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are2: Brand Wars: Vadari

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:15:00 -0400

are2:

Brand Wars: Vadari

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:16:22 -0400

geekleetist: Stoked on how this turned out. Society6

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:42:37 -0400

geekleetist:

Stoked on how this turned out.

Society6

xombiedirge: The Call of Cthulhu by Justin Hillgrove 8” x 10”...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:15:53 -0400

xombiedirge:

The Call of Cthulhu by Justin Hillgrove

8” x 10” Set of two giclee on canvas, S/N available HERE.

Part of the Icons & Influences art show at Ltd. Art Gallery / Tumblr.

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:30:08 -0400

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:55:11 -0400

katfren: Marvel should attach this short animation to all of...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:51:12 -0400

katfren:

Marvel should attach this short animation to all of their movies.

THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:40:00 -0400

ridingdaphne: tv meme | 2/5 male characters; Douglas Reynholm,...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:37:29 -0400

ridingdaphne:

tv meme | 2/5 male characters; Douglas Reynholm, The IT Crowd

I reckon I know where to sign on a sexual harassment settlement, thank you.

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:03:13 -0400

heygirldaryldixon: Oh, just a guy named Murphy. You don’t know...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:24:31 -0400

heygirldaryldixon:

Oh, just a guy named Murphy. You don’t know him.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:42:59 -0400

thefrogman: “It’s 170.59 kilometers distance to Chicago,...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:41:23 -0400

thefrogman:

“It’s 170.59 kilometers distance to Chicago, Illinois. Our petroleum reserves are at 50% capacity. We have ten cigarettes. There is no illumination. And we have on eye-wear that reduces the amount of light that enters our retinas. Which is illogical.”

“Hit it.”

ikenbot: Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’ This...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:22:08 -0400

ikenbot:

Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’

This Day in Space: 1927. Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov born. He would be the first person to die during a spaceflight.

So there’s a cosmonaut up in space, circling the globe, convinced he will never make it back to Earth; he’s on the phone with Alexei Kosygin — then a high official of the Soviet Union — who is crying because he, too, thinks the cosmonaut will die.

The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won’t work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, “cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.”

This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a Russian cosmonaut appears in a new book, Starman, by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, to be published next month. The authors base their narrative principally on revelations from a KGB officer, Venyamin Ivanovich Russayev, and previous reporting by Yaroslav Golovanov in Pravda. This version — if it’s true — is beyond shocking.

Starman tells the story of a friendship between two cosmonauts, Vladimir Kamarov and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space. The two men were close; they socialized, hunted and drank together.

In 1967, both men were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly. Komarov told friends he knew he would probably die. But he wouldn’t back out because he didn’t want Gagarin to die. Gagarin would have been his replacement.

The story begins around 1967, when Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, decided to stage a spectacular midspace rendezvous between two Soviet spaceships.

The plan was to launch a capsule, the Soyuz 1, with Komarov inside. The next day, a second vehicle would take off, with two additional cosmonauts; the two vehicles would meet, dock, Komarov would crawl from one vehicle to the other, exchanging places with a colleague, and come home in the second ship. It would be, Brezhnev hoped, a Soviet triumph on the 50th anniversary of the Communist revolution. Brezhnev made it very clear he wanted this to happen.

The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structural problems — serious problems that would make this machine dangerous to navigate in space. The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed.

“ He’ll die instead of me. We’ve got to take care of him.”

- Komarov talking about Gagarin

The question was: Who would tell Brezhnev? Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command. Everyone who saw that memo, including Russayev, was demoted, fired or sent to diplomatic Siberia. With less than a month to go before the launch, Komarov realized postponement was not an option. He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, “I’m not going to make it back from this flight.”

Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: “If I don’t make this flight, they’ll send the backup pilot instead.” That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn’t do that to his friend. “That’s Yura,” the book quotes him saying, “and he’ll die instead of me. We’ve got to take care of him.” Komarov then burst into tears.

Full Story Over At NPR

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Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:55:17 -0500

mrdoyle: Unreal Estate series 1 postcard sets! Now available! ...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:03:28 -0500

mrdoyle:

Unreal Estate series 1 postcard sets!

Now available! All 10 images from last year’s sold-out Unreal Estate 1 show are now available in a 10-count postcard set!

These super-nice high-quality 5×7 postcards are printed on thick 14pt stock, with a matte finish! Suitable for framing or mailing, each set ships in a hard-shell plastic case, so they show up safe and sound!

10 postcards for $10- sets are in hand and ready to ship worldwide.

Pick them up RIGHT HERE.