It’s been a weird professional week, both on the industry and personal level with Comics Review shutting. Weeks like this put me on my heels as I look at the amount of work I do and what seems to be the never ending gulf between potential stored and potential fulfilled. It can get me introspective. …
That’s my office windowsill. On the left is a magnificent Cthulhu Tiki mug by graphic designer and Tiki genius Jonathan Chaffin. You’ll notice the Black Lagoon minifig is worshiping it whilst Bad Cop is trying to work out how to arrest it. On the right is a fantastic Lego prop driven aircraft that, along with …
Just hit play. I started grinning when ‘Spirit in the Sky’ started. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyNMSkTiGg?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360]
Even as manned, governmental, spaceflight moves ever further away from practicality, robotic spaceflight is having some extraordinary successes. The Curiosity rover is a standout, a car sized robot rover that has trundled around Mars for months. The images Curiosity has sent back are remarkable because of their immediacy. There’s no saluting spacesuited figure telling us …