Steampunk, Dieselpunk, etc.

[RIOT]

HA! That's cool! I wonder if it's as annoying.

 

[Fletch]

Hoo-doggies! R2D-2 as Hugo Gernsback might have envisioned him...and when the weather gets hot, he churns his own ice cream!

I sort of agree that steampunk ought to have more of the flavor of the ordinary tinkerer — Edison, Ford, the Wright brothers, all started out as working Joes with big dreams. Philo Farnsworth conceived the television scanning gun while plowing a potato field. That is your great American technical tradition — or the start of it.

 

[Serial Hero]

I sort of agree that steampunk ought to have more of the flavor of the ordinary tinkerer — Edison, Ford, the Wright brothers, all started out as working Joes with big dreams. Philo Farnsworth conceived the television scanning gun while plowing a potato field. That is your great American technical tradition — or the start of it.

You must be thinking of the Edisonades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edisonade

 

[Fletch]

Tom Swift, absolutely! :eusa_clap

 

[Story]

Tom Swift, absolutely! :eusa_clap

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en

 

[eldonkr]

Someone has probably stumbled across this little gem already but

www.gentlemansemporium.com is your all in one shop for steampunkesque type clothes for ladies and gents, more clothing oriented towards the gents though

 

[Feraud]

Possibly not quite steampunk but I love the look of this.

http://www.macmod.com/content/view/363/

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Steampunk Ghostbusters @ Comicon

 

[The Wolf]

The steampunk Ghosters are A) totally rediculous and B) extremely cool.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[CAL-NOIR]

I think this is going to give me nightmares.

-Dave

Wow ...reminds me a bit of the Nazi villain in the first Hellboy movie .

 

[MrBern]

imagined monologue

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/25steampunk.html

first paragraph:

Remember when I was crawling around the attic, looking for my old Planters-peanut-man Halloween costume? I didn't donate it to the children's theater, like I told you. I salvaged the monocle, top hat, and cane, combined them with a swallowtail tuxedo, and stole away to a midnight screening of the underrated masterpiece The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

 

[Lady Day]

Two resources....
here & here.

LD

 

[shortbow]

What is this thing with helmets and goggles? That thing looks like something you'd see in a really creepy S&M bar. Gadzooks.

 

[Dr Doran]

What is this thing with helmets and goggles? That thing looks like something you'd see in a really creepy S&M bar. Gadzooks.

I like it.

 

[Fletch]

I don't like it, but it looks like the future.

 

[Dr Doran]

Now to build a Victorian time machine as H. G. Wells describes, all in brass with dials and a seat and levers ... how wonderful would that be? Has anyone done that? The Time Machine is one of my favorite books and I recall that Wells gave a pretty detailed description of how the machine should look.

(Naturally I do not mean one that ACTUALLY TRAVELS.)

 

[Rachael]

Now to build a Victorian time machine as H. G. Wells describes, all in brass with dials and a seat and levers ... how wonderful would that be? Has anyone done that? The Time Machine is one of my favorite books and I recall that Wells gave a pretty detailed description of how the machine should look.

(Naturally I do not mean one that ACTUALLY TRAVELS.)

There is one in Hollywood somewhere:

 

[Dr Doran]

There is one in Hollywood somewhere:

That's really cool. Too bad those dorks are ruining the photo. I hate dorks. Hate, hate, hate.

 

[Story]

The LeMat

A nine shot .42 caliber revolver, with a cylinder rotating around a short shotgun barrel. Came in cap & ball, pinfire and centerfire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMat_Revolver

See also
http://www.la-belle-epoque.net

 

[Story]

Charlie Prince jacket

From another thread, which might not have attracted attention -

http://magnolic.ipower.com/catalog/...d=188&osCsid=30026127494d6d66de36dc4f3923ae77

http://filmjackets.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=170