Filed under: history | Tags: hifi citizens, his master's spaceship, selling invention, stereos
“The Age of Space is here–and now, RCA Victor brings you sound in space! Stereophonic sound!”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: made in usa, manned spaceflight awareness, space manufacturing, space south project, that's what chemicals can do!
I’ve started pulling Manned Spaceflight Awareness poster images from ebay auctions (that seems to be the only reasonable way to see what they looked like in decent image quality if you’re not in Adelphi)–these are, I think, one of the most fascinating artifacts of the space program, since they show not only NASA’s internal self-image but are a visual representation of the importance of not just engineers, astronomers, and astronauts, but the physical limits of what’s possible for the manufacturing and assembly workers that actually realized the planned artifacts.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: brave little toaster, concepts of sf, rocket ships, thomas m disch
–Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, 1998.
Filed under: comics, future history, history, science fiction | Tags: bruce mccall, formative experiences, future history, outdated technology, remembering the future, retrofuturism, science fiction traditions, the bomber will always get through, ugh ted, web two point boring
but still, I gotta post this:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1953, americana, coloring, puppys!, you know--for kids
Tommy's spaceship! From X-Ray Delta One!
Filed under: future history, history, science fiction | Tags: retrofuturism, technology and youth, ussr
anyways here’s a link for now: more TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUTH magazine covers!
Filed under: science fiction, teevee | Tags: bad sf, lost, stephen lang, terra nova, waaalt, we have to go back in time
being a brief review of Terra Nova
Filed under: music | Tags: dawn of correction, dawn of instruction, eve of destruction, everyone likes bob dylan, novelty music, nuclear songs, rhyming!, sixties
Sure, “Dawn of Correction” is pretty famous, but what about “Dawn of Instruction”?
It’s a marginally better song, but I think that’s just because it more closely plagiarizes the original–instead of that weird atonal thing the Spokesmen do in the chorus of “Correction.” And did the Spokesmen really think the thing that made Dylan popular was a lot of stereo effects and reverb? Well, I guess it might have been.
Plus Dave White (the frowny Spokesman) looks sort of like a pudgy Vincent Kartheiser, no?
Filed under: history | Tags: apollo, fire!, john c stennis sc, louisiana, saturn v
Static test fire, John C. Stennis SC, January 1, 1967
