<![CDATA[Steampunk - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> 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.

Elle Menopi

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: Laugh all you want, that comment resurrected me from execution, that said, I always enjoy your comments on I09

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Why do these NY Times articles always sound like your parents trying to figure out that cool new thing the kids are into these days?

As OH on BoingBoing.net comments: "Steampunk is the Trucker Hat of the Internet."

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Why your "Firefly" uniform is coller than your "Star Trek" uniform.

Sillius

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> This is definitely a trend to pick up in college or beyond. Dressing like this will get you beaten up in high school. At least that is what I remembered about the "New Romantic" movement on the 1980s. Girls loved it, guys were treading a thin line between being fashionable and being assaulted.

nwjerseyliz

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> for those who know their nik kershaw from their haysi fantaysee

the earl grey

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Does this fashion mean we have to go around looking like an extra in the Pumpkin Heads "Tonight" video? Hell, I'm in.

Bellyboop

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Looks like fun. Nothing's harder than the "natural" look.

Those photos of the souped-up keyboards and computers make me want to download another typewriter sounds keyboard program.

Isn't there a kind of Dylan-out-West vibe to this as well?

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> The first time the term "punk rock" was used in print was in 1970. Dave Marsh in the magazine Creem.

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: Well then, lunchtime is Canadian, invented right here in my hometown!
Speaking of Vancouver, you know who else is from here? William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Difference Engine!

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Zorica: They didn't want to get too crazy with the clothing since that might draw attention to the fact that they're brother and sister.

persephone

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I'm not crazy about all the steampunk fashions but the modded gear and hardware bits are amazing. Do a search on 'steampunk' on Flickr and you'll see some amazing stuff.

chrisdag

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @lothario: Both. Obviously. Like most things.

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Gayyker:

It's all new victorian. So right!

catdirt

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> How is a fashion look a subculture? Coming to a Hot Topic near you......

crescentia

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> He's totally hot. I'd jump into the TARDIS with him!

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]>

I consider myself more Steamnewwave.

It's jolly astonishing how well a stiff collar and ascot suits my "Flock of Seagulls" 'do.

It's a Steam Age Love Song.

[www.montykins.com]

theodicey

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: My understanding is that the word "punk" originated in the penal system, used to designate (and this is distasteful) that one inmate that all the other inmates treated like a girl, um, sexually--a prison girlfriend if you will. I'm not at all clear how its reappropriation happened. And no, I'm not happy I know this.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: @Conbon: I love you guys so much right now.

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Also the tv show Wild Wild West predates Gibson's book. Oh, and these people remind me of Chappists if Chaps were total dorks.

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> And why do they need to look like they rolled around in chalk? Or coke?

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I don't mind the crazy tech mods but as a lifestyle this is as empty and lame as any other. Except my own. Which is a combination of now and jut a second ago wen I was typing this.

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Chaim Gnadelstein: Everyone thinks he looks daft.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> With Styles covering Steampunk and Stanley Fish posting youtube links to "cool" commercials I believe it is safe to say that the New York Times is now officially a part of the BoingBoing media empire.

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Zorica: I agree.. they really wasted the opportunity to make their wedding a Burtonesque extravaganza. also, there must be no need for a computer mouse in steamerpunk land.

doolittle

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I just knew there would be a Back to the Future III renaissance!!!!

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I'm confused. Is Steampunk for cool Andre 3000-like black people or for suburban white drama geeks?

lothario

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @NeverEnough:OH I AM SO THERE. Thank you for this Very Important Information!

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @BK_KT: In NC but they'll be in NYC on 5/30 and 5/31 playing Central Park. You should go!

NeverEnough

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @NeverEnough: Shut up, where?! I need to go! Please say NYC.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: Nice.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: I recall seeing the word in a Benjamin Jonson play. I knew about the music - you mean like early Green Day?

