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Nick Stevens Graphics
@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art
mastodon 4.7.3Graphical artist, specialising in Space subjects, particularly spacecraft of the Soviet Union, and unflown mission concepts.
Fellow of the IAAA. Available for hire, video, stills, and Soviet Space consultancy.
Currently based in Moldova.
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Joined October 28, 2022
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Photos of the LUN Ekranoplan
Astronaut and Senator Mark Kelly on what motivates Russian cosmonauts.
Ouch.
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I'm looking more closely.
The quad thrusters are wrong. God knows what the small thing venting near the rear is meant to be. The contact probes are missing from the LM. Half the LM ladder is missing. The part in front of the Service Module Main Engine is wildly wrong.
This book is a stunning demolition of FaceBook & Snark Fuckerberg in particular.
The senior staff treat each other MUCH worse than they treat their users. There's one incident where they send a mid-level manager to Korea to see if she's arrested, If not, it's safe for senior staff to go.
Zuckerberg has the emotional maturity of a spoilt 10 year old.
His senior people are expected to play his favourite board games when travelling. (They deliberately lose to butter him up)
Recommended highly.
Well, that's progress I guess...
Sea Dragon Diagram
Seldom seen Buran / AN-225 video from Vadim Lukasevich.
See alt-text for full information.
Rare video - the second speed run of "Mriya" with "Buran" on PC OK (the landing complex of the orbital ship) at Baikonur on May 12, 1989.
I've decided to have a go at an Ed Valigursky spherical moon lander.
I was sad to hear that Glen Baxter died recently... I've long had a soft spot for his gentle weirdness.
Art by the great Soviet Space Artist, Andrey Sokolov.
I'm struggling to understand the vehicle design!
More progress with the Ed Valigursky Red Sphere Spacecraft.
Nearly done modelling...
https://aedelon777.substack.com/p/i-did-the-math-on-sora-ai-video-is
Brilliant article analysing the insane rate at with Sora was losing money.
"$15M/day in peak compute costs (analyst estimate) vs. $2.1M total lifetime revenue."
And:
Disney learned about the shutdown less than one hour before you did.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/may/03/symbols-of-soviet-science-in-pictures
Some great photos from The Guardian here.
Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science – in pictures
The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes
Leonov / Sokolov.
Towards the Moon.
Cosmonauts learning Morse Code!
Titov, Gagarin and Tereshkova, Leonov, Belyaev.
Another fine piece of SPace Art by Andrei Sokolov, from his first space exhibition 1959.
Space art by Andrei Sokolov from his first space exhibition in 1959
Space art by Soviet Artist Andrey Sokolov from his first exhibition - 1959
Apollo Soyuz
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@ekis@mastodon.social
I’m currently about halfway through Careless People, the insider dump on Facebook.
The company is so much worse than I thought. And they treat each other even worse than they treat their customers.
Almost immediately after his space flight, Gagarin travelled abroad. Czechoslovakia was the first of 27 countries he visited on a goodwill tour.
if I have a LITTLE time for personal work, I'll often do something abstract, that I can complete in a couple of hours...
Here's the latest example!
I think I'm going to rework it at higher quality, and make it loop properly.
Done in Lightwave 11.6
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@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social @joXn@wandering.shop @benfry@information.garden @cstross@wandering.shop @mjtsai@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io
Famously,, for Microsoft, this was always version 3.1
Gamma rays on!
Yobba rays on!
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@fesshole
Don't know if anyone else remembers Tandem which became HP Nonstop. They used to have a small program to turn error numbers into text., called "error"
There was another version called "err0r", which gave helpful explanations like "Operation not allowed on this type of girl".
Working on a Mars crewed rover for a customer. This is based on a mesh I bought at Daz.
Two precious documents from Vadim Lukashevich
I have attempted to clean up, enlarge, and translate them
I use Proton for privacy in Email and also their online storage to share files. (Which replaced Filemail after they tripled their prices).
I've just tried their video call tool, Proton Meet.
What really struck me is that it is better BECAUSE it has less features. It just works.
I use Proton for privacy in Email and also their online storage to share files. (Which replaced Filemail after they tripled their prices).
I've just tried their video call tool, Proton Meet.
What really struck me is that it is better BECAUSE it has less features. It just works.
Edge rendered animation of the Hubble Space Telescope.
This shows a proposed nuclear version of Soyuz, with 6 boosters to lift the heavier nuclear core above the atmosphere.
With 6 boosters you get a Korolev star instead of a Korolev cross!
All by me, in #Lightwave3d
An old video of mine, Edge Render of the Energia M rocket, (Baby Energia)
All done in #Lightwave3d
Video showing the testing of the fairing ejection for the Soviet N1 Moon rocket.
Thanks to Yuri Shakov
The new Soviet Space Substack is out!
https://graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/n1-and-buran-videos-and-more
Lots of video in this one. N1, Buran, Mars 87, Space Suit Testing, and more!
The other day I mentioned Propton Meet, and how I preferred it to Zoom for having less features and keeping it simple. Plus way better privacy.
I was wrong about it being part of the package though I'm on the free version!
https://proton.me/meet/pricing
And still way better than Zoom.
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@AH_99 @ApostateEnglishman
Exactly correct.
Trumps gratitude for flattery or bribes is very brief.
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@ApostateEnglishman
Agreed.
But blowing smoke up Trump's fabby orange rectum is an easy way to get what you want from him...
I think the modelling is done on this Ed Valigursky design.
Though the surfaces will need adjusting for a final scene.
https://vimeo.com/1185054894?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Legs and engines do not animate, though I have it set up for versions with either or both retracted.
A more hard nosed assessment of Artemis 2.
https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-271/
And I have to say, I think he's right. The science achieved was tiny.
Ukraine designed Dneipr rocket launching.
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@nickgully@mefi.social
This was a relatively late one,
They got a roughly similar photo at the end of 1968 (I think).
And realised that the Soviets were hoping to beat Apollo to the Moon.
Apollo 8 moved the first lunar flight up the schedule.
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Image credit: Techniques Spatial"
Note the upper stages are not attached!
From "Vovan" on Russian forums.
From December 20, 1973, to February 6, 1974, a 1M1B mockup was on the left launch pad for testing the 8L launch vehicle. Fueling and defuelling of the mockup's three stages were carried out. The head unit was not needed.
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@tchauhan
I'm working on that!
I don't plan to get this close...
https://vimeo.com/1179845395?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Hi res, higher quality.
Abstract animation, flight down a reflective triangular tunnel.
Intended mainly as an exercise in using string colour.
All done in Lightwave 11.6
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@protonprivacy
Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see a way to receive files with proton drive.
I used to use Filemail which was stronger on file sharing, both ways
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@cstross
Well, as someone who enjoyed Delaney’s Dhalgren , absolutely not.
The final 20% or so is fragments that are not even in chronological order…
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