Why did I do this?
Pure unadulterated greed and desire for attention. Plus, I thought it would be really cool.
(this is a proof of concept to gauge the interest of this little project of mine. Book editors, take note!)
If you’ve never stopped to look at the aesthetics that can be found in nearly all engineering endeavors, that means you’ve never looked the insides of you phone (use an old phone, cuz, getting to its innards will likely destroy the things, ask my poor iPhone 5 about that), the gentle arcs in a bridge, or the lines of the grill on your car, you should do it sometime. There are beautiful things to see that can only be appreciated up-close, carving out these brand new forms the can be revealed. My greatest interest is the early space program and so that’s where I start.
What I strive to do here is to take an up-close view of some of the hardware from Mercury through Shuttle, with a detour to some Soviet items as well. For the most part I avoided trying to “pretty up” the image with colors or dramatic lighting so the devices can speak for themselves. I rarely show off the full piece, as I look at the buried patterns that can be unearthed, up-close.
I’ll be adding more images here from my own collection along with the wonderful shots from Carsten Olsen, oh, and NASA as well.
As this is in an alpha version of the project, much of the photography works well enough, but could certainly be improved over time.