The Steampunk Home

I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Forgotten Beauty: Julie Shiel Photography

Yikes -- sorry for the two week hiatus, but when life and work get busy, my blogging suffers.

Julie Shiel takes photographs of the abandoned and decrepit, and in the process makes art that reminds us that no matter how well built or beautiful, without care and attention things disintegrate into nothingness. To me, they seem to be the real life counterpart to Tuomas Korpi's fantasy interiors.

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Judi FitzPatrickOctober 20, 2008 at 7:37 PM
Yeah for Julie and her fantastic urban exploration work!
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livingjetlagJanuary 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM
More of this fantastic kind of thing at abandonedplaces.com
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livingjetlagJanuary 8, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Crap. It's gone. Never mind.
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