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Microwave Tower

Alexander Calder in Popular Science Magazine, 1954

The Shirk Report – Volume 608 » TwistedSifter

The video chip can vary by region (TMS9118NL / TMS9129NL), while sound is handled by the YM2149F PSG. It wasn’t the most powerful MSX model, but its Sony styling, colorful variants, and iconic look are exactly why it became such a cult favorite.

NASA's Reduced Gravity Simulator at Langley Research Center, 1965.

Wacky Packages stickers - Topps (1979 reissue)

"Known affectionately among collectors as Wacky Packs, the Topps stickers that parodied well-known consumer brands were a phenomenon in the 1970s―even outselling the Topps Company’s baseball cards for a while. But few know that the genius behind it all was none other than Art Spiegelman―the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novelist who created Maus." -this book

The IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit (1964-1977)

SR-71 & Pilots in Full Pressure Suits at Lockheed Martin, Late 1980’s. Photo by Eric Schulzinger .

The Shadow by Michael Wm. Kaluta.

PROMETHEUS (variant) by Grzegorz “Gabz” Domaradzki

The Artemis II crew have on their tablets the Lunar Targeting Plan. A survey software designed to guide them on how to take the precise required pictures of the moon and write and record their thoughts about what they observe. If I could do something at Nasa I think I could help with something like this. At least design the UI buttons.

Blade Runner concept art by Syd Mead, as seen in Fantastic Films, June 1982.

Jack Kirby

Artwork by Robert Tinney. 1982.

Astronaut, Cliff Rowe (1960)

1953 Illustration Poster Herbert Bayer Olivetti Typewriter