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An Appeal
We are standing on the edge of a rapidly eroding sea-cliff. Battered by pounding waves it crashes into the ocean piece by piece, chunk by chunk. The danger of us falling into the churning water is there but it dimly registers in our minds…we think “all we need to do is take a step back”…
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Cosmos Again
The finale of the new Cosmos series filled my heart with the purest sense of the numinous. Out there, in the gaseous clouds and the cosmic background radiation, among the billion billion chunks of ice and rock and the equally enormous numbers of other worlds, exists the wide universe. We are just toddlers come onto…
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Dichotomy Under Stars
In a giant room full of loud machines men and women sit or stand over their labors, working together to build what was once impossible. It’s a dream in plastic and carbon fiber, a wish built on a strong titanium framework. They strive with tools and minds to break home ties with this Earth, just…
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Sexual Creatures
We are all sexual creatures, we dress up in our dowdy exterior paints, some flat primer and our simple stitched cloth and dance around the reality. We anchor ourselves to deep ocean currents, a green sea of belief and understood truth. Sometimes it’s received truth sent to us from barmen and priests, often times they’re…
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The Ultimate Trip
I was around 10 years old when I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on my local PBS station, KCET Los Angeles. I was flipping through the channels when I stumbled upon the sight of a giant room awash in red light within which, moving along to the sound of classical music, a round vehicle…
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Make a Woman Make
Make a woman understand in the land of what and why how she played the game with dignity, her head held high. They called her a mathematical fairy a beauty and a wife, her friends were male and genius who all enhanced her life. Despite the scandal of being thought of as an equal with…
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Some (Random) Drawings
I love science fiction. Love it. Alien life-forms, sentient robots, spaceships, huge Ideas with that earned capital I. The first of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books introduced us to the planet-city Trantor. This is a pen sketch that I did imagining a panorama of part of this world: I also love computer history, so combining that…
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Earth Day 2014
Earth Day 2014. While we imagine that we live on a vast world with unlimited resources, we have to remember that this is not the case. In the 4.3 billion years that our planet has been orbiting the sun, we have gone from single-celled organisms that ate sunshine, to sending our technology into space so…
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Two Years On
It is now the second anniversary of the Numinous Cosmos! I wanted to thank all of the people who have taken time to read my work, comment, and subscribe. What started as a way for me to share some ideas and artwork, has evolved into a very serious endeavor. I have some really cool things…
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R-102
This is an old drawing of mine circa 2006. Its a view of a fantasy city somewhere in North America, as a young man watches the (unbuilt) British airship R-102 flying out of a rain cloud.
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“Bradbury was right!”
Out of the sun came the flaming silver needles. Landing in amongst the fragile bone-chess cities, red sand kicked up hard into quiet pale blue skies, was a ship from the third planet. The men inside, grizzled and fuzzy-faced, looked out the portholes and exclaimed each in turn, “Bradbury was right!” The dry seabeds rolled…
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Apollo Guidance Computer
This is a pen and ink illustration for my History of Computers book for the chapter on early miniaturization. One of my cats took a swipe at it so I have to do some restoration work:
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Another Place
The skies were yellow, the rain more like a mist of diluted hydrochloric acid than water. As we walked over the small hilly rise, below us was the panorama of what used to be Washington, DC. The monuments had been mined for their limestone and great pits were dug into the National Mall. Miles of…
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The Revisionist
Temporarily lost in space and time
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Empty and Endless
The entire planet was covered in an intricate network of roads, the architecture familiar and alien at the same time…but nothing outside of the wind whistling through marble arches was heard. Empty, empty and endless.
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It Has Become Precious to Me…
I finished this display box for my One Ring from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit fame. The box was from Micheal’s, which I got for about three dollars. I stained it a light walnut and painted the area around the glass with gold-leaf paint. I lined the bottom of the box with red…
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Entering the City
“This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake, and no matter by what road you travel there are two leagues from the main body of the city to the mainland. There are four artificial causeways leading to it, and each is as wide as two cavalry lances. The city…
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Monteczuma
I have bathed again, the water rich In frothy copalxocotl, I am made clean. As I dress, I am informed that there are representatives from a king across the sea approaching our city. From my palace I can see the glints of sunlight coming off of their metal clothing-standing among them are huge beasts which…
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Cortez
Walking down from out of the small hills, we saw on the lake, floating like a ship in a fevered dream, Tenochtitlan. Its palaces and temples and strange structures unnamed, its majesty rivaling anything in Europe. Everything in ordered rows, painted in bright colors, marketplaces full of people and fruits and vegetables and wares, everywhere…
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Jupiter From Europa
This is an acrylic on canvas painting, with color pencil for outlining and scragglies on the surface ice grooves. Larger version:
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