RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • richardrushfield: There have been two great epic-scale adventures of the post War era:  The fall of the Soviet empire and the Apollo program.  Neither of them has gotten a great movie yet. The Apollo program was the only truly uncharted adventure of our time. Where anything at all could have happened. Since then all we’ve…

  • While Drill Instructors inherently and naturally instill fear in recruits, the reliance on yelling and screaming no longer is seen as being an effective means to developing the critical thinking, collaboration and self-confidence the Army seeks to imbue in every single soldier. Dressing down a recruit is seen as the last resort of effective leadership.…

  • Art History and the Criticism of Computer-Generated Images (1994) Download the essay. This was published (with color illustrations) in Leonardo 27 no. 4 (1994): 335–42 and color plate. This unillustrated version is of limited use; ideally, it should be read with the illustrations. It is also dated: computer graphics has come a long way since…

  • The Weimar Bauhaus was founded in 1919 on the premise that art “cannot be taught and cannot be learned.” Art is not “a profession which can be mastered by study,” wrote Walter Gropius in the school’s first program; rather, it blossoms “in rare moments of inspiration” by “the grace of heaven.” That Gropius launched what…

  • crookedindifference: Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the cabin after the completion of the first EVA. This is the face of the first man to set foot on the Moon, just hours earlier, on July 20th, 1969. Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became…

  • nevver: Footprint

  • Neil Armstrong, RIP

    jkottke: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, died today at the age of 82. Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA’s forerunner and an astronaut, Mr. Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamour of the space program. “I am,…

  • For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink. Statement from…

  • wilwheaton: I met Neil Armstrong once, at a dinner to honor Jimmy Doohan in the early 2000s. He was not much taller than me, but he was a giant of a man. He was as kind as he was intimidating. I don’t remember what I said to him, or what he said to me, because…

  • Education as the way into poverty, not out of it

    Education as the way into poverty, not out of it emergentfutures: An astonishing statistic about higher education in the United States: up to 66% of all faculty teaching course at the university level are now adjunct professors receiving a minimal wage and no benefits. A recent PhD graduate from Washington University in St Louis (up…