good to be back
Jul. 28th, 2013 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_funinhuman update!
(the inks have been on DA for like a week, too)
also there's a new unintentional mishaps page!
i buy myself a neon green ruler so i won't lose the damn thing and immediately lose it under a pile of books. i'm a genius.
sorry about the delay there, that trip kinda threw more of a monkey wrench into the works of my art-time than i thought. BUT WE'RE BACK NOW AND I'M BACK ON TRACK. the trip was nice, we somehow managed to go down south during the week of a huge heat wave up north. so uh, it was actually cooler in the deep south. score??
went to the huntsville space & rocket center. if you're unaware, that's where they built/tested most of the rockets for the early american spaceflight missions. i think they also trained astronauts there, i was kind of overwhelmed between 1) ROCKETS!!!!!!!! OLD SPACETECH!!!!!!!!!! and 2) the heat outside so i had a hard time actually retaining much of what i learned. but here's some photos!
a 1-1 scale model of skylab! minus its solar panels. obviously it has to be a model since the real skylab kinda kerbloomered when its orbit decayed. they DID have a really large chunk of it recovered and on display though!
scale replica of the lunar lander and lunar rover. i confess i kinda took this for animal crossing players, since ther over and lander are both items you can have in your house in the games (and have been for a long time!)
the shuttle, her rockets, and a jet for a sense of scale. good god, i miss these things. what magnificent air/space machines.
and uhm...yeah, that's it! next month i'll (hopefully) be at fau thanks to the kindness of amber, so if you live around the jersey area, consider grabbing a day pass and checking it out. if i do go, it'll be my first con in six years. dang!
that's all i got. next week!
(the inks have been on DA for like a week, too)
also there's a new unintentional mishaps page!
i buy myself a neon green ruler so i won't lose the damn thing and immediately lose it under a pile of books. i'm a genius.
sorry about the delay there, that trip kinda threw more of a monkey wrench into the works of my art-time than i thought. BUT WE'RE BACK NOW AND I'M BACK ON TRACK. the trip was nice, we somehow managed to go down south during the week of a huge heat wave up north. so uh, it was actually cooler in the deep south. score??
went to the huntsville space & rocket center. if you're unaware, that's where they built/tested most of the rockets for the early american spaceflight missions. i think they also trained astronauts there, i was kind of overwhelmed between 1) ROCKETS!!!!!!!! OLD SPACETECH!!!!!!!!!! and 2) the heat outside so i had a hard time actually retaining much of what i learned. but here's some photos!
a 1-1 scale model of skylab! minus its solar panels. obviously it has to be a model since the real skylab kinda kerbloomered when its orbit decayed. they DID have a really large chunk of it recovered and on display though!
scale replica of the lunar lander and lunar rover. i confess i kinda took this for animal crossing players, since ther over and lander are both items you can have in your house in the games (and have been for a long time!)
the shuttle, her rockets, and a jet for a sense of scale. good god, i miss these things. what magnificent air/space machines.
and uhm...yeah, that's it! next month i'll (hopefully) be at fau thanks to the kindness of amber, so if you live around the jersey area, consider grabbing a day pass and checking it out. if i do go, it'll be my first con in six years. dang!
that's all i got. next week!
