i had a hell of a night getting beaten down by popular media. first there was a poor showing on ncis: los angeles. they could have called it anything, but wanted some realism and picked "steampunk" /sigh. then some friends got wise to snot topic was starting a steampunk line. i had known this for a while now and well... that clothing line was just sad and disapointing. what happened next was a heated discussion on a friends my spaze's status comments. the bomb dropped. steampunk was not a sub-culture. the following is a direct message i sent to a friend regarding the event and my nerd rage. names have been changed.
i mean, what DOES make a sub-culture? unique fashion, music, literature, maybe even films. oh shit, goth has all that. so does steampunk. are their steampunk clubs? i would not say right now. not regularly. sure malediction society could be said to have started as one, but only now is it really catching on. but it is only catching. i bet in 1975 there were no goth clubs either.
sure, anime is an obvious inspiration to steampunk. but anime did inspire all the comics and films. howle's moving castle and steamboy are great. they did a lot.
how did wild wild west and briscoe country, jr be inspired by anime?
what about video games? how about the entire final fantasy series? especially 1-6. skies of arcadia. and there are a ton of little flash games coming out all the time. luke sent me a link to a kick ass one.
what about literature? jules verne, obviously, but damn near any good bit of victoriana is a source. and william gibson's "the difference engine" i always tell people steampunk started out as a genre of literature rebelling against cyberpunk. instead of having the future now, what if the present was in the past? from the concept everything else flows from.
everything from league of extraordinary gentlemen, abney park, to the god damn horrible van helsing film.
steampunk IS young. sure i was into forever really, but only now are people dressing like it. trust me, no one was as surprised by that than me. it was a neat feeling to not be "the only one".
i can go on and on. i think i am done venting. i seriously need to relax.
thoughts, comments, concerns, please share them.
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I've been writing since I was twelve and yeah...steampunk is fairly new but I think it is evenly a subculture. It hits the right way for some. Right now, I'm reading the 'Difference Engine'. Yes, it took me two years to get back and pick the book up but I feel brilliance shines from wherever it can. I can't say I'm familiar with the dress and music, but I know it will come more to light. Now is that a good thing? Or just like when Hot Topic went 'Rave'? I was pissed! Being a DJ playing across the City of Angels, I thought they were pushing in on something sacread....which they were. But scew them, Universal Pictures owns that, what else would you expect from them?
ReplyDeleteI love what steampunk has going for us (being a child of cyberpunk)! I just sit back and wait for the tide to turn. Time is a bitch I have no problem dealing with.
Steampunk is totally a subculture. Ignore the naysayers.
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