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sent by Britta in Hagen, Germany
on 15 Mar, 2020
travel time 4 days
distance traveled 1,536 km
received on Mar 19, 2020
Years ago I illustrated a recurring piece in MAD Magazine called “Chilling Thoughts,” written by Desmond Devlin. It was usually three pages of them. I came across this one the other day. It’s interesting how MAD saw the future. Here’s one true “Chilling Thought.”
“STAGING POINT: Illustrated in this concept is a space shuttle in two parts, both reflyable. The lower vehicle, the booster, has carried the orbiter, above, with its external hydrogen tanks, to this staging point in space high enough for it to reach orbit under its own power. The booster will fly back to earth, the orbiter will carry on to complete its mission. The reusable shuttle is the great hope of the next decade. NASA is at present trying to cut costs to enable one to log its first mission in 1978, instead of 1980 or 1981.”
Per the official NASA caption:
“Grumman space shuttle orbiter with external hydrogen tanks on reusable booster.”
8” x 11”.
Thanks to the wonderful “Grumman Plane News” repository of the Grumman Retiree Club, the artist is Bud Parke. The variant, permitting the identification, at:
www.grummanretireeclub.org/wp-content/pdf/grumman-plane-n...
1971 Grumman/Boeing?, Boeing/Grumman? artist's concept of the proposed H-33 Space Shuttle with fuselage-attached drop-tanks. Apparently after flyback booster engine cut-off, but prior to orbiter main? engine start?
That’s a lot of engines on that flyback booster.
Note "BOEING" written along the bottom of the flyback booster's tail/vertical stabilizer and "GRUMMAN" along the bottom of the orbiter's tail/vertical stabilizer. Interesting to see the two normally competing manufacturer's names, in such close proximity, on ‘one’ vehicle, stack, that is. The beauty of altruistic “collaboration". They didn’t get the contract.
Per the excellent PMView Pro website:
“H-33” booster/orbiter separation. The huge wing tanks (which carried 54,011 kg of LH₂) had the effect of increasing the orbiter's “propellant fraction”, i.e. the shuttle's empty weight would be less despite carrying more propellant at liftoff. Not only did this produce a smaller and less expensive orbiter, it also enabled Boeing to simplify the booster as well. The system would now stage at a lower velocity (2123 meters/sec.) than the fully reusable Phase-B design's 3000 m/s. As a result, the booster would have to carry less rocket propellant for ascent and 50% less jet fuel for its flight back to the launch site. The lower staging velocity also meant the booster's thermal protection system could be simplified and Boeing settled for a simple aircraft-like “heat sink” design much like the old X-15's. The total gross liftoff weight was reduced by 590 t compared with the Phase-B baseline shuttle, and it was expected that the marginal cost per flight would stay the same since the additional cost of the fuel tanks would be offset by the reduction in complexity & size (e.g. smaller engines to refurbish between flights). The Grumman orbiter version depicted here has three small engines unlike the NAR & McDAC Phase-B designs. Grumman decided that three 1,845.75-kilonewton thrust engines rather than two 2.45 KN-thrust motors would act as a safeguard against engine failure. The Phase-B design had no such problems since it would stage at a higher velocity and still could make it to orbit despite the failure of a single engine."
At:
www.pmview.com/spaceodysseytwo/spacelvs/sld033.htm
Credit: PMView Pro website
Awesome. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND perusing Garrett's website. He's single-handedly bringing order & structure to chaos, while posting absolutely amazing images. Seriously:
e05.code.blog/category/nasa-programs/shuttle-program/phas...
Specifically. I mean, DAMN:
e05code.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/0307_012821_01.jpg?w=...
Credit: Garrett O'Donoghue/numbers station website
See also. Possibly by the same unknown artist:
Credit: Internet Archive website
And:
airandspace.si.edu/object/nasm_A19740732000
Credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum website
My favorite fairy tale and one of my favorite stories of all time is Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, so naturally I love to collect illustrated versions of the story. These are the majority of them but there's also ones I have in fairy tale compilation books and of course the Disney versions I've collected but I included only those that feature the mermaid in the cover. I have a huge passion for the story, mainly because it is a deep and very emotional story and I think everyone should read it in their life time. I am especially fascinated by its illustrations and different artistic takes on the scenes and the Little Mermaid. Most of the time she is represented as blonde, as I imagine her, but she's also depicted with different hair colors, like black, and of course red, especially after a certain famous film version popularized it. A lot of these i was able to read in my childhood, and some of them were able to survive it and some of them I just stumble upon like in thrift stores or online. I am quite picky when it comes to the versions I add to my collection and some are even from other countries. I have learned to literally not judge a book by its cover considering that some of the books with the most boring or ugly covers end up having the best illustrations and vice versa. Some of my favorites are the ones illustrated by Charles Santore, Christian Birmingham, and Rachel Isadora. I hope that one day I can illustrate this wonderful story, original ending and all. I think my collection is complete for now but I don't know if it will ever stop growing.
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From a rather fine illustrated brochure on the Scunthorpe based division of United Steel, the Appleby Frodingham Company. The concern had its origins in the early years of the iron industry in Lincolnshire with the formation of the Frodingham Iron Company in 1864 followed by the Appleby in 1875. Steel production was begun in 1890. After a period of merger via the Steel Company of Scotland both companies became part of United Steel Companies in 1918 and gained their title of Appleby-Frodingham in 1934. The works, astonishingly, still survives as the Corus Works.
This fine image shows the tapping of the mighty furnace, one of a pair that included 'Queen Victoria' that were first started in 1954.
Our beautiful Genevieve Morton traveled to Palm Springs LA this past November to shoot the famous US Sports Illustrated Swimsuit addition.
