“The Voyage of the Pequod”, literary map produced in 1956 by illustrator Everett Henry for the Harris-Seybold company. Currently in the Library of Congress.
Darrell Romick’s Manned Earth-Satellite Terminal Evolving from Earth-to-Orbit Ferry Rockets (METEOR) space-station concept, ~1956. Maneuver Carefully…
Bausch & Lomb Balopticon ad, 1915.
“The balopticon is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often—and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
- Norman Rockwell
May 25, 1955: For an “air defense command story” published that summer, George Tames photographed various aspects of the operation at Andrews Air Field in Maryland and, 50 miles away, at the 647th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at Manassas, Va. Here, the warning squadron sights a “target” by radar, and its flight was recorded on a plexiglass plotting board. Photo: Geore Tames/The New York Times
For the Gallery Nucleus Star Wars Tribute show, opening this Saturday May the 4th (Be with You). I can never repay George Lucas for what Star Wars gave me. Star Wars is so close to my heart, I honestly couldn’t decide what image to make for this show, it was just all too important. So I just decided to draw everything… from memory.
Raven, early 18th century, fashioned of hammered and embossed steel by master metalsmith Myōchin Munesuke.
Part of the Metropolitan Museum’s “Birds in the Art of Japan” exhibition.
Illustrations, mostly by Frank R. Paul, for the second issue of Amazing Stories, May 1926. Authors include Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe,
Accent theme by Handsome Code
