02/25/2008
02/24/2008
02/23/2008
Fake terracotta army soldiers, Disney World
A visit to Disney World is a study in replicated culture and architecture, you get ample opportunity to see copies of other things and places, the entire place is based on facsimiles of something else (real or filmic). These are miniature replicas of the terracotta army buried with Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi from China, 221 BC, found at the Chinese pavilion in Epcot. The troubling thing about fakes is that they can be convincing stand-ins for the originals, and can in themselves be interesting in a convoluted way.
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02/14/2008
Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 37 seen from LC 34
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02/10/2008
Apollo Saturn V Rocket, third stage J-2 engine
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02/08/2008
02/07/2008
02/06/2008
Block House, Cape Canaveral
1950\’s era block house adjacent to launch pad, Cape Canaveral, containing instrumentation for rocket launch. The distance from the block house to the launch pad was only 400 feet, limited by the length a signal could reliably travel the copper wiring from the control room in the block house to the rocket. This close proximity to the rocket in turn determined the thickness of the walls.
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02/04/2008
Apollo mission control panels
I made a trip to Florida and spent a day at the Kennedy Space Center, where I had a chance to photograph some of the historic sites on Cape Canaveral. These are the control panels used by the scientists and engineers during the Apollo moon missions during the 1960\’s and early 1970\’s. More image to come from this trip, look for an essay on my main website soon.
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