Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:44 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21 pm, Guzzistimo wrote:

What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on
youtube.
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John H
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Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits
that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the
styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on
machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still
used. It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to
modern implements.
This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/
In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name
that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an
"Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. Steampunk crazies always wear
cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their
devices produce.
Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

I take my company to a trade show for electron microscope accessories
once a year and I told my guys that I wanted to "steampunk" one of our
old electron microscopes to take to a show and we could all go looking
the part. They were all baffled and basically vetoed it by looking at
me like I was nuts. I wanted to call the electron microscope an
"Electrical Corpuscle Magnascope" and the x-ray spectrometers would be
"Elemental Roentgen Ray Divisors". They just didn't see the fun in it.

You are talking my wife's language, Scanning Electron Microscopes, Dual
Burner Gas Chromatographs, Porsity Meters. She's not really Steampunk
but she has a closet full of early 80's clothes.