Steampunk is probably my favorite form of cosplay because there are no specific characters or models to speak of, it's 100% what you want it to be from start to finish.
I truly had no idea that steampunk was a real subculture, rather than an area in Six Flags. any steampunk bands or artists? completely new to this and am fascinated as all hell.
Yeah. Right. That's why you have an icebox and not a refrigerator. Right? And why you use a corded rotary phone if you have one at all. Right? And why you have no electricity in your house or apartment. Right? I guarantee if you're really THAT in to "steam", you can probably find something to do locally that will put you in direct contact with the technology. Steam isn't dead. Its still turning turbines and powering ships and powerplants. It's still heating buildings and distilling water. It's still being used for heavy-duty industrial cleaning of really nasty parts in really nasty environments and its still being used to scald the skin off of hogs in packing plants. You really want to live a "steam life"? Put away your costume and toys and go to work.
i don't do steampunk myself (i'm a goth metalhead/punkrocker dude) but i really do love all the creativity involved in this plus it is an incredibly cool look. and as a DIY guy myself ya really gotta admire that as well.
We are not "weird" we are a community that is too advanced in creativity for the regular minds of this world... Some of us come from the sky, some from the sea or maybe we have a creator?
See, it's that idealism that makes people call you freaks. When you fancy yourself above others in thought or standing you will be referred to as such. Drop the bullshit and steampunk seems like a very intelligent fun idea
Yeah. You're so "advanced" that you apparently don't know that "steam, gears and sprockets" are only considered "archaic" by people who are so out of touch with the MODERN MECHANICAL WORLD they don't have any idea that steam, gears and sprockets are still in widespread use today. And your "creativity" is figuring out how to do the same thing everyone else is doing but still be "unique" but not so DIFFERENT that nobody understands what you are. And the supposed foundations of steampunk in Jules Verne and H.G. Wells is kind of an interesting claim, since Verne and Wells both focus much more on the natural and human aspects of their novels rather than the mechanical and technological aspects. There literally are no in-depth, highly technical descriptions in either man's works. The machines and other technology are obviously mentioned and "explained" because its necessary for context and to establish the plot. In 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Verne's description of the technical aspects of the Nautilus is very brief and vague. Why? Because the ship is not the story. The people and their interactions and experiences are with the environment and each other are. And of course the purpose of science fiction is to stimulate imagination and encourage independent thought. If you're a born gearhead, you get Wells and Verne. If you've read Jules and Verne, at least in NOVEL FORM and not some "graphic novel" rehash condensed version that may be nothing but a very loose adaptation "in the style of" Jules and Wells, you know that they were both pretty ANTI-TECHNOLOGY. Captain Nemo didn't build the Nautilus to show the world his genius. He built it to HIDE from the world and explore what was left of it while something as still unexplored. He certainly wasn't an "environmentalist" in the modern sense, but he preferred NOT to socialize with other human beings. Kind of the opposite of your little conventions. And honestly, from what I see your conventions are just big theatrical productions where everybody can be or tries to be the "star". Honestly, that's not how real gearheads and mechanics roll. We (I'm a lifelong gearhead, fan of anything that turns money into noise and 25-year diesel mechanic with a "career" working on everything from nitro RC cars to 4500-hp diesel-electric freight locomotives) literally have NO "vanity" when it comes to our appearance in public. You can't in that line of work. At least not if you want to be successful. You're going to get dirty and sweaty and bloody and depending on the part of the industry you go into, maybe shitty and smelling like a garbage dump, too. Do we LIKE IT? Not really. But it's what we're born to do. Not what sounds fun and looks hip and makes us more socially acceptable. If you're interested in playing a part in a big play, you're probably NOT a gearhead by nature, regardless of how well you put a bunch of junk and expensive NEW hardware together to create a prop. If you're really into old machines and technology and see their value, you're into preserving it. Not creating "Victorian" takes on modern technology which primarily consist of creating a PARODY of a STEREOTYPE of "Victorian" living. Just like now, most people had jobs and spent their lives working to survive. There wasn't a genius inventor in every other little shop and people weren't doing a hell of a lot of playing period. At least not the ones that weren't born to rich families. You're not preserving anything. You're destroying it. You're tearing apart cool old machines to use a few parts for a costume. And in the process maybe destroying something pretty rare and valuable or at least USEFUL to someone else for something that will outlast a fad. And the whole DIY aspect steampunks claim is dubious at best. If everybody was really interested in creativity and doing their own thing there wouldn't be so much commonality. Would steampunk exist without an internet so everybody can go online to post their stuff and other things they see outside the "community" and share and steal ideas? Probably not. And it's not about the period or the machines or even the socialization and meeting other people like you. It's about YOU PERIOD and hanging out where you're very likely to be appreciated and validated and praised and where its really impossible to "fail". Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but its disingenuous to claim that a convention full of people who are doing the same thing in slightly different ways is about being an individual and being unique and being your real self. If you're REALLY into that lifestyle and time period and technology, there are ways to LIVE IT and make a living doing it. But you're probably not going to just put on a costume and make it. You'd have to learn period skills and a trade and put in a lot of hard work in a dirty blacksmith shop learning how to make things with fire and steel or a vintage vehicle restoration shop learning how to turn a pile of rusted junk back into what it was 75 or 100 or 125 years ago and with out destroying the parts that can't be replaced or not within the budget. And there won't be a crowd of people there to tell you how cool your costume is and how creative you are and how clever you are when it comes to making old junk look like it "works" just because the parts move. In the real world of old machinery and ALL machinery, you usually start with something that DOESN'T work and have to make it work again. And when you're done, you rarely get praised for being so clever and doing such a great job. After all, you're just doing your job. As a gearhead when I first saw the word "steampunk" online and Googled it I was kind of excited to see what it was about. Because whatever Wikipedia article or other description I read portrayed it as ACTUAL inventiveness and creativity and suggested people were making ACTUAL USEFUL MACHINES out of old parts. Because as a mechanic I can tell you that there have never been a LOT of people with the knack and ability and desire to work on the machines that keep everybody housed and fed and transported and such. And thanks to a lot of b.s. about "machines replacing humans" and "artificial intelligence" and "America doesn't build anything anymore" AND a lot of kids being raised without their fathers and significant contact with men doing "guy stuff" like working on cars and building stuff in home workshops and going to motorsports. And that lack of "guy stuff" is a big problem because with fewer and fewer shop programs, fewer and fewer kids get exposed to mechanical stuff and the technical trades and how COOL and SCIENTIFIC they are. So fewer kids go into them and we have fewer and fewer people to work on more and more machines and at some point, progress will grind to a halt. It would be awesome if steampunk was about promoting the technical trades and mechanic arts instead of just a social movement so white-collar city dwellers can play dress up and show off their toys and get their praise and adoration fix.
