Patrick Sean Farley ([info]pfarley) wrote,
@ 2009-06-25 13:44:00
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Flintpunk: Spread the Meme
Now that Steampunk is passe, I'm looking to get the jump on the next retro-slipstream novelty: FLINTPUNK. But before I develop any new creative properties, it's only right to look back and give a shout-out to those early pioneers:



Note: the woman on the left (Ika) is Rae Dawn Chong from the movie "Quest for Fire." You can watch excerpts on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/quest-for-fire

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[info]_w_o_o_d_
2009-06-25 08:49 pm UTC (link)
Ika, without the shadow of a doubt.

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[info]shingkhor
2009-06-25 09:08 pm UTC (link)
My vote's for Ayla.

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(Anonymous)
2009-06-25 09:14 pm UTC (link)
Ika.

A certain degree of grubbiness is to flintpunk what brass is to steampunk.

Ayla is therefore a damn poseur.

-- Stefan

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[info]squidb0i
2009-06-25 09:39 pm UTC (link)
I don't know who Ika is, but my natural inclination is there.
Daryl Hannah's Kiss make up just doesn't do it.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Ika is from "Quest for Fire," played by the immortal Rae Dawn Chong.

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[info]squidb0i
2009-06-25 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Aaah, never did see that, forgot about it.
Maybe it's time to rent it..

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[info]bahboh
2009-06-26 12:24 am UTC (link)
One of my favorites movies. And easily the best caveman movie ever made.

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[info]squidb0i
2009-06-26 05:18 am UTC (link)
Two ungabungas up!

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[info]sixteenbynine
2009-06-25 09:40 pm UTC (link)
I was always more of a Punk-punk person, myself.

Of course, eventually that'll be passé, but wait long enough and it'll be rediscovered in the nostalgia craze known as Punkpunk-punk.

This meme goes on forever.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 09:45 pm UTC (link)
Somewhere online there must be a detailed etymology of the word "cyberpunk" but I'm too lazy to google it right now.

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[info]juniper200
2009-06-25 09:44 pm UTC (link)
It's Ayla. My reasoning is as follows: Whenever her flint-knapper paramour Jondalar starts banging rocks together, Auel always refers to "nodules" of flint. Not pieces, not chunks, flint nodules. "Nodule" is also the term she has chosen to assign to Ayla's love button during the formulaic every-75-pages sex scenes.

Bitch is so flintcore, her clit's a rock.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 09:48 pm UTC (link)
FLINTCORE! You've made my epoch :-)

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 09:49 pm UTC (link)
That being said, Ika *did* invent the BJ.

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[info]juniper200
2009-06-25 09:51 pm UTC (link)
And Ayla is the one who made the sex=babies connection. I can't tell if that contributes to or detracts from her score.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Among the Neanderthals it was widely regarded as a buzzkill.

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i can only wish to be as flintpunk as ayla
[info]elena_marie
2009-06-25 11:13 pm UTC (link)
the innovator of flint-spark fire-making
and animal husbandry
and smooshing the parents names together to make the kids name
and is/will be the first cross-species ambassador for those meany cro-magnons who stole the lascaux caves from the neanderthals

(i wonder how long it will take for the next book to come out)

but i havent seen the ika movie, so i have no basis for comparison either...

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Re: i can only wish to be as flintpunk as ayla
[info]pfarley
2009-06-25 11:24 pm UTC (link)
You can watch clips of "Quest for Fire" on Hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/quest-for-fire

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[info]kineticfactory
2009-06-25 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I'm still waiting for mid-20th-century modernist fetishism to come back, so I can call it Helvetipunk.

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[info]squidb0i
2009-06-26 05:20 am UTC (link)
XD nice one



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[info]stutefish
2009-06-26 03:02 pm UTC (link)
At the very least, this needs to be a t-shirt.

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[info]lunesse
2009-06-26 12:18 am UTC (link)
Wow, you live?

Flintpunk? HAH.

Wow, steampunk is passe already... amazing. that was fast.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-26 12:23 am UTC (link)
I do in fact live :) Sorry to have been out of touch for all this time... Your little boy must be driving already!