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @blix: It's a really good book, but nonetheless, the crossover between young ladies and my laptop is of a qualitatively different nature.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @BadUncle:When they came for the puffy shirts I did not complain. No, really. Damn puffy shirts.

blix

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: If you mean the word, I dunno, and neither does Merriam-Webster's, apparently. If you mean the movement, it came from the music. If you mean the music, it came from people getting sick of five-minute guitar solos.

@Conbon: Yes, but just with virtual food.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Boy, man.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> These "steampunk" fashions are a frilly shirt away from goth couture.

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Like I'm the only one who modded my laptop to look like "A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer". Am I right? What's everyone staring at?

blix

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: Sure, but some are a bit more subversive than others. I think Phish-followers were a little less subversive and political than their hippy-forefathers

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: But where did punk come from? Did that come out of a writing movement as well? (for reals, I wasn't even alive when 'The Difference Engine' came out')

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: William Gibson invented lunchtime.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: I will apologize if you can point to a subculture that cannot be labeled "escapist".

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: We have to stop now, not because the joke has grown old, but because it's lunchtime.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Dang. At first glance, I thought that fellow in the photo was wearing a codpiece. Now I wish he was.

OhhYeah

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: (Sorry.)

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Bell County: BUT WHAT WOULD WE CALL IT???

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: Well, the "punk" bit actually came from "cyberpunk," a term inspired by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and co-writer with Bruce Sterling of The Difference Engine, which was sort of where steampunk started.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: You mean the Bruce Sterling who wrote the classic steampunk alternate history novel The Difference Engine with Neuromancer author William Gibson? Tell me more!

@Bell County: Shoes and soda cans beware.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: It would be cool if someone developed an aesthetic or even a subculture in the real world inspired by some of the books you guys are talking about.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: Who reads posts? But seriously, I mentioned it to articulate my point about what a weak excuse for a movement this is, especially one calling itself 'punk'

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Damn Sheila, that's an awesome Nick Douglas impersonation post.

Now tell us about Goatse! And unicorns!

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Plague: Nice. Have you just been hiding in the dumbwaiter waiting for someone to say that?

@Conbon: Yes! He wrote it with Bruce Sterling, who also collaborated on The Difference Engine with William Gibson, who introduced the concept of cyberpunk in his novel Neuromancer!

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @KarenUhOh: and Ashton Kutcher jumps out

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: You slice like Ronco.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @moff: This is all really just an offshoot of the cyberpunk movement, as articulated by William Gibson in his novel, Neuromancer. Did you know that he also wrote The Difference Engine? I find that interesting.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I am so happy I am now at an age where I no longer feel the need to announce my individuality by dressing like a fucking idiot.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @StonedAndDethroned:
You rang?

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Oh. I thought "Steampunk" was what happened if you sat on the radiator during sex.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Conbon: You know what else is good? The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @MostlyHarmless: That song is still in rotation on my ipod

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @hamburgerhotdog: Ah, now it all makes sense. They can blame the lack of sex in their lives on strict Victorian mores.

"I say, when I marry and this oppressive society of ours finally allows me to copulate, I shall do so with a most satisfactory vigor! How about you, Penelope?"

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @TedSez: Watch the season finale; it practically ruins itself. :o(

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Doolittle: That was priceless. The house was my favorite part. The picture of the happy couple at the end was disappointing, though. I wanted to see the engagement photos very badly, until I saw how they had phoned it in for the wedding clothes.

Zorica

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Nathaniel_Poor: And that you don't read the posts?

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @EncyclopediaFrown: That's quite an unfortunate example Morgan cited for the predictability of pop culture.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> This all came out of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson's 1991 novel "The Difference Engine." Basically a reaction to what they saw as a future advancing too quickly to make science fiction writing relevant. William Gibson now writes techno-thrillers and Bruce Sterling is design professor/blogger...

blah, blah... my point is that it's a weak, pointless, escapist excuse for a subculture

Nathaniel_Poor

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @lalalina: *whispers* I'm seeing them in 13 days and plan to hurl myself onstage and bad touch John Taylor.

