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“BRINGING BACK A PIECE OF MARS -- Painting shows proposed Mars Ascent Vehicle as it lifts of the surface of the red planet to bring a soil sample to Earth for analysis. A mission study, performed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was based on a rendezvous in Mars orbit, similar to the lunar orbit rendezvous used by Apollo. A lander vehicle would touch down on Mars and pick up a sample of soil. The lander base would be left behind. The return vehicle, a three-stage craft, would fly to a 500-kilometer (300 mile) orbit around Mars. In orbit, at upper left of painting, are two orbiter vehicles -- the carrier orbiter at right, and the rendezvous/return orbiter. The carrier orbiter would ferry the lander to Mars and place it in pre-landing orbit. After the surface mission is complete, the autonomous rendezvous/return orbiter would remove the soil sample from the ascent vehicle and bring the sample to Earth.”
Well written...refreshing.
Note that there appear to be a total of five engines on the ascent vehicle, yet only two are firing. I assume the other three were dedicated to deorbit/initial descent maneuvers. Finally, a Viking-like terminal descent engine, with its multiple small nozzles, is visible on the descent stage.
I’ve never seen this before, although it was featured on the cover of “NASA Activities”, October 1980, Vol. 11, No. 10. A striking perspective, masterfully depicted by Ken Hodges. Thank you for your service Brother, continue to Rest In Peace:
www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/ken-hodges-obit...
Credit: Legacy website
This latest addition to Reveniens' lineup of all-original frames clearly seems to have been designed with the intent of challenging PFi's Mobile Core Mini series for it's place as the King of the Goodfellow Cluster's mid-sized frame market. Standing slightly taller than a typical MCS-m, the Kindeva boasts a comparable power/weight ratio with enhanced articulation achieved through a combination of tried-and-true techniques and next-gen hardware.
It's obvious that the engineering team at Reveniens has been learning from the experiences gained during the Yaksha and Apsara projects, and incorporated elements of both into this new model. The Kindeva walks a fine line between "cutting edge" and "throw-back" that's making a lot of buzz in the MF journals.
The only question left is whether they'll be able to produce enough units to supply the demand from more customers than just the Etton Conglomerate.
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Finally got it together and made a showcase for this one, previously seen as part of my Pontefract Squadron. Actually, I made and posed all of these variants first, but I've been putting off rendering them for some reason that I can't remember. Frame Arms enthusiasts might notice something familiar about these.
"Kindeva", like the names for most Reveniens frames, refers to a class of beings from Hindu mythology - these known for having aspects of humans (Kin) and gods/spirits (Deva). I think it's fair to compare them to demi-gods, though someone more learned than I may disagree.
In a lot of ways this is a remake of my MCS-m with less dependence on mixel joints (only used in the waist). The primary design philosophy was the same, anyway - small, highly articulated, and easily customizable. In another way, it's a muligan of the Apsara, so maybe I don't really know what it is, other than a test-bed for "padlock plate" joints. I really wish TLG would release rounded off versions of both clip-plates as well. The extra angle of adjustment is pretty magical.
What do you think? Does Reveniens have a contender here, or will PFi maintain market dominance?
Taken on a walk around Contra Loma Reservoir June 1, 2018. Processed in PS using Topaz B&W & Impression.
I enjoyed doing the pencil portrait of this fabulous horse so much I couldn't resist having a go in pastel too. What an animal!
'Karioko' belonged to the late Miguel Tovar who won many competitions with his Spanish horses.
Drawn with kind permission from a photograph by Diego López
Rodríguez.
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For those who are interested in more about the drawing....
It's rare that I am called upon to offer my thoughts behind a piece as most make sense on a purely surface level as straight renderings of an animal ...and people rarely look deeper. But recently I was asked about this drawing and what, if anything, it meant to me. I thought I'd share my reply here:
To explain I would like to share the quote that I came across this week which rather succinctly describes what I see in this piece.
'The horse is the best judge of a good rider, not the spectator. If the horse has a high opinion of the rider, he will let himself be guided, if not, he will resist.' - Nuno Oliveira
To me this picture shows a horse who has judged it's rider and found him worthy of following. In that way it is a partnership, a relationship completely in harmony; two species in sync; speaking a language that both understand and respect. The horse willing to give whatever is asked and the rider wise enough and respectful enough to not ask too much.
It's a partnership, a relationship, if you will, that I have known and that I miss. It was both an honour and a privilege to have been part of my horse's life, a respected friend and to be her sole teammate for so many years. But it's also a relationship that probably wouldn't be expressed as well in a drawing of a gawky 14 year old me on a slightly ageing pony of underwhelming breeding. In truth, it wouldn't do it justice.
