| There's a culture called Steampunk that is | | | | there is rap and hip-hop music influenced by |
| dedicated to a revamp of the Victorian age. | | | | steampunk, and usually includes a deep but |
| Typically filled with massive steam powered | | | | up-beat bass and lyrics that either depict the life |
| mechanics and extravagant dirigibles, this classic | | | | of a mad scientist, or a post-apocalyptic world. |
| age is mixed up with fantasy. The steampunk | | | | The best example of this is Dr. Steel. He has |
| genre includes not only clothing, but music, art, | | | | catchy but heavy-hitting beats, and his |
| and literature. | | | | stage-persona is of a mad scientist. |
| In the fashion industry, steampunk has become a | | | | Steampunk has been picked up by the art culture |
| major hit. Classic steampunk designs including cogs | | | | surprisingly fast. You can easily find paintings of |
| and gears are being incorporated into the clothing | | | | dirigibles and other flying machines traversing grey |
| lines of various designers. However, it is in the | | | | skies above vast, desolate landscapes. Such art |
| cosplay scene that steampunk is seen as a | | | | can be found online, at your local art shows, and |
| growing trend. Many cosplayers get together to | | | | in galleries. While the purpose and perspective of |
| wear steampunk costmes, including modified and | | | | such paintings is unlike anything else, the art styles |
| stylized Victorian clothing, and portray themselves | | | | can be very similar to other styles you have |
| as pirates, adventurers, explorers, and victorian | | | | seen. While being dark and dreary, the artwork |
| socialites. They wear outfits adorned with top | | | | often depicts a violent sea, a dungeon-like-lab, or |
| hats and goggles, decorated coats, and even | | | | a deadend world, sometimes Frankenstein-esque. |
| mock ray guns! The do-it-yourself community | | | | It is easy to point out anything steampunk |
| supports steampunk because most steampunk | | | | inspired because the style is particularly unique |
| stuff has to be made your self. The | | | | compared to others. |
| aforementioned ray guns are simply modified and | | | | There has been a breakthrough in literature within |
| painted Nerf or Airsoft guns. Some are even | | | | the steampunk culture. H.G. Wells is said to have |
| good enough to use wood and metal to build their | | | | birthed this trend, along with Jules Verne. The |
| own ray guns or other accessories! | | | | base of the modern steampunk community is |
| There is no definitive style of music that is | | | | based on their inventions, worlds, and knowledge |
| steampunk; rather steampunk qualities can be | | | | that they depict in their works. First there's the |
| found in all different artists from all different | | | | brass time machine in "The Time Machine", and |
| styles of music, including rock, rap, electronic, and | | | | then the massive submarine in "Twenty Thousand |
| others. Steampunk qualities in rock tend to have | | | | Leagues Under The Sea," which were both |
| dark beats, gritty guitar, and sometimes a hint of | | | | considered futuristic. Presently, we would refer to |
| folk. A once industrial band named Abney Park | | | | them as retro, regardless of the fact that time |
| proclaim themselves a Steampunk band. They are | | | | machines don't actually exist. However, both |
| influenced by steampunk not only in their music, | | | | machines seem out of place in such time periods. |
| but in their clothing, design of their instruments, | | | | These ideas have been the driving force for |
| and even the fictional personas that they carry | | | | many steampunk fans, and the basis of |
| with them on stage. Aside from steampunk rock, | | | | steampunk. |