MetaFilter posts tagged with 1980

Totally outrageous!!!

1f2frfbf — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:55:36 -0800

Branded in the 80's: Peel Here From the obvious to the obscure to the downright frightening, Peel Here documents the collectible stickers of the 80's and related ephemera.

They're all gone

never used baby shoes — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:20:09 -0800

Veteran sportscaster Jim McKay dies. The host of ABC's Wide World of Sports for forty years, Jim also called the 1980 Miracle on Ice. However, he will probably be best remembered for being thrust into the role of news journalist during the 1972 Munich Games.

Dot Matrix Fun

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:13:40 -0800

You can print a line on a Epson Printer located in Brugg, Switzerland. There is a live video stream to see what you're printing as well as a light switch so you're not printing in the dark (snapshot).

Zibigniew Rybczinski's "Tango"

rongorongo — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:10:24 -0800

“Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece”[ source]: Zbig Rybczynski on the making of his award winning (and much imitated) animation "Tango "(YT, mildly NSFW).

5...4...3...2...1...Goodbye, Columbia

kirkaracha — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:02:26 -0800

5...4...3...2...1...Goodbye, Columbia "There is something noteworthy a rocket can do that the shuttle cannot. A rocket can be permitted to fail." Gregg Easterbrook's 1980 Washington Monthly cover story looks into the Columbia's beginnings, the hazards he saw in the shuttle, and its weaknesses compared to rockets.

Once you get into space, you check to see if any tiles are damaged. If enough are, you have a choice between Plan A and Plan B. Plan A is hope they can get a rescue shuttle up in time. Plan B is burn up coming back.

[via Slate]

TiggleTaggleTiger — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:04:34 -0800

This is more entertaining than That 80s Show. And this is just plain sexy.