So in essence this picture is a representation of the respect, harmony and partnership that I had with my little mare, who I loved greatly and miss still. She taught me so much - and in many ways purely by her living example. She had a wiseness about her, a dignified understanding and respect. She wasn't a 'huggy' pony, not affectionate as such, but the ways that she showed her respect and acceptance of us was equally as powerful and meaningful.
My mum said that she got to know my pony, Felix, best when she was injured and had to be taken for controlled walks (as you would a dog) to build the strength back up in her tendon. It meant that they spent a lot of time together, side by side, day by day while I was at school. Felix had to trust my mum and accept the limitations put on her with patient tolerance, which she did - as if she somehow knew that it was for the best/that we had her best interests at heart.
My uncle had said that caring for my granny in the last years of her life was one of the most important and meaningful things that he ever did. Well, in looking after my horse when she most needed it, in caring for her and loving her, my mum's relationship with her deepened.
As her team mate, my relationship with Felix was similar but subtly different: we had to place deep trust in each other - but in a more intense way. Riding over cross country fences is still a high risk sport. (I have heard it described as 'heading at 30 miles an hour towards 30 solid obstacles on the back of a beast that weighs a tonne but has a brain smaller than a golf ball'). People can -and do- get seriously injured and even die. So the trust that we had was deep and important - but oh the fun we had! ...and the success - but more importantly the fun: the pleasure, the sheer joy of flying round a course together as one, her legs as mine, turning in the air together; speed I could never reach without her, leaps I could never make alone, courage that came only from our combined confidence - my knowledge of the terrain and obstacles - her trust in me to guide her safely. To this day those times are still my happiest memories.
But for all the fun and thrill of the cross country courses, it was the moments where she would submit and let me lead in the dressage that meant the most to me - because this was an area of little interest or point to her. There was no fun to be had, no pleasure to be enjoyed - but the profound respect that she showed me in bending to my will at those times mean more to me than any height of fence jumped or trophy won. Rather than some feat achieved together this was a gift of her giving - and it was given freely and to few people - BUT - and this is a big but - it wasn't given often - so it was a rare and therefore far more meaningful gift.
In the picture of the grey horse I see the undeniable power and strength of the animal - a horse could easily kill a human if it chose to - but also it's beauty and the gift of it's submission. The presence of the rider is implied by the position of, and tension in, the reins, so the relationship is there - but the focus is on the horse and the the gift of it's submission in that moment.
I don't know of a single other animal that has the strength of a horse AND the beauty AND the power AND the grace AND the speed AND the sensitivity ...and then gifts submission to man.
So that's what the grey horse picture means to me: it's a representation of the relationship I miss, shown through the visual of an act of giving by an animal that to me is unlike any other and second to none.
(On a technical note the lack of background detail is designed to concentrate your eye on the subject. The limited and desaturated palette brings the piece together, makes it more coherent and lends it a classical feel which I hope make the piece feel more timeless.)
And the grey 'dapples' are reminiscent of the rocking horses that I drooled over as a child before real horses were even a part of my world. (My friend had one - at the time I thought that was the dizzying height that any child's desire could reach. What a thing it would be to have daily access to something so beautiful, I thought).
Dapples are also technically very difficult to draw and have caused me huge problems in the past -so this drawing was a way for me to 'grasp that nettle', bring my drawing on and hopefully lay a few demons.
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Here is yet another 'progression' sketch that was created over several months during the 1990's. It was affixed to a slide-out table surface that's part of some office-scale file cabinets. When I visited my friend and colleague Steve in the morning, usually to get a cookie out of a drawer, I would try to think of another detail to add to the sketch.
Steve and I had another friend and colleague Bill who was quite meticulous in his personal tastes and preferences. He and his wife had an impressively well-kept and period-decorated home, typically in pre-WW2 American styles. They even kept their microwave oven hidden in the pantry cabinet!
The neighborhood in which they lived was an old community that has a mix of the very nicely maintained, down to the decidedly run-down. Being technically a part of the City of Los Angeles, their area was subject to their programs, motions and zoning decisions of which Bill would be rightly critical.
Thus as a joke, this was a running sketch of things that affect the quality of life in a neighborhood. Everything shown of course would be the direct opposite of what Bill and his wife, and most of us I should add, would want!
Reminder, this is only a joke.
I would like to drink wine with my lover in such a room.
All rendering of Blender.：*）
I played with objects for Second Life.(hehe
the eyes are still a little messed up here. It always takes me a few tries to get the eyes just right.
