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MJBivouac — Steampunk Jupiter Two
Published: 2009-11-04 16:02:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 3900; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 173
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Pencil on heavy vellum. Digital coloration and typography. Seems as though it's such a hip thing to be creating Steampunk versions of all sorts of things these days. Here is the JUPITER TWO from the TV series LOST IN SPACE all Steampunked-Out. I'm not sure where the STEAMPUNK expression came form, and I don't particularly like it. I think it sounds kind of stupid. For the record, I prefer Retro-Future, or Retro-Tech.11/16/09
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Digital artist has done a 3D rendering of my retro-tech Jupiter Two!
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I take it he didn't ask nicely?
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No he was polite I guess...
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That sounds sort of ominous.
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not at all. Actually, I think the guy is going to have me do ANOTHER commission! he's so demanding! He thinks he owns me!
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I kinda feel bad for you man. I hope you get monies worth out of this schmuck.
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Ha! To be honest he's pretty damned cool guy. I'm very grateful to him for his business.
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It's amazing what you can steampunk. Now you should punk our pal B9! Or even the Chariot! Great design on the J2!
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Perhaps you could reimagine the Seaview as Disney's version of the Nautilus.
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I have a feeling this drawing may escalate into a series. Someone wants to see the robot in this style. Actually I was thinking of the chariot myself.
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I think both would look great in that style.
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well when you refer to retro-tech or retro futurism, it can relate to steampunk,dieslepunk,clockpunk,atomicpunk,etc.
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Oh...and BUTT MUNCH is another expression I can't stand! What are you? Like 14?
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Young man, I am entitled to my opinion as well...but you were the one who started calling names.
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that was my signature, not what i said to you.
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Oh, then I guess I owe you an apology. My mistake.
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Oh God! I had no idea there were sub-categories! I give up!
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To my mind, the original Jupiter 2 already fit with my idea of "retro," but whatever you want to call it, this is pretty cool. Any plans for doing a steampunk Robot?
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Retro-Sixties, perhaps. but that is only because you came to it long after the original run of the series. In 1965, this was a very unique spaceship. STAR TREK was still a year away, and up until this time TV spacecraft were pretty much silver cigars with fins, and sparks shooting out the back. Even in films, "Saucers" were the ships of alien races. The one possible exception would be FORBIDDEN PLANET, and I would definitely say that the Jupiter 2 was indeed influenced by the United Planets Cruiser C-57D.
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Nice! Veoh has the whole series, (or at least most of it) loaded up. I been watching it lots lately.
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Season one is the best...but there are a few decent episodes in seasons 2 and 3. Not very impressive by today's TV, but was kind of a big deal way back when.
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Actually I'm unimpressed with todays shows, excluding Doctor Who. But even there I prefer the old series. Special effects never interest me anyhoo. It's all about the storis for me.
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As it should be. I love effects...or I at least used to when they were hard to do. Matte paintings were an art! Today...anyone with a computer and photoshop can create usable matte artwork by copying and pasteing from stock photography. Today they can do anything! Where's the fun or the challenge there? I must say that TV has never been better as far as story goes. I love OLD TV, but I have to be honest and say that TV is MUCH better written, produced and acted today.
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I suppose I shouldn't say they don't matter. The problem is there's so much eye candy, and so little art. It's disappointing they don't do them better, considering what there is to work with.
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There is this really cool art book out called "The Invisible Art", an amazing history and collection of matte painting images. It's a freaking fabulous book! The kind of stuff that got me interested in getting into special effects.
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I'll look for that! Hats off to all those unknowns who put all they had into those paintings. I remember being on the set of several indie flicks including Crispin Glover's "What Is It?". Those people put their lives into sets and paintings.
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Well, OF COURSE, it's out of print and collecible now! But here's a link anyway.
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Some day I will get a copy.
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It's one of those books that is bound(no pun intended)to just keep going up in price as a collectible. Glad I got mine when it was a mere $75.00.
You might try a larger library.
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We have a good sized one at the University that might have it. I'll look around.
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I'm pretty sure it owes itself to the novel "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and as far as concepts go, it was brilliant, though the actual storylines seemed a little blah to me. I see the wiki-pedia entry references "Wild Wild West", but I refuse to believe any of that garbage was based on the idea that modern-era technology could be powered by coal fires and steam pistons.
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At the beginning of every movie produced by Tyler Perry is an opening animation; his signature graphic, I guess.
It is of a huge room, filled with gears and wheels, all interwoven and turning. It is very reminiscent of the Difference Engine in concept.
If you haven't seen it yet, you'll know it when you do. It's the closest anyone's come to putting the D.E. on film.
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I read somewhere that there is supposed to be a working concept model of one in some museum in London. I think I even saw a picture of it... but I would never be able to tell you where I saw them or how these things could be verified... I saw it and thought, "Neat!" but it wasn't important enough to remember, you know how that goes?
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Hey, I had a history professor who also was an I.T. guy; we discussed the Difference Engine (has a cool sound to it, doesn't it?) sometime back. I'll see if I still have the pics he sent me of that model, if you'd like to see them...
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That's cool. Yeah, I'd like to see them. If you e-mail them to me at the address from my profile page and use the word "art" somewhere in the subject line, I'll be sure to notice it!
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Hey, erosarts. Back in February I mentioned some pictures of Babbage's "Difference Engine". I was going to find them for you. Well, life got sorta complicated and I became sidetracked for a while.
I couldn't find the actual photos; turns out what I had from my professor was a link to a website that was all about the Engine. Here is the link:
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You'll find a good deal of information and some cool photos.
Hope this helps, and apologies again for the long delay.
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Very interesting! Thanks for the link!
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It's fantasy for sure, but it's all about the LOOK of the stuff, not that it could actually work.
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Well, that's what it's become. But in the Sterling/Gibson vision, computers were the size of freight yards and the world was already about a hundred times more polluted than it is today back at the turn of the last century. Clothing dissolved in the rain, and the sky was black. So, their idea was really trying to capture the texture of a parallel reality. But yeah: make it out of riveted iron and put a frilly fop with a wind up watch on a chain in it, and that seems to pass for the flavor of the minute.
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I ran across some group in Detroit...talk about grimy, old technology, polluted and overcast...that do Steam Punk Cosplay. To each his own, but that's just kinda gay.
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Are you sure they were cosplayers and not just victims of living in Detroit?
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Ha Ha! No, they were cosplaying at some convention...the sad thing is you just KNOW that right outside the convention center is some old bum sleeping in his own urine.
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