NeverEnough

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Extras from the "Tonight, Tonight" video have timetraveled from 1996.

RocketSurgeon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Sheila,

1950s Steelcase isn't quite SteamPunk.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Why would you want your iPhone to be heavier?

@Our Lady of the Massacre: The Tim Burton lover in me is tickled as well. But it has to be done right, and to do it right seems ridiculously labor-intensive. Like, if you're not making a Tim Burton movie, it's not worth it.

Also, for some reason it's calling up that Will Smith movie that was supposed to be a sci-fi western. It has just about that much artistic integrity, I'd say. So I'm sure this will be the next installation at the Brooklyn Museum, after Murakami moves out.

Zorica

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Whenever I answer my self-customized, teak-and-brass covered cellphone, I like to shout at the top of my lungs: "Hello? Hello? Confound this infernal contraption!!"

But I think it's starting to irritate people.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Isn't this how Duran Duran got started?

lalalina

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> HA! This is totally something Richard Morgan wanted to write about four months ago according to those leaked Denton IMs.

[www.nytimes.com]

EncyclopediaFrown

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @EleanorRigby: and the ladies aren't nearly as hot I'm afraid: [graphics8.nytimes.com]
Did they have to find a way to amuse themselves between Ren Faire seasons?

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> at last.. a new subculture significant enough to mock constantly

malvones

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Priam: Yeah! It makes sci-fi look totally lame.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> How do I post a photo in comments??? I must show you this now...
[steampunkworkshop.com]

doolittle

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Yeah, well, Wild Wild West sucked ass too.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I embedded my Macbook screen inside my old-fashioned toaster (which I really got at William Sonoma). I'm so Steampunk.

vasumzimake

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Still not as scary as Loligoth.

EleanorRigby

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Thanks, you just completely ruined "Torchwood" for me.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Thank god for this article, not a moment too soon either. This dumbassed word keeps popping up on my radar and I was loathe to actually make the wiki-effort to find out what crazy trend I'm thankfully ignorant of.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> *cough*Diamond Age*cough*

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> The Demon barber of Fleet street wants his jacket back... and his iphone case.

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I hate that this is lumped together with scifi....bleh.

Priam

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> A Steampunk makes me a latte a couple of times each week, but he doesn't really look like this.

fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I'll be under my desk praying for the Plague.

StonedAndDethroned

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> "...he really likes the Matrix 2, and everyone just thinks he looks like a cunt."

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Mike_Jahn: so long and thanks for all the fashion

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Ooh. An Edwardian fop goes time travelling. How new. Douglas Adams, you died, did you not? But Tom Baker is still alive, we could bring him back to Dr. Who and go cyberpunking.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Neck down he lloks like one of the evil be-goggled minions from Van Helsing

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> This is all very 'Time Machine' to me. Also, I'd really like to see that guy in the picture shoveling coal. Yeah you may look the part, skinny kid with a watch fob, but whatchya gonna do when the train whistle's blowin'?

arguablythemostfamous

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Gayyker: We'll note that in your phyle.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Why do I hope this guy's T-Ford breaks down in the middle of Brownsville?

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> "...he over-thinks his outfit, but everyone just thinks he looks like a cunt."

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> God. I just barfed and I honestly don't know if it's from the migraine or the pretentiousness overdose.

SybilDisobedience

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I'll be over here in my usual Euro Mod luxe cubby

the earl grey

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> @Bell County: I hear the kids love their bell bottoms.

jaywalke

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> These are the guys John Fitzgerald Page used to whale on in high school.

Knucklehead Babylon

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> Gosh I love Steam Punk. Would never dress like that, though. Just pretty to look at. :3

Our Lady of the Massacre

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I'm totally out of the loop - do I still have options other than doing this or accessorizing with garbage and dead animals?

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I prefer New Victorian.

Gayyker

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> I say! Totting good news, this!

*ZAP-BLEEP*

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Steampunk]]> the shark, she is jumped.

hummingpenguin

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