Edwardian Ball: your Friday steampunk week-chaser

[Video Link] Mark Day shot this lovely HD video (with a Canon 550D T2i) of The Edwardian Ball & World's Faire, San Francisco, with circus from Vau de Vire Society, waist-lines from Dark Garden corsetry, music from Jill Tracy and Rosin Coven, and steam-engines from Kinetic Steam Works. The Los Angeles Edwardian Ball is coming up on March 5th! The "Steampunk helmet filled with live goldfish" video blogged earlier by Cory came from this same event, and from Mark Day.

• [TimDrew]

  Is it just me, or do the ladies seem to be having a much better time than the fellows? Come on, chaps, why so SERIOUS?; it is a party, after all…

  (and yes, that Asian woman is lovely)

• [Anonymous]

  Oh, so you like steampunk?

  Video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1mX8ptsmBM&feature=BF&list=ULO-2uQQ-D8PM&index=2

  Making Of:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-WJxkE2ks&feature=BF&list=ULO-2uQQ-D8PM&index=1

  W

• [brassandlace]

  Great video! I recognized many of the dancers from the Friday Night Waltz/Dickens Fair crowd. I think this is something I’ll definitely have to attend next year.

• [TeaisforTim]

  It’s a shame that they did not go for one of the really excellent American absinthes like St. George or Pacifique. That said, you really can’t go wrong with the classic Pernod.

• [MollyNYC]

  Does anyone know what the name of that piece is?

  (I think it was also the intro music to the old BBC Sherlock Holmes series.)

• [Sweet Zombie Jesus]

  OMG ITS FULL OF HIPSTERS

  • [IsoTop]

    Where are the hipsters?

  • [Anonymous]

    THOSE ARE NOT HIPSTERS. Go out once in a while.

  • [erg79]

    My thoughts exactly.

    1:15 – apparently duckfaces are Edwardian.

• [johnjupiter]

  dark garden’s the bomb!
  http://www.darkgarden.com/

• [jungletek]

  That Asian woman is gorgeous.

• [SimeonW]

  Is steampunk inherently racist? My initial reaction is that it is. That at its core, it is a fantasy about a time of exploration and invention, but that was a time really all about exploitation, and racist, classist, and other self-serving assumption masquerading as science. So, maybe the manservant is mechanical now in these genre, instead of a dark skinned boy, but the underpinnings are none the less ugly.

  I mean this as a question, and I am open to having my mind changed.

  • [erg79]

    Your comment reminded me of a recent comment Bike Snob NYC had on tweed rides (if you don’t know, tweed rides are group bike rides where people dress up in old suits and dresses):

    I’ve long wondered why people consider so-called “tweed rides” a form of bicycle advocacy or how they’re supposed to make normal people want to start cycling. Sure, when I see a bunch of white people dressed up like it’s the 1800s I think of a lot of things, but none of them are cycling-related and most of them are bad. Just a few things that spring to mind for me are:

    –Colonialism
    –Segregation
    –Child Labor
    –Sexual Repression
    –Polio

    http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/01/boss-tweed-changing-streets-one-dandy.html

• [MrWednesday]

  It’s “Danse Macabre” by Saint Saens. Also used on the show “Tales of the Unexpected”.