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_m3mxfeddKF1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.parriswakefieldadditions.com/spw-blog/2010/11/3/designing-joy-division.html">Studio Parris Wakefield</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Tasked with the brief of ‘deep space and nebulae’, Howard Wakefield researched through the collection </span><span>of Nasa imagery at SpaceImages. While tempted with a nebula called Factory, its name was too good to </span><span>be true, for it didn’t compare with the more expansive deep blue nebula of Hubble <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_346">NGC 346</a> SMC. </span><span>Peter Saville was keen to see how it could be transformed from being purely documentary, so suggested </span><span>an inverted, monochrome version.</span></p> </blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/22587871052http://notes.husk.org/post/22587871052Mon, 07 May 2012 15:32:11 +0100imagejoy divisioncoverartworkmusicspaceastronomyhubblengc 346<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26z6bRYLV1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The first appearance of the “computer-generated illustration produced at the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico” of pulsar CP1919 (now known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21">PSR B1919+21</a>), credited to Jerry Ostriker, in Scientific American’s January 1971 issue.</p> <p>The image is best known as the album art for Joy Division’s <a href="http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fact10plus4.html">Unknown Pleasures</a>, as appropriated by Peter Saville, but <a href="http://adamcap.com/2011/05/history-of-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-album-art/">this post (by Adam Capriola)</a> is the most thorough attempt I’ve ever seen to go into its history.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20795381027http://notes.husk.org/post/20795381027Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:19:32 +0100imagepulsarjoy divisionlinesvectorradiotransmissionarecibojerry ostrikerpeter savilledesignhistorycopyright<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28976ikZ81qz4vjro1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28976ikZ81qz4vjro2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fact10plus4.html">FACT 10+4 posters</a>, Peter Saville, 1979.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20795222694http://notes.husk.org/post/20795222694Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:15:00 +0100imageimagesfactory recordsjoy divisionfact 10+4posterdesign1970spulsarpeter savillemusic