Cyberoptix Tie Lab

Brand new from the TieLab (ok, a bit of a white lie, this was actually from Friday - 95 degrees with a bazillion percent humidity in an unairconditioned er..."penthouse" studio = not happing, no way. So instead I'm spending the day up in the great airconditioned north and plotting a proper web launch for this here tie biz, and getting together a slew of new ideas for future screened images. Think more antiquey and subtly political and a bit nerdy and geeky and militaristic...

At the Fourth Street Fair over the weekend, we ran into Tim Caldwell who generously gave me some 1953-1958 Radio Electronics and Radio & TV News issues which have so many strange and amazing scannable illustrations I can barely contain myself. Looking through ads from vo-tech schools around the Cuban Missile Crisis - "The Future is Wide Open in GUIDED MISSILE ELECTRONICS!" is certainly, um, enlightening. Of course the graphics are brilliant - little flying rockets surrounding by atomic symbols and starry skies...


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