New Babbage, A Second Life Steampunk Community. Photography by Eddi Haskell
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Uploaded by eddihaskell on Apr 21, 2009
Port Babbage is an area of New Babbage, a Steampunk community in the Virtual World of Second Life (www.secondlife.com). The setting reminds the photographer of this film, Second Life's Eddi Haskell, of how a British City would have looked in 1887, at the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, if Charles Babbage's computer were actually built in 1831. Advances such as electrical power and manned flying machines would have certainly arrived earlier. But coal-based pollution would have tinged the sky a foggy green, ,and required light during daytime hours, just as it did in industrial cities in 1871.
This video is set to the National Hymn of England, Sir William Parry's Jerusalem.
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heyyy, I been there.
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WOW I really like what you have done it is stuning, I have never been to or used second life but if I do Iwill certainly take a look.
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yes, i suppose we did! ..but it is so lovely that as a visitor you picked up that dream immediately and so deftly revealed it for those who cannot or have not traveled in world to see it in person (or avatar! LOL) you are always welcome to my factory, park or the Dewi Sant United Welsh Church( & hidden crypt!) also to be found in New Babbage! indeed i would be honored to give you and your partner a guided tour!
~Red
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Excellent work!! Thank you for sharing this enjoyable tour of Port Babbage.
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What a lovely and fitting homage to our town!...but also to the great man Sir Charles Babbage. I also am thrilled that you *got* the idea that New Babbage is the living dream of "what if" and "how a British city might have looked in 1887 if Babbage's dream was realized" just splendid and inspiring! Thank you!
Capt. Red Llewellyn
Llewellyn Industries
redgrrl 2 years ago
quite the contrary, I think YOU guys got the idea to make this look like a British city at the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee! I just made the video and thank you for the opportunity of letting me do so! It reminds not of London, but of how Glasgow or Manchester might have looked if computing
power were here earlier, and I LOVED the giant valve or vacuum tube!
The terms "Chariots of
Fire" inspired me to chose this music for the video.
eddihaskell 2 years ago