9/9/2009
MICHAEL STRAND
When President Barack Obama presented an iPod to Queen Elizabeth II, it looked like any other iPod.
But what would such a device have looked like had it been President Abraham Lincoln presenting a music-playback device to Queen Victoria?
And what would that 19th century queen’s television device have looked like? And, in some alternate reality, might duels have been settled by giant ray guns?
Welcome to the world — or worlds — of “steampunk,” a movement that brings together artists and geeks who create artifacts of futures that never quite were.
Salina’s first steampunk art show opens Oct. 1 at Bergen Studio, 320 N. Santa Fe, as part of the monthly First Thursday Art Rush downtown, and will run through the month of October.


Read more about the steampunk art show in Thursday's Salina Journal.