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Rendering of the Brummbar. Big son of a gun. This is probably the biggest vehicle we will ever make. The Tigers are nice, and cool to look at. But prob will never build one. I prefer ALL of the medium and light AFVs. Stueys, Shermans, and Panzers are my fav to build.
Credit to PA for his Pzr IV chassis.
The rendering on the front sections of our new house are now complete. 3:56pm, Sunday the 5th of December, 2021.
Highways 24 and 75
Topeka, Kansas
Completely air conditioned. 520 units all with phones, free TV in all rooms. 24 hour switchboard service, private swimming pool, restaurant and meeting rooms.
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Western Horsemint (Agastache Urticifolia), Moth "Gnophaela Vermiculata" often mistaken for a butterfly when out and about in the day time. Taken on a morning wildflower walk up Easley Gulch Idaho July 17, 2024.
Rendering by Wallace Hughes of a design by Jon Bolton Design Group. Watercolor on a print on 90# watercolor paper.
Posted for the Lynn Hake "Art-A-Day' project in conjunction with the Jay Weesner watercolor class. For day 6/6/2023.
“In the immediate future, more and more manned space flights will be undertaken and a manned space station is destined to be launched to serve as a space laboratory. Scientists are concerned about the astronauts in these vehicles for they will be subject to a potentially serious hazard in the form of fast-moving space particles called meteoroids. It is imperative that the extent of this danger be known before astronauts spend protracted periods in space.
The precise origin of meteoroids is not too well understood. Astronomers know of at least two types – wholly dissimilar in nature. There is a type of dust ball of appreciable size but of exceedingly low mass which can float safely down through the earth’s atmosphere to settle on the surface.
It is this type which may find its way to the bottom of lakes where they can accumulate for literally millions of years. These are discovered in cores taken from the lake bottoms. The danger in space from these particles is negligible.
The other type of meteoroid is massive and relatively small. The mass and speed of these particles provide the energy to penetrate a space craft or space station to do significant damage. Some scientists believe these particles may be large enough to set up a shock wave on impacting a space craft which could kill the crew. Some of these are large enough to survive passage through the atmosphere and are picked up on earth as meteorites.
From this, it is seen that the hazard is a real one and scientists concerned with the danger are looking for ways to learn more about it so that the necessary counter – measures may be undertaken.
To determine the extent of this danger, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. a $6.5 million contract to build several Meteoroid Detection Satellites, weighing about 3,400 pounds each, to be launched by the Saturn I booster from Cape Canaveral before the end of 1964.
Scientists realize that knowledge of the mass and energy content of meteoroids in the intermediate range is needed most. There is fairly definitive data on the very small meteoroids, as well as the very few large ones, but the number of intermediate ones—the ones which represent the danger—is a mystery.”
Above per the accompanying caption/description, as written by Dr. I. M. Levitt, Director, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
Another damned nice piece of work by the enigmatic, yet ubiquitous John Gorsuch!
I was inspired by ‘Stewardess’, a black-and-white 37 min long film shot in the Soviet Union in 1967.
Working with rudimentary stylus - which is not a fancy Apple digital magic wand but a porous plastic nipple on an end of your chip ball pen - is somewhat not unlike an attempt for calligraphy with a cow hoofs.
Anyway, challenge in drawing is fun in these days
Rendering made by 3Diamonds (me) with cinema4D & Photoshop
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The Quantum Jumper
Wanted to do a Celtic creaturesique mecha, and as it turns out I designed the FAIRY Mecha! The long long binders on the side are meant to look like wings on an angels anyway! I learnt a new technique where by this hand can 'hold' the laser sword blade in digital design phrase(unlike previously rendered mecha)
So kudos to something new!
And I gotten the 'Comic book' like effect of rendering! YAY!
From Wikipedia: The property opened as the Sahara–Tahoe on June 30, 1965. Developed at a cost of $25 million, the Sahara had a 14-story hotel with 350 rooms, and a 1,000-seat theater restaurant. The Sahara expanded with a second hotel tower completed in late 1968, with 224 rooms on 8 floors.
Rendering by Bob Miller for AD ART 1964
A rendering that I made during my studies in order to improve my photoshop skills.
I had tried to incorporate something of the Porsche design language...not entirely successful...
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Here's where one of the Powered Up lights will be installed. The other one will provide cabin lighting!
"Forever Free"
11x14" white charcoal drawing of a truly beautiful white Arabian gelding named, Sorria. Sadly he passed away too soon.
Commission for L.D.
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Submersible Jago
JAGO is a submersible primarily dedicated to exploration and research in marine sciences. Check it out here: www.geomar.de/en/centre/central-facilities/tlz/jago/overv...