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Roll two of four, this time using Nescafe Instant Coffee. The smell still pretty bad, again fairly dense negatives. I also had to adjust the developing time to account for a temp. shift. Although a good tonal range, the greys seem a little more flat.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Nescafe) 8:30 @ 27C
MEL HUNTER (American artist)
Positioning the Rocket - Bumper Project
Acrylic on board.
Mel Hunter
BornJuly 27, 1927
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
DiedFebruary 20, 2004
Ferrisburgh, Vermont, United States
Cause of deathBone cancer
NationalityAmerican
EducationAttended Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
OccupationScientific illustrator
Known forScience fiction illustration
Spouse(s)Susan Smith-Hunter
ChildrenLisa Hunter, Scott Hunter
Milford "Mel" Joseph Hunter 111 (July 27, 1927 – February 20, 2004) was a 20th-century American illustrator. He enjoyed a successful career as a science fiction illustrator, producing illustrations for famous science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, as well as a technical and scientific illustrator for clients such as The Pentagon, Hayden Planetarium, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Biography
Early life
Mel Hunter's life began with a troubled childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was physically and psychologically abused by a humorless father. "He never knew his mother because she was banished from the household by his father when he was only two years old. While he never forgot the abuse, he didn't seem to dwell on it. Instead, he poured himself into his work and career," said his third wife, Susan Smith-Hunter.[1]
Hunter entered college a year early, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. After college he held a variety of odd jobs, but finally landed a draftsman job at Northrop Aircraft Corp in California. In 1950, Hunter decided to pursue a career in art and began to teach himself illustration in his spare time.
Science Fiction Illustration
"Sunbathing in Space", 1953
With a growing understanding of the fields of astronomy, astronautics, and aviation Hunter set out to teach himself book and magazine illustration. He moved to New York City during the early 1950s, and by 1953 he had successfully sold his first color cover to Galaxy Science Fiction magazine and talked himself into a technical illustrator at Northrop Aircraft where he painted illustrations of advanced aircraft and simulated combat scenarios.
During that time, the most lucrative outlet for space artists was the science-fiction genre. Along with a fertile imagination, Hunter coupled his art with realism and technical accuracy. Hunter's whimsical science fiction robots became his signature to thousands of science fiction fans; the skeletal steel robots graced the covers of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction well into the 1970s. Hunter's lonely robots were often depicted walking solo through the desolate landscapes of nuclear ruins or alien planets.
Hunter was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist for the years 1960-1962.
Technical and Scientific Illustration
Sample of Mel Hunter's scientific illustration.
As Hunter's science fiction career blossomed, so did his technical and scientific illustrations. Hunter's love of air and space took him from California's desert runways to Florida's seacoast launchpads to illustrate every variety of jet-age aircraft and space-age rocket imaginable—from X-15 to Saturn V.
One of Hunter's best-known books is "The Missilemen", a photo illustrated work published in 1960 by Doubleday. Hunter visited U.S. rocket and missile sites during the late 1950s; he took all of the book's black-and-white photographs. It was a rare look inside the world of rocket scientists and engineers of the early space age. Another Hunter book, "Strategic Air Command", received the Aviation Writers' Association highest honors in 1961.
"Mel launched a career in scientific illustration after he was an established science-fiction illustrator," said Smith-Hunter. "He was very technically accurate and was commissioned to complete 26 paintings of celestial objects for the Hayden Planetarium in New York City."[2]
Naturalistic Lithography
An original lithography by Mel Hunter.
After 17 years of technical and scientific illustration, Hunter moved from New York to Chester, Vermont in 1967. He began creating lithographic prints depicting the natural scenes which surrounded him. The following year, he was commissioned to create a series of more than 130 watercolors of "Birds of the Northeast" by Abercrombie & Fitch Galleries and Massachusetts Audubon Society. By 1970, Hunter signed a contract with World Publishing Co. for a series of 13 ecological books for children, dealing with topics like the beginning of the earth, mankind, plants, birds, mammals and insects.
In 1976, after accidental damage to his limestone lithographic drawing, Hunter began using mylar as a medium for his lithography, and published a controversial photo-illustrated article in the American Artist Magazine entitled "Revolution in Hand-Drawn Lithography". In 1984, Hunter published his seminal hardcover textbook, The New Lithography which details the "Mylar Method", still in wide use today.
Death
Although diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in the 1990s, Hunter died of bone cancer in February 2004. True to his final wish, an attempt was made to launch his cremated remains into space. A private launch, coordinated by Space Services Inc. on the New Frontier Flight was successful on May 22, 2012.
V-2 / Bumper 8 rocket activities at Cape Canaveral (Stock shots), July 24, 1950 VIDEO/ INFO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcCfcKhXv4w&index=4&list=...
List of V-2 test launches INFO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches
V-2 rocket (ALL VIDEOS): www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-HsE-FedVRiWhZ2UL8p9poKoz...
