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Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film in 2009.
"That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap."
An artist’s rendering of Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.
NYTimes:
Boeing said on Wednesday that it was entering the space-tourism business, an announcement that could bolster the Obama administration’s efforts to transform the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agency that focuses less on building rockets and more on nurturing a commercial space industry.
Boeing, which is developing a capsule that it hopes will take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, announced that it will offer for sale any seats that NASA does not need. The entrance of an aerospace giant like Boeing perhaps marks the transition of space tourism from a dreamy pursuit of start-up entrepreneurs to a mainstream aerospace market.
“We’re ready now to start talking to prospective customers,” said Eric C. Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism company that would market the seats for Boeing.
A source of inspiration for my sister, this site gathers examples of an aesthetic that I truly love.
Ryan Lochte, left, and Michael Phelps after the 200-meter individual medley at the national championships. Lochte finished first, his first major victory over his longtime rival Phelps.
From Remodelista:
Innovative architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgard of Stockholm firm Tham & Videgard devised the triangular Garden House in Viksberg, Sweden, to "blur the line between indoors and out, so that indoor and outdoor spaces gradually blend and interact." The house's trellis enclosure will eventually be covered with vines, providing shade and greenery; the interior also features a double-height indoor winter garden. Go to Tham & Videgard for more information.
Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890
NYTimes: Built in 1810, this 2,400-square-foot stone house in County Down near Belfast was once a complex of stables.
NYTimes: Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after its final mission.
From Flowing Data: Map from Paramount Studios, produced in 1927, showed investors locations that would replicate far-off locales without leaving California. I live in Bret Harte, California, just south of Spanish California.
Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times
NYTimes: Lincoln Center’s new lawn, atop a two-story structure along West 65th Street, curves up on two ends and is adjacent to a extended reflecting pool and a grove of trees.
Credit: Richard Phibbs for The New York Times
When I was growing up ‘elitism’ was a word sneered from the lips of the Left, now it is sneered from the lips of the Right. The sneering was ugly then and it is ugly now. Knowledge, science, understanding, literacy and curiosity are absolute goods and to hell with anyone who tries to follow that American habit here and attempts to construct a discourse in which only a despised liberal elite are interested in science, the arts, history and ideas. Such wickedness reminds one of those who opposed Education For All at the end of the nineteenth century. All knowledge should be free and available and all people should be encouraged to acquire it. It will not necessarily lead to liberalism, but it will lead to understanding and a desire for openness and decent, non-tribalist exchanges of the kind that can only enrich our democracy.
NYTimes:
Book Review
KISSING THE MASK
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines
By William T. Vollmann
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Model of the Aeroscraft, a hybrid airship, designed mainly to carry cargo. It would be faster than a conventional airship but much slower than a jet.
The house is built into the side of a hill, and the bedroom is half-underground, which keeps it cool in the summer. A rusty mattress spring from an antique bed makes a wall hanging; ladder-back chairs have seats woven from old ties.
