Hi. I'm creating a comic that involves 17th century-esque piracy, but I would like to put a steampunk twist on it. Especiall the ships. Does anyone out there know of any references I can use? (I'm not part of the steampunk culture, so I'm pretty clueless.)
nahhhh, that would be pop gothic. he uses a lot of cliches about gothic to make his aesthetic. even tho one could include that in a steam punk look if one wanted. 19th century design motifs have to predominate though.in my opinion.
scott westerfeld led me here. he kept mentioning "steampunk" in an interview as if it was something everyone knows about. im suprisied. i never heard of this and didnt know it was a "thing" today
@nomickok2 Oh yes I do actually, I listen to a lot of Mozart lately.
I just don't find the way they use them here too pleasing.
The very final bit at 2:24 is IMO the only non-annoying part of everything they played, but more importantly, none of it seems to relate in any way to steampunk. I fail to see their place in this video at all.
since steampnk is an "allternate version of evolution" it should also aply to music. using vintage instruments to create what seems to be the evolution of music without electric guitars, autotune, computers etc.
that's the way i see it and i believe that it relates to steampunk alot!
@nomickok2 Think what you will my friend, it's all a matter of personal preference, all subjective.
For me, as I deal in visual art, steampunk has a strong, solid feel, an exquisite style alike to no other, and something rather respectable, like a good suit or an old well built car treated with care.
When I see that paired with what I can only describe as bad cartoon music, IMO something doesn't fit :)
this whole Off Book series skews so disproportionately male when it comes to who is doing the talking and the doing. there are some token women who utter a few words or look pretty but they are more or less in the background.
@ceceliamm yes, let's see unwoman or ay-leen or jha. or anyone other than that doughy, illiterate self-promotion automaton jaborwhalky. i adore grymm, but really, he's in media quite enough as it is.
@betenoireindustries: Grymm does get tedious to watch on ALL these TV shows and Movies and hes practically on the media every day and doing such dasterdly deeds as promoting arts and trying to make the world a better place through arts... How dare he and his ugly mug! Enough is enough!
Steampunk is also an amazing literary genre. I really like the works of authors like Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan), Catherine Fisher (Incarceron), and Ian Beck (Past World). Do a search on Amazon or B&N for steampunk and see what you come up with!
Very cool. For me Steampunk is very much about the style and raw elegance of it. I have a set of old necklace pocket watches that I just love. They're rusted, smell like metal, and yet the curving vines and artwork are still very lovely. It's about bringing originality and creativity back to a world that has lost a lot of that. Our clothes are bland, our buildings are bland and Steampunk is just the opposite of that.
grotesque taxidermy has been around since the 1890's & is a fair representation of steampunk. plastering odd collaged industrial ephemera onto humanistic or organic forms in a fun or at least clashing way gets it there....think of terry gilliam's movies and his animations in the python tv episodws & you get a more sophisticated but wacked application than merely the WWWest movie. peter lorre in "m" meets early Zappa...bride o' frankenstein goes to wonderland via spike jones & spaghetti westerns!
I've never understood steam punk as an industrial art form, i like the idea of a westernesque science better, if you want to see a mainstream image of steampunk go watch the movie Wild Wild West, or play torchlight, or pre-order bioshock infiinte. Those will give a better insight than this video. :D
I love the comment "steampunk is not bound by period but is informed by it". This encapulates the freedom of expression I feel exists within steampunk.
@patrick247two agreed, i've seen people going nuts over historical accuracy, but when you've got a steam powered robot and crazy looking guns i think being factually accurate has gone out of the window, the period provides the aesthetics and emotion while leaving detail down to the creativity of people
@WhiteSpartanWolf I dont know man, ponies are like bacon, they make everything better (unless your allergic to bacon like a pal o mine, but he likes ponies reguardless.) If you dont like ponies than aplogies.
@Daghead it probably arose from the idea that most people would be building and engineering their own unique machines, mixing chemical or any number of other potentially dangerous scientific endeavours. they would need a pare of protecting googles to avoid eye injury. the brass google where probably more like the googles they would have used back in victorian times. the aesthetic then probably grew from that
I Just love all this. Im identified with all this stuff. I love Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and all the stuff in the animated movie HOWLS MOVING CASTLE as well. Unmbelievable!!!! Awesome machines and inventions!!!! All By hand. Dumb Free!!!