I always had a great interest in 'dry' mechanics, e.g. steam-powered machines, Stirling engines etc. And when I found the Steampunk community I realised that I'm not the only one; the fantastic combination of modern and futuristic technology based on 19th century England (mainly) pulled me right in.
What exactly is "futuristic"? And how exactly has making props and toys and playing dress up taken you ANY closer to the actual technology you claim to have such an interest in? And how is steam "dry mechanics"? It's literally water vapor and conversion of water to steam in the boiler and condensation back to water in a condensor or return piping. Go work around ACTUAL STEAM EQUIPMENT and you'll probably find its a long way from "dry" working around steam. I've done a little research into steampunk and I've been watching some videos. And when I first heard about it and Googled it I was initially excited thinking steampunk claims that its about the "technology" might actually be true. But it's not true and its not about the technology. Especially since its not about preserving anything. Its about destroying cool old machinery to get a few parts to make a stupid prop that either does nothing or just serves as a package for something completely modern or at best has some moving parts and flashing lights and indicates that somebody can at least do some basic wiring of batteries and bulbs and motors. Its not about the technology or the era at all. Its a parody of a stereotype and anyone who cites Wells and Verne as influences obviously hasn't read much Verne or Wells. At least none in NOVEL FORM. Read their actual books and you'll find the technology and machines are background only. There are no in-depth technical descriptions of how anything really works. Just vague thumbnail generalized filler material mentioning "electricity" or "gunpowder". Why? Because science fiction is FICTION. It's not written by MECHANICS or ENGINEERS. It's written by AUTHORS who have spent more time in a JOURNALISM or CREATIVE WRITING class than SHOP CLASS. And of course its the HUMAN ASPECTS that are important because HUMANS ARE THE AUDIENCE. And nobody REALLY cares how a FICTIONAL MACHINE WORKS. If 10% of steampunks have even read ONE of Verne's or Wells' books I'd be freaking amazed.
I love this creativity and open mindedness, all people who cosplay and have their own original style they are my idols. To have the guts to express yourself the way you really are, different and unique is how everyone should be and not try hard to be "normal" to fit in a boring society. I think art is beautiful and live in all of us in many kind of forms you just have to find what you like.
Fascinating to watch. I would love to see more! My neice is into Cosplay but of Marvel's character's. I didn't understand her live for it until I saw this. This I find fascinating. So thank you for opening my eyes to this world.
i started loving steampunk since i knew about. bc between other things, WE ARE ARTISTS! we build or own worlds, and we are happy with that, so what can be wrong!? peace, love, and gears.
Absolutely great video, i love it. Just a pity that there is not enough people who is interested in this kind of thing where i live. I would love to visit one of these conventions for the visual feast it offers.
Very late comment, but for what it's worth, Verne was a mid-19th century writer (not early 20th century), and H G Wells wrote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote the screenplay for the film Things to Come (1936, only three years before Gone with the Wind) and he didn't die until 1945.
I fondly remember the 60s, where granny glasses and outlandish apparel were adopted and incorporated. Sort of a 'me generation' movement back then. I wore wire frames, prescription at that, almost ruining my eyes! Had a patch on my black leather half length coat with a 'survivor' patch on the shoulder.... black patch with a lone white tree. I sort of did not fit in with most kids as letter jackets were more common in high school! Not quite 'Steam Punk' but JRR Tolkien, Jules Vern and HG Wells were my favorite authors. Richard Corben is still my favorite 'comic book' artist. Seems every generation has some sort of break-away movement however fleeting it may have been.... sort of helps to bridge a tough or trying time! Looking at this 'new' genre of Steam Punk and I can see sort of the same!
Actually the Ego and super ego are attuned to morality more so than ones, arguably 'ego' So my statement was not linked to Freud and I was rather making a statement of my observations. It is to be taken with a grain of salt and not judged.
Cool video. I just found out about steampunk yesterday (I must have been living under a rock, lol). I like that this fashion trend spreads across all generations. It seems young and old alike are into it, awesome!
I saw this episode of the Green Lantern cartoon and they had a whole episode dedicated to the Latern getting sucked into another universe which happened to be a Steampunk universe. It was pretty cool. Edit: I just looked it up, the episode is called "Steam Lantern" for those interested. Steampunk is infiltrating the mainstream.
