Right Hand Drawn by Miki Huynh

Packing for Mars lecture at NASA Ames Research Center

kitschmensch — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:41:01 +0000

When work leads to new discoveries, it’s a cool thing. Been reading Mary Roach’s “Packing for Mars,” laughing and marveling quite a lot at the promised curiosities of the cosmonaut accounts, the monkeys, and the US efforts during Gemini and Apollo missions to maintain the astronauts’ sanity, waste products, and physical forms in space. Yesterday evening, I also attended the talk at NASA with Pascal Lee and Mary Roach. The talk focused more on the logistics and general feasibility of going to Mars, the next unexplored frontier, with Dr. Lee providing images from the humvee research conducted in the Artic by the Mars Institute that may help us plan for Martian terrain. Ms. Roach also had opportunity to insert a few anecdotes, like one about the sanitized pee water available at the NASA Ames cafeteria, from her book.

So, yay on Mars? Guess that depends on a lot: resources, the commitment and mental stability of selected travelers, and whether either the government or private companies will assume the risk for sending people out on an ultimately one-way trip, to name a few.

Filed under: discoveries, good reads Tagged: Mt. View, NASA, NASA Research Park

poster designs

kitschmensch — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:52:38 +0000

Posters I designed for organizations and events in Mt. View and Palo Alto.

NASA Research Park poster

Filed under: design Tagged: Mt. View, NASA, NASA Research Park

The NRP Post

kitschmensch — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:53:47 +0000

I designed the full layouts for these editions of the NASA Research Park newsletter.

Filed under: design

Kitschmensch Press Presents: Lumi

kitschmensch — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:38:38 +0000

I sold this hand-made book at my booth at APE.

Filed under: illustrations

Kitschmensch Press Presents: An Egg Named Aubergine

kitschmensch — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:46:35 +0000

Filed under: illustrations