The aesthetic of steampunk has definately been noticed by the mainstream. You see it in film, advertising, and television pretty regularly; however for some reason Hollywood has yet to embrace it as a genre worthy of full treatment. They've tried shoving it into niches where it doesn't work (ala wild wild west), but have yet to do what I consider a full fledged Steampunk movie.
la de da Romanticism decadence going off on irrelevant tangents Marilyn Manson is perhaps more relevant as this stuff is pure hogwash and conceived by wankers and pure #$%^&*())(*&^%$ escapist bull
@DeirdreB - It's not glaring, there are plenty of artists that were actually mentioned during Grymm's interview but they were edited for time. This isn't as much about singular people but what different artists are doing with the genre to help inspire others. And yes... Datamancer, Proulx, Von Slatt, and so many more are epic... but they all couldn't be mentioned here... again due to time.
I visited the haunted house two years ago and it was amazing. They did a brilliant job with it. But nothing on Abney Park? I feel like they're an influence on Steampunk, more on the punk side of it, but still.
@Gdorchaser13 Just as Dave Vanian and the Damned were a floundering punk band who decided to embrace the label 'Goth', so is Abney Park a one-time Goth band that has now embraced the label 'steampunk' to try to save their musical career. This whole 'movement' to me is just a redux of the whole Victorian Gothic ethic,...only with goggles and gears.
@Arctophile2000 methinks that's what happens when you end the name of your movement in "punk". LOL. (I wonder what people think of the term "elegant gothic lolita"... maybe they think of Amy Fisher or someone in a church... lol)
Great, respectful, informative little documentary. Bravo. I only wish you had showcased a steampunk author as well. And maybe a non-classical steampunk music group. Otherwise, a lovely little primer. Thanks!
Rush's Time Machine Tour is all steampunk. Geddy and Alex's amps are all done up in steampunk style, and Neil's drum kit has steampunk motifs all over it. Even the stage show is steampunk!
It seems that interest in the Steam Punk is growing without the mainstream adopting it into their every day aesthetic. To "enjoying" in this instance may be separate form "joining."
The past is the future in all progressive art (me!) Great stuff here and motivation for folk with bales of techno-junk in the garage to wake up and make up some of my own. Musically & visually stunning. Lovely video production too. More please.
... look to your right .... ;)
fygmojjr1 3 days ago
Hi. I'm creating a comic that involves 17th century-esque piracy, but I would like to put a steampunk twist on it. Especiall the ships. Does anyone out there know of any references I can use? (I'm not part of the steampunk culture, so I'm pretty clueless.)
CoffeeCupGoodness 5 days ago
Mrilyn Manson?
UVBluesman 1 week ago
@UVBluesman
nahhhh, that would be pop gothic. he uses a lot of cliches about gothic to make his aesthetic. even tho one could include that in a steam punk look if one wanted. 19th century design motifs have to predominate though.in my opinion.
skyjuiceification 1 week ago
lol I steampunk'd my pug
reinventedloserben 1 week ago
Hi, my name is Pitt Besthoff Suastegui, and the name of your channel are my initials ;D Creepy but Funny
ThePedroland 2 weeks ago
scott westerfeld led me here. he kept mentioning "steampunk" in an interview as if it was something everyone knows about. im suprisied. i never heard of this and didnt know it was a "thing" today
blaint09 1 month ago
I've always envied steam punks and their soldered crap......
Boznique 1 month ago
this video has more views than pbs newshour videos.
maxten 1 month ago
U.S.A-------United Steampunk Association. Woooooooh!!!!
earthly666 1 month ago
this is just amazing. does anybody know where I can get those 7 images at the end of the video?
lellicamila 2 months ago
Instruments in the music are too plucky, LOL
DJHyperPonyGBX5 2 months ago
was that a los tericolas sample at the end?
samhain1381 2 months ago
The visuals are great but the "steampunk music" is quite horrible. Do not want :)
calin4thewin 3 months ago
@calin4thewin
do you not enjoy classical instruments?
nomickok2 3 months ago
@nomickok2 Oh yes I do actually, I listen to a lot of Mozart lately.
I just don't find the way they use them here too pleasing.
