Steampunk in Oxford 

To me, steampunk is combining the beauty of the past with the functionality of the present. I know that's not the proper definition, just my take on it.

1:20 what a wonderful explanation of what Steampunk is. I like poeple that can explain their hobbies without speaking completely in jargon and being snooty, not even tongue-in-cheek.

Very interesting interview ! Stunning Exhibition ! Amazing Art !

It's so cool that a classic film like Wild Wild West is still inspiring people to create fanart even today, nice vid.

Steampunk SHOULD be our future! It looks so crazy but so smart at the same time! Thumbs up for steampunk!

man I wish I had seen this. There should be a permanent museum dedicated to this.

Great! I'm a year 6 and I got into Gateways and I had to learn about the steampunk era. This video really helped me a lot so Thanks! :)

If stuff looked like that today I think it would be a good thing. I swear more people would grow up being very artistic and there would be a ton more inventors out there.

Starting work on my outfit for the steampunk festival in September here in Nor Cal, I absolutely love the style of the art and the fashion, the working machines are amazing. Last year I saw a motocycle that ran off steam.

steampunk seriously is the most beautiful style ive ever seen... ive alays loved it... i mena i love the victorian area but i also love those sience and fantasy stuff... this is so PERFECT...

Doc Brown's time-machine train in the 'Back to the Future III'; the car, submarine, and other machines in the 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'; Dracula's vampire supercharging machine (to which Frankenstein's monster was strapped) in 'Van Helsing', and all of the fashion in these 3 movies, are examples of steampunk. You'll see plenty of steampunk in the video game 'Bioshock Infinite', where just about all of the action takes place in a floating city in a slightly-alternate 1912.

Damn, you just got to love those steampunk clocks.

Awesome collection. I particularly liked Dr Grymm's Eye-Pod. From what I've been told this badboy actually works too! Awesome stuff.

I need to visit this sometime! I love steampunk

I'd like to see a Steampunk style pushpull tubeamp with plasma speakers, with the arcs nicely displayed. THAT would be awesome.

Love this!!!!

Steampunk is fascinating.. Though I never had the courage to actually visit a convention or something, I love how it looks like. I don't even know why, honestly, but whenever I see gears, ancient clocks, goggles and victorian clothing, it somehow fascinates me.. how strange.

man i love this sort of art! ....thats so amazing! Love it!

Man, I love this stuff

A a big steampunk fan myself...wish I could go to this freakin awesome exhibition. Sadly not many ppl here in Singapore know anything bout steampunk.

I love the steampunk goggles/glasses! They look so fucking cool yet look like torture devices

Awesome, simply awesome.

What a cool exhibit!

geez, steampunk and art deco, the 2 best styles ever incepted!

Dude!! I freakin LOVE steampunk!!! XD

Excellent video

E/T-Pod ideas are BRILLIANT !!

Amazing !!!

I saw the exhibition yesterday and it was really interesting. I loved the fact that everything was actually functional, as well as looking great. My favourite piece was probably the computer keyboard. It looked so cool, I want one! Also, the red leather mask at 2:10 looks just like the Pyro wearing the Brigade Helm hat from Team Fortress 2. xD

First time I got a glimse of the Steampunk world it was when I saw Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. And I think it's beautiful

Thank you

Love it!

This is cool...It really reminds me of shows like SteamBoy and Last Exile (this one being my fave show of all time). If it wasn't so far away from were I lived I would visit it :P

That...is.....amazing :O So glad the Steampunk movement is...well.... Building Steam!

im new to this steam punk ,..i like it....the art is very good indeed.!!

a T-Pod... sounds like something i have been looking for, for a long time

Fantastic.

LOL the 'eye' pod was awesome!

This would be amazing to go to!

steampunk stuff is amazing !

Awesome absolutely awesome.

Beautiful stuff!👍👌..

That's so awesome

we should build an entire city in the steam-punk style, a real one.

So I started making steampunk paintings. Any ideas what object to do next? :)

thanks for the definition

I went to see it IT WAS AWSOME!

its just awesome

Steampunk is freaking awesome

I know it was stupid but, I seriously thought I was the only one. Nice to see more.

@Deathrune456 no need for boilers and steam, all the mechanical parts can work with compressed air, all you need is a high pressure air tank. small ones are used for paint-ball markers now, and some bigger ones have been used to power cars.

Brilliant.

I soooo love steampunk!!!! i've always been reading to jules verne!!!! my main inspi°!!!

Once I get a time machine, I'm going to get me an E-pod and try and subtly make steampunk a reality...

