Did you wear your Kern Zip-up when you went to see Star Trek the other day? It’s not a regulation uniform, but blue enough that Spock and Bones might wear them if they had to travel back in time, go undercover at HOW, and steal swag to save future-earth.

While you wait for that sequel, get your space travel fix with a new Flash game that pays tribute to arcade classic, Lunar Lander. In Kern In Space, you fire thrusters to maneuver embroidered letters into place, then set them down nice and soft.

I just purchased this book today at an antique shop on my lunch break!

If you have some free time, check out the Air & Space Museum’s object collection of Eyewitness to Space, which showcases some of NASA’s permanent collection from their art program. I found mostly sketches from artists’ sketchbooks, but I was also surprised to see some prints.


Giuseppe Tiberio Madeleine, Spazio E Pensurro Pa., Etching, in NASA’s permanent collection.


Len Gittleman, Unnamed crater, 1972, from Lunar Transformations Series, Serigraph, in NASA’s permanent collection.


Len Gittleman, Oceanus Procelarum, 1972, from Lunar Transformations Series, Serigraph, in NASA’s permanent collection.


Jack Perlmutter, One Giant Step, Woodblock, in NASA’s permanent collection.


Wilhelm Geissler, Kosmische Fahrt, 1966, Woodblock, in NASA’s permanent collection.


Robert T. McCall*, Splashdown, 1977, Lithograph, in NASA’s permanent collection.

* Perlmutter was the chair of printmaking at Corcoran Gallery of Art (1960-1982) and was also the curator for the Cosmos Club featuring members of distinguished professionals and intellectuals in science and the arts.

* Robert T. McCall is well-known for his 2001: A Space Odyssey poster illustration. I love his floating worlds and visions of the future!

Rockets, moon & space stations. Wallpaper c. 1950

"I think I dislike things that are familiar or ordinary. I seriously hate Japanese housing complexes (though not as much as before, for I can now see them from a different angle), I don’t like the shapes of spoons, forks, and cars. I want to see what I have never seen before."

— Aya Takano

The World of Buckminster Fuller, an 85 minute DVD by Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Snyder told entirely in Bucky’s own words.

I recently visited Chicago for a printmaking conference and stopped by the Museum of Contemporary Art. To my surprise, I got to see and experience a wonderful exhibit, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. The exhibit was brought to Chicago and organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art showcasing a large collection of drawings, photographs, books and models. What an incredible man. He put it best by saying, “a designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.” I am amazed at how he envisioned the world, how he was at the forefront of environmentalism and how he was an advocate for every man.


(Photo credit: lambcutlet.org)


Inside Expo ‘67 in Montreal (Photo credit: SCAD Visual Resource Database)


Geodesic domes at the Eden Project (Photo credit: Jürgen Matern on Wikipedia)

Take a look at the MCA’s website for the exhibit where you can download the gallery guide in addition to an audio tour as told by Jamie Snyder, Bucky’s grandson.

"People say to me, ‘I wonder what it would be like to be on a spaceship.’ And I say to you, you don’t really realize what you’re doing because everybody is an astronaut. You all live aboard a beautiful little spaceship called Earth."

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Benjamin J. Bowden (American, born England, 1907–1998). Spacelander Bicycle, designed 1946, manufactured circa 1960. Made by Bomard Industries, Grand Haven, Michigan. Fiberglass, chromed steel, rubber, other metals, vinyl. Brooklyn Museum, Marie Bernice Bitzer Fund, 2001.36

Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath (1970)

Pink Tentacle collates snippets about the Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath, an egg-shaped prototype appliance shown at the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, in which a bather sits inside and is cleaned, massaged, and dried in an “automated 15-minute process.” Consider me fully willing to place this in my bathroom should Sanyo ever decide to produce this wet Orkian womb. (via Boing Boing Gadgets)

I’m a sucker for geometric designs and I saw these quilts and coverlets on Design*Sponge by Rajboori, Stephen Burks of Readymade Projects and home textile industry veteran, Mitun Chakrabarti. The colors and shapes are beautiful! I have wanted a new quilt or comforter for so long now, but haven’t found the right one until now. Not sure of the retail price, but most likely out of my budget. See an image of a quilt in process here.