Friday, 6 May 2011

The Stuff of Today Looking Like the Stuff of Yesterday...Today!


Technologically, I like new stuff. I'm pleased I live in an age of on-tap stimulation and convenient bodily-organ replacement, and wouldn't ask to return to the days of using lard in your hair and wearing a suit to the beach.

But I don't usually like the way new stuff looks - all featureless and smooth as a dolphin's bum. I like objects to look like they were made by humans from stuff I'd recognise, like trees, metal and cows.


One answer is to reconfigure new stuff to look like old stuff. Such as thus:

Over at Steampunk Workshop the above thing of beauty has been created from a bog-standard, manky old PC keyboard. Click on the picture for a step-by step guide. Some day I'll get them to interior-decorate my house.

Or for Andrew Lehman's complete modification of a slightly retro (1988) Mac to look like Terry Gilliam's vision of Jules Verne's office, click this link here.

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