“In their embrace of the toothy cog and the sooty pipe, this guild of Steampunk hackers represents a rebellion of sorts against our iPhone moment.”

Todays Boston Sunday Globe has a wonderfully detailed article about the Steampunk genre, and they’ve certainly done some intersting homework on it – talking to such marvellous people as Datamancer, Von Slatt, Crabfu, and Paul Di Filippo.  The article is also online, though you may need to register to see all the pages, but it does a wonderful job of looking at the side of Steampunk that craves beauty in our tools and tools in our hands.  I’d recommend a read!  Congratulations to all involved, and thank you Mr Bebergal for both writing it and pointing it out!  (And Mr Von Slatt for showing off the wonderful page layout above in the print version on the forum).

(Apologies for the hastily cobbled together peculiar image, I couldn’t find one that represented the Boston Globe’s article properly.)

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Steampunk Images.