things related to sound, visual art, architecture, modernism, music, design, fluxus, 78's, literature, film, ephemera, and much more ...basically a space to share "the collection", much of which serves as inspiration for my work...
on the 50th anniversary of gagarin's space flight, here are 2 different souvenir 7" records of gagarin's transmission from space... you can listen to the recording by clicking here.
Labels: 50th anniversaries, 7" records, juri gagarin, moon, yuri gagarin
a photo of a model of a british space ship, from a 1947 architecture magazine. the model was presented in the "future" section of the "britain can make it" exhibition of the same year .
the design was by warnett kennedy, here are some of his ideas:
"the design is neither complete fantasy nor it is immediately practicable. it is, however, a "design fantasy" based on legitimate scientific assumptions... my problem as a designer, was to obtain an esthetically satisfying solution of a technical problem... the spherical shape was the result of the following considerations:...to find a shape designed to travel at low speed in air and at high speed in airless space...the sphere gives the greatest strength-weight ration and resistance to shock... by analogy, all bodies traveling in airless space are spherical...the sphere is one of the basic sculptural elements and one which i find partiuclarly satisfying... the transparent outter shell can be likened to the invisible ceiling surrounding our planet..."
Labels: architecture models, geodesic domes, moon, space ships, warnett kennedy
zones
phases of the moon
an eclipse of the moon
the seasons
a few hand drawn notes, diagrams, and maps from a kid's notebook dated 1910. the cover states: these notes are taken from taken from young folk's astronomy. i hope little rudolph pelunis got a good grade on his book report, because these drawings are pretty darn wonderful...
Labels: astronomy, kindergarten, maps, moon, space
