sunday fantasy #365: A Lonely Sky, by Nick Ryan
Death, glory, and Dave Bowman.
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The personal weblog of Brian McBreen.
Items of interest, topics of study and the occasional essay.
Items of interest, topics of study and the occasional essay.
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Date: April 1926
Description: NORGE POLAR FLIGHT
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The ‘Norge’ airship, hired from Italy by Amundsen, at the start of its flight over the North Pole. From Spitzbergen it made a 17-hour flight to Alaska.
Source: unnamed photographer
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Dismissed from his job as a draftsman with the U.S. Coast Survey on January 9, 1855, after only two months, influential 19th-century artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler completed this etching “Sketch of Anacapa Island” during his brief federal service.
“Sketch of Anacapa Island,” 1854; Records of the Coast And Geodetic Survey
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For all the app dev folks out there, this is hanging in a few cubicles around the office! (Taken with instagram)
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sunday fantasy #338
reblog: etceterablog: Matthew Day Jackson
Axis Mundi, 2011
Repurposed cockpit of a B29 aircraft, aluminium, red oak, glass, steel, plastic, lead, bronze, iron, obsidian, leather, silver, stainless steel, concrete
373 x 480 x 590 cm / 146 7/8 x 189 x 232 1/4 in
Based on the Linear theme by Peter Vidani
Original content © 2008-2010 Brian McBreen. All rights reserved.
The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily endorsed by my employer.
Original content © 2008-2010 Brian McBreen. All rights reserved.
The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily endorsed by my employer.
