Props to N.A.S.A. who continue their Boing Boing-sponsored run of excellent animated videos (e.g. that Syd Garon directed “People Tree” video featuring David Byrne, Chali 2Na, Z-Trip and Gift of Gab, “Whachadoin?” with M.I.A., Santogold and Spank Rock, “Spacious Thoughts” with Tom Waits & Kool Keith, etc). This time it’s a vid for “Strange Enough”, […]

In the past 50 years very little has changed in basic airplane design, and due to the growth in air travel the present system we have will not be able to absorb the growth. So NASA granted MIT a $2.1 million research contract to develop environmental and performance concepts that lead aviation into the next […]

Last Friday we showed you the Martin Jetpack, which is basically something every male has ever wanted since watching Thunderball and wishing you were Sean Connery (for more reasons than just the jetpack, of course). But that was some primitive technology compared to what we have now, and there’s no reason why we can’t update […]

I just don’t know how N.A.S.A. does it. I mean I know Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel) is Spike Jonze’ brother and all that, and the dude is obviously well connected, but the callobos he manages to link together and the artists he has work on his projects are otherworldly (like that Syd Garon […]

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut is hosting this Tom Sachs sculpture exhibit until Sept. 16. He carves, molds and shapes various materials into cameras. If you scroll through some of the photos you’ll realize that Sachs has an odd obsession with NASA. Hey, I’m not judging. As a matter of fact, I love […]