Thanks Minigun, I love that old Carbine.
From what I can gather, the Goth movement got terribly bored with itself and wanted something more technological and interesting to do about 10-15 years ago.
They also attracted a much wider range and more well-read age groups with the changes.
It was suddenly no longer just rebellious kids, but the full age spread of folks wanting personalized expression in a society that had started to become more uniform, faceless and standardized.
The Edwardian/Victorian folks went with Steampunk, and the more modern, (1920s-1950s) group went Dieselpunk.
There is very little "punk" in either group, except for some exotic birdlike hairstyles amongst the West Coast musicians.
And that is all I could find out about the term.
But Jules Verne and H.G. Wells had been writing about this genre over a century ago, so there has always been a certain interest generated by the ideas.
Judging by the Youtube hits, (lots and lots), this is also a subculture happening in Europe and Russia, so it seems to appeal to a rather diverse group of very imaginative and creative intellectual rebels.
It is what YOU want to make of it, no particular defined rules or costuming fads, just lots of different approaches to alternative could-have-beens of science, music, costuming and art.
Almost all of it is hand and homemade, luckily it hasn't appeared in retail outlets yet, *giggle*.
The Real Thing will still show as drastically different though, even if it does start being commercialized.
Mass production can never duplicate unique personalized expression.
Here are some wonderful lyrics that kind of sum it up:
Throw Them Overboard by Abney Park
If you map out my psychology
It will look like archaeology
I've got no love for this society
I prefer total free autonomy!
Take your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
Your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
We've made an art of this horology
To the point of a new theology
I say to hell with modern technology
And we embrace analog mythology!
Take your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
Your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
This society's technology
Is an aesthetic anthropophagy
To survive this cultural urology
You have to study alcohology
Or take your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
Your newfangled this and your newfangled that
And you can line them up and throw them overboard!