Ok, I saw this video about 5 years ago and I loved it. It is so good and timeless, and it introduced me to The Cog is Dead. Great introduction to the hobby. But I have to ask... what is the song at 0:22? The website listed in the credits seem to be down and I've wanted to hear it in full for so long. Is it available anywhere or is it lost forever? Edit: I realise that it's been more than 5 years since I found this. Man, I feel old. xD
I love it!!!! Hey I live in Austin Tx. Can someone tell me where to meet SPers'. I'm just wanting to get started so bad. lol I think your video just add fire to the need. :)Van Cross
this is the first time ive ever heard of steam punk. its strange, but a good strange. could any one send me some links to tutorials and stuff? i think ive fallen in love with this kind of stuff. thank you :)
I've currently started writing a steampunk novella and I've done a lot of research and reading and what not and I've always enjoyed the steampunk genre and I have to admit that my girlfriend has gotten me more into this, I'm watching this to help me along but OH MY GOD What is steampunk? lol I've seen sci-fi takes on it, fantasy takes on it and so forth...lol :P Really having a hard time nailing a specific definition because it's not all about time travel right? :)
I think of steampunk of anything to do with the revealing, dramatization, and exaggeration of the usually-hidden inner workings of common things, except that it's more Victorian and unnecessary. It's the nitty-gritty of things that we don't see, but instead of wires, and circuits, and stuff, it's gears and pipes and light bulbs!
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To me, long story short, steampunk means the future my great-great-grandmother dreamed for me. To be specific steampunk is a "guess what if" game. Guess what would have happened if electricity wasn't invented! In wich direction would our society would have evolved? What if we rely more on our creativity? What if we still have the optimistic world view people had before the world wars? To me steampunk is imagining a world where world wars hasn't happened, or at least they didn't insipred science into this confort-orientated world we live in, and they didn't deprive us from optimism in the future. It's not about clothing, neither time travel.
DDsecrethatercat I don't think diesel punk is a thing. And if it is, I don't want to know anything about it. But you are right, WWII is way after the time period that steampunk exists in.
I am a Dog human hybrid as some may call me, but I have a higher understanding and love of old and newer technology, I was born in the ocean and came to land at a young age, my creator gave me the ability to speak and write in some other languages, and be able to understand the feelings around me.
I was going to get into a LARP group for D&D I think I'll make an outfit that can be put in both worlds... I've never really checked out Steampunk other than art, now you've opened me up to the music and culture, just great! ***** Would either sit around playing video games instead of RPing as a game... Or he goes out and gets smashed at the club/bar... instead of getting smashed at a cool RPing event, together with many people who most likely share many similarities... Also... events like this could get a lonely individual like yourself laid by awesome nerdy hot chicks waring deadly outfits.
FWIW: I have lived in North Carolina since 1995, but I was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida. All the GOOD STUFF starts happening in places where I live AFTER I move away from them...😝
My Steamsona is that im a Clockwork from Saga City in the Whoniverse(Doctor who Read The 8Th Doctors Big Finish Audio Novels Or Tardis archive wiki for more info) Anyway as a Clockwork I was a Time Travelling Detctive, I have a Type 126 highly modified Clockwork War Tardis Who can be eith humanoid or when not in her human for Generally like to be desguised as a SteamPunk Derigable(Though her Chameleon Circuts do work, It's just her Personal Preference!) My only Companion is a Ghost of a Former Detective who was slain by another worlds jack the ripper(Oh yeah My tardis is Trans/Pan Dimentional) Im 3,675 years old and in my fourth incarnation! Clockworks like timelords have two hearts and regenerate but we think and act more like humans! We also have far more powers like control over Entropy and omniscience not omnipotence however we can see all from our home world in the observerse but cant always do anything about it! Now we both travel through space/time soving crimes and providing justice to the victims!
Joe Baumgart my steam-sona is that I'm an inventor that works on a lot of things used for science, I'm from Steam City, one of the capitals that are very high in the inventing, literature, and art category, I'm also an adventurer that time travels from other dimensions and time lines, and in my city I'm known as the "time lord" because I'm one of the few in the city that can time travel, there's many tales that have been told that I can reverse time and stop time as I wish or that I can turn people into objects and animals with one of my weapons that I created and that I live in the hills away from most of the city to work on my inventions. The city itself has a lot of gears and a few water mills that has one big gear as the mill, and they have markets and one big clock tower that's right in the middle of the city, and at night the city looks wonderful and with a lot of glowing lights and when your at one of the views of the city, it's a breath taking moment, and every night in the city is a full moon, but it is said that if your one one of the views at night and it's a half moon, you get good luck for two years, which is rare so that's why the legend in the city is still believed there.
I have my own style similar to steampunk, i guess you could call it rust-punk or something. Like rusty looking metal goggles with lots of big bolts and nuts and screws. What would you call that?
Steam punk is a person who likes to build real inventions and loves the old way . It’s a way of life and to bring it to life as a real machine just like back to the future or the time Machine that’s steam punk Is not cosplay it’s a life style
Go into the basement, attic, grandmas closet or mom and dads old jewelry. Grab some tools and screws, paint brushes and go wild, try something with belts or a hat?
I'm not hardcore steam punk but I'm a hardcore gamer and a role play every day as an assassin from assassins Creed I have every assassin outfit and me and my friend's do assassin training and everybody looks at us like where crazy and people will tell us so and we just say "no we are assassins" and just keep walking
With regard to the quotation by S. J. Chambers: Verne and Wells are late (although Verne started in the mid-19th century and Wells finished well into the 20th) not early 19th century authors. So much for 'the bible'....
It's not something I could live or whatever, as I'm just not the kind of a person who gets engrossed in subcultures for the sake of it. I do love the aesthetic of Steampunk, however. It's glorious and honest.
Steam power still exists in shipping. It also exists within nuclear power. I feel that the ultimate steampunk is found in both Stirling cycle engines and treadle powered machines. I'm in the process of building a treadle cycle lathe that can be both operated by foot or a large Stirling cycle engine that turns a flywheel that weighs 70 pounds and it was forged when Lincoln was president.
