SteamPunk

A friend of mine, named Adam Redfield(probably want to be known) showed me something intriguing that I thought would be of interesting for anyone on blogger to read. It's a sub-genre consisting of both science and speculative fiction, involving elements of fantasy, called steampunk. Steampunk is generally a world where steam power is still being widely used, while other advance technology like electricity for power or computers are not yet known. The people mainly focus on technology or inventions involving with steam power and making them out of gadgets. Stories of steampunk is usually taken place during the Industrial Revolution or the Victorian era has begun but electricity is not yet widespread. There are other stories involving different alternative history style where pure imagination and fantasy is taken place of using only steam power. Some of these examples of steampunks include movies such as the anime film, Steamboy (2004) and Disney's film, Teasure Planet (2002).

Steampunk is sometimes connected with cyberpunk(similar to steampunk, but in the future where technology has evolved to high-tech) which shares a similar fanbase and atmosphere to the stories, but both of these happened as a separate sub-genre. While both of these have different time period and level of technology advancement, steampunk is less dystopian(like an opposite or negative version of Utopia) than cyberpunk or sometimes not at all. That is mostly the big difference between steampunk and cyberpunk, but they do have a considerable amount of influence toward each other since they share some of their ideas that might be familiar together.

Steampunk became known around the 1980s and early 1990s, where as I only known this for a couples of days. And already I am fascinated on the artwork and the inventions of their amazing gadgets. They even made some of these devices with regular technology of today purely out of steam power like the watch, computer mouse, headphones, and even ipod mini. Steampunk looks amazingly cool and I like the fantasy in stories/movies involving steampunk. It makes everything look exotic and I love how it shows all the historical looking antique accessories in the past. The details of any steampunk gadgets are amazing because it shows you all kinds of parts that are in it and functional. I wished I had one of these gadgets, but unfortunately don't have the time and money to buy these stuff. Steampunk is very unique in their arts and designs, because its relatively new or different compare to other designs. I love the fantasy and the idea of using steampunk inventions into their movies. Most common inventions that appear in steampunk movies are flying machines power only by steam engines. Steam punk is also involved in some video games like Bioshock and Final Fantasy VI.

Here is a website to show you all kinds of steampunk gadgets and designs that were created only using steam power. Some of these designs are the ones I have told before like the computer mouse and watch. http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/07/12/12-steampunk-gadgets-and-designs/