Ladies and Gentlemen: Steampunk!

At the end of the week I was feverish. Alternately, read the novel Soulless by Gail Krueger, who belongs to the genre of the heartwarming called steampunk. The result was some interesting dreams-most heat. Decided it was worth devoting a record regarding steampunk. The truth that there is another reason: after litigation and much deliberation, we inserted the word, steampunk, book The Lost Hero has just released a fresh-fresh off the press *. We debated that on the one hand, we assumed that the concept is still unfamiliar in the country, and on the other hand, there is no acceptable translation or sweet can visualize what is steampunk.

Well, for that matter steampunk is a literary sub-genre of science fiction, but not less than that steampunk is also fashion and design. Steampunk refers to all those works that take place in an alternate world where not developed technologies such as electronics and diesel engine, but instead thrived technology is based on the gears and steam engines (hence the "sets", steam). World of steampunk, air transport will be mostly using balloons and zeppelins, and aircraft. Plastic is unfamiliar material, and attached sophisticated technology masterfully materials such as brass, strips of leather and carved wood. That combines steampunk stylish elegance of the Victorian era and the ingenuity and technological capabilities of later periods.

Examples of steampunk style film "Wild Wild West", "the finest gentlemen League" film "Sherlock Holmes" with Robert Downey Jr. and so on - so-called periodic movies, but full of deliberate anachronisms and cool technology. There are a variety of examples in literature has not yet been translated into Hebrew, you are invited to offer examples of those who still translated ...

I have no doubt that an ingredient in the popularity of SP is that SP spirit can create terrific costumes.

With the rise of cultural conferences science fiction and geek-chic, has now for older people places to express their creativity in preparing the costumes are invested.

Activity that was once the domain of only children. Fashions steampunk is sophisticated and sexy; it allows masquerading celebrate with vintage items Fine such as dresses, corsets and hats hat without forcing themselves to social norms conservative and limit that existed during periods when wearing such clothes.

Costume steampunk can be restrained or wild, revealing or conservative, and integrate various accessories and sundry starting hats, fans and jewels to weapons.

Binoculars and measuring instruments scientific. all will look for hints to complete background story, and that's part of its charm. I highly recommend this browse the photo gallery of steampunk costumes worn by participants at the conference Komikon in 2009.

Reveries my heat, I wondered if SP is a kind of reaction against the culture of mass consumption. Each piece of clothing we wear is worn by hundreds of people who buy the same network, and each device we use on a daily basis out strip being identical to thousands and tens of thousands of similar devices around the world, something that the heart longs for the days when clothes and appliances were manufactured by hand, and were singular. At a time when even an umbrella was an object of art, with hand-carved handle, cover sewn by hand - maybe dress fabric was adjusted - and no one else was exactly like that. The shoemaker shoes made to measure. Even pistols were manufactured in small workshops and adapted to the needs of owners, including aesthetic needs, with handles decorated with mother-of-pearl engraved owners name in curly letters on the barrel.

Maybe that's why miss steampunk period which is the period of the beginning of the industrial revolution, the beginning of the end of the small craftsmen.

SF arena has been talking about this steampunk passed the peak, this is a genre in decline already ceased to be interesting. Such talk wandered fringe phenomena characteristics and begin to move toward the mainstream.

Perhaps indeed go bankrupt and cease to be fun - but in the meantime we have a lot of fun with him.

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