The very final bit at 2:24 is IMO the only non-annoying part of everything they played, but more importantly, none of it seems to relate in any way to steampunk. I fail to see their place in this video at all.
calin4thewin 3 months ago
@calin4thewin
hmmm
since steampnk is an "allternate version of evolution" it should also aply to music. using vintage instruments to create what seems to be the evolution of music without electric guitars, autotune, computers etc.
that's the way i see it and i believe that it relates to steampunk alot!
nomickok2 3 months ago
@nomickok2 Think what you will my friend, it's all a matter of personal preference, all subjective.
For me, as I deal in visual art, steampunk has a strong, solid feel, an exquisite style alike to no other, and something rather respectable, like a good suit or an old well built car treated with care.
When I see that paired with what I can only describe as bad cartoon music, IMO something doesn't fit :)
calin4thewin 3 months ago
i wish the world took this turn instead
r4wr3xd1n0s4ur5 3 months ago
Steampunk seems to be melting into paranormal romance. I should have gotten into it sooner.
Don't get me wrong; I loves me some fantasy, and love is lovely. But I'm afraid it's going to turn into Twilight with goggles.
SailorBarsoom 3 months ago
florence and the machine's style reminds me of steampunk
izzylove316 3 months ago in playlist Off Book from PBS Arts
I love steampunk
connerspike22 3 months ago
its cool to think of steampunk as a new "ism" in art.
artfan101 3 months ago
@fuckgod666forlife a lot of them do. I've seen little clockwork robots, mechanical hands etc.
shkopos 3 months ago
Its the Bioshock look
1silverboy 4 months ago
@fuckgod666forlife often steampunk stuff does, just not on the more sci-fi end spectrum.
StezzerLolz 4 months ago
this whole Off Book series skews so disproportionately male when it comes to who is doing the talking and the doing. there are some token women who utter a few words or look pretty but they are more or less in the background.
ceceliamm 4 months ago
@ceceliamm yes, let's see unwoman or ay-leen or jha. or anyone other than that doughy, illiterate self-promotion automaton jaborwhalky. i adore grymm, but really, he's in media quite enough as it is.
betenoireindustries 4 months ago
@betenoireindustries: Grymm does get tedious to watch on ALL these TV shows and Movies and hes practically on the media every day and doing such dasterdly deeds as promoting arts and trying to make the world a better place through arts... How dare he and his ugly mug! Enough is enough!
jmarsdesign 4 months ago
That's not a contra-bassoon, it's just a plain old bassoon.
asciian 5 months ago
@asciian you're correct of course, the contra does feature elsewhere in the piece though (albeit briefly!)
davidbrucedotnet 5 months ago
Steampunk is also an amazing literary genre. I really like the works of authors like Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan), Catherine Fisher (Incarceron), and Ian Beck (Past World). Do a search on Amazon or B&N for steampunk and see what you come up with!
sewbooksue 5 months ago
The Steampunk Haunted House is coming back for 2011. Find us on FaceBook!
thirdrailprojects 5 months ago
Very cool. For me Steampunk is very much about the style and raw elegance of it. I have a set of old necklace pocket watches that I just love. They're rusted, smell like metal, and yet the curving vines and artwork are still very lovely. It's about bringing originality and creativity back to a world that has lost a lot of that. Our clothes are bland, our buildings are bland and Steampunk is just the opposite of that.
TheBookVlogger 5 months ago
grotesque taxidermy has been around since the 1890's & is a fair representation of steampunk. plastering odd collaged industrial ephemera onto humanistic or organic forms in a fun or at least clashing way gets it there....think of terry gilliam's movies and his animations in the python tv episodws & you get a more sophisticated but wacked application than merely the WWWest movie. peter lorre in "m" meets early Zappa...bride o' frankenstein goes to wonderland via spike jones & spaghetti westerns!
navajomudtoy 5 months ago
I've never understood steam punk as an industrial art form, i like the idea of a westernesque science better, if you want to see a mainstream image of steampunk go watch the movie Wild Wild West, or play torchlight, or pre-order bioshock infiinte. Those will give a better insight than this video. :D
thalilvampyre 5 months ago
I love the comment "steampunk is not bound by period but is informed by it". This encapulates the freedom of expression I feel exists within steampunk.
patrick247two 5 months ago 2
@patrick247two agreed, i've seen people going nuts over historical accuracy, but when you've got a steam powered robot and crazy looking guns i think being factually accurate has gone out of the window, the period provides the aesthetics and emotion while leaving detail down to the creativity of people
Dougthegoat 4 months ago
FUCK YEA PONIES
LearnManGo 5 months ago 3
What's the song & 4:55?
akibal77 5 months ago
I have come for my ponies. I am happy now.
