But this doesn’t get to the root of our collective angst, nor does it help us move forward. As capitalism swallows itself and any chance of a future beyond it, it’s easy to feel like the Future = Bad. To answer that question, we need to dial back to a time when technology, and its advancement, felt like it had real revolutionary potential.
With the mid-aughts making a comeback in terms of indie music, Tumblr aesthetics and the emo revival, we find ourselves thinking: what’s next? From Y2K to Indie Sleaze, we’ve experienced an endless rehashing of old aesthetics repackaged in TikTok-friendly formats and hailed by online commentators as the Next Big Thing. It had to be stretched and low, so I modified the frame to get that long look.By now, we’re all familiar with the relentless cycle of trends that are infiltrating the internet – and our minds. I saw the hand-built bikes from guys like Indian Larry or Billy Lane and wanted to take that route with something between the old digger look and a chopper. After building the mechanism, I started acquiring stuff from there, and the steampunk theme just sort of happened. Morrow explained, “I had the thought of doing a skeleton key ignition motorcycle but became obsessed with it. While it’s not powered by steam, the ironhead chopper from tattoo artist, Ray Morrow, was originally born from an idea for the ignition but snowballed out of control into what you see now. Although the stories were typically set in the wild west, the gritty mechanical theme just feels like a possible parallel universe of the Steel City. The retro-futuristic industrial style was glorified during the twentieth century through science fiction and fantasy and often represented with the likes of gears, brass, and Victorian-era influences. There’s something about steampunk design that seems to fit well with Pittsburgh’s history. Published in Pittsburgh Moto - Issue No.
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