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[FRA] Une paire de lunettes que j'ai réalisé récemment à base d'une paire de lunettes de soudeur, d'un objectif d'un vieil objectif, d'engrenages de montre, d'un peu de cuir...
What has always bothered me about the aesthetic has been the utter lack of function the majority of ornamentation has. Looking at this you could almost imagine SOMETHING in that clockwork being usable but I have to put my optimism in check as most, probably all, steampunk aesthetic creators couldn't engineer a mechanism more complex than a belt buckle or shoelace. There is some sort of disconnect between artists and a time when craft work wasn't about displaying the workings of a machine. Showing meant it was vulnerable or hearty enough to chew on an arm without flinching. The craft work was in the metal etching and stamping, the wood work, the company or craftsman's name plate. No one back then glued old watch gears to a thing and then applied a caked layer of gold spray paint. It's like taking the fashion out of the sixties and seventies with a dabbling of mother earth while failing to add the anti war draft atmosphere, the progressive drug usage, plenty loose sex and birth control.
Steampunk should have been about making tools and fashions and not about whoring the pre computerized mechanical era because it makes some people's panties wet.
Please tell me at least one of those springs actually does something useful?