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Google 1999
Now they’re all rich
Source: peterfromtexas
“Enjoy Sarajevo” by TRIO (1993-1994)
In 1985, three graduates from the Sarajevo faculty of fine arts formed the design team TRIO Sarajevo. The group created designs for bands, theatre companies and art and culture-based magazines.
* “In April 1992 the Bosnian war began, and Sarajevo was besieged. Despite the obvious hardships of life in a city under siege for two and a half years, and although they had many opportunities to continue work outside Bosnia-Herzegovina, TRIO opted to remain in Sarajevo throughout the war. Faced with a market suddenly reduced to a 3km wide stretch of a city under siege, TRIO have nonetheless continued to earn a living as commercial designers, receiving payment for their work in food, cigarettes and (occasionally) small amounts of money. During the war TRIO have managed to assemble a computerised design office put together from various components which were borrowed or begged from friends and colleagues in Sarajevo…. In addition to their regular work, TRIO have also invested a great deal of time putting together a collection of graphic art aimed at raising awareness of the plight of their city throughout Europe. The work which has made them famous in western capitals is based on a series of reworkings of well-known advertising and pop-art images, such as the logos for Speilberg’s Jurassic Park, Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka, Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup, and satirical adaptations of famous posters, such as Monroe’s Some Like it Hot, Your Country Needs You, Wake Up America!, Munch’s Scream, and many more.”
Source: holdentumblr
This has me intrigued.
Source: godsgifttooxygen
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Blur > Oasis
Source: oilywatr
Soundgarden - Outshined
I don’t know how everyone else feels…but I definitely go through periods of extreme self-confidence, feeling like I can do anything. Perhaps a fan will sense that, like in a performance, and the hero image creeps out. But then someone will say something, however insignificant, or I’ll get something in my head and, all of a sudden, I’m plummeting in the opposite direction, I’m a piece of shit, and I really can’t do anything about it. That’s where “Outshined” comes from, and why I’ll never consider myself a hero. - Chris Cornell
Source: mrsnuff
Long before this recent wave of private space travel start-ups, an unexpected launch vehicle failure resulted in the first commercial mission to the moon. Launched by the Russians for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), the failure of the Proton Blok DM3 upper stage (designed to fire 110 seconds, it cut off prematurely after 1 second) put the satellite in a useless 203 x 36,000-kilometer orbit:
HGS-1 was launched Christmas Day [1997]. Because of a malfunctioning launch vehicle, it was left in an unusable, highly elliptical orbit. Insurers declared it a total loss for its original purposes, which was for communications and television services in Asia. Hughes Global Services, Inc., (HGS) obtained title in April to the fully functional satellite, an HS 601HP model built by Hughes Space and Communications Company (HSC).
Hughes orbital engineers devised a novel mission to salvage the satellite, using lunar gravity to improve the resulting orbit once the satellite returned to Earth.
HGS-1 made its first swing around the moon May 13 [1998]. On May 16, as the satellite approached Earth, controllers slowed it down by firing the on-board rocket motor. This put the satellite into a 15-day orbit around Earth with an apogee — the farthest distance from Earth — of about 303,000 miles (488,000 km). The moon is about 250,000 miles away (402,000 km).
On June 1, controllers nudged the satellite into position for a second lunar flyby. It passed the moon again on June 6, at a distance of nearly 21,300 miles (34,300 km) from the surface, which is about 52 times farther than the initial lunar encounter of 3,883 miles (6,200 km). A small firing of the rocket motor June 11 reoriented the satellite for its final orbit around Earth.
In early 1999, PanAmSat acquired the HGS-1 satellite. Subsequently, PanAmSat was granted authority to drift the satellite, now called PAS-22, into the 60º W.L. location. In March 1998, AsiaSat ordered a replacement satellite from Hughes. Designated AsiaSat 3S, the new satellite is a replica of AsiaSat 3 and was successfully launched on a Proton-K Blok-DM3.
Source: sse.jpl.nasa.gov
The Codes of Gender
Written and directed by Media Education Foundation Executive Director Sut Jhally, The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman’s groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture’s most influential forms communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity.
Maybe a bit dated, but some nice sociology of gender for you. :-)
“There’s no such thing as a neutral or natural image.”
Source: morecoffee
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