{"id":28,"date":"2010-11-13T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-11-13T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:35:30","slug":"steampunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/steampunk\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently, I’m working my way through Boneshaker<\/em> by Cherie Priest. Good harrowing zombie steampunk fun.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy steampunk. Its aesthetic is immediately inviting, balancing the fashions and architecture of an amazingly elegant (IMHO) period with a technology that is both more wondrous and more graspable (physically and mentally) than the modern day real world. Indeed, the continuing miniaturization of gadgetry makes imagining a realistic – but visually pleasing – future increasingly difficult. What does a cyberpunk world hold and how can an artist make it both believable (at the current pace of technology) and somehow convey what it’s like to exist in a nano-tech controlled world where so much of what makes life fantastical by today’s standards would be invisible to the naked eye?<\/p>\n

Even though I’ve been aware of steampunk since before it made the leap from a concept to a subculture, I’ve never actually drawn anything steampunk. Sure, some of Magic’s self-described ‘mage-punk’ comes close but that’s still a fantasy world of wizards and goblins. How much fun to jump back to a world of stiff collars and even stiffer upper lips!<\/p>\n

And one slice of (admittedly far flung fantastical) steampunk I avidly follow is the wonderful Girl Genius comic book<\/a> by Phil & Kaja Foglio, two of the original Magic artists (with exceptional coloring by Cheyenne Wright).<\/p>\n

Okay, back to reading and recuperating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A look at what I’m reading and a quick aside about steampunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordy","tag-reading","tag-steampunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}