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starsofyesteryear: Probably one of my favorite pictures of all time, Saturn V rocket getting arranged on the launch pad, nine of these took us to the moon, in the 1960’s and 70’s with primitive computers and most math skills being done purely from the operator’s own heads, this one pictured here was actually for the launch of Apollo 13, the recovery of which should definitely go down as a miracle of human spirit and history
ephemeralol: Robert Irwin, untitled, 1971
mdme-x: The Weather Yesterday by Troika
mdme-x: Zimoun | sound installation | Dottikon, Switzerland | toluene tank The permanent installation uses 329 of the artist’s trademark prepared dc-motors and cotton balls that have been affixed to the walls of an abandoned chemical tank, and relied on contributions from Hannes Zweifel Architecture, Davide Groppi, and many others. The result is a whirring, rhythmic soundscape that is completely camouflaged within an old factory. Zimoun’s artist statement: Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.
angrywhistler: NastPlas
solongas: 3000