Shuttle Launch Seen From ISS
October 24th, 2006 | photography
These images came to me via a string of friends-of-friends-of-friends: shots of a Space Shuttle launch as seen from the International Space Station.
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Arthur C. Clarke?s 1964 Predictions for Today
Coilhouse - 09 Sep 10
BBC’s Horizon is a philosophical and scientific series that still runs today. Its opening episode in 1964 featured Coilhouse patron saint, Buckminster Fuller, along with the program’s mission statement:
The aim of Horizon is to provide a platform from which some of the world’s greatest scientists and philosophers can communicate their curiosity, observations and reflections, and infuse into our common knowledge their changing views of the universe.
Later that year, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was invited to share his visions of the future. Some are scary, warning us of the world becoming a giant suburb – right up there with the terror of Idiocracy, which still gives my nightmares. Some are encouraging, though yet-unrealized. My favorite speculations include: domed communities on icecaps, holidays under the sea, planetary engineering, and my top favorite remains recording directly onto the brain [please, yes?].
Though we’re running out of time to camp on either of the Poles, who’s to say at least some of us won’t be vacationing on the Moon in a fifty years? After all, Clarke’s prediction of us communicating instead of commuting was dead on, cryogenics are in full swing, and The Replicator exists, if only as 3D printing and spimes, for now. Watch the segment below in two parts, then see also:
- Mark Roth Talks About Suspended Animation
- David Forbes’ All Tomorrows posts
- Ray Bradbury (Reluctantly) Sells Prunes of the Future
- Fashion – 2000 A.D.
I have to disagree with one statement though: “Organic evolution is over”. When we’re using at least 80% of our brains, I’ll consider it.
[Thanks, Disinfo]
Post tags: Crackpot Visionary, Future, Misinformation, Robots, Sci-fi, Science, Television, Ye Olde
JOURNAL: Koran Burning
John Robb - 09 Sep 10
The "Koran Burning" event is a interesting example of some global guerrilla themes.
An unexpected global event occurs. What caused it? The event was produced by an individual, relatively powerless by traditional standards. However, since this is the 21st Century, this individual is able to use unfettered access to a global super-network to leverage and amplify his actions. The event he creates disrupts established global social networks and puts them into turmoil. That turmoil creates the opportunity and sustenance needed to activate dozens of small subnetworks/groups. As these groups interact, a new dynamic is formed.
Inter // States
Coilhouse - 09 Sep 10
Samuel Cockedey’s time-lapse of Tokyo has been making the rounds, and many of you may have already seen it, but it deserves to be enshrined here. Set to “Paradigm Flux” by Paul Frankland, aka Woob, it’s just the right thing for a quick afternoon break.
via Pink Tentacle
San Diego: On A Boat/MC Hammer Crab Dance
Kieron Gillen - 09 Sep 10
It must be the week for it. CBR and Comics Alliance have both lobbed up some footage from San Diego.
The CBR one is a quite hefty interview of me, on a boat. Topics include the just announced Generation Hope, Phonogram, being behind the scenes at marvel and the word “y’know” used as a comma.
Or you could watch it bigger here.
Meanwhile Comics Alliance interviews several luminaries about their strangest San Diego experiences. Wherein I am prompted to do a MC Hammer Crab dance.
Because I’m slutty like that. Watch it larger here.
Monocle Mediterraneo Missteps
Jean Snow - 08 Sep 10
I finally received my issue of the Monocle Mediterraneo summer newspaper today, but it wasn’t easy. I ordered it in early August, and after a month going by with still no paper in my mailbox (they promise delivery in two weeks) I finally decided to get in touch on Monday. To their credit, they immediately got back to me, and said that they would send me another copy using registered mail, and it has arrived today (although I suspect it may just be the original issue that was mailed out, which would mean it took 5 weeks for delivery).
