Posts Tagged spacecraft

Space Cruiser

Posted by Danielle in Children's Items, Museums, Exhibits & Parks on May 20, 2010

Image courtesy of Plaid Stallions

Okay, this space playground is AWESOME, and I WANT ONE. See the rest here.

And because it does seem amusingly reminiscent of one spaceship in particular, I can’t help myself:

KIRK: This… playground… reminds me of something. What… is it? Report.

UHURA: Captain, several children are hailing us.

SPOCK: Human children behave so illogically.

BONES: [watching children at play] DAMNIT Jim, somebody’s going to get hurt!

SCOTTY: Cap’n! Tha’ ship’s not MOVIN’, sir. It’s just SITTIN’ there, anchored to tha’ GROUND!

CHEKOV: Did you know, playgrounds were invented in Russia?

playgrounds, spacecraft, star trek

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To The Stars!

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on February 12, 2010

First Spaceship on Venus (from the 1960 East Germany/Poland film)

Handpicking a few — just a few — from Dark Roasted Blend’s latest installment of their “Retro Future: To the Stars!” series of fantastic retro space art.

Fragment of the cover of The War Against The Rull by A. E. Van Vogt; image via modern_fred @ Flickr

These three are my favorites from this round; I find the space cowboys especially charming:

Fragment of the Grosset & Dunlap 1950 Book of Model Spaceships

astronauts, retro-futurism, space art, spacecraft, spaceflight, venus

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Spaceship Concepts

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on February 4, 2010

Little Dragon, by teemunkle @ deviantart

I ran across this post of spaceship concept art earlier this week and had to pass the goodness on to you, dear reader! Featured are a few of my favorites.

This one just charms the dickens out of me, I can’t explain why! ↓

USS Flatiron, by Hunterkiller @ deviantart

As for this one, it’s the colors. ↓

Hollow Ship, by Masz-rum @ deviantart

Interesting shape on this one. ↓

Recon Scout, by Aksu @ deviantart

And this one is just… very strange. ↓

Test Ship, by UrbanIndustries @ deviantart

concept art, illustration, spacecraft

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Album Covers, Nagaoka Redux

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on December 4, 2009

Midnight Star: “The Beginning”, 1980, image copyright Shusei Nagaoka

Midnight Star: “The Beginning”, 1980, image © Shusei Nagaoka

More space-faring album covers from Shusei Nagaoka. Check out the rest of his art for an amazing array of bellbottoms, launching into the final frontier….

The Skyliners: “The Love Bug”, 1978, image copyright Shusei Nagaoka

The Skyliners: “The Love Bug”, 1978, image © Shusei Nagaoka

album artwork, illustration, japan, spacecraft

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Album Covers, Nagaoka Edition

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on December 1, 2009

Sun: “Destination Sun”, 1977, image copyright Shusei Nagaoka

It’s been a while since I’ve posted album cover art, and I just couldn’t stop with the Shusei Nagaoka awesomeness. Viva la 1970s!

Deep Purple: “When We Rock, We Rock…”, 1977, image copyright Shusei Nagaoka

album artwork, illustration, japan, spacecraft

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Japanese Futurism

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on November 26, 2009

Star Trek, image copyright Shusei Nagaoka

Another hat-tip to Sci-Fi-O-Rama for showcasing some of the 1970s-80s artwork of Shusei Nagaoka. (Unknowingly I featured his ELO album cover art quite a while ago. He has quite the funky, spacey portfolio going, as far as album covers go!) There is an amazingly hi-res selection of Nagaoka-san’s art at Pink Tentacle — don’t miss it! (It was hard to restrain myself to just two images, I admit. I may yet publish more.)