Puny. I know said friend via internet only. I've seen her on webcam with him. World just got smaller. Lol. I sent her a message and she didn't even know she was on youtube or in this video.
silentthunder85: "...the Goth crowd at least gets some semblance of respect because they rage against the establishment & "the way things should be"..." DUDE! I laughed SOOOO hard when I read that! Thank you for the free giggle. No, seriously. That made a bright spot in my day. Thanks again ;)
Seriously loved that song. My pet peve is theirs no STEAM in steampunk music,...no pistons firing NO exhaust sounds....no clanking of the cogs. Spring that “BONGS” ,... ...seriously but,... I. Love ❤️. This music. Suggestion add more machine sounds. I think I sub ta u don’t know will send e mail laters. E.O.L. ,,STATISTICS ,... feed cut from your server ,... please reboot your crappy computer. FAIL. ,....
Look, I have nothing with roleplaying of an alternate timeline where society halted in the Victorian era, and technology reached its apex with the advent of steam. It sounds pretty cool, actually. But all those comments about people claiming they are better than the modern 21st century person because they are original and creative and with brains too advanced for our era (the mos tironic thing I've heard in a while, seeing that it is based on an era two centuries ago) are almost scary. I don't know what to think of those people anymore.
@Giannis yeah its pretty clear that the definition of steampunk that you and I are familiar with is rapidly being subsumed by a wider cosplay genre (with a healthy smattering of pretentious prats) but hey, anything that gets peeps off their Iwhatevers has got to be good news.
soooo let me get this straight: time-travelling "Victorian/Industrial-Revolution" aviator-plumber-hipsters... basically, everyone who likes trenchcoats & corsets but isn't hardcore enough to be full-fledged Goth/Cybergoth/Industrial/RivetHead.... pretty much! lol... the Goth crowd at least gets some semblance of respect because they rage against the establishment & "the way things should be", whereas it would appear that Steampunks don't have any enemies; they'd rather blow bubbles with Rube Goldberg machines at a picnic and have storytime. No thanks.
Steampunk is probably my favorite form of cosplay because there are no specific characters or models to speak of, it's 100% what you want it to be from start to finish.
I truly had no idea that steampunk was a real subculture, rather than an area in Six Flags. any steampunk bands or artists? completely new to this and am fascinated as all hell.
+Isaac Ramos Abney park, The Death of the cog, and Steam powered Giraffe. Just to name a few places to start. ;)
+Eruraion SPG brass goggles yes °^°
The Dolls of New Albion is an excellent steampunk musical
Isaac Ramos Check out Steam Powered Giraffe "My Honeybee"
Also The Peculiar Pretzelmen. Not sure if it counts as streampunk, but what the hay.
God... I love Steam Punk.. My out fit is almost finished. This genre is the best. :)
I've never heard any of my fellow Steampunkers ever say anything about a "Steam-sona". We only have one life; The Steam one.
Yeah. Right. That's why you have an icebox and not a refrigerator. Right? And why you use a corded rotary phone if you have one at all. Right? And why you have no electricity in your house or apartment. Right? I guarantee if you're really THAT in to "steam", you can probably find something to do locally that will put you in direct contact with the technology. Steam isn't dead. Its still turning turbines and powering ships and powerplants. It's still heating buildings and distilling water. It's still being used for heavy-duty industrial cleaning of really nasty parts in really nasty environments and its still being used to scald the skin off of hogs in packing plants.
You really want to live a "steam life"? Put away your costume and toys and go to work.
@@deeremeyer1749 I have no words. Only "ur a bitch ain't ye" can come from my mouth right now
@@deeremeyer1749 my dad who is 85 years old still uses his rotary phone out in his garage , I have to tell him he is steampunk he will be thrilled !
Love the clock hat at the start!
Steampunk is simply a culture. Like any culture, we each bring something to it, and it is the sum of the whole.
i don't do steampunk myself (i'm a goth metalhead/punkrocker dude) but i really do love all the creativity involved in this plus it is an incredibly cool look. and as a DIY guy myself ya really gotta admire that as well.
We are not "weird" we are a community that is too advanced in creativity for the regular minds of this world... Some of us come from the sky, some from the sea or maybe we have a creator?
And don't forget the nomads who travel the wastelands of time
Exactly
See, it's that idealism that makes people call you freaks. When you fancy yourself above others in thought or standing you will be referred to as such. Drop the bullshit and steampunk seems like a very intelligent fun idea
Yeah. You're so "advanced" that you apparently don't know that "steam, gears and sprockets" are only considered "archaic" by people who are so out of touch with the MODERN MECHANICAL WORLD they don't have any idea that steam, gears and sprockets are still in widespread use today. And your "creativity" is figuring out how to do the same thing everyone else is doing but still be "unique" but not so DIFFERENT that nobody understands what you are.
And the supposed foundations of steampunk in Jules Verne and H.G. Wells is kind of an interesting claim, since Verne and Wells both focus much more on the natural and human aspects of their novels rather than the mechanical and technological aspects. There literally are no in-depth, highly technical descriptions in either man's works. The machines and other technology are obviously mentioned and "explained" because its necessary for context and to establish the plot.
In 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Verne's description of the technical aspects of the Nautilus is very brief and vague. Why? Because the ship is not the story. The people and their interactions and experiences are with the environment and each other are. And of course the purpose of science fiction is to stimulate imagination and encourage independent thought.
