Posts under ‘This & That’

The art of NASA

Eyewitness to Space: paintings and drawing by various artists done in the sixties, when space travel used to be really exciting. Via things.

In March 1962, James Webb, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, suggested that artists be enlisted to document the historic effort to send the first human beings to the moon. John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art, was among those who applauded the idea, urging that artists be encouraged “…not only to record the physical appearance of the strange new world which space technology is creating, but to edit, select and probe for the inner meaning and emotional impact of events which may change the destiny of our race.”

Watercolour painting showing the Apollo Command Module being lifted out of the sea

By Chet Jezierski, © NASA

May 28th, 2012

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Away

I’ll be chasing some eggs over Easter.

Apr 4th, 2012

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Papers from down under

Hundreds of Australia’s newspapers, all digitised.

Image of The Australian Abo Call, July 1938.

Mar 22nd, 2012

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Busy

Blogging will continue fas soon as I find the time.

Mar 1st, 2012

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Away

Blogging will continue end of next week.

Old poster at Leytonstone Tube Station

Oct 6th, 2011

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Studio, studio

Working on something. And many thanks to Rocky for the original Magic Marker!

Lights, Camera, Action.

Sep 21st, 2011

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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Thanks to the Random Image below, my uncle sent me some photos of his collection, which is most probably stacked together on shelves in a tiny place somewhere in his loft. I find it extraordinary and wish I had only one of those chirping things sitting on my desk, which mostly are operating with high-voltage heater tubes or something close to that. This is almost steam punk. No, in fact this is steam punk; enjoy.

Photo © Clemens Echt

Aug 19th, 2011

by Ralf Zeigermann.

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To the Moon

Apologies for the lack of blogging, but the recent events in London and the rest of the UK had me glued to Twitter and Television. Now here we go:

Over at Sci-Fi-O-Rama. Via @SandiV.

Something of a special feature here, original photography scanned from the breathtakingly beautiful ‘Too The Moon’ (Time-Life 1969) an audio and visual chronology that documents NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and (of course) Apollo projects. ‘Too The Moon’ includes 6 doubled sided 12? Vinyl’s full of famous radio transmissions and interviews, plus an accompanying 190 page slip case book, and that’s the focus of this post.