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MOAR STEAMPUNK.
Sep. 16th, 2008 12:30 amSo apparently I left something out of the last post that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theemdash wanted to be sure that I touched on, and that is ownership of invention. A large part of the draw of steampunk is that it allows people the opportunity to manipulate what they've dreamed up. A hundred people could think up the Warp Drive, but how many people have one? Or would know what to do with it if they did? Steampunk is, in some ways more accessible, because the parts involved are available to most people. You can convert your car to run on steam. You can rig your house for telegraph. You can build a giant spider that runs on clockwork to frighten your neighbors! Though, I wouldn't advise doing the last one. It's hands on, and creativity seems to flourish in the steampunk environment. It's just like when you were in grade school and they told you that if you could think it you could do it. Except we're not trying to instill you with a false sense of importance! :p
A few other notes from the second steampunk panel include:
* Certainty. In the novel we're working on, and in many novels from the time period, steampunk or otherwise, we're dealing with a fading aristocracy. There is a rising upper middle class bourgeois who have a feeling of certainty in the coming future. The technological advancements of the period, coupled with the feeling of dynasty and empire largely built by the aristocracy the society is beginning to outgrow, made people feel omnipotent about the wonders of the future. Steampunk tries to recreate that and create other things with it. Also noted, geniuses create their own social norms.
* Glass blowers, which we just didn't want to forget about as craftsman. ;) (My grandfather used to blow glass, actually. Note to self, ask mom about that.)
Anyway. ( ON TO THE RECS! )
Whew. And that concludes massive amounts of links which are massive. That should definitely keep myself and many of you busy for some time. If you have anything else which you think has been omitted, please share it in the comments!
Boy and I just had a whole conversation about the Vampire Death Squid from Outer Space and whether it's ocean cousins are the products of evolution or were put there to populate a colony of the master Vampire Death Squid race and the ocean was the most friendly earth environment for it. I uh, I might love boy. A lot.
theemdash wanted to be sure that I touched on, and that is ownership of invention. A large part of the draw of steampunk is that it allows people the opportunity to manipulate what they've dreamed up. A hundred people could think up the Warp Drive, but how many people have one? Or would know what to do with it if they did? Steampunk is, in some ways more accessible, because the parts involved are available to most people. You can convert your car to run on steam. You can rig your house for telegraph. You can build a giant spider that runs on clockwork to frighten your neighbors! Though, I wouldn't advise doing the last one. It's hands on, and creativity seems to flourish in the steampunk environment. It's just like when you were in grade school and they told you that if you could think it you could do it. Except we're not trying to instill you with a false sense of importance! :pA few other notes from the second steampunk panel include:
* Certainty. In the novel we're working on, and in many novels from the time period, steampunk or otherwise, we're dealing with a fading aristocracy. There is a rising upper middle class bourgeois who have a feeling of certainty in the coming future. The technological advancements of the period, coupled with the feeling of dynasty and empire largely built by the aristocracy the society is beginning to outgrow, made people feel omnipotent about the wonders of the future. Steampunk tries to recreate that and create other things with it. Also noted, geniuses create their own social norms.
* Glass blowers, which we just didn't want to forget about as craftsman. ;) (My grandfather used to blow glass, actually. Note to self, ask mom about that.)
Anyway. ( ON TO THE RECS! )
Whew. And that concludes massive amounts of links which are massive. That should definitely keep myself and many of you busy for some time. If you have anything else which you think has been omitted, please share it in the comments!
Boy and I just had a whole conversation about the Vampire Death Squid from Outer Space and whether it's ocean cousins are the products of evolution or were put there to populate a colony of the master Vampire Death Squid race and the ocean was the most friendly earth environment for it. I uh, I might love boy. A lot.