If you're a born gearhead, you get Wells and Verne. If you've read Jules and Verne, at least in NOVEL FORM and not some "graphic novel" rehash condensed version that may be nothing but a very loose adaptation "in the style of" Jules and Wells, you know that they were both pretty ANTI-TECHNOLOGY. Captain Nemo didn't build the Nautilus to show the world his genius. He built it to HIDE from the world and explore what was left of it while something as still unexplored. He certainly wasn't an "environmentalist" in the modern sense, but he preferred NOT to socialize with other human beings. Kind of the opposite of your little conventions.
And honestly, from what I see your conventions are just big theatrical productions where everybody can be or tries to be the "star". Honestly, that's not how real gearheads and mechanics roll. We (I'm a lifelong gearhead, fan of anything that turns money into noise and 25-year diesel mechanic with a "career" working on everything from nitro RC cars to 4500-hp diesel-electric freight locomotives) literally have NO "vanity" when it comes to our appearance in public. You can't in that line of work. At least not if you want to be successful. You're going to get dirty and sweaty and bloody and depending on the part of the industry you go into, maybe shitty and smelling like a garbage dump, too. Do we LIKE IT? Not really. But it's what we're born to do. Not what sounds fun and looks hip and makes us more socially acceptable.
If you're interested in playing a part in a big play, you're probably NOT a gearhead by nature, regardless of how well you put a bunch of junk and expensive NEW hardware together to create a prop. If you're really into old machines and technology and see their value, you're into preserving it. Not creating "Victorian" takes on modern technology which primarily consist of creating a PARODY of a STEREOTYPE of "Victorian" living. Just like now, most people had jobs and spent their lives working to survive. There wasn't a genius inventor in every other little shop and people weren't doing a hell of a lot of playing period. At least not the ones that weren't born to rich families.
You're not preserving anything. You're destroying it. You're tearing apart cool old machines to use a few parts for a costume. And in the process maybe destroying something pretty rare and valuable or at least USEFUL to someone else for something that will outlast a fad. And the whole DIY aspect steampunks claim is dubious at best. If everybody was really interested in creativity and doing their own thing there wouldn't be so much commonality. Would steampunk exist without an internet so everybody can go online to post their stuff and other things they see outside the "community" and share and steal ideas? Probably not.
And it's not about the period or the machines or even the socialization and meeting other people like you. It's about YOU PERIOD and hanging out where you're very likely to be appreciated and validated and praised and where its really impossible to "fail". Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but its disingenuous to claim that a convention full of people who are doing the same thing in slightly different ways is about being an individual and being unique and being your real self.
If you're REALLY into that lifestyle and time period and technology, there are ways to LIVE IT and make a living doing it. But you're probably not going to just put on a costume and make it. You'd have to learn period skills and a trade and put in a lot of hard work in a dirty blacksmith shop learning how to make things with fire and steel or a vintage vehicle restoration shop learning how to turn a pile of rusted junk back into what it was 75 or 100 or 125 years ago and with out destroying the parts that can't be replaced or not within the budget.
And there won't be a crowd of people there to tell you how cool your costume is and how creative you are and how clever you are when it comes to making old junk look like it "works" just because the parts move. In the real world of old machinery and ALL machinery, you usually start with something that DOESN'T work and have to make it work again. And when you're done, you rarely get praised for being so clever and doing such a great job. After all, you're just doing your job.
As a gearhead when I first saw the word "steampunk" online and Googled it I was kind of excited to see what it was about. Because whatever Wikipedia article or other description I read portrayed it as ACTUAL inventiveness and creativity and suggested people were making ACTUAL USEFUL MACHINES out of old parts. Because as a mechanic I can tell you that there have never been a LOT of people with the knack and ability and desire to work on the machines that keep everybody housed and fed and transported and such.
And thanks to a lot of b.s. about "machines replacing humans" and "artificial intelligence" and "America doesn't build anything anymore" AND a lot of kids being raised without their fathers and significant contact with men doing "guy stuff" like working on cars and building stuff in home workshops and going to motorsports. And that lack of "guy stuff" is a big problem because with fewer and fewer shop programs, fewer and fewer kids get exposed to mechanical stuff and the technical trades and how COOL and SCIENTIFIC they are. So fewer kids go into them and we have fewer and fewer people to work on more and more machines and at some point, progress will grind to a halt.
It would be awesome if steampunk was about promoting the technical trades and mechanic arts instead of just a social movement so white-collar city dwellers can play dress up and show off their toys and get their praise and adoration fix.
I am your creator. You all have a puff of "perfect steam" that I have bestowed upon you.
I always had a great interest in 'dry' mechanics, e.g. steam-powered machines, Stirling engines etc. And when I found the Steampunk community I realised that I'm not the only one; the fantastic combination of modern and futuristic technology based on 19th century England (mainly) pulled me right in.
What exactly is "futuristic"? And how exactly has making props and toys and playing dress up taken you ANY closer to the actual technology you claim to have such an interest in? And how is steam "dry mechanics"? It's literally water vapor and conversion of water to steam in the boiler and condensation back to water in a condensor or return piping. Go work around ACTUAL STEAM EQUIPMENT and you'll probably find its a long way from "dry" working around steam.
I've done a little research into steampunk and I've been watching some videos. And when I first heard about it and Googled it I was initially excited thinking steampunk claims that its about the "technology" might actually be true. But it's not true and its not about the technology. Especially since its not about preserving anything. Its about destroying cool old machinery to get a few parts to make a stupid prop that either does nothing or just serves as a package for something completely modern or at best has some moving parts and flashing lights and indicates that somebody can at least do some basic wiring of batteries and bulbs and motors.
