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aurora borealis · News · northern lights · solar flares · space · stars · Sep 27, 2011

The Northern Lights – Southbound

It was a few years ago when I saw the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. I was flying back to the US from London and the pilot called it out on the loud speaker. Of course, only one side of the plane had a good view of it, and I jumped at the chance to see it. It’s not quite the same seeing it from high above and out of a limiting oval window, rather than bundling up and watching the sky’s theater from a lawn chair. Feeling the open air rather than recirculating snore breath has to make a difference. In a plane, you’re stuck with the loud engine turbines spinning, but on Earth, you’ll hear the nature around you. Yes I saw the Northern Lights, but I didn’t get to experience it. Perhaps one day, I’ll make it up, or perhaps it’ll make it down. For some of you Northern Americans, you may have a chance to see it in the next few days. There’s some type of irregularity or should I just say “natural occurrence” that’s creating a much Southern aurora. Take a pic and show it to us! (LA Times – Aurora)

china · News · space · Tiangong 1 · Sep 21, 2011

China’s Heavenly Palace – The Tiangong 1

In the time of glabal expansion and riches, the one thing that strokes a nations ego more than anything else? Getting into space. The US and Russia pushed each other to reach the stars by putting animals, then a human, and then a man on the moon. Then Mars, then photos from far beyond. Yet in the end, all of this research costs. As NASA winds itself down and yields to the billionaires who are monetizing space, China is now entering the race as a distant third place. The Tiangong 1, or Heavenly Palace will be their space station. It’s unmanned, but yet another space step for them.

Food · japan · pizza · space · Sep 02, 2011

Dominos on the Moon

According to Gil Scott Heron, they put Whitey on the Moon, so we say, why not put some pizza there too? This is a website for Dominos Pizza Japan on the Moon, and there’s a video of a, um, man making a ridiculous announcement. His Japanese blows but the concept art everywhere if fun to see. What seemed too ridiculous to post, ends up being so bad it’s good. Surf around the site, it’s ridiculous. Imagine the waste of money here… marketing… (Dominos – moon)

air and space · astronomy · google · lunar x · moon · moon rover · News · space · Aug 30, 2011

Japan Netherlands Firm trying for the Lunar X Prize

Want $30 million dollars from Google? It’s easy, land your moon rover and have it do some research over 500 meters and take a bunch of HD pics (yes, iPhone 4 can work – maybe) and you have it. First how to get the vehicle on the moon? Rent space on a rocket that’s already going there, via China? Maybe the Chinese team who years to walk the moon will just do this manually. It has to be a rover, so why not push a cardboard box across the sand of the moon, take pics, grab some samples and bask in the riches. You have a until New Years Eve 2015. (Daily Mainichi – Lunar X)

expo 70 · giant robot · janm · little tokyo · ltdw · News · pecha kucha · space · Jul 20, 2011

The Moon – Pecha Kucha and Back

I’m writing the extended version of my two minute pecha-kucha presentation at the Little Tokyo Design Week. My job was to formulate a few images into something presentable with the topic of Future City. Earlier that day, I walked through a display featuring Apollo 11 moon landing imagery from the Expo ’70. Both events were monumental and it brought me to the realization that a Future City is based on dreams.

One can only imagine what it was like to live though the space race. Technology was just getting interesting. Room sized computers did nothing that we could comprehend. By placing a man on the moon, a new generation of imagination began. My mother and father watched the live broadcast of the moon walk like almost everyone else. Two weeks later, I was born.