session 5, free post.

Steampunk.

I known this concept a couple years ago, when a friend told me about one of her classmates. She showed me the way he dressed and the things he made and brought to the class, those things were really cool, then she explained that when she ask him what was that, he said: Steampunk. 
After that I started searching for information and images to learn more about it. In a few words, It's a literary movement that grown into a cultural movement, it takes the aesthetic of the 19 century, specifically in the boom of steam powered machinery (like trains for example) and the industry revolution, this movement it's against consumer society (this is the "punk" part of the concept), the idea it's to bring the past in the present and correct the things when they started to take a wrong way, it's a retro-futurism.
The people that identifies with this movement love the historicity of things, so it increase the value of crafted things, the way the human uses the tools and machinery to create something together (and I say together because the "machine" it's treated with the respect of a human). Rescue the way of this century's production, the fact that things were meant to last forever (not like today, that the production just want more consumption, so the things broke immediately and we just accumulate garbage).
In Chile there is a community of steampunk, I'm part of it and it's really fun to share opinions and to learn new ways to craft things. Has a fun fact, right now I'm dating the boy that my friend used to talk to me about (the one that teach her the concept of steampunk), and we always try to take care of things, or think of a useful way to manipulate garbage, like make decorations for example.
I would like to invite you to get more information about this, and, if you are not interested in the nineteen century, at least think of taking cafe of your garbage.