Its not about the technology or the era at all. Its a parody of a stereotype and anyone who cites Wells and Verne as influences obviously hasn't read much Verne or Wells. At least none in NOVEL FORM. Read their actual books and you'll find the technology and machines are background only. There are no in-depth technical descriptions of how anything really works. Just vague thumbnail generalized filler material mentioning "electricity" or "gunpowder". Why? Because science fiction is FICTION. It's not written by MECHANICS or ENGINEERS. It's written by AUTHORS who have spent more time in a JOURNALISM or CREATIVE WRITING class than SHOP CLASS. And of course its the HUMAN ASPECTS that are important because HUMANS ARE THE AUDIENCE. And nobody REALLY cares how a FICTIONAL MACHINE WORKS.
If 10% of steampunks have even read ONE of Verne's or Wells' books I'd be freaking amazed.
I love this creativity and open mindedness, all people who cosplay and have their own original style they are my idols. To have the guts to express yourself the way you really are, different and unique is how everyone should be and not try hard to be "normal" to fit in a boring society. I think art is beautiful and live in all of us in many kind of forms you just have to find what you like.
I want to be the first Ethiopian Steamsona!!!
Fascinating to watch. I would love to see more! My neice is into Cosplay but of Marvel's character's. I didn't understand her live for it until I saw this. This I find fascinating. So thank you for opening my eyes to this world.
LOVE THE DEATH OF THE COG SONG AT THE END!
I'm really reassured to hear people say: it's whatever you want it to be, like it doesn't have a certain way of doing it, I really liked this film
I love steampunk my six year old does too her birthday party was steampunk had a blast putting it together
Excellent video! Thanks!
i started loving steampunk since i knew about. bc between other things, WE ARE ARTISTS! we build or own worlds, and we are happy with that, so what can be wrong!?
peace, love, and gears.
Perfect video on describing what Steampunk is!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
Now I view the movie "9" in a whole new aspect after watching this. I think this is awesome.
Absolutely great video, i love it.
Just a pity that there is not enough people who is interested in this kind of thing where i live. I would love to visit one of these conventions for the visual feast it offers.
I agree
I have been involved in groups that take me an hour away from home because there are no local groups where I live.
Very late comment, but for what it's worth, Verne was a mid-19th century writer (not early 20th century), and H G Wells wrote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote the screenplay for the film Things to Come (1936, only three years before Gone with the Wind) and he didn't die until 1945.
I fondly remember the 60s, where granny glasses and outlandish apparel were adopted and incorporated. Sort of a 'me generation' movement back then. I wore wire frames, prescription at that, almost ruining my eyes! Had a patch on my black leather half length coat with a 'survivor' patch on the shoulder.... black patch with a lone white tree. I sort of did not fit in with most kids as letter jackets were more common in high school!
Not quite 'Steam Punk' but JRR Tolkien, Jules Vern and HG Wells were my favorite authors. Richard Corben is still my favorite 'comic book' artist. Seems every generation has some sort of break-away movement however fleeting it may have been.... sort of helps to bridge a tough or trying time!
Looking at this 'new' genre of Steam Punk and I can see sort of the same!
We Steampunks are amazing individuals as we can create something from nothing and make it something extraordinary!
you mean like turn an ego into a superego? holy freud, Steampunkman!
Actually the Ego and super ego are attuned to morality more so than ones, arguably 'ego' So my statement was not linked to Freud and I was rather making a statement of my observations. It is to be taken with a grain of salt and not judged.
I love steampunk and dieselpunk so much.
Here is a 12 min Documentary about one of my favorite genres. Enjoy!
Cool video. I just found out about steampunk yesterday (I must have been living under a rock, lol). I like that this fashion trend spreads across all generations. It seems young and old alike are into it, awesome!
Great video!
Great choice of music! I especially like the credits song - The Death of the Cog.
Thanks!
this made me smile.....this is so me!
I saw this episode of the Green Lantern cartoon and they had a whole episode dedicated to the Latern getting sucked into another universe which happened to be a Steampunk universe. It was pretty cool. Edit: I just looked it up, the episode is called "Steam Lantern" for those interested. Steampunk is infiltrating the mainstream.
Great...Great...Thank you!
Casting for steampunk girlfriend...Must be open minded, creative --> intelligent -> insane?!
Ok, I saw this video about 5 years ago and I loved it. It is so good and timeless, and it introduced me to The Cog is Dead. Great introduction to the hobby.
But I have to ask... what is the song at 0:22? The website listed in the credits seem to be down and I've wanted to hear it in full for so long. Is it available anywhere or is it lost forever?
Edit: I realise that it's been more than 5 years since I found this. Man, I feel old. xD
VICTORIAN FUTURISM
thanks for the info, this'll really help with a project i'm doing and wow, GREAT music. excuse me as i find as much as i can :D
Awesome , now I understand , I love it😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I love it!!!! Hey I live in Austin Tx. Can someone tell me where to meet SPers'. I'm just wanting to get started so bad. lol I think your video just add fire to the need. :)Van Cross
what song was used in the end? Curious...
this is the first time ive ever heard of steam punk. its strange, but a good strange. could any one send me some links to tutorials and stuff? i think ive fallen in love with this kind of stuff. thank you :)
I love steampunk stuff, but I don’t have a costume and all of that
Is steampunk diffrent in the role play than Fantasy medival, or Postapocalyptic larp or is it the same? (Of couse the time is diffrent)
I love Steampunk although I'm still very new to it.
Do Zeppelin air ships fit into the cutler of Steampunk ?
yes they do, and almost anything can be steampunk if you try hard enough
If you do it right.
*Yes:* www.thoughtco.com/history-of-airships-and-balloons-1991241
No, and is called dieselpunk
I met a fellow 'punker at Whitby's goth week. Lovely lady, she was. Had a pet gryphon named Lorac.
