133/366 | Steampunk Festival

Went to Steampunk Festival about 30 minutes outside the city. It was interesting, but I think the guys had more fun looking at women in corsets than I did looking at men. I was set on getting the steampunk goggles, but after careful thinking, I realize that I’d never use them. It was a fun event for taking photos, having beer in the bar and watching the costumes.

Steampunk is a genre which originated during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternate history such as Victorian era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville. (wikipedia)