boing Boing]

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Office Nostalgia

It's a measure of the fluorescent-lit hellishness of the modern cubicle maze that we're consumed by nostalgia for office cultures that none of us remember. Part of the attraction of AMC's Mad Men is the show's depiction of Madison Avenue at the start of the 1960s, populated by hard-drinking chain-smoking womanizing ad executives and their large-breasted secretaries: in equal measure politically incorrect and glamorous. Or one can go further back to a Victorian era of flattering lighting, mad inventors' laboratories and a belief in technological progress which is only now coming back into fashion. In these period office environments, computers look out of place; but some customizers have solved that problem. More »

11:12 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Nick Denton
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Latest by n/a: maybe... more »

Telectroscope "The Telectroscope is a 21st Century realisation of a 19th Century design. A tunnel bored beneath the Atlantic connects London with New York and by the aid of a complex series of lenses and mirrors allows people at one end to see and be seen by those at the other." Of course this steampunk art installation is really two video screens at either end. The New York end is at Fulton Ferry Landing. [Telectroscope; photo by Charlotte Gilhooly]

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Video Of The Steampunk Computer Guy

Now that steampunk is dead, the media is sending people out to videotape people who like to dress old-timey and make their computers look like steam engines. For example, Jake Von Slatt here shows the Boston Phoenix his custom keyboard and RSS telegraph machine. More »

4:03 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Nick Douglas
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Steampunk

Steampunk! According to the NYT's Thursgay Styles, it's a "subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives." They describe steampunkers as fusspots with a taste for gaslight-era style: "he owns a flat-screen television, but he has modified it with a burlap frame. He uses an iPhone, but it is encased in burnished brass." But steampunk's been around for a while, of course. Despite the length of the piece, glossed over is the fact that this hot new movement started with a book called the Difference Engine—in 1990! More »

12:48 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Sheila
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Latest by Elle Menopi: Geez, I fell in love with Steampunk back when Artemus Gordon fascinated me with his gadgets on episodes of "The Wild, Wild West". He made my panties bunch. more »