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Walking on Landmines

Video for The Action Design’s Landmines. Directed by Mike Sloat. From the album Never Say.

The Action Design’s website.

And
Band vocalist Emily Whitehurst (and Doug Elkins) runs a silkscreen shop out of Petaluma, CA; specializing in merch for bands. Shirts, albums, stickers. Just click on the image below for more info/shop.

Video found via Shandi Pierzina

The graphic design jellyfish

Over the years, I’ve done many variations of each of these.

Found via James Saturnio

Simon and David

‘Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.’

Here’s another snarky client/designer email exchange, this time between Simon Edhouse and David Thorne.

Read here.

Pie charts included.

Found via Justin Nelson

Client from hell: Mike

‘This is without a doubt the nuttiest, most epic email exchange I’ve ever had with a prospective ‘client’, made more so by the fact I only responded to the guy once and he kept going.’

This isn’t my story, I found it at the Clients From Hell blog.

But  . . .  I’ve had similar experiences. One just a few years ago. Wonder if it was the same guy.

Just read thru the posts. Start here.

What type are you?

Find out here.

Found via Twitter.com/FontSiteDiva

A Volta

Video for N.A.S.A.’s A Volta, featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank and Lovefoxxx. Directed by Logan, with art by The Date Farmers. From the album The Spirit of Apollo.

‘We have the technology’

Part 1 of 4

‘Steve Austin, astronaut; a man barely alive’

Pilot for The Six Million Dollar Man (1973).

Some trivia. A Bionic Wiki. And here’s Lee Majors’ latest bionic gig.

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Found via RenaudMan

Lunch at IKEA

No IKEA nearby? Here’s a recipe.

Illustration by Lunchbreath.

Meatballs, worms and bugs


NASA Meatball

Here’s a brief history of NASA’s logos, including the ‘meatball’ (above) and the ‘worm’ (below).

The worm was put to rest in 1992. If you wish, condolences can be left here.


NASA Worm

When it comes to official type, NASA is Helvetica, Futura, Times, Garamond and something  . . .  Victorian?

Article here.

Plus
Here’s a look at some goofy names for some other classic ‘bugs.’

50 years of space exploration

Click on the images to explore/make bigger/jump.

Interactive edition here.

Art by Sean McNaughton, National Geographic Staff; Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics

Historic rocket science


NASA STS-1, April 12, 1981

In 1981, I woke up in the middle of the night to watch the launch of the first space shuttle.

And then they scrubbed the mission.

Had to wake up a second night to see the actual launch (above). I recorded the whole thing on a cassette tape (my first VCR was still a year away). Frank Reynolds of ABC did the blow by blow. It was the Columbia. Got the mission patch when visiting NASA in Mountain View. Star Wars-like lettering for the name (below).

We all thought the shuttle launch would look like what they did in Moonraker (1979). It was a bit different.

Tonight, I just finished watching the launch of Endeavour (below). This is the last year of shuttles for NASA. More stuff on NASA TV here.


NASA STS-130, February 8, 2010

Thx to Shandi Pierzina for telling me about tonite’s launch


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