Monthly Archives: June 2012

Vote for “The Deadliest Game” in Your Film Festival Competition

You have a chance to help out a Steampunk compatriot! The Deadliest Game, a film by Dr. Grordbort (aka Greg Broadmore), is a semi-finalist in YouTube’s Your Film Festival competition. The film is a witty short that not only plays to the Steampunk tropes, but sends them up as well. The last line alone is a wonder of Steampunk satire.

The finalists in the competition get to take their film to the Venice Film Festival and the winner gets “a $500,000 grant, to create a new original work with Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender to make their dream film.” Let’s help out a fellow Steampunk enthusiast and vote for Dr. Grordbort’s film.

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Prada Goes Steampunk for Men Fall/Winter 2012/2013

Last week, Prada unveiled their menswear line for fall/winter 2012/2013 and some of our favorite characters would have been perfectly at home in the clothes. The designs are, if not Steampunk, at least Steampunk-adjacent, and are quite dashing looking.

The models may look a bit familiar as well:

• Jamie Bell, from The Adventures of Tintin and King Kong;
• Garrett Hedlund, whom you may recognize from Tron: Legacy;
• Willem Dafoe, who’s played everyone from the Green Goblin to Jesus, and everything from a spy to a fish; and
• Gary Oldman, who has brought us such memorable portayals as Sirius Black, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sid Vicious, and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.

Whether you are a airship captain on ground leave, a mad scientist presenting to the Royal Society, or a gentleman inventor out on the town, Prada has something for you this fall. Whether you can afford it is, of course, a completely separate question.

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Governess Sara Reine’s Cinematic Steampunk Primer for Ignorant Schoolchildren

A Guest Post by Sara Reine

Good morning, children. I am ever so thrilled to be with you today. Please bring out your slates, because it’s time for our history lesson.

Despite being such a popular subculture that we could simply describe it as “culture,” steampunk remains distant enough from the mainstream that bringing uneducated minds current on the subject is a difficult task.

We may find the origins of the steampunk genre early in the 1800’s century with the fine works of Jules Verne, but many modern men are miscreants with no time for literature, and we must find some other point of reference in the genre to establish a platform for discussion.

Instead, we shall take a romp through cinematic history to find the origins of steampunk likely to be known by beslubbering, barely-literate rascals. Many ignorant of the genre may be surprised to find themselves to already be aficionados!

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