CCharmanderK 5 months ago 7
Pugs.
Memington 5 months ago 2
Helo from Equestria Daily.
Koopsas 5 months ago 120
@Koopsas Fuck no.
WHY DO WANT TO PONIFY EVERYTHING!?!
WhiteSpartanWolf 3 months ago
@WhiteSpartanWolf I dont know man, ponies are like bacon, they make everything better (unless your allergic to bacon like a pal o mine, but he likes ponies reguardless.) If you dont like ponies than aplogies.
Koopsas 3 months ago
@Koopsas Appy-polly-loggies accepted. I'm not a fan of ponies, so I don't like seeing them everywhere D:
WhiteSpartanWolf 3 months ago
@WhiteSpartanWolf You get thumbs up for 'Appy-polly-loggies' .
KawauRofl 2 months ago
@KawauRofl Well, then, thank you very much, me droog. I'm assuming that you know what I'm govereeting then, what with my goloss filled with Nadshat.
WhiteSpartanWolf 2 months ago
As always, giggle inducing when anyone labels this sort of cosplay "punk".
kaosgoblin 5 months ago
I believe that treehouse was at Burning Man in 2007
AntiAntagonist 5 months ago
At least is better than the anime community what with ugly cosplay into skimpy costumes that don't fit and spouting poorly pronounced Japanese.
dingumfCallofDuty 5 months ago
I knew that station could still prove its worth.
ERICARTMAN92 5 months ago
Cool
Lexicon1971 5 months ago
Cyberpunk costumes are so much easier to make. All you need is sunglasses and a trenchcoat. Goth boots optional.
Arbie8327 5 months ago 2
"Brass goggles" look cool, but do Steampunk fans have an explanation for why most people would need a pair?
Daghead 5 months ago
@Daghead it probably arose from the idea that most people would be building and engineering their own unique machines, mixing chemical or any number of other potentially dangerous scientific endeavours. they would need a pare of protecting googles to avoid eye injury. the brass google where probably more like the googles they would have used back in victorian times. the aesthetic then probably grew from that
thetrashtube 5 months ago
@Daghead Because if you don't have a pair you're not a real man.
AngelusDlion 5 months ago
very very cool! <3 steampunk
M0U53B41T 5 months ago
NEEEEERRRRRDSSS!!
nationalism86 5 months ago
@nationalism86 Yeah. . .except nerds understand something about technology and functionality, not just bad aesthetics.
BOBMAN1980 5 months ago
@nationalism86 So I guess that means we're below you in some way? Dickhead
PainInTheAssKid97 5 months ago
@nationalism86 Why thank you for the compliment.
kurisu7885 5 months ago
Probably what makes steampunk so amusing and acceptable to regular people is the fact you're dressed like someone's great-grandparents, lol
Seriously, though, I'm a steampunk fan. It's great fun.
strangeyoungman 5 months ago
I Just love all this. Im identified with all this stuff. I love Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and all the stuff in the animated movie HOWLS MOVING CASTLE as well. Unmbelievable!!!! Awesome machines and inventions!!!! All By hand. Dumb Free!!!
cceessaarr234 5 months ago
Does anyone know when this aired?
NelsonStJames 5 months ago 4
@NelsonStJames This is an online-only video. It was produced with the intention of being viewed on the Web.
PBS 5 months ago 16
The aesthetic of steampunk has definately been noticed by the mainstream. You see it in film, advertising, and television pretty regularly; however for some reason Hollywood has yet to embrace it as a genre worthy of full treatment. They've tried shoving it into niches where it doesn't work (ala wild wild west), but have yet to do what I consider a full fledged Steampunk movie.
NelsonStJames 5 months ago
Steampunk is definitely one of the most underrated genres, it needs more recognition! (even Firefox doesn't recognize it as a word! D: )
Brikhamira 5 months ago
love the pug, lol
daenceca89 5 months ago
what's not to love about steampunk. great video
daenceca89 5 months ago
la de da Romanticism decadence going off on irrelevant tangents Marilyn Manson is perhaps more relevant as this stuff is pure hogwash and conceived by wankers and pure #$%^&*())(*&^%$ escapist bull
AndrewStergiou 5 months ago
No mention of Datamancer? That's a pretty glaring omission.
