Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3oldgQh261qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/7003282818/" title="party outings 1964 front cover">party outings 1964 front cover</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/">smallritual</a> on Flickr:</p> <blockquote>‘party’ here means a group of people. this is a book of suggestions for day trips to tourist destinations</blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/22644625000http://notes.husk.org/post/22644625000Tue, 08 May 2012 10:01:08 +0100imageflickrsmallritualbritish rail19641960sdesignparty outingsexcursionday outtrainbritainengland<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wxfrMwTm1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.</span></p> <p><span>(I’ve seen the proposal for a <a href="http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/RETROFUTURE11.html">dome over Manhattan</a>, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:33 +0100imagebuckminster fullershoji sadaonew york citytowerskyscraperhousingharlemmanhattan19641960sblack and whiteillustrationdiagram<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1iitdyYxt1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Margaret Calvert’s classic UK “children crossing” roadsign, from the Guardian’s gallery for the new exhibition, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/mar/26/british-design-v-and-a-in-pictures/?picture=387763567&index=7">Celebrating in style: British Design at the V&A</a>, London.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/19975010570http://notes.husk.org/post/19975010570Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:42:05 +01001960s1964childrenchildren crossingdesignimagemargaret calvertroad signsignukexhibition<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1akuy1MIH1qb4hb2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (<a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://bravecadet.com/post/19732887586/via-buzz-and-teds-excellent-adventure">via</a>, <a href="http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/14031">via</a>)</p> <p>This looks like it was taken in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iJ8WwRBNgk0C&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Buzz+Aldrin+and+Ted+Freeman&source=bl&ots=p7T28isU8l&sig=jZf24RDZMgcj4rdsxNzSECcHYEc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_iluT86DIcS5iwKbp-jFBw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Buzz%20Aldrin%20and%20Ted%20Freeman&f=false">October 1964</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>On Friday, October 30, Ted Freeman and Buzz Aldrin were engaged in a little public affairs activity for NASA, demonstrating their spacesuits and a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft for a few members of the press.</p> </blockquote> <p>However, Freeman would never fly a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Freeman">Gemini mission</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>On October 31, 1964, Theodore Freeman was killed when a </span><span>goose</span><span> smashed through the </span><span>cockpit </span><span>canopy of his </span><span>T-38 Talon</span><span> jet trainer. Flying shards of </span><span>Plexiglas</span><span> entered the </span><span>jet engine</span><span> intake and caused the engine to flameout. Freeman ejected from the stricken </span><span>aircraft</span><span>, but was too close to the ground for his </span><span>parachute</span><span> to open properly.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Buzz Aldrin went on to be the <a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/135795415/buzz">second man on the Moon</a>.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/19852177226http://notes.husk.org/post/19852177226Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:42:06 +0000imagerebloggeminibuzz aldrinted freemanspacesuitnasa1960s1964<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhowcEjxU1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/6733316843/" title="berkeley nuclear power station">berkeley nuclear power station</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/">smallritual</a> on Flickr.</p><p>Apparently, “only the sealed reactor core [is] left now”.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/16616103860http://notes.husk.org/post/16616103860Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:40:59 +0000imageflickr1964illustrationthe modern wonder booknuclear power<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9s49MzEf1r7lwuro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A NASA mockup of the lunar module from 1964. It’s reasonably similar to the finished article.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/15409380386http://notes.husk.org/post/15409380386Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:56:06 +0000imagenasalunar modulemodel1964<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kza363TxMR1qz4vjro1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Front Of New York World’s Fair Guide (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky">glen.h</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/447795772http://notes.husk.org/post/447795772Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:32:26 +0000imagecoverbooknew yorkworld's fair1964typographymicrogrammavia:antimega