Classics Illustrated / Heft-Reihe
Frank Buck / On Jungle Trails
cover: ?
Gilberton Company / USA 1957
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Vintage postcard by European Greetings, no. 535615. Image: Disney. Meeko and Percy in Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, 1995).
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, 1995) was the 33rd Disney animated feature film and is loosely based on the life of the Native American woman of the same name. The film tells the romance between the daughter of an Algonquin chief named Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, an English soldier, who journeyed to the New World, seventeenth-century Virginia, with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan, disapproves of their relationship and wants her to marry a native warrior, the tribe's dashing bachelor, Kocoum. Meanwhile, Smith's fellow Englishmen hope to rob the Native Americans of their gold. Can Pocahontas' love for Smith save the day? Pocahontas was released to mixed reactions from reviewers, who praised its animation and music but criticized its story; the film's racial overtones and historical inaccuracy also garnered a mix of condemnation and praise. However, everybody liked Meeko, Pocahontas's pet raccoon with a love of food, especially John Smith's biscuits.
During the famed "Disney Renaissance", a period that started with the release of The Little Mermaid (1989), the studio was creating modern classics with every film they released. Many at Disney had high hopes for Pocahontas (1995) upon its initial release. Then-studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg regarded it even as a more prestigious project than The Lion King (1994), and believed that it had a chance of earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, following in the steps of Beauty and the Beast (1991). The design for the film is sumptuous, with mostly blues and a seamless style that never gets in the way and illustrates the action (and the feminine nature of the film) beautifully. The film was less successful commercially than was hoped. Pocahontas dealt with more adult themes and tones and did not appeal to younger children, as much as the earlier Disney hits had. However, Pocahontas did succeed at the box office, earning $346 million, and it received two Academy Awards for Best Musical or Comedy Score for Alan Menken and Best Original Song for 'Colors of the Wind'.
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I finished a manuscript on Monday and I was cleaning my office up today - paper was everywhere. A piece of the cherry tree I was pruning earlier had apparently been torn off and stuck to my sweater. Must have fallen off onto a stack of papers and when I sat down to chat with my daughter for a second she said "illustrated mauscript?"
So ... well.
I stuck the page to the window, waited for afternoon light and made this shot.
Best large, seems to me.
original stock image from GregoryButler at pixabay
messing around combining two techniques trying to go a certain way and ended up this way ! ! ! !
I'm involved in a workshop through 2 Lil Owls called 'Illustrated'. In this workshop we use passages from books and then find a way to illustrate that passage. This is from the book, "A Starless Sea". It's about 'old books and birds made from the pages flying out of a card catalog'. I mostly use items I find or can make from things I find around my house.
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong:
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
For 115 in 2015 #110 "Illustrate a Piece of Music".
Picture taken at Babcock State Park in West Virginia".
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The practice of choking and strangulation techniques is a subtle art that requires more attention to detail than many other skills in Judo. Yet most texts on Judo do little to enlighten the conscientious student on the finer points of choking and strangulation. Most in fact imply that any pressure on the neck that makes the opponent give up is a good choke.
A lavishly illustrated book issued to members of the International Hotel Alliance in 1926 this publication by the London & North Eastern Railway describes the network, places served and hotels owned by the company alongside illustrations and poster reproductions many of which are by Fred Taylor. The LNER, formed in 1923, was acknowledged as the most adventurous of the Big Four railways in terms of its publciity and advertising and by 1926 they were getting into their stride.
This copy of the publication suffers from only one flaw - printed by Adams Bros, and Shardlow, of London & Leicester, it is bound backwards so the covers appear upside down. It doesn't detract from the contents! I understand that the rival LMSR also issued a similar publication.
This shows the title page and frontispiece that reproduces Frank Bragwyn's litho etching of the Royal Border Bridge issued in 1924 as one of a series.
Illustrated by Marguerite Davis. “Summer Fun” by J. Mace Andress and Annie Turner Andress, with the assistance of Julia E. Dickson. Part of the Story Series in Health by Ginn and Company. Copyright 1932 by Andress and Andress. Actually a health textbook.
Classics Illustrated / Heft-Reihe
Francis Parkman / The Oregon Trail
cover: ?
art: Henry C. Kiefer
Gilberton Company / USA 1956
ex libris MTP
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This water colour painting , illustrates, the feel ,and atmosphere of fishing villages to be found on the North Sea facing coast of Northumberland,,hard working places on the edge of the Wild North Sea Thanks to artist Tony Hunter captures the feel of the tight family and friendship that abounds this area of ours,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THANKS AGAIN TO TONY HUNTER THE SUPERB ARTIST please have a look at his web site
s088 8204 Buch Ansichten aus der saechsischen Schweiz, Fernsicht vom Brand, Bastei Felsen, Auf der Basteibrücke, Winterberge, Prebischthor, Polzenthal, Edmundsgrund, Wood engraving, Holzstich Pictures from Das Buch Für Alle. Illustrirte Familien-Zeitung. Chronik der Gegenwart. Illustrirte Monatsschrift zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung. Für die Familie und Jedermann. Stuttgart: Redaktion Druck und Verlag von Hermann Schönlein. The Book for Everyone. Illustrated family newspaper. Chronical of the Present. (→ 1896) Holzstich Heft 4.
Creator: Miss N.E. Watson.
Location: Queensland.
Description: Caption: Wild flowers of southern Queensland. -- from a painting by Miss N.E. Watson, Howard
Flowers named: boronia, wild may, wedding bush, rice flower, needle bush, strangea, sour cherry and rush lily.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/225046.
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