Matt Mlodzienski

@cobaltwolf.bsky.social

He/Him. Space geek. 3D Artist. Author of Bluedog Design Bureau for KSP. Father of four lizards. Possibly a cryogenic balloon stage

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

Bild

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

Just sent in my LANYARD part 2 article along with a couple of dozen photos. I was looking for a good opener photo for the article. Could not find something great, but then stumbled across these images that I scanned from a Douglas Thor promotional booklet from the mid-1960s. I'm using one of these.

BildBild

A couple more images of the KH-6 LANYARD camera system. One image shows both the film supply and takeup reels at the front of the camera. That takeup reel would have been mounted inside a reentry vehicle. Other photo shows the image reflecting mirror that looked down at Earth, and the camera lens.

BildBild

Today is the NINTH ANNIVERSARY of CTC. This was a big year - from Food That Built America on the History Channel to Good Morning America to some huge McDonald's buying trips. I'm motivated to make the final year of my first decade the best one yet, so stay tuned!

Bild

A Viking art related footnote... Author and flying saucer photo fabricator Billy Meier, in a video represented as showing photos from his space voyage, used stuff from books as things he claimed to see on a 'space trip'. One of these was a painting of the Viking orbiter that I did in 1975 for NASA!

A bizarre tale was brought to my attention not long ago about a European flying saucer evangelist who claimed he had been taken aboard one and transported through space and time. Normally I wouldn't have found such a claim worthy of notice but while looking through a referenced 'extraordinary claim' video I noticed that Billy Meier shamelessly used various images from NASA in his presentation of still images he claimed to take on his 'space trip'. One of these was a painting of the Viking orbiter that I did in 1975 for NASA.  In his video presentation he shows photos made off a TV monitor of images from books taken with a camcorder. 
 I am amused that one of my works was ID'd as an alien spacecraft. It is astonishing that he thought no one would call out such a blatantly fabricated presentation. In the early 1970s that fellow faked a bunch of photos of flying saucers apparently using models etc. against European countryside, which were published in a big coffee table book  I remember seeing in bookstores in the early 70s 'UFO...Contact from the Pleiades'.
 I remember being amused at the amateur quality of the flying saucer photos in that book. They were defocused enough to cover some sins of fabrication like strings, or were consistent with thrown models. It would be informative to examine the original negatives of his camera photos to see the ratio of used vs discarded photos of thrown models. The sheer quantity of his claimed flying saucer photos is suspicious, as if something extraordinary was going out of its way to be repeatedly photographed by him.
 Here is the video presentation if you want to suffer through it. It's a poor quality video of Billy Meier flipping through a photo album of photo prints apparently photographed from a TV screen showing camcorder views of varied space images, mainly from NASA releases. At 0:47 my Viking orbiter art appears. At 5:01 a Pteranodon painting by Zdenek Burian is unmistakable. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJCsPxYSuA

i'm convinced that the reason this shit happens is because investors, the people who actually run companies under capitalism, are fucking stupid and don't understand that a thing not changing is actually good, it means the thing works

Post nicht verfügbar.

Even more visitors will be flocking to Iceland for the solar eclipse, so here’s a much-requested phrase in Icelandic (“Hello. I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”). Icelandic pronunciation tips: youtu.be/ivLPqkEaKOI

lmao if you drive while wielding a one-handed weapon, Mike holds it in his free hand. If you drive while wielding a two-handed weapon, he drives with his foot. Good stuff, good stuff. This is what immersive sims should be.

BildBild