Chad Blinman

engineer, mixer, and producer of music recordings. programmer and composer of electronic music. college professor. international megastar. visit chadblinman.com

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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

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Illustration: A. M. Cassandre (Adolphe Mouron), Fantastic PHILIPS TELEVISION poster, 1951

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Philip Morris Headquarters, Richmond, 1972

via burnedshoes

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IBM 702 Machine

via nevver

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New Miniature Warning Signs and Other Humorous and Unexpected Interventions by Michael Pederson

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Who could forget this classic scene from Star Wars

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Syd Mead

2010: The Year We Make Contact  Concept Art

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Syd Mead

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We Recommend General Electric Radiotrons

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The ‘Kill Bill’ inspired ‘O-Ren Ishii’ by Craig Drake, available Saturday November 4 exclusively during MondoCon in Austin, TX.

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1957 Bausch & Lomb Balomatic Slide Projector

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Robert Fripp, David Bowie and Brian Eno, Hansa Studios, Berlin, 1977 by Christian Simonpietri

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fun keeps when you TAPE IT

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Captain’s Log | September 15, 2017

The end is now upon us. Within hours of the posting of this entry, Cassini will have burned up in the atmosphere of Saturn … a kiloton explosion, spread out against the sky in a pyrrhic display of light and fire, a dazzling flash to signal the dying essence of a lone emissary from another world. As if the myths of old had foretold the future, the great patriarch will consume his child. At that point, that golden machine, so dutiful and strong, will enter the realm of history, and the toils and triumphs of this long march will be done.

For those of us appointed long ago to undertake this journey, it has been a taxing 3 decades, requiring a level of dedication that I could not have predicted, and breathless times when we sprinted for the duration of a marathon. But in return, we were blessed to spend our lives working and playing in that promised land beyond the Sun.

My imaging team members and I were especially blessed to serve as the documentarians of this historic epoch and return a stirring visual record of our travels around Saturn and the glories that we found there. This is our gift to the citizens of planet Earth.

So, it is with both wistful, sentimental reflection and a boundless sense of pride in a commitment met and a job well done that I now turn to face this looming, abrupt finality.

It is doubtful we will soon see a mission as richly suited as Cassini return to this ringed world and shoulder a task as colossal as we have borne over the last 27 years.

To have served on this mission has been to live the rewarding life of an explorer of our time, a surveyor of distant worlds. We wrote our names across the sky. We could not have asked for more.

I sign off now, grateful in knowing that Cassini’s legacy, and ours, will include our mutual roles as authors of a tale that humanity will tell for a very long time to come.

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Vaughn Bode

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1969 Buick Century Cruiser.

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The Bugaloos