Steam Punk

I must be behind the times.........I guess most old guys are. I have noticed a certain whimsical Victorian styling to many objects d'art, and even functional items as well. Kind of a history that never really was.

I always found this styling cool. I remember the guy with the helicopter in Mad Max. He had panache, a certain technological out here aloofness that defied categorization. More recently, I learned this styling has been given a name.........Steam Punk. So that is what I have enjoyed! Ironically, Steam Punk is the essence of a design that is hopelessly out of step with modern convention. Sort of an alternate reality with a history that split from ours somewhere in the past, and either zoomed off into an apocalyptic wasteland, or a world of eccentric, opulent beauty.....or both. Cathode bulbs, brass, glass and bizarre filigree, yeah, I could get into this stuff.