Tuesday, November 25, 2008

dimension slipping machine from germany

"Gripper" tunnel boring machines use special plates to push rock around

Thursday, November 13, 2008

futuro science boy

from a popular science issue c.1963

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008

"trinity" explosion - 1st nuke test

the birth of the atomic age in a single photo - TRINITY TEST is first test of technology for a nuclear weapon, July 16, 1945

Abarth Cisitalia 207, 1955

"A Boano Spider" version

various syringes

playing battleship on drugs


Measuring response times of a guy zonked on morphine - the experimenter read certain words at the patient to see how fast they responded by pushing a button that turned on the lights.

the darrow photopolygraph drug chair


Measures a patient's mental and physical reaction to slang references to drugs. In this test a researcher in an adjoining room shows the addict words such as "dope" and "informer" and then measures their psyichal responses (facial reactions, pulse, blood pressure, breathing and galvanic skin response (a change in the skin's electrical conductivity due to stress) as well as verbal responses via the mic.

Tests often conducted on inmates under the influence of narcotics - both patients and doctors I presume.

Friday, June 20, 2008

"real" unicorn from italy


fish bowl tote

third eye project

female russian nude warrior with scythe


woman wearing salvador dali jewelry - surreality priestess

dead decayed animal

dead priest looses holy terror from his lips

she snatches your soul, with ennui

gas masks nude on the beach

snow pool

planetary landscape - in orange

mirror world bridge

zenith rand, planet vigilante - exotic! peppy! exciting!