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Guest Feature
Steampunk, Page 3
August 2010, Issue 7



 

 

The Miniature Way, Guest Feature by Nefer Kane, doll artisan

Nobody is handicapped either! You can't walk? Let me build you some beautiful mechanical legs! You can't see? Let me invent you some crazy goggles and you will see better than anybody! Your heart is broken? Here is another one, like an indestructible jewel!

Steampunk was a magnificent dream of a people in a magnificent time. A place and time where everything was possible for everyone. But please, dear reader, don't believe that adding a nice gear here and a cog there or some antique trim is enough to make steampunk. No. Definitely not! Your mechanics must have a purpose. It has to be coherent and useful.

Steampunk is a triumph over Death. Then, as a triumph, it is grandiose, sublime, splendid and absolutely baroque! This art form, for all it is, all it brings to us, deserves to be respected for what it is: a vision of perfection man had in an imperfect, yet hopeful, time.

The Miniature Way, Guest Feature by Nefer Kane, doll artisan

It can also be a wonderful way to explain the most complicated mechanical ever made: humanity. If you want to express humanity in all its glorious facets, Steampunk is here to help you.

So, Dream!
  Embellish!
   Triumph over anything!
    Add Magic everywhere!
     Invent!
     BECOME STEAMPUNK! Everything is possible!

You don't believe me?

I can prove it... Come with me in my Time Machine, I offer you a little journey...

 
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