DeirdreB 5 months ago
@DeirdreB - So did you expect every Steampunk Artist mentioned in 5 Minutes?
jmarsdesign 5 months ago
@jmarsdesign Not at all. It's just a bit glaring to miss the most epic designer of Steampunk computer hardware.
Datamancer.
Dot net.
No, I am not affiliated.
DeirdreB 5 months ago
@DeirdreB - It's not glaring, there are plenty of artists that were actually mentioned during Grymm's interview but they were edited for time. This isn't as much about singular people but what different artists are doing with the genre to help inspire others. And yes... Datamancer, Proulx, Von Slatt, and so many more are epic... but they all couldn't be mentioned here... again due to time.
jmarsdesign 5 months ago
I visited the haunted house two years ago and it was amazing. They did a brilliant job with it. But nothing on Abney Park? I feel like they're an influence on Steampunk, more on the punk side of it, but still.
Gdorchaser13 5 months ago
@Gdorchaser13 Just as Dave Vanian and the Damned were a floundering punk band who decided to embrace the label 'Goth', so is Abney Park a one-time Goth band that has now embraced the label 'steampunk' to try to save their musical career. This whole 'movement' to me is just a redux of the whole Victorian Gothic ethic,...only with goggles and gears.
chefjefff 2 months ago
Thanks for showing a more sophisticated end of steampunk. The prevailing stereotype seems to be that we're all just hooligans in top hats.
Arctophile2000 5 months ago 62
@Arctophile2000 Now now, that is in no way true. some of us wear cowboy hats ^^
kurisu7885 5 months ago
@Arctophile2000 Haha I am in a steampunk LARP group and only one person has a top hat. Those bloody hats are for the richer blokes. x3
Jonnykproductions 2 months ago
@Jonnykproductions But i have a topper and i am as poor as a tiny church mouse.
earthly666 1 month ago
@earthly666 The real ones cost a small fortune.
jjobie 1 month ago
@Arctophile2000 methinks that's what happens when you end the name of your movement in "punk". LOL. (I wonder what people think of the term "elegant gothic lolita"... maybe they think of Amy Fisher or someone in a church... lol)
Rickyrab 1 month ago
steam punk is going mainstream!
it's hipster time
Nikolaithesurvivor 5 months ago 16
Great, respectful, informative little documentary. Bravo. I only wish you had showcased a steampunk author as well. And maybe a non-classical steampunk music group. Otherwise, a lovely little primer. Thanks!
JMSciFrey 5 months ago 2
Rush's Time Machine Tour is all steampunk. Geddy and Alex's amps are all done up in steampunk style, and Neil's drum kit has steampunk motifs all over it. Even the stage show is steampunk!
stratovani 5 months ago
i.... want... that... watch... O.O
Sasukelegend5 5 months ago
"It's steampunk, the Eurotrash of nerddom." -Tinkerballa, The Guild
michaela71 5 months ago 2
@michaela71 It's so uncomfortably accurate. XD
SYNC4ex 5 months ago
Sorta Renaissance Faire for the Industrial Revolution
mfooz 5 months ago
...Steampunk Pocket Watches...
artinspiredgiftsdotetsydotcom
Will224000 5 months ago
I want a steampunk pug. lol
IssaruBakurasLover 5 months ago
@IssaruBakurasLover "Steampug"
Amishexmachina 5 months ago 2
I thought if you called a guy a "punk" he might punch the living lights out of you.
(Sarcasm)
mirarostodo 5 months ago
It seems that interest in the Steam Punk is growing without the mainstream adopting it into their every day aesthetic. To "enjoying" in this instance may be separate form "joining."
SLikley 5 months ago 2
everything comes from within
MrKimmoFramelius 5 months ago
steampunk doesn't seem to be going mainstream to me. It might be growing, but it's still a small number of people into that stuff.
farkleberry86 5 months ago 2
The past is the future in all progressive art (me!) Great stuff here and motivation for folk with bales of techno-junk in the garage to wake up and make up some of my own. Musically & visually stunning. Lovely video production too. More please.
jbsandown 5 months ago 2
LOOOOOOVE it!
TheArtistMaster 5 months ago