The real thing.
Sunday, January 7th, 2007So the X-Prize in Seattle was cool — but the actual Space Ship One is now hanging in the Smithsonian — a tad cooler. Right between The Spirit of St. Louis and the X-1.
So the X-Prize in Seattle was cool — but the actual Space Ship One is now hanging in the Smithsonian — a tad cooler. Right between The Spirit of St. Louis and the X-1.
On a quick visit to Seattle I came across this award for going into space:
And these little models, of the ship that did:
Just taking a moment to share this pretty view of Earth I found while playing with 3D Weather Globe and Atlas.
I was looking for the Saab factory, of course.
Years ago I lived in a very nice live-work loft in Oakland — it really loved the large open space and tons of windows. It had huge walls — and so I made some artwork for them. Using my medium of skill, Photoshop, I created a whirl of color on a black background. And then [...]
As a special celebration for the opening of the completely re-built de Young museum — it stay open all night long with dancing and DJs. A wonderful San Francisco event with literally hundreds of thousands of folk.
This morning we enjoyed the first showing of Serenity, opening today. It was very shiny.
Yay, Joss.
This week Mark and I decided we couldn’t wait any longer for vacation. We had to take one now. We had to get away and do nothing, or nearly nothing, for at least a whole day. So we booked ourselves a yuppie tent on the Pacific Coast at Costanoa, quickly re-scheduled our work, and took [...]
I’ve been asked a few times, “why so many blogs, why not just one?” as if having lots of blogs is lots of trouble.
I guess that’d just be too disorganized for me. I like my blogs to tell stories and I like them to have different personalities. So I have them for different parts of [...]
I’ve rediscovered my passion for building thing out of little Danish blocks. Okay so currently I’m in the Star Wars phase, but I intend to go beyond it into crazy new places.
Part of the joy of logos — at lest when building from the pre-designed sets — are the complex kits. And when I learned [...]
Yes my favorite TV show is coming to the big screen. Joss Whedon’s sci-fi series is coming back in the feature film Serenity. And here’s the first broadsheet!
Interesting that River is so prominent — always suspected that her mysteriousness would be the central plot of the film. Opening September 30th.