Steam punk even left only the United States

BroadStreet), through the creamy Baroque architecture, into the ancient Oxford Science and History Museum, blowing the best of the 19th century British atmosphere, the world's first "steam punk" exhibition Is doing this. All kinds of incredible mechanical devices, indescribable carved jade puzzle, to Victorian fashion gesture to board the draft pick. On the same day, the school semester will be knotted, to visit the exhibition of the crowd for the back of the large bag of students wearing thick bottles of glasses, it is easy to identify its science and technology geek identity. The middle-aged and old audience often with straps, wide-brimmed hat and silver chain pocket watch for the decoration, it seems just from the Dickens novel out of the haze of London.
If the raging after the electrical and information revolution has not been raging swept the world, the British can continue to immerse the brilliant dreams. In the Victorian era, the industrial revolution of the gear has been rumbling, steam, such as the legendary watt teapot-like to promote the rapid development of science and technology, and classical European idyllic bustling elegance has not faded, curl transpiration of the mist so that the whole country fog Look like a beautiful flower. At that time the most trendy machinery, with shiny brass, hand-nailed leather, texture natural peach core wood, ticking the pointer. At that time the people were elegant, romantic, loving the art, reading with the afternoon tea - at least many "steam punk" artists so think.
The concept of "steam punk" was originally from K.W.Jeter's science fiction - the other half of the steam punk will come from this class of science fiction. As a "cyber punk" side, the steam punk does not blindly show the human cruel pessimistic future society - the evil large enterprise empire through the computer network to control all the details of human life and so on. Steam punk eyes of nostalgia, its artists are more of a kind of modern science and technology is not happy. Industrial-made plastic products are polished white, and never lost the texture of the mahogany and the leather surface is perfectly natural. China's Dongguan line of women instead of the hand workshop in the uncompromising attention to the artisans, monotonous products no longer had the heart of the warmth of left. Delicate and meticulous parts are sealed in the chassis, and then see the ups and downs of the piston law, do not feel the heat of the boiler. Not to mention the recently launched iPad (this article written in 2010), huge screen occupies the entire product appearance, customers focus more on the information itself and ignore the beauty of the product, industrial designers no much use. As a result, the artists flocked to the "steam punk". This emerging art emphasizes the steam-powered industrial age style. These works are generally old, large, complex, and even steam boilers as the driving force, mechanical transmission, gears, knobs, pipes, pressure raft and other elements of a large number of repeated, all cherish the memory of the Victorian era