The reason I bring this up is because from the feedback I’ve gotten through Twitter after I started wondering “out loud” where my issue was, I got quite a few responses from others having similar problems, so my example is far from being an isolated case. What’s to blame? Is it the UK mail service? It is rather disappointing to receive a copy of something that celebrates summer in September, a frustration compounded by the fact that a few weeks ago I stopped by the Monocle Shop in Aoyama and saw it sold for 500 yen — ordering it online costs 7 pounds, which is almost double. Quite surprising considering that the Japan cover price for regular issues of Monocle is 2310 yen (almost $30), which itself is ridiculous.
But despite these complaints, it really is a beautiful thing. The paper’s smell may have turned into a joke, but its pages really do have a great, almost nostalgic odor. I love the format and the size, and would really like to see more publications/magazines use it — and it sounds like we can already expect Monocle to repeat the experiment during the winter holidays.
Test Patterns Are Everywhere (in the Industry)
Jean Snow - 08 Sep 10
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the use of test patterns as a graphical element, many people reminded me on Twitter that it’s still very much in use in the industry (video and TV production) or film school, and so a lot of people still deal with these quite regularly, so it’s not that far fetched to still be in use as a graphical association with the medium. I guess we should treat it the same way a film reel is still often used to represent anything that relates to movies.
Remembering Ana Mendieta
Coilhouse - 08 Sep 10
Tonight, I can’t stop thinking about one of the more influential, yet relatively obscure artists at work during the post-Happenings decade. Ana Mendieta:
From Ana Mendieta’s “Body Tracks” series, 1970s.
It’s all too easy to scoff at raw, bloody, chthonic feminist performance art these days. Hell, it’s all too easy to scoff at just about anything that whiffs of pussy power. After all, this is 2010! No need for histrionics, right? We’ve been liberated, reborn. We’re fierce and comfortable, right? We’ve seen it all a hundred times before… rrrriiiiiight?
Then again, what Alice Miller said about scorn holds a lot of sway: ?Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.? In light of that assessment, whether one chooses to roll their eyes or not, Mendieta’s (earth-)body of work, and the circumstances under which she died, resonate as much right now as they did in the 1970s and early 80s. (Although, come to think of it, there were plenty of eye-rollers then, too.)
In any case, on the 15th anniversary of her mysterious death, I’m lighting candles for Ana Mendieta and wondering what comes next.
(Read more after the jump.)
Read the rest of Remembering Ana Mendieta
Post tags: Adornment, Art, Flora & Fauna, Gender, Grrrl, Memento Mori, Multiculti, Revolutionary, Sculpture, Sexuality
Cthulhu Cthursday: The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival(s)
Ectoplasmosis - 08 Sep 10
That’s right. Los Angeles this weekend. Portland, Oregon next month. Can’t say I’ve been, unfortunately, but always hear about good stuff getting screened at the fest.
After you watch Mike Boas’ promo above, you can check out the official site for the festivals.
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Promo by Mike Boas [Youtube]
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NEXT 2010 talk
Open The Future - 08 Sep 10
I was in Denmark last week, speaking at NEXT 2010. The subject... geoengineering (dun dun DUN).
Here's the talk.
When I watched a part of it, the sound was off-sync with the video, so fair warning.
And fun game for any of my talks: count the "Jazz Hands"!
my lord.
[...] Shuttle Launch, As Seen From ISS By tiki god in Science Fiction | These come from Warren Ellis‘ blog, and were cool enough that I wanted to share them with the WORLD. [...]
I know. It’s like, all of a sudden I like the ISS, you know?
How breathtaking.
I love the timestamps down in the right corner. It’s like my MOM is on the ISS and she just happened to grab her Minolta one-shot in time to add the shuttle launch shot to her holiday photos.
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[...] WARREN ELLIS “[writer of] comic books and graphic novels, videogames, animation, books, screenplays, tv and anything else he can steal money for,” was cool enough to get these from a friend of a friend. They’re a shot of the Space Shuttle lifting off as seen from the International Space Station [...]
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[...] via Warren Ellis [...]
These are not pictures taken from the International Space Station as it flew over Europa at the time of launch. These pictures are taken from an airliner bound for South America.
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A shame…
Its a shame, all these people on the Internet think this stunning image taken of a Space Shuttle launch was taken from the Space Station. It was actually taken by one of the space program’s high altitude research plane. It……
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