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 Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:12 pm
It was these two how first inspired me at Wicked Winter. The rest, as they say... is history.
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:49 pm
Dixie Dellamorto
It was these two how first inspired me at Wicked Winter. The rest, as they say... is history.I've seen this girl on cosplay.com She is sooo pretty and has inspired me as well.
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:13 pm
Steamboy, Wild Wild West, and even stuff like Waterworld inspired me. It's mostly the Do-It-Thyself attitude thatdrew me on to Steampunk, and the Victorian etiquette. I'm incredibly imaginative when it comes to a lot of stuff.
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:11 pm
The creativity of it all, the wide range of possibilities and the overall mechanical feel of it as well. <3
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:41 am
I always had a passion for clocks and gears. I like the other simple machines (anything that can be done without electrical circuits is cool), but I've always had a thing for gears. Gears, goggles, and zepellins. The brass came later.
I finally realized what 'steampunk' was creating a level on LittleBigPlanet one day (The Clocktower, by Nicksterminator, for those interested). All the steam and gears and pistons made me google 'gears steam piston' and stuff like that. Eventually, I found the term 'steampunk'.
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:31 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:53 am
Clock Gears.
I would always go to swap meats and get some broken clocks, dissemble them and take out the gears, I have always loved the look of them and how they function.
After a while I created a belt of them and wore it around, I didn't even know what steampunk was until someone asked me if I belonged to the subculture.
So after researching what they were talking about I came to realize that there was a group I could identify with, I thought I was the only weirdo interested in victorian mechanics xD
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:34 pm
Right then, prepare for a melodramatic life essay:
In my life, I've always had a remarkable love for all things old. Anything with the word Antique or Classical attatched to it is like a big bag of smack to an addict. I can't get enough of the stuff! My walls are covered in old maps of Europe, with antique desks and chairs sitting against them - strewn with oddities I've picked up while exploring car boot sales, pawn shops, junk vendors and thrift stores.
From an early age, I read Fiction. My shelves stretched from the fantasy of Terry Pratchett (who has more steampunk-ish novels than you think) and Brian Jaques, to Sci Fi like Isaac Asimov and Philip K. d**k, to the classical fantasy of Dickins, Wilde and their ilk.
Other influences of a more modern variety included The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, both book and film, certain fantasy games, films such as Hellboy 2 (the robots and gears still fascinate me after watching it 10 times now) and The Time Machine, and other such media, etc. etc.
Due to Wilde, predominantly, I began to describe myself as an Aesthete and a Dandy, which I still claim to this day. I am Dandy before I am Steampunk. I dress in utmost style (waistcoat, shirt and tie are a must) and speak with great eloquence. But, alas, there aren't many Dandy conventions and bands (and they'd all be soppy, Romanticist poets on violin anyway) so I looked further.
Eventually, I came across... quite unexpectedly, Steampunk music. I listen to varying music, from the sweet harmony of Sigur Ros and Debussey, or the gentle rock of Coldplay and the Mystery Jets, to the oddballs of Gogol Bordello and Matisyahu, to the rockin' variety of Metallica, Apocalypsa and NOFX. It was the last variety which brought me to Adney Park. I didn't really like many songs, but I was interested with the label: "Steampunk"
I searched for it, and opened my way into a world of delightgul
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:02 pm
Greetings my fellows. I was very much brought into my Steam Punk interests through many shows, movies and most predominately video games. Movies such as: Treasure Planet, and Atlantis caught my eye. Shows: Fullmetal Alchemist - From Philosophy and theology, to magicks and steam punk applications I would be extremely hard pressed to find something about that show that I do not enjoy. Video Games: Elder scrolls III Morrowind, I am a fan of Dwemer technology, here is an example of a most interesting mod Somebody Created for the game: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=2873There are also other versions of this gun, my favorite being the coin launcher so far. Here's my favorite shield from the Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (not the best picture but oh well): In Magic the Gathering the Ravnica block released a guild of people known as the "Izzet" and I immediately became a fan, and have ever since Liked to play the colors involved. http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/1026As you may have noticed my Current avatar is styled to be like an Izzet. Sorry about the huge post, I'm going to make the images simply URLs if they stretch the page.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:19 pm
I never really have much inspiration of the sub-genre/culture because I never knew it existed in the first place. I just kept calling it retro-scifi, even though retro-scifi and steampunk have their distinguishing features that differentiates from one another like so: Retro Sci-fiSteampunkIf anything, Steamboy, Tin Man, and Wild Wild West were my inspirations to steampunk.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:27 pm
Is Tin Man that long film based on the Wizard of Oz?
Come to think of it... Elder Scrolls: Morrowind does have some Steampunk in it...
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:45 pm
Behatzlacha-S Is Tin Man that long film based on the Wizard of Oz? Come to think of it... Elder Scrolls: Morrowind does have some Steampunk in it... Yeah. It's a retelling of Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is suppose to be a princess of sorts; Toto is a dog that can shape-shift into his human form, Cowardly Lion has the power of telepathy, Scarecrow is known as a braincase (a criminal sentenced to have his frontal lobes removed with a zipper literally grafted onto the crown of his head; and Tin Man is actually a human man imprisoned in a human-body-shaped casing that looks like a man made of tin hence the name.
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:43 pm
JJ Neufmois Behatzlacha-S Is Tin Man that long film based on the Wizard of Oz? Come to think of it... Elder Scrolls: Morrowind does have some Steampunk in it... Yeah. It's a retelling of Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is suppose to be a princess of sorts; Toto is a dog that can shape-shift into his human form, Cowardly Lion has the power of telepathy, Scarecrow is known as a braincase (a criminal sentenced to have his frontal lobes removed with a zipper literally grafted onto the crown of his head; and Tin Man is actually a human man imprisoned in a human-body-shaped casing that looks like a man made of tin hence the name. And the witch invaded her sister because she let go and there's some emerald and the dad has a hot air balloon yaddah yaddah yaddah?
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:31 pm
Behatzlacha-S JJ Neufmois Behatzlacha-S Is Tin Man that long film based on the Wizard of Oz? Come to think of it... Elder Scrolls: Morrowind does have some Steampunk in it... Yeah. It's a retelling of Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is suppose to be a princess of sorts; Toto is a dog that can shape-shift into his human form, Cowardly Lion has the power of telepathy, Scarecrow is known as a braincase (a criminal sentenced to have his frontal lobes removed with a zipper literally grafted onto the crown of his head; and Tin Man is actually a human man imprisoned in a human-body-shaped casing that looks like a man made of tin hence the name. And the witch invaded her sister because she let go and there's some emerald and the dad has a hot air balloon yaddah yaddah yaddah? HEHEHEHEHHEH, yes. That's the one.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:33 am
Another bit of inspiration I just remembered(while watching Wild West Tech on History)
As a kid, I had a train set, the basic electric type. We had two locomotives. The modern diesel Santa Fe train, and a classic wild west steam locomotive. I always, ALWAYS chose the steam locomotive. I thought the diesel engine was way too, sterile looking. I preferred the classic aesthetic of the old school steam train. Just something about that look, the moving wheels, exposed parts, the click clack of the wheels, the chug and puff of the boiler.... man, diesel has got nothing on that.
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