I've currently started writing a steampunk novella and I've done a lot of research and reading and what not and I've always enjoyed the steampunk genre and I have to admit that my girlfriend has gotten me more into this, I'm watching this to help me along but OH MY GOD What is steampunk? lol I've seen sci-fi takes on it, fantasy takes on it and so forth...lol :P Really having a hard time nailing a specific definition because it's not all about time travel right? :)
I think of steampunk of anything to do with the revealing, dramatization, and exaggeration of the usually-hidden inner workings of common things, except that it's more Victorian and unnecessary. It's the nitty-gritty of things that we don't see, but instead of wires, and circuits, and stuff, it's gears and pipes and light bulbs!
To me, long story short, steampunk means the future my great-great-grandmother dreamed for me.
To be specific steampunk is a "guess what if" game. Guess what would have happened if electricity wasn't invented! In wich direction would our society would have evolved? What if we rely more on our creativity? What if we still have the optimistic world view people had before the world wars?
To me steampunk is imagining a world where world wars hasn't happened, or at least they didn't insipred science into this confort-orientated world we live in, and they didn't deprive us from optimism in the future.
It's not about clothing, neither time travel.
DDsecrethatercat I don't think diesel punk is a thing. And if it is, I don't want to know anything about it. But you are right, WWII is way after the time period that steampunk exists in.
TrindyForce If steampunk is a thing, dieselpunk is a thing. Not even going to explain this.
Aurelio Voltaire has a song that has Steampunk vibe in it...The Mechanical Girl
I love steampunk!
I'm writing my thesis on streamline fashion , does anyone have an research or insight into the future of streamline as a subculture
I am a Dog human hybrid as some may call me, but I have a higher understanding and love of old and newer technology, I was born in the ocean and came to land at a young age, my creator gave me the ability to speak and write in some other languages, and be able to understand the feelings around me.
I was going to get into a LARP group for D&D I think I'll make an outfit that can be put in both worlds... I've never really checked out Steampunk other than art, now you've opened me up to the music and culture, just great!
***** Would either sit around playing video games instead of RPing as a game... Or he goes out and gets smashed at the club/bar... instead of getting smashed at a cool RPing event, together with many people who most likely share many similarities... Also... events like this could get a lonely individual like yourself laid by awesome nerdy hot chicks waring deadly outfits.
FWIW: I have lived in North Carolina since 1995, but I was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida.
All the GOOD STUFF starts happening in places where I live AFTER I move away from them...😝
The Steampunk hippodrome feels like it's getting really crowded in the past few years.
Y love steampunk
steampunk is awesome
Mad Max
Dylan Williford, its called dieselpunk, generally tech steming from 1914 to the atomic bomb.
But what do you actually do at the gatherings? Party? Get shit faced? Do people stay in character the whole time? That would be hard.
What is that song called
Something about a breath of a dawg ?? ... yeppers,....listen to it 7 times ... hold on 🐸 frog meth of a frog .. listen to it back arswards. ... yep
My Steamsona is that im a Clockwork from Saga City in the Whoniverse(Doctor who Read The 8Th Doctors Big Finish Audio Novels Or Tardis archive wiki for more info) Anyway as a Clockwork I was a Time Travelling Detctive, I have a Type 126 highly modified Clockwork War Tardis Who can be eith humanoid or when not in her human for Generally like to be desguised as a SteamPunk Derigable(Though her Chameleon Circuts do work, It's just her Personal Preference!) My only Companion is a Ghost of a Former Detective who was slain by another worlds jack the ripper(Oh yeah My tardis is Trans/Pan Dimentional) Im 3,675 years old and in my fourth incarnation! Clockworks like timelords have two hearts and regenerate but we think and act more like humans! We also have far more powers like control over Entropy and omniscience not omnipotence however we can see all from our home world in the observerse but cant always do anything about it! Now we both travel through space/time soving crimes and providing justice to the victims!
solving crimes? That's pretty mundane work for a Type 126 War Tardis, don't the thaumaturgical stabilisers get gummed up quite often?
racketman2u I maintain her quite well, and the crimes are alot more intricate than those you would find on earth!
Joe Baumgart my steam-sona is that I'm an inventor that works on a lot of things used for science, I'm from Steam City, one of the capitals that are very high in the inventing, literature, and art category, I'm also an adventurer that time travels from other dimensions and time lines, and in my city I'm known as the "time lord" because I'm one of the few in the city that can time travel, there's many tales that have been told that I can reverse time and stop time as I wish or that I can turn people into objects and animals with one of my weapons that I created and that I live in the hills away from most of the city to work on my inventions. The city itself has a lot of gears and a few water mills that has one big gear as the mill, and they have markets and one big clock tower that's right in the middle of the city, and at night the city looks wonderful and with a lot of glowing lights and when your at one of the views of the city, it's a breath taking moment, and every night in the city is a full moon, but it is said that if your one one of the views at night and it's a half moon, you get good luck for two years, which is rare so that's why the legend in the city is still believed there.
I think I found my thing
end song?
+TMI Loz The Cog is Dead: The Death of the Cog
Mom says “. I have to walk the dawg. It’s Tuesday Jan 26 2021 ,....
I have my own style similar to steampunk, i guess you could call it rust-punk or something. Like rusty looking metal goggles with lots of big bolts and nuts and screws. What would you call that?
I think rust - punk is a very good name, but if you had to pick something else, it would probaly be Apocalyptic Steampunk.
Oscar Osborne I honestly don't know what to call it, but that sounds cool.
Steam punk is a person who likes to build real inventions and loves the old way . It’s a way of life and to bring it to life as a real machine just like back to the future or the time Machine that’s steam punk Is not cosplay it’s a life style
what would be the first thing to do to get to these peoples level ?
