Idea!

[ysobelle]

Tea at PARF this season, like snugglyevil proposed. But let's make it something new and very, very different:

Renaissance Steampunk.

Weird? Yes. Creative? HELL, yes! Now we just have to figure out when. Not Labor Day weekend, cos I think I'll be in Atlanta, but one day. Yes? I'm dying to see what people come up with!

Comments

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Oh....that could be delightfully weird.

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

You know I'm all over that!

Holy Crow, this would be my third steampunk outfit slated for the next 12 months.

*madgiggle*

[cypherindigo.livejournal.com]

I will come out for that weekend. I am working on "steampunking" up my new outfit from you.

How about October-ish, when it is a bit cooler.

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

Yes, October sounds great to me too.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Okay - I'll bite... so - are we allowing for victorian era tech to mesh with renaissance style (a mashup of costuming styles)? or should we be developing renaissance-era-appropriate tech?

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna go with the latter. I think.

But then, this is the ultimate DIY style movement!

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

We're forging new ground... creating a fashion statement!

Whee!

Oh what have you done... I now have a sketch for a "computational bracer"... leather with an attached miniature abacus, a small hourglass, compass, sundial, and miniature sextant, all connected with gears and pull chains (like clock workings)...

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Yes-- YES, absolutely! That's EXACTLY what I was thinking.

I'm going to have to go dig up a copy of Leonardo DaVinci's tech sketches, and research Elizabethan clocks....

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

What if DaVinci's inventions did exist and actually worked in the renaissance? There would be a need for industry. Parachutes, machine guns, airplanes - lots of inventions made for military. ::ponder more::

Looks like toothed gears were available as were eyeglasses. Ooo! The Submarine Captain, the Aviator..

Shek it out: Leonardo's machines actually created in Florence:
http://www.macchinedileonardo.com/eng/catalogo.asp?Livello=2&categoria=Le_macchine_di_Leonardo

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

Oo. Leonardo made a device for making sequins for clothing.

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

I'm overanalyzing here.

I consider steampunk a science fiction fantasy style existing in an era where steam power was primarily used - thus set in the Victorian or Edwardian era. There can be two views: renaissance punk (relabeled as DaVincipunk? Astropunk? Alchemypunk?...) should follow the same lines or is simply a replacing of the Victorian era with the Renaissance era. The sci-fi element allows for the existence of modern technology adapted to the time in either case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_technology

Gah, see what you started Nikki?
::goes off to ponder quietly::

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

See, now, you beat me to it-- I was just thinking what would make up RenPunk. The Elizabethans had clocks and even watches, so gears would still work. The Renaissance was a virtual EXPLOSION of technology, just as the Victorian age was some three hundred years later.

Oh, what this could mean for my business.... SUCH creative possibilities!

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Oooh - I like Alchemypunk...

*runs off to be creative*

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

As in steampunk, there could be characters.
The Alchemist, the Engineer, the Architect, the Artist, the Astrologist...

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I'm thinking the Adventurer Poetess.

Do you have ANY idea how long it's been since I had a character at Faire?

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Come down and sew with me!

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

Shite, I should. Lemme figure out when.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I'll rearrange my schedule and take you Fabric Row. You'll cry.

[theartemis.livejournal.com]

Because I'd buy so much I'd have to work overtime for the six months? Yep, that sounds about right.

[titaniumjunky.livejournal.com]

wow i am way more excited by this than steampunk...
hehe! the ideas they keep coming!

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I know! Innit crazy?

[radiofreerlyeh.livejournal.com]

This definitely seems like an interesting idea

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I'm ALLLL over it.