This is so Cool! I love the clocks and other items made with metal. The masks are a bit creepy. What's with the Goth Girl trying to cross over to Steampunk? Oh well, they're very creative artists. Love it!

awesome movie.

On the E-pod what did he use for the sparky thing?

I believe Hollywood made a film about Steampunk featuring Will Smth and called - The Wild Wild West.

Phantastical.

I would very much like to go see it. Jolly good.

2:11 Tom Banwell masks... the best and only! Respect from Tulsa...

Is there somewhere in NY where a 12 year old might learn brass working and welding, and if so, about how far would it be from Altamont?

steampunk was the main theme in the movie 9

temporal insulation device == definition of epic

@gnomium41 May I ask what was incorrect?

I wish real life society looked like that it would be awesome.

I really, really want that clock.

Steam is merely the working fluid, not the energy source. It still requires an energy source. In Space 1889, for example, solar power is used by focusing the sun's rays onto a boiler.

very cool

It is, the way I see it, a modern-day interpretation, or re-interpretation, of the technology, art, fashion, architecture and lifestyle of most of the 19th century and quite probably a piece of the 20th, specifically, the entire Victorian age and the years leading up to the end of World War I; which is pretty much the 2nd-half of the 19th century right up to c1920. The first use of the word in literature was for the title of Paul di Filippo's 1995 book, 'The Steampunk Trilogy'. (Cont'd)

Get comfortable, because I may need 3 posts to explain it. As often as I have seen steampunk around me (in film and in literature), I wasn't aware of the WORD being used for this concept until 2 days ago, and this is coming from someone who has read sci-fi/fantasy for nearly 27 years. 'Steampunk' is a word created by sci-fi author K.W. Jeter, in a letter he sent to 'Locus' magazine in 1987. It seems to be the other side of 'cyberpunk', obviously applied to the world of the steam age. (Cont'd)

I laughed so hard at the "Eye Pod"

any one know how to spell the name of he Japanese watchmaker mentioned in this clip?

gawd i want one of those E-PODS or T-PODS, anyone know where i can get one/comission one/buy one/make one?

@dccfy3 Isn't art also the reimagining of average things?

IM GOING!

@RehGo thank you.

anyone notice the looped background ambient sound in the art gallery

@jesperjesper123 i have to disagree i sorta think i may of liked bioshock and bioshcok 2 the same, but i dont know about the third one, i mean a city in the sky now?

Brilliant stuff.....i really could get into steampunk now.....where do i get those goggles?

Steampunk is badass

+10 to creativity :D

is this in new york? i would love to see it !!! all of it looks amazing :)

@mrhyde1888: Some people like to dress up and don't want to have to wait for halloween to do it (and then only once a year). It's another form of escapism. It's basically the same as people who like Star Wars and dress up as characters from the movies. Everybody has a different idea of fun.

This is awesome. Just one question though, where are the steampunk marital aids...?

@K000lDUDE1 Hayao Miyazaki has a couple that are steampunk-ish "Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind" and "Howls Moving Castle"

Steampunk! (5% Tools, 5% materials, 90% Imagination)

@ThingsMarchBrings - Check out "The Clockwork Dark" series by John Claude Bemis. It's young adult, but unique read. Booklist called it "A steampunk collision of heroes, mermaids, pirates, and good old-fashioned Americana.'

I'm sooooo glad I'm a steampunk :)

Okay, that makes sense.

Word is getting around that, after a decade or more in relative obscurity, steampunk may be the next big thing. For a good part of the 2nd-half of this past decade, vampires were the craze (thanks in part to the 'Twilight' saga. Nowadays it's zombies (thanks to some of Syfy's low-budget films and 'The Walking Dead' series. The sooner you see steampunk fashion on the racks (which is probably the case now), you'll know that steampunk is now the new thing.

Yeah!I would have mentioned Dishonored but at the time I didn't know of Dishonored,looks like an amazing game though.

what is the name of the japaneese watch designer?

god bless you dorks

Why isn't the photo used for this vid a TF2 Pyro helmet? :(

@Sweatybus You love it.

If you start with a leather case, you can add ornate brass panels and a few thin brass and copper tubes, perhaps even a fake gauge or two. This would be my first instinct. Of course, it wouldn't fit in the holster any more, but it would look Steampunk.

2:47 how to make this one?

We need a Steampunk town or city. DO IT.

@foo871 ... thats probably one of the closest deffinitions of steampunk... though i've also seen a mix of roadwarrior in it as well but thats apocalyptic steampunk