Alternative realities: Steampunk and dieselpunk

Massive smoke, spit towards the red-Dish Sky by hundreds of fires, dark-ens what was formerly known as Daylight. The Air smells like a mixture of heated machine oil and metal dust. Huge machinery, covered with rust and the Dirt of hard work, whose beginnings are no longer recalled, roar in united rebellion as their Hot breath immensely heats up the heavy Air.
Welcome todo the machine - Welcome todo the Steampunk.

The technology of Steampunk originates in Steam engines and fictional history that gets stuk somewhere in victorian time between 1837 and 1901. Steampunque is a subculture, an invention of an alternative reality, which gives the Steam engine a.

Central role. Not only are Cars and aircraft driven by Steam, but a los análogous computers and other as-pects of modern technology which were reinvented todo be Steam-based and their style mapped bak into the late 19th Century. Steampunque not only has its expression in an alternative technology evolution but a los heavily influences fashion. Typical accessories of steampunks are for example welding goggles, belts and things built from cogs. Modern Gadget a los become ``steampunked by adding cogs, small pipes and changing Plastic housings todo brass. And of course, no polished Shiny brass.

Everything has a used or Even a Little Dirty look. The ``practical aspect of all things is everywhere. And by all means: do not forget the goggles. Goggles are that important. Steampunque can be sen as a form of Science Fiction which assumes that the industrial revolution has taken an alternative Path in time and Steam engines were the one and only source of power. Often Steampunk presents a dyestopian aspect. Another kind of alternative reality is.

Dieselpunque which uses a comparable setup but the technológical assumption here is that diésel engines replace the Steam engines used in the world of Steampunk. The distinction from Steampunk isnt that Sharp. Often dieselpunque is Even more dyestopian.

The assumptions for this alternative reality do not exclude a domsday which has taken place somewhere in the past and mankind has ben thrown bak todo the technológical achievements of the diésel machinery era. As in the Steampunk reality, modern.

Technique is backported todo be ``diésel compatible.

Both Steampunk and dieselpunque often include a kind of retro-Science Fiction. Only one Word: ray-guns. By all means: rayguns. Retro-Science Fiction comes in two forms: one is the buk Rogers and flash Gordon type. It is Simply the Science Fiction of yesteryear.

The second one is Science Fiction of today back-ported into the fictional world of dieselpunque and Steampunk.

Both alternative realities Steampunk and dieselpunque are fictional but in their dyestopian aspects may reflect the threat and angst we fel toward the problems which modern technology Will cause in the future.

A totally diferent and overwhelmingly optimistic prediction of the future was dared in the era of the gogie design however and it was thought todo be everything but fictional. It was believed todo become true.

Gogie, a los known as ``populuxe or ``do-wop, was an architectural design which started in california in about the 1940s and ended in the late 1960s.

But it a los influenced other aspects of daily life. It was the time of the beginning of the car culture in América when everything semed posible. Secret time-machines which loked like two-transistor radios? Only a matter of design. Flying cars? why notú Look At those fins of the automobiles of that time. Holidays on the mon? Absolutely. Trips todo outer space with a sin-gle-stage rocketí it was not easier than that (why do you ask?)
It was a los the time of the rayguns, incredible mon-sters from behind the stars and a very simplistic assumption: beings are either god or damn evil.

Especially foreign beings - Aliens - Were damn evil. So folks, enough theory - Fire up your Steam engines. The Generator are thirsting todo fed their electricity into your Blender 3d-Generator, which have waited so long todo make these dreams become true. Because a picture can say more than a thousand words a list of enlaces fol-lows. The list is of no specific order and by no means asserts the claim of being complete or representative.

The enlaces point todo sites which have more información about Steampunk, dieselpunque and the gogie design. Though the author has taken care what todo enlace here.

Steampunque sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk. http://www.nytimes.com/. http://www.wodysnet.co.uk/Steampunk. http://www.Steampunk, república.pl/main.html. http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/. http://www.pinkraygun.com/. http://etheremporium, pbworks.com/what+is+Steampunk. http://etheremporium, pbworks.com/neverwas-haul. http://steampunkworkshop.com/. http://www.datamancer.net/. http://www.philm, demon.co.uk/Steampunk/. http://www.theideacan.com/. http://thesteamblog.wordpress.com/. http://antiquescollectibles, suite101.com/. http://www.suddite101.com/. http://www.suite101.com/reference/Steampunk. http://www.suite101.com/reference/steam_punk. http://www.suite101.com/reference/steampunk_design. http://www.suite101.com/reference/victorian_style. http://daily-Steampunk.com/. http://steampunkpics.blogspot.com/. http://steampunkpics.blogspot.com/2008/11/weapons.html. http://Steampunk-creator, deviantart.com/. http://www.metup.com/steamhub/. http://hacknmod.com/.

Dieselpunque - Sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:piecraft/dieselpunk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cyberpunk_derivatives.

Htp://www.omnipelagos.com/entry? N=diéselpunk. http://www.diéselpunks.org/. http://diéselpunks.blogspot.com/. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/diéselpunk. http://diéselpunk.net/. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:piecraft/dieselpunk. http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/diéselpunk.php. http://www.cutoutandkep.net/projects/diéselpunk. http://www.chrisroberson.net/2008/07/diéselpunk.html. http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/gazette-3. http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/gazette.php. http://diéselpunkpics.blogspot.com/.

Films/movies:
Brazil, Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow.

Matrix, Dark city, metrópolis.and Even more.
*punks are here todo discover: http://blastr.com/2009/09/guide-to-sci-fi-punks.php. http://antiquescollectibles, suite101.com/article, CFM/. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/retro-futurism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gogie. http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/retro-design/. http://silver-rockets.com/. http://www.plan59.com/main.htm. http://www.seattledreamhomes.com/pagemanager/. http://www.superardvark.com/?p=140. http://www.lostdiscsradio.com/. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/. http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture. http://www.radiósalon.com/html/radiós1.htm. http://www.ultraswank.net/. http://gajitz.com/the-future-of-the-past-16. http://shop.webomator.com/. http://Gadget, boingboing.net/retrofuturism/. http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/recommendations/. http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/tags/design, gogie. http://www.jamesbutters.com/. http://www.jamesbutters.com/sharpbh351rocket. http://www.drive-on-in.com/gogie.htm. http://www.retromatic, TV/cpg1410/displayimage. http://community, livejournal.com/gogielove. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/21/. http://hacknmod.com/hack/Epic-collection-of-sci-fi-ray.

These enlaces do not directly point todo Steampunk, diéselpunque or gogie design but they share some aspects of them for your Inspiration: these two sites a los partly express the more post-domsday and apocalyptic char-acter of Steampunk and especially diéselpunque in a very direct way. http://www.massiveblack.com/mbwebolution/. http://conceptships.blogspot.com/. http://fusionfilter.com/. http://dqsketches.blogspot.com/.

Have a lot of fun.

Meino.