In this era of space telescopes, satellites, and Photoshop, it’s easy to forget that only a few decades ago, we had no idea of what space actually looked like. The task of communicating the wonders of space was left to the dreamers and artists, and we depended on them to stir our imaginations and passion […]
Archive for July, 2006
Pre-space age art
Published July 27th, 2006 in Observations, Visual/Technical Communication and Astronomy. 0 CommentsThe Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) in lunar orbit.
collectSpace.com has scooped the new moniker for the next NASA exploration initiative. The project will be called Orion.
30 years ago, Saturn rockets were launching Apollo capsules to the Moon. Within the next ten years, we will see their 21st century counterparts do the same thing all over […]
theMonkey apologizes for the dearth of posts recently. (Is it still “third-person” when one refers to oneself in the pseudonymous? Or would that be “pseudothird-personymous?” Sounds like a scientific species. I like that. Pseudothird personymous: The elusive blogger.)
I apologize retroactively for wasting your time with that paragraph.
Waldorf: Reading a post like this makes me nostalgic.
Statler: […]
Chico Marx on the piano, from A Night in Casablanca.
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Franklin County - Newswire
Clarence Vohltz has been formally charged in the brutal assault of Arthur Battery, of Franklin County.
“This is our attempt to bring a positive reaction to a horrible set of events,” said the Franklin County prosecutor. “As this office has committed before, we are ever-ready to fight this recurrent negative influence in our […]
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Published July 16th, 2006 in Humor. 1/[monkey(pi)] = infinite posts">0 Commentshaha.nu has posted a few examples of “funny” math.
Yes, some geeks have a sense of humor.
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The best Photoshop sharpening technique
Published July 14th, 2006 in Photoshop/Illustrator. 0 CommentsMis-sharpening is one of the most common image enhancement errors. For some reason, people seem to go crazy with the sharpening tool… “I must sharpen, sharpen, SHARPEN MORE!!”
What they don’t realize is that fake sharpness is not real sharpness. The goal of sharpening should be to bring out fine details that are already present […]
