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   Ottodesu said, over 1 year ago

   I haven’t even thought of steampunk for a very long time! But what a great “movement”.
   Imagine: in a hundred years time kids may be dressing up in styles that our current eyes would see as a nineteenth century Victorian would regard steampunk.
   Hope so.
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   mojitobaby said, over 1 year ago

   @Ottodesu

   Otto, I went to an amazing party last nite in Boston, can’t tell you how many great steampunk inspired costumes I saw! I wonder if the technology revolution will ever insire anyone in the future the way the revisited industrial revolution did – Isambard Kingdom Brunel vs. Steve Jobs, grudge match!

   Now, of course, we’re getting smacking with a raging ice storm so all the smart kids will be trick or treating dressed as Yukon Cornelius or Paul Bunyan (someone’s gotta move all those downed trees!).
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   Rockabore said, over 1 year ago

   Greg actually has a good handle on drawing steampunk fashion. I love that style. He did say last year that he likes the style so I’m just guessing he’s kidding about using it as the punchline. Also, I’m sure a lot of people who read the strip would be surprised to find out that that’s an actual band Luann referenced.
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   Ottodesu said, over 1 year ago

   @mojitobaby

   Damn, I wish I had gone to that party!
   But yeah, imagine a Brunel-designed iPod – or a Jobs-designed Great Eastern!
   I love the idea of cross-seminating (my term) different technological cultures. I was playing with TroyPunk for a while. It was inspired by a comment I read in 1971 about modern sportcars being nothing more than wheels with engines transplanted from Pheonician coal burning diesel galleys.
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   AshburnStadium said, over 1 year ago

   A good example of steampunk can be found at the end of “Back To The Future III” when Dr. Emmett Brown and his 19th century family visit Marty & Jen in 1985 while dressed in mid-1890s clothing and traveling in a modified steam locomotive.
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   Sisyphos said, over 1 year ago

   I think the girls look terrific in their steampunk outfits. But the band should, of course, be Abney Park!
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   AshburnStadium said, over 1 year ago

   We now know where Luann is set. Steam Powered Giraffe is from the San Diego area.
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   Alexiel Raziel said, over 1 year ago

   That’s the nicest Bernice has ever looked…
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   BlueRaven said, over 1 year ago

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   You must be kidding. Steampunk music is a marvelous hybrid of old and new. Abney Park, Vernian Process, and so many more…
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    Ottodesu said, over 1 year ago

    @AshburnStadium

    That may well be the epitome of steampunk, in every sense of the term. Maybe that’s the seminal origin of the expression?
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    DoctorJeff said, over 1 year ago

    Holy cow! A shout-out to Steam Powered Giraffe! I saw those guys playing in Balboa Park when I was last in San Diego. Fun band, good music.
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    DayoftheDead said, over 1 year ago

    Very deep thoughts today. Lots of wordage that shows either you are well educated or own a dictionary/thesauruses. Im not Trolling on you guys, I just think its refreshing to see words above the two syllable range. LuAnn in my opinion went a little far on the White. Looks more like a high dressed mime.
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    Wiselad said, over 1 year ago

    first time I saw and heard about “steampunk fashion and life” was in an episode of “Castle”
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    paul courry said, over 1 year ago

    In response to the first question, steampunk is both a genre of music and of science fiction. I would not be surprised if it is a separate genre in more fields as well.
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    Slywlf said, over 1 year ago

    Hmm – nice costumes, and thanks for the band names – YouTube has some great samples. I’ve been reading steampunk for quite a while, but only recently became aware of the whole sub-culture of cons etc. I may be a ‘nit’ older than most of the other participants, but I can definitely see myself hitting the next local con ;-)
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