Archive for category Art & Architecture
Agoraphobia
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on January 24, 2012
Agoraphobia © Austin Kleon
I’ve only just been introduced to the newspaper-blackout poetry of Austin Kleon — I love this one, ever so much. Buy the print here.
3000 Miles from the Moon
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Picspam on November 30, 2011
And what a lovely view it is, so close to the Moon. How I wish I could vacation there….
Artwork by David Hardy, image via x-ray delta one.
More Retro-Future
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Picspam on November 9, 2011
Galactic Manoeuvre, by Nikolai Nedbailo
Two more Russian retro-future images, because I just can’t get enough of this stuff. Image quality isn’t the best on these, but they’re still beautiful to look at! Images courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend.
Russia on the Moon
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Picspam on November 4, 2011
To Other Worlds! - Detgiz, Russia
A beautiful illustration from the 1950s of a Russian expedition to the lunar surface. Ah, that retro-future! Image courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend.
Blue Quasar 9000
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Picspam on September 30, 2011
My personal opinion of rockets is, the POINTIER, the BETTER. This Retro Rocket art print by Michael Murdock fits the bill nicely!
Space in 1938
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on September 22, 2011
Would NOT want to be the guy pulling the lever, seems like you might get a little toasty when it takes off….
Posted by x-ray delta one, with permission from Paul Malon.
Young Ivan Learns About Space
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on September 15, 2011
Image courtesy of x-ray delta one @ Flickr
An intriguing illustration from 1970 shows a young boy (who reminds me ever so much of Ivan, the protagonist of The Humpbacked Horse), learning about the Earth and Moon. A Soviet rocket model stands in the foreground. Learn well, young Ivan!
Shuttles
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Perspectives on August 26, 2011
I mentioned on Twitter last week that I noticed the other day, all of the space shuttles I drew in high school happened to be either Discovery or Atlantis, the two launches I saw in person. (Strange coinkydink, dontcha think?) @deliciousblur asked me to post them, so here they are (belatedly.) I have a much larger Atlantis in a frame which I may scan in future (if it’s easy to remove and put back, that is. Pen and ink pointillism is sorta my thing, by the by. Hope you like them!
Rocketship Galileo
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on July 15, 2011
1947 - Rocketship Galileo, by x-ray delta one, on Flickr
There is something so simple, yet so fantastic about this illustration by artist Tom Voter — I love it! (I prefer Heinlein’s older works, I’ll have to try this one out.)
Grissom and Young
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on July 5, 2011
Grissom and Young, by Norman Rockwell, 1965, Oil on canvas. Courtesy Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing, Niles, IL.
A beautifully-detailed work by Norman Rockwell, a snapshot of the crew preparations before the first Gemini mission. Rockwell is a master of capturing the “moment”, in my opinion – those little spaces of time that happen in the course of greater things. He paints people being… people. Even astronauts are people.
Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are suited for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA loaned Norman Rockwell a Gemini spacesuit in order to make this painting as accurate as possible.
This work is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Mall building from May 28 to Oct. 9, 2011, as part of the NASA | Art: 50 Years of Exploration exhibition.
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