Yuri’s Night is a world space party that commemorates the anniversary of the first human spaceflight, by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Apand the first space shuttle mission 20 years later. Is this a science experiment gone awry? No, it’s all part of Yuri’s Night. Photo Credit: Jess Hobbs Click image for full-resolution.īird's eye view of "Angel of Apocalypse" at the Toronto Winter Festival.Ī 40-foot high rocket from the future and a 20-foot tall bird with its head and wings on fire will light up on Saturday, Apat NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
"Angel of the Apocalypse" at the Toronto Winter Festival in Fesbruary, 2010. Photo Credit: Sean Donnelly Click image for full-resolution.
I wish the Raygun Gothic Rocketship engineers and artists were in charge.The "Raygun Gothic Rocketship" stands during a sunrise on at the 2009 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. Meanwhile, in California, it is taking forever to start building a modern railway system while the state chokes on its own exhaust. Now they have high-speed trains going at 270MPH everywhere. "Ten years ago China had no modern rail infrastructure. The European patriarch talked about how his family was on their way home from a trip to Shanghai.
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Pretend you're in a Hollywood movie from the 1940s and you should have a good time." When they asked me what they were getting into, I replied, "It's very, very old-fashioned and slow. I was taking a train on Friday morning, just before the rocketship's official installation, and talked to a European tourist family who were going to Los Angeles via an Amtrak train to Bakersfield followed by a bus ride to downtown LA. Maybe that's why the kiosk designers insisted that "Earth" was a "Local" stop. The retro rocket's placement next to the Amtrak station is an unintended bit of irony since rail travel is experiencing a back to the future moment right now, although the United States is falling behind the rest of the world in that arena with each passing day.
In the desert, you could walk inside the rocket as if you really were going to take off, but insurance and permit considerations made that impossible along the San Francisco waterfront.Īccordingly, a kiosk was built by Alan Rorie with graphic design by Jody Medich, displaying the daily intergalactic schedule for the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. The artists Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor, and David Shulman (above), along with a crew of over 60 volunteers, originally created the sculpture for the 2009 Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Next door to the Amtrak train station on the San Francisco waterfront, a 40-foot retro rocket sculpture has been created by Five Ton Crane, a group of Burning Man associated artists for a year-long installation, and it's stunningly playful.
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