Kinetic steam punk sculpture installations
beingzoe 3 months ago // Creative Endeavors Gibber-gabber

While combing YouTube for some resource videos from UK Underwater Kinetics cases, lights, and dive accessories I stumbled onto this amazing video of kinetic steam punk sculptures and installations.

If you are unfamiliar with the term or phenomena of steam punk, it is the concept of an analog computer. The genre of art, sci-fi, and computers that fall under steam punk embody a world where the industrial revolution began but electricity is either not invented or in widespread use yet. Steampunk stories are often set in a Victorian-era or styled world where dirigibles are the primary form of air travel and technology is centered heavily on various types of non-electric mechanical power.

As a literary form, Steampunk was influenced by, and often adopts the style of the scientific romances of the 19th century, by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, and Mary Shelley (from the wiki).

Within the subculture of steam punk are craftspeople who convert modern objects into steam punk versions. People convert modern computers to look like Victorian-styled typewriters and view screens akin to the technology seen in films such as Brazil and 12 Monkeys or even in the famous adventure puzzle game series Myst.

The sculptures in the video above go one step further adding new life to steam punk.

You might also be interested in a post I shared previously of a fellow building wooden computers.

Visit the wiki to learn more about Steam Punk.

And see some steampunk devices on google images.

Have some steam punk devices or images you have created? Share them with the CoTradeCo community.

The embedded video Interactive Kinetic Steampunk Sculptures is by Marque Cornblatt

steam punk treehouse image used under a
Creative Commons License
courtesy of tornatore at Flickr