I had this set as a kid, it's the most classic 90s ship. Some sort of chimera of a flying saucer front, x-wing torso, and a space shuttle's butt.

Because starting new projects is way more fun than working on the things that have been sitting on your hard drive for months/years, I've started making a riff on the Lego "warp wing" ship (set 6915, according to my research)

It's been 9 months since I made the speakers for this? Yikes 😬

The 2000s-style shelf stereo system from the previous post. The gap in the middle is now filled by the CD player/tapedeck/amp unit. It's still missing some buttons, and nothing is textured yet. But it's getting there!

Making good progress on the main unit finally!

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

a woman in a white dress is pouring water into a pot ALT: a woman in a white dress is pouring water into a pot

Phial. The mirror was this spooky thing

www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/dav... 🫨

AI couldn't decide between a fighter jet and a bald eagle, so it went 50-50

Another vote for the stack of pyrex containers. They don't stain, you can reheat in them without worrying about weird plastic stuff, when you're done with one you throw it in the dishwasher and it comes out good as new

Yaaaaaay chutes
SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED

Houston integrity loud and clear

When I heard that call earlier, it made me wonder what the plan is if it's not. My understanding is once TLI was performed their return time was basically locked in, give or take a few mins. What if a storm made an inconvenient appearance?

Still have memories of Crew Dragon DM-2 where it took two "comm check" calls to get a reply. That was a few seconds of very spooky dead air

No you have unresolved anxiety from Columbia

If you're wondering why Earth looks so distorted - its a result from the SuperView capture mode enabled on the GoPro HERO4 to stetch the native 4:3 image to 16:9.
Here I'm showing the unstretching process I'm applying in Blender. #Artemis

And it is so much better in her voice, my god

How did you get to $82k without triggering OOP max on your health insurance? Was there that much stuff they wouldn't cover in the first place? 😬

Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work? Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry.

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it.

If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers:

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

get that creepy man away from the space polycule, what is everyone thinking

The lighting is also super flat since DSCOVR has the sun directly behind it from the camera's POV

Ok I wasn’t ready for the crying hugging astronauts. Now my face is leaking

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

The astronauts are up and about.
#ArtemisII
www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK... gonna go further away than any humans ever have soon

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To be clear, the darker one is not the “original”, it is a completely different photograph with a lower exposure taken a few seconds before

My experience as a 3D artist is we tend to be nerds about how CG creations would really work. And as a result, V1 of anything is usually the most physically accurate.

It degrades from there as both the artists and the client/director try to make it look cooler (or render faster)

There is also a lower-exposure (f5.6, 1/15) that got downlinked! It's over here images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I found it a lot easier to understand the lighting situation at this exposure!

Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200