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 Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 3:50 am
When I was about 9, I asked for a pocket watch for my birthday. My parents thought it to be a weird request. Nevertheless, they got me one after much begging. Brought me much joy, although I only wore it several times in school before stashing it away for safekeeping. It's stopped working since.
I've always been interested in the fusion of modern machines and the "Olden Days"; but never really thought it was an official interest. I loved the brass-and-brown look and ideas of cities with lots of white smoke streaming (air pollution!) above rooftops, horses lining cobblestone streets pulling carts with gears turning in them, hot air balloons, stuff like that.
I think it was the Last Exile anime that got me around to looking for a name for this interest. Some more Studio Ghibli films fuelled it some more. I found a guy called Anachronaut who makes the popular hair-fallsthingums and that's what really got me off. :3
I'm still new to the subculture though, and I think it's more of a by-the-by sort of interest. I don't see myself adopting the lifestyle any time soon, though I hope to proceed with some "steampunk projects" such as a nice pair of brass goggles.
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:52 pm
I think its inbuilt in folk like us to appreciate both the classic and the modern, especially when put so closely together...
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:37 pm
lol it seems as though the running theme is that ppl were steampunk before they knew what it was lmao ha ha i'm so pleased to find that i'm not alone in thoes terms..ppl ask me "how" or "why" are you steampunk and i'm like i allways have been i just never knew it had a name until recently. my parents and friends allways wondered why i had soo many clocks in my room lol..oh and the awesomeness of goggles lol.. pirate
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:20 pm
I Got into Steampunk for 2 reasons:
1. i feel the first has existed from birth; i lived in New York City for my whole life. i grew up in a very urban environment which, while i'm am not only interested in Steampunk, had many forms of steampunk culture built into it.
2. i have started to watch the Big O anime which has giant robots called megadeus's that, for the most part, have many aspects of Steampunk culture to them.
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:27 am
I got obsessed with the movie Steamboy right when it came out.
I would watch it everyday, and my family got very annoyed with
me. I didn't know it was steampunk until recently. And now!
Hanna is obsessed....
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:09 am
i have always been into steam-punk on and off since i was about 13.
i guess i'm kind of drawn to the fashion side of it as i like to dress in period clothing (1800's-1900's) but also dressing in a rather more alternative style, which steam-punk combines into one.
me and my best freind also began doing odd victorian-esque things such as carrying canes, smoking pipes and shaving with straight razors
(for the serious steam-punk, believe me i speak from experience *rubs lacerated face*)
steam-punk music was something that drew me further into the culture as i honestly didnt know it existed until perhaps a year ago.
Abney-park are just amazing as are dr steel and the dust collectors.
as i have said in another thread i have formed my own steam-punk metal band which i hope to bring to the masses very soon.
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:28 pm
i have to say it's cuzz i love victorian dress so thats an excuse to dress like that and pluss there is the chance to were machanical parts who dosent love that^_^ blaugh
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:39 pm
yep i was steam punk b4 i knew it i was like wah they got a name for what i am ... no but close enof XD ya i sall a bunch of furrys talking about steampunk i was like huh? so i went and looked it up and i was like ... hey thats a bunch of stuff i like =D! so ya there u go i jus sorta face planted in it lol but its a good face plant :3
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:11 pm
My Girlfriend who is in love with antique victorian era clothing and style introduced it to me, mostly indirectly, just seeing it around, asking questions about it etc. kind of got me hooked. I'm about 50 years ahead of the general steampunk style in my personal preferences, from what I've seen most of it tends to be 1880ish influenced wheras I think the machinery styles and sci-fi of the mid-twenties and thirties were far more interesting... I guess that's my semi-coherent rant for now
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:14 pm
Through countless efforts of trying to make "Industrial" something worth my while. Eventually I found something that reminded me of it but was ten times as imaginative and I feel in love.
EDIT: Although I do see Steampunk in my perspective as to be more air piratey then victorian but respect all branches of the style. ^^
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:52 pm
I personally got into it because, in the manga One Piece, there were a few examples of steam punk(atleast from my definition, which includes the pirate era).
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:53 pm
Of course, it's always captured my imagination. Almost everything does, but Steam Punk influenced things tend to be a bit more... epic.
Of course, I wasn't obsessive or even really aware. Things just came up that were like "Oh... cool." I went to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with my dad, and we were both amazed.
Anyway, I'm browsing this one deviantart account, and they said "STEAMPUNK ELVES." and the drawing featured two elves with very elaborate guns. I was like "Huh."
Then I read a book called "Airborne," the majority of which took place on an airship. My dad and I also watched the series "Firefly" and kinda obsessed over it.
Then for some reason, I finally decided to google Steampunk. I was looking at all the pictures and said "Woah. I like this way better than lolita. Dude, they have AIRSHIPS."
Then I figured that no one had ever heard of it and tried to forget about it to a degree, but a week later my dad and I were talking and he said "Hey, have you heard of a thing called Steampunk?"
So now we both obsess over steampunk. And my mom is more willing to let me wear crazy things now that they don't have the word "Lolita" attached to them. It worked out for everyone 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:19 am
T.V. Its not just for rotting the brain.
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:46 pm
I've always enjoyed Victorian fashion, as well as movies like City of Atlantis... and especially the idea that magic and science can exist side by side in the world.
Besides, cogs are awesome!
[geek moment] Reminds me of that time we went to some weird alternate world/universe during a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, where everything was made of metal and ran by systems of cogs and clockwork...
A native approached me selling his wares, and offered me bread. I gladly accepted, only to realize I bought tin bread! [/geek moment]
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:26 am
Taevitt
I have always had a certain fondness for something that I could never really find a name for... Alchemists, goggles, and England especially. I adored the His Dark Materials Trilogy, and looked for more things, but lacking a name I didn't find anything. . .
This is remarkably similar to my story. I think I was always Steampunk, I just didn't know it.
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