Enhance your creativity and research
Aslo, lots of practice!
ok. thanks.
Go into the basement, attic, grandmas closet or mom and dads old jewelry. Grab some tools and screws, paint brushes and go wild, try something with belts or a hat?
I'm not hardcore steam punk but I'm a hardcore gamer and a role play every day as an assassin from assassins Creed I have every assassin outfit and me and my friend's do assassin training and everybody looks at us like where crazy and people will tell us so and we just say "no we are assassins" and just keep walking
You could do a Steampunk Assassin's Creed. Might have already been done. Would be cool, though.
ZombieMommy Good idea might do video on it if you want you can sub either way if I do will give you credit
AoT Lover subbed!
+ZombieMommy thx I'll sub back
With regard to the quotation by S. J. Chambers: Verne and Wells are late (although Verne started in the mid-19th century and Wells finished well into the 20th) not early 19th century authors. So much for 'the bible'....
i want some one help me design a steampunk knife. contact me if you have some ideas
4:03 Daaaaaaaayum!!
only pure victorians or wild wild west characters? you kidding? we are more than that in Steampunk characters multiverse!
this shit is cool as fuck loll not my kind lf style but damn this shit is really interesting
What band was playing?
jackson Murray The Cog Is Dead
Thanks for not Darude Sandstorming me
jackson Murray
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It's not something I could live or whatever, as I'm just not the kind of a person who gets engrossed in subcultures for the sake of it. I do love the aesthetic of Steampunk, however. It's glorious and honest.
Steam power still exists in shipping. It also exists within nuclear power. I feel that the ultimate steampunk is found in both Stirling cycle engines and treadle powered machines. I'm in the process of building a treadle cycle lathe that can be both operated by foot or a large Stirling cycle engine that turns a flywheel that weighs 70 pounds and it was forged when Lincoln was president.
arbonac We still use steam all the time, but usually to generate electricity.
We need more automatons. . .stat!
AH MA GAD, THE GIRL WITH THE BLACK HAIR AND THE PIRATE HAT THING.
..THAT'S MA FRIEND'S TWINFRIEND. Dx
Puny. I know said friend via internet only. I've seen her on webcam with him. World just got smaller. Lol. I sent her a message and she didn't even know she was on youtube or in this video.
Can someone explain me why you people consider an 🐙 steampunk?
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I reckon.
silentthunder85: "...the Goth crowd at least gets some semblance of respect because they rage against the establishment & "the way things should be"..."
DUDE! I laughed SOOOO hard when I read that! Thank you for the free giggle. No, seriously. That made a bright spot in my day. Thanks again ;)
Is Steampunk still around ? I barely hear anything about it ?
As is proper, once mainstream society gets a hold of something it turns to cheap, money fueled shit. Steampunk is still very much strong, just fringe.
Definitely still around
What if someone combined a mafia aesthetic with a steampunk aesthetic
That's the point of the last clip "what is steam punk" that you can put any time era into it as long as it fits with the pre digital era aesthetic
Late to the party. 😥
Good show though.😁
I think the art is cool but what's up with the octopus
Cthulhu is huge in Steampunk.
Seriously,....watch till the end , most of that happened in Central Florida? Seriously dose Disney have a Steampunk day ?
Here after key n peele
So, Steampunk is like being a Civil War reenactor except there are more girls into steampunk.
And a lot less depressing. Most of the time, at least.
Reminds me very much of the furry fandom, in that its so much deeper than it seems on the surface.
Harry Potter lost his wand?
Steampunk stuff is pretty cool, but I think the Role playing stuff is a bit weird :/
Seriously loved that song. My pet peve is theirs no STEAM in steampunk music,...no pistons firing NO exhaust sounds....no clanking of the cogs. Spring that “BONGS” ,... ...seriously but,... I. Love ❤️. This music. Suggestion add more machine sounds. I think I sub ta u don’t know will send e mail laters. E.O.L. ,,STATISTICS ,... feed cut from your server ,... please reboot your crappy computer. FAIL. ,....
Look, I have nothing with roleplaying of an alternate timeline where society halted in the Victorian era, and technology reached its apex with the advent of steam. It sounds pretty cool, actually. But all those comments about people claiming they are better than the modern 21st century person because they are original and creative and with brains too advanced for our era (the mos tironic thing I've heard in a while, seeing that it is based on an era two centuries ago) are almost scary. I don't know what to think of those people anymore.
Umm you said "mos tironic" instead of most ironic I think
@Giannis yeah its pretty clear that the definition of steampunk that you and I are familiar with is rapidly being subsumed by a wider cosplay genre (with a healthy smattering of pretentious prats)
but hey, anything that gets peeps off their Iwhatevers has got to be good news.
AFAIK, Steampunk is not a movement.
Steampunk is performance art.
P!ATD Mona Lisa
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soooo let me get this straight: time-travelling "Victorian/Industrial-Revolution" aviator-plumber-hipsters... basically, everyone who likes trenchcoats & corsets but isn't hardcore enough to be full-fledged Goth/Cybergoth/Industrial/RivetHead.... pretty much! lol... the Goth crowd at least gets some semblance of respect because they rage against the establishment & "the way things should be", whereas it would appear that Steampunks don't have any enemies; they'd rather blow bubbles with Rube Goldberg machines at a picnic and have storytime. No thanks.
Who the fuck respects goths?
The only punk thing about Steampunk is DIY ethics. Sid Vicious would not stand for this.
I always found that strange too. It's not even slightly rebellious or bad ass. It has different motivations than punk.
born in the wrong country.. i'd like to move to a steampunk community...
its corny as hell but if theyre having fun its ok
nightmere befor crismas so wack