MUSEUM INFO: www.wsmr-history.org/index.htm
The first of four rolls of film, this one souped in a Caffenol-C-M mix with Folgers Instant Coffee, list price, $5.00 (CDN).
Results: Although a dense neg, the images are truly fantastic.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Folgers) 12:00 @ 20C
The seeds I have used to grow the sunflowers for Manchesters' great 'Turing Sunflowers' experiment (www.turingsunflowers.com/), which is celebrating the life of Alan Turing by getting the residents of Manchester to complete one of his experiments.
The experiment will finish this Sept/Oct and the results will be announced at the annual Manchester Science Festival.
(radio broadcast from 356-357)
..inside, we're studying various chemicals and devices to invent new ways of providing safety and the improvement of our lives. from doing so, we have already invented some new technology! more on that later
I like it when I buy or take random things and get to say (or think to myself) "it's for science." I've got a bit of a collection of these RealD glasses from movie theatres because they have polarizing lenses and I assume they could be useful for teaching optics. My friends have given me questioning looks, and I just say "it's for science".
Birds and the Bees: Layered the glasses, stuck them on white foam, flashed pretty hard off the ceiling.
The first of four rolls of film, this one souped in a Caffenol-C-M mix with Folgers Instant Coffee, list price, $5.00 (CDN).
Results: Although a dense neg, the images are truly fantastic.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Folgers) 12:00 @ 20C
Having fun at the Dickens Faire. Yes, I was there, in a way, wearing a weather appropriate outfit - Jeans, t-shirt, cute cute rainbow toe socks, and my Reebok Freestyle hi tops, and my "boyfriend" leather jacket. ^_^;
This is how the guestbook looked before a certain friend of mine added his own little message. He earned the bird from me for that. (Yes, I'm a rather fickle and vindictive girl at times. ^_-; )
The view out of the break room at work. The one big building is a hotel attached to a casino. I have plans to spy on the hotel rooms.
This was my last day on 2nd shift. I'm finally done working different shifts for training (which has been draining and making it difficult to do anything I want, like take photos), and will be back on 3rd starting Monday night. I am really excited to take photos in the morning after work. Good light, empty city, empty parks, and empty cities. SO READY.
This does mean that my perception of a "day" is changing. The time stamps on my photos may not line up right, but I'm going to take photos during my awake period and call it a day.
...If you really wanted, you could stalk me from this photo. I would really prefer if you didn't. :-|
Azule (blue) is the male and is gripping Xan's (gold) shell while locked in coitus with her, trying to ensure fertilization. Xan will store his sperm until such a time conditions are ideal to fertilize her eggs and then lay them. So far, despite seeing this exact display countless times now, she has not chosen to do so...yet. (And thankfully too. I do not want a surprise snail baby explosion in my tiny 3.5gal tank.)
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Unlike most snails which are hermaphrodites, mystery (aka: Apple) snails actually have defined genders. It took me a while to figure out which one of mine was what. I felt like such a weirdo at first, but then I reminded myself that all my photo taking and lurking while my snails got it on was FOR SCIENCE! (And that made me feel better. ;P)
7.62x51mm, 145gr FMJ AP, Portuguese M963 AP
Bullet Weight; 145.2 gr
Bullet Length: 1.2655"
Diameter: .307"
Core:
70.9gr
length: 1.125"
diameter: .226"
97.66% FE,
.544% Cr,
.427% Ni,
.790% W
Hardness: 63.5 HRC
Like any good experiment there needs to be a control, in this case a roll developed in regular B&W Developer. In this case HC-110.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: HC-110 Dil. B 5:00 @ 20C
300 Winchester Magnum (7.62x67mmB), 190gr BTHP, MK248 Mod 0, Federal review here: youtu.be/fb_9utisAhw
life isn't easy being the teacher's pets.
"mister, why are you taking a picture of those fish? you know they're going to die.
...is, actually included in this. The Coil around the trans blue Lightsaber is actually really metall, it's solder.
I had some problems editing in the background...obviously.
Also: Late upload, because I was out last night, watched Tintin.
The first of four rolls of film, this one souped in a Caffenol-C-M mix with Folgers Instant Coffee, list price, $5.00 (CDN).
Results: Although a dense neg, the images are truly fantastic.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Folgers) 12:00 @ 20C
Roll two of four, this time using Nescafe Instant Coffee. The smell still pretty bad, again fairly dense negatives. I also had to adjust the developing time to account for a temp. shift. Although a good tonal range, the greys seem a little more flat.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Nescafe) 8:30 @ 27C
Roll two of four, this time using Nescafe Instant Coffee. The smell still pretty bad, again fairly dense negatives. I also had to adjust the developing time to account for a temp. shift. Although a good tonal range, the greys seem a little more flat.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 (Yellow Filter)
Fuji Acros 100
Dev: Caffenol-C-M (Nescafe) 8:30 @ 27C