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This is a group dedicated to Steampunk Art. The art can be sculpture, jewelry, drawing, painting, etc. Photography is also accepted.

Any age person can be a Steampunk and so show off your best jewelry, art, and fashion. Let's see those goggles people! Everyone should write a back story for th...

This is a group dedicated to Steampunk Art. The art can be sculpture, jewelry, drawing, painting, etc. Photography is also accepted.

Any age person can be a Steampunk and so show off your best jewelry, art, and fashion. Let's see those goggles people! Everyone should write a back story for their art. You don't have to, but it is fun. . .

According to Wikipedia:

"Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain—that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.

Steampunk is sometimes thought of as related to cyberpunk, although apart from the shared origins of the name, they have almost nothing in common. Obviously their time period and level of technology are different, but steampunk settings also tend to be less dystopian. Steampunks themselves commonly have past connections to goth, more so than the cyberpunk or industrial scenes."

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