I recently came across the phrase Steampunk online. Turns out its a recent style of re-imaging modern concepts, but setting them in the Steam age, around Jules Vernes time in the 1860's. As far as I can tell it seems to have started big when a Manga cartoon came out in Japan, charting the adventures of Steamboy, a boy who lived in 1860's London who is sent a mysterious steam producing orb from his uncle in America, to keep it from the evil O'Hara group.
http://www.bigredhair.com/steamboy/index.htmlSeems that modern artists and animators are applying this concept to pop culture with suprising effect. I heard one artist did a serious of drawings of the video game Thief in this style.
These drawing are an artists take on the Star Wars world, in the Steampunk style.
http://ericpoulton.blogspot.com/search/label/steampunk%20star%20warsPretty damn cool, really.
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