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[info]agrumer
2009-06-26 12:23 am UTC (link)
Fast? It's been twenty goddamn years!

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[info]lunesse
2009-06-26 12:56 am UTC (link)
Not that it's been "in." In existence...yes. :)

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[info]bahboh
2009-06-26 12:26 am UTC (link)
Was steampunk EVER cool?

Steampunk is for people who got tired of D&D but don't want to give up their trenchcoats.

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[info]pfarley
2009-06-26 12:41 am UTC (link)
"Was steampunk EVER cool?"

I'm told you can now buy steampunk merchandise at Hot Topic. Make of that what you will.

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[info]lunesse
2009-06-26 12:56 am UTC (link)
Have you done a search on steampunk on etsy or ebay? oy.

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[info]squidb0i
2009-06-26 05:19 am UTC (link)
Means its offciallly dead, and corporations are now sodomizing the corpse.

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[info]_w_o_o_d_
2009-06-26 10:10 am UTC (link)
It was cool in the 80's when Tim Powers wrote "Anubis' Gates" and KW Jeter wrote "Infernal Devices"

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[info]mister_borogove
2009-06-26 01:03 am UTC (link)
Put me down for Ika.

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[info]ndgmtlcd
2009-06-26 05:34 am UTC (link)
I think that the flintpunkiest is Tahra in the poster for the movie "Teenage Cavegirl".

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1082301696/tt0438484

But I tend to look outside of movies so the overall flintpunk winner for me is Dawn in the series "Dawn of Time".

http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/

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Ika!!!
[info]greengestalt
2009-06-26 03:11 pm UTC (link)
Saw "Quest for Fire" as a kid... No, really... Guess my parents were taking me to a movie without the occult, slashers or naked chicks... Hehehe.


She also did an awesome Playboy pictoral! She's a real mixed race brown girl and looks simply beautiful.

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Ever read "Troubletown"? 90s (and I think still active) comic. It actually predicted this in 93 or 96... "Future Fashion trends" having "Retro" go to its logical extreme. A bunch of naked and muddy people are sitting around a fire and the awkward person who's clean and wearing a clean fur like a toga and carrying a carved/laminated club goes "Uh, hey guys, may I join your fire?" and they go "Ooot! Grunt Creeech! hahahaha" which means "Go away you Flintstones wanna-be! hahaahah"


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And, btw, sometimes I wonder if these memes are "Pyschic".

What I've been cognating in my spare time recently is the "working plan" for modular floating concrete islands (and vertical gardens) to escape AmeriKKKa before it collapses, hopefully...


And, for all that work if I escaped civilization, what would I do?


Well, I'd probably run naked as a primitive on my modular island, even though beneath it in the floating concrete blocks I kept my tools and tech and art/music stuff. I could still put on "Slave clothes" meaning clothes to do business, but I'd be otherwise fuzzy with a beard and occasionally getting chicken bones tangled in my knee hair. Maybe sometimes I'd wear an oversize retro T-Shirt of my favorite Muppet, "Animal"...

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what are we then, Peak Oil Punk ?
(Anonymous)
2009-06-29 10:57 am UTC (link)
I was trying to figure out what period steampunk actually covers. I guess it's just retro-futuristic neo-Victorianism, so that would be about 1830-1900. I'm not sure "dieselpunk" is really a legitimate concept, I mean trains and ships are diesel-powered TODAY. I was also trying to think of what would come just BEFORE steampunk. There were no trains before steam, but before steamships there were ...

"Sailpunk"?

Well, we all know the other word for "sailpunks," of course.

Are there sci-fi pirate stories?

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Who is more Flintpunk
(Anonymous)
2009-07-09 08:01 pm UTC (link)
AYLA!

There was just something about that novel that made me get into it, even before Darryl Hannah made the film. When the film came out liked it also. Don't care about the "Unrealistic" liked it anyway.

Loved all of those novels in that series; knew they were all "Not realistic" to the actual time period, but hey it's called "fiction" and why complain about reality if the novel is dragging you into the characters and making them seem real.

Fred L. Tate

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