Intro Page Two
Isaac, when he is around people or speaking to people, tends to rub them the wrong way intentionally or unintentionally. It is both a habit and pass-time.
I might add that though I do love the steampunk aesthetic, steampunk culture (or all I see it as), there are way too many things with other things glued to them.
One reason I do very few steampunk crafts, is that I feel these things should be much more functional. I can make neat looking things, but I feel that if gears are there, they should turn gears and rockers, wind springs, and create some sort of outcome or function with some other device.
For this reason, it takes me a lot of time to make anything, and more projects are scrapped than presented.
The culture is supposed to be about inventiveness and imagining. As it gets too heavily commercialized, we will probably see a lot more individuals and corporations gluing gears to things.
I also feel that artwork should mean something, and should express some degree of wonder, fancy, fear, anger, or love. Like the ‘gothic art’ days of fetish models with angel wings or zombie-paint, steampunk art is becoming too much about the sale or the merchandising. Making things that look ‘neat’ or ‘cool’, making things simply in hopes that people will buy them, is not what art is about.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:44 am
“One reason I do very few steampunk crafts, is that I feel these things should be much more functional. I can make neat looking things, but I feel that if gears are there, they should turn gears and rockers, wind springs, and create some sort of outcome or function with some other device.”
Yes. Amen.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:45 am
“I also feel that artwork should mean something, and should express some degree of wonder, fancy, fear, anger, or love. Like the ‘gothic art’ days of fetish models with angel wings or zombie-paint, steampunk art is becoming too much about the sale or the merchandising. Making things that look ‘neat’ or ‘cool’, making things simply in hopes that people will buy them, is not what art is about.”
Oh my. Yes! I think I am starting to become a serious fan of yours.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:23 am