Steampunk laptop running Ubuntu

[Sealbhach]

I just love the steampunk aesthetic. I just posted this here because he's using Boontoo.

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm


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[kernelhaxor]

nice laptop

[aeiah]

haha thats quite amusing. the leather pads are a bit crap though, but ill let them off because the wireless antena is simply ingenious :)

[steveneddy]

One of my favorite links.

http://www.crn.com/hardware/208400607

[DeadSuperHero]

Man, this thread is based on an OLD topic.

[Polygon]

ive never really understood the fad with steampunk...i mean....whats with it?

but cool case mod none the less.

[Sealbhach]

ive never really understood the fad with steampunk...i mean....whats with it?

but cool case mod none the less.

I think it's about making beautiful objects with beautiful materials. Also, it's the thing about making something by hand - in this era of mass production.


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[nealklomp]

While I have only stumbled upon Steampunk recently, I can say a few things about what it is.
Essentially, it is punk in the sense that it takes a specific aesthetic of function--for example workman's shirts in punk or close cut hair--then it intensifies and extends the signification of that aesthetic beyond simple function--a punk rocker wearing a gas station attendant's uniform and a mohawk on stage or a laptop that appears to have the functional mechanics of the 1850s-1930s era but clearly doesn't.
The aesthetic effort is to resist the simply functional and draw attention to the artificiality of such choices while reinforcing the need for such choices.
The political intent is to resist the modernization, to highlight an individualism in the face of mass culture, to suggest that now-ism is messy and we should try to slow down and redo a time that either (naively) is seen as pure or was impure but is seen as pure by popular culture. It is a sort of mockery through displaced imitation.
Essentially, the effort is to dash water on the political illusions cultural dillusions of the moment.

[Oxwivi]

Uwah! That's quite heavy, I bet!

[koleoptero]

While I have only stumbled upon Steampunk recently, I can say a few things about what it is.
Essentially, it is punk in the sense that it takes a specific aesthetic of function--for example workman's shirts in punk or close cut hair--then it intensifies and extends the signification of that aesthetic beyond simple function--a punk rocker wearing a gas station attendant's uniform and a mohawk on stage or a laptop that appears to have the functional mechanics of the 1850s-1930s era but clearly doesn't.
The aesthetic effort is to resist the simply functional and draw attention to the artificiality of such choices while reinforcing the need for such choices.
The political intent is to resist the modernization, to highlight an individualism in the face of mass culture, to suggest that now-ism is messy and we should try to slow down and redo a time that either (naively) is seen as pure or was impure but is seen as pure by popular culture. It is a sort of mockery through displaced imitation.
Essentially, the effort is to dash water on the political illusions cultural dillusions of the moment.

You raised a nearly 3 year-old thread to write this?

[cariboo]

What is it with all these old threads being resurrected today. If you want to discuss all the various Steampunk computer projects out there, start a new thread. This one is closed.