Over the course of 30 years, space shuttles Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour flew over 100 missions. Take a look at this short video compiled by NPR, which highlights some of those flights.
Credit: Andrew Prince, Maggie Starbard, Marina Dominguez/NPR
Special thanks go out to Lisa Smith for turning us onto the Storm King Art Center, a lush 500+ acre landscape in lower Hudson Valley, New York, which features more than 100 sculptures by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time. We want to visit!
A new app sponsored by Neenah paper has come out, featuring a digital interactive letterpress, and I’m all over it. Lettermpress allows you to pick the tools, colors, etc. to create your letterpress work of art, which when completed can be shared via email, social networking, or printed.
Via Dexigner:
The app brings every step of the traditional letterpress printing process to the iPad screen, from selecting and assembling vintage wood type, and mixing colors, to selecting paper, and hand-cranking the virtual letterpress.
Thanks Blakeley!
Love, love, love this poster by Miguel Yatco of Living In The Stills. Great design and helpful information to boot! Good job! Pick one up here…
Holy cow…can’t wait for the new MuteMath Odd Soul album coming in October.
I’ve been on a bit of a bridge kick lately, if that’s such a thing, so I thought I’d share two awe-inspiring bridges I’ve come across in the last few days. The first is the Capilano Suspension Bridge (pictured above) in Vancouver, British Colombia Canada. It seems to be in great condition, considering it was built in 1889, and at 450 feet across and 230 feet above the Capilano River below, it seems as though it would be a pretty scary trek across.
The second is equally impressive. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge (pictured below) has recently been opened in China, and sports a length of 42km (about 26 miles). Up until now, I had traversed the longest bridge of its kind in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. This new bridge, which connects the eastern coastal city of Qingdao to the suburb of Huangdao, is about 4km longer than the Louisiana Causeway. Fascinating!
