*Inspired by: http://goo.gl/wGDHs
Many years ago, when I lived in Los Angeles, I would take the train to go to Pasadena to cover NASA for a science journal. The then all-almighty Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was one of those things that now feels old and dated, but back then it was full of promise and fascination, or as my dad would, it was “science fiction come to life.”
Many years ago, when I lived in Los Angeles, I would take the train to go to Pasadena to cover NASA for a science journal. The then all-almighty Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was one of those things that now feels old and dated, but back then it was full of promise and fascination, or as my dad would, it was “science fiction come to life.”
Dad was a
child when moon landings were a thing to be celebrated, not chastised. Remember the last time when the moon was not
at the center of some kabuki posturing between countries over how much platinum
could be extracted from the moon and what were the rules for waste disposal?
Yeah, neither do I, although is not as if this was not a problem that was
exclusive to the moon, since this all started once we started to run out of asteroids
to feed ourselves of the metals we so desire.
At least
the JPL of that time was more fixated with Mars than with what new shiny object could
be exploited in the name of the church of profit. These kids were dorks. Consumed by math equations and probabilities
would only be solved many decades after once we realized that some things did
have black and white solutions. The
downside of course is what happened after it, and the fact that we are still
paying for it.
In this blog, what is subtle but striking is the background. What is many separate images are transposed together to create a single image that tells more about the blog than just one of them solo could do. From this background, you get the idea that this blog is telling of the adventures of California life.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think is interesting in this blog, is the fact that what life in California is like is presented. By this I mean, everything that is stereotypical (beach, celebrities, and the like) are nowhere to be found. Instead, discussions on landmark images are presented and these items that are valuable should be the things that are talked about.
I enjoy the concreteness of the text. So far, what is highlighted in the blog are places that are more left brained—structures and scientific issues. This is also reinforced in the words of the blog itself. The wording is never very illusionary—it sticks to the facts. At the same time, it still makes me think, but in a more literal way. “These kids were dorks,” for example highlights this. Instead of using some literary fluff, the other concisely gets his or her point across. This conciseness works for this blog. From the trend so far I have seen, the blog will continue discuss various buildings in California. I associate buildings with structure, architecture, which has to be rigid and concrete or else it won’t work. The parallelism between the rigidity of the structure of the buildings discussed and the rigidity of the texts is reinforcing, whether it is intentional or not.
Because it is a blog, I do wish that some short of play on text was used with formatting. It is all very rigid, which does work, like I said. However, at the same time it is a blog, so what separates a blog from writing on paper should be creatively utilized, I believe.