Posted on 10/17/2013 5:53:28 AM PDT by Claud
Obamandias
I met a traveller from a bankrupt land
Who said: Two vast and empty vaults of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And fly-ridden lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that built that and the heartless Fed:
And on the teleprompter these words appear:
"My name is Obamandias, Kenyan king:
Look on my works, ye Whitey, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that hope and change, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Can you explain “steampunk” to me? I’ve heard the term used by the kids and it seems to mean sort of antique-Victorian technology, but I really don’t get it . . . .
Whatever the kids mean I dunno, but that’s what I understand: modern technologies like laptops redesigned as if they were built in the Age of Steam.
It’s ubiquitous: like in Doctor Who, compare the geometric, acrylic console from the 70s and 80s to the hodge-podge 2000s console with old typewriters and glass tubes.
Not sure there’s anything really to get beyond it being the latest in a long line of reaching back into design tradition for new ideas, like the Gothic Revival or neoclassical.
Glad your husband like it! I posted a new one today.
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