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Ivan Seeking
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Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw
DiracPool said:Unfortunately, the problem I'm having with these embedded videos is twofold, 1) you can't make them fullscreen if there's a good video to go along with it, and 2) I always find myself listening to the song for a bit and then thinking it will stay on as I go to do more surfing on "physics forums," only to have the music halt abruptly when I leave the page. I guess there's nothing that can be done about that, though.
Ivan Seeking said:Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw
Ivan Seeking said:Interesting
ImaLooser said:Steampunk is fun. Goggles and gasmasks are fashionable. Why not. They sing very melodiously too.
If you like steampunk, check out Girl Genius comics. Free online. It would take weeks to read the whole thing.
Ivan Seeking said:I had never heard of steampunk before
Ivan Seeking said:I had never heard of steampunk before but I guess they have a big deal up in Seattle every year.
ImaLooser said:Steampunk is a sort of imaginary reality where transistors and plastics haven't been discovered. So mechanical technology is more developed. Its all sort of 1900 style modernized. Those goggles are like motoring or flying goggles. Things are metal and other natural materials. So that music is 1900's style and fits in.
The costumes that people come up with are incredibly elaborate. It looks like a ton o' fun. Then there are Goths, cosplay, and Harajiku. Cybergoths are Harajiku-influenced steampunk Goths who like techo. Got that?
After HG Wells the first steampunk thing was Fritz Lang's Metropolis, then The Wild, Wild West. They say Brazil had something to do with it too. It caught on about 1990.
Ivan Seeking said:Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw
Ivan Seeking said:Brazil is also a favorite. And HG Wells? Hah! I guess so! I've been into steampunk for almost 30 years and never knew it!
ImaLooser said:I recently discovered that I was a proto-afrofuturist. Who would have thought it?
Ivan Seeking said:Does that mean that you're a futurist with a proto afro, or that you're a proto futurist with an afro?
Andre said:Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?
Gytax said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J8rZlu8co4
OmCheeto said:We were discussing politics, taxes, and ultimately, rich people, today at work.
It jogged a memory of mine, about what bored rich people do with their money.
But then, my thoughts turned again, to music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPyNW3vegc
Andre said:Classical gas by Mason Williams 1968
Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?