#mr orion icarus

[mr-orion]

Icarus, A Nightly Performance

"My body is obtainable if you can afford me. If you have to buy my body well, you couldn't afford my mind. The thoughts that make me care for someone can't be bought. When I go home you're just not the type of man I think of or care for. But... when you go home... to your family... you just can't seem to forget me. And that's okay, you can buy that loneliness away. But guy's like you think if you're twinkish enough and you keep coming back with lipgloss on, I'll fall for you. Give up."

"You can afford a night with me sure, but can you afford a routine? If you buy this night with me I'll have you hooked for a lifetime."

"Ray, detective. Detective. Detective Ray... Don't call you detective when we're both 'in the raw'? Okay detective."

"Don't be down my fagly friend! You're plenty desirable."

"I usually stay out of lovers quarrels but I can see you're hurting. Cut him off like dead hair. He's mediocre in bed and worse in personality. And he paid me to be enthusiastic about him, which I am. Thats why I said mediocre and not pathetic. Upgrade from that hoe and stop chasing men who continuously cheat on you with hookers."

i had a lot of fun drawing this one. I ended up moving from procreate to ibis for coloring so have a speedpaint!

also thoughts about my art are appreciated. along with reblogs and asks/questions about icarus! the more specific the better

[doriyangrey]

So I got really busy suddenly and never got around to finishing any of these which makes me sad but I thought I'd share them now in case they never get done

Anyway this is @mr-orion's lovely OC Icarus, I love his design so much the hair is very fun to draw

[gaygraviturgist]

i was tagged by @lucillesharpeapologist to share ten songs i like with names in the title!!

tom paine's bones by grace petrie

the cult of dionysus by the orion experience

robert frost by mal blum

talia by king princess

juliet by cavetown

icarus by the crane wives

the anthem of mr dark by the arcadian wild

what a catch donnie by fall out boy

chaila by denise chaila

the sick bed of cuchulainn by the pogues

no pressure tags for @nizd @dreamed-for-not @boyswanna-be-her @sugarchains @copper-arrows and anyone else who fancies it!!

[starfa11]

Rewrite the Stars

Nevermind, I got it, crisis averted Warnings: none! WC: 0.9 k Sirius Orion Black was many things. A rumored playboy, a socialite, and an elite member of society, he had people tripping over themselves to be caught in the same room as him. He was the prince of princes in high society, a well-known name, and good looks to boot, not to mention the boy was a brilliant businessman and was the pride of his parent’s strict expectations. He’d gone to a bar after a long night of socializing with people who wanted nothing more than to use his social standing for their own gain, for their own status, what he wasn’t expecting was to meet a man. That man was named James Potter, he said “You’re an incredible businessman, you’re an even better salesperson.” Sirius knew this, he couldn’t stand this sort of talk, so he’d responded casually with, “Look, James, was it? I appreciate the offer, but I don’t pick up peanuts. I admire your show, talent, and vigor, but I’m content with my life now.” And James had countered quickly, his mind coming up with a response faster than anybody in high society’s brains could even dream to work. “Are you content, or do you not know anything else, Mr. Black?”, and that stuck with him, but Sirius Black was as good a businessman as James Potter said he was, so they needed to reach a consensus, he wouldn’t offer his help for free. And a consensus they did reach.

It was a few days later when Sirius was introduced to his first show at the Circus, he stumbled around wildly, a bit overwhelmed by the colors and the sounds. He felt as if he could breathe and he’d inhale joy and life, sure it smelled of peanuts and sweat, but it was the most soul he’d seen in one place in a long while, the plays he produced were nothing short of bland in comparison to the majesty, and chaos of the circus. He remembered being introduced to different people and acts, each with a smile that they couldn’t help. He remembers hearing lilting voices and coy arguments, remembers seeing costumes and people doing run-throughs of their acts, he remembers it all. But Sirius Black could not forget the first time he saw you. You were in the air, a pleased smile on your face as you swung on the trapeze like it was easy, as if it weren’t something that would scare most grown men. He remembers making eye contact briefly as you swung high enough to see him standing next to James Potter, as your eyes burned holes into his soul, as the color of them suddenly became his new favorite color. He suddenly felt like Icarus, you were his Sun, he was enamored and he’d never spoken a word to you. He could have stayed up there watching you perform and smile and swing for as long as you went on, but that would look odd, for the son of high society to be in love with the girl on the trapeze of the up-and-coming circus, wouldn’t it? He’d stayed there with James for a few more minutes, to watch, to pretend like he was observing from a business perspective when in reality he was so hooked on your movements and smile there was nothing else to do. James escorted him back down behind the curtain with everybody else, and you appeared a few minutes later, James had called you over and your name was burned into Sirius’s mind, so he plastered on a flirtatious smile, shook your hand, did everything he figured was right. Your voice was as soft as a sunrise but as sure as the sun itself when you spoke and when you asked him, “So, Mr. Black, what’s your act?” and he had told you, “Well, I don’t have an act.”, and had blinked like a buffoon while doing so, looking a bit confused, he was so sure he looked pitiful. But you laughed, and it was so lovely he aspired to recreate the sound again, and you told him, “Everybody has an act, Mr. Black, maybe you just need to find yours out, hm?”

So he’d come back, so many days he’d lost count, he’d spoken to you more, and he’d figured that if anything he should go to see you. Sirius had adopted his role of businessman quite easily, and when he had found a way to introduce the circus to high society, you had seemed so excited knowing that otherwise you would never even be allowed to go. Your smile was contagious but you’d suddenly gone sullen and it struck his heart like a caged bird, you had seemed so pleased before what had happened? And when your voice came out of your mouth, sounding a little bit scared of the answer, when you’d asked if they were all permitted to go, he hadn’t properly thought it through, all he knew is that he needed to make sure that you stopped looking like that, that you stopped looking so hurt and scared when he’d responded, “Either we will all go, or none of us go, Love.” and with the admission of that out into the world, into the air, you had been spun around in a hug by one of your coworkers before you’d gone to him, hugging him tight and murmuring thank you’s.

If he was Icarus, he was infinitely sure that you were his Sun, his Star.

[cmyknoise]

As your local emo, I noticed I don’t often see punk/alternative/emo songs on playlists regarding DSMP stuff, and uh, for anyone who wants them, here’s what’s in some of my playlists for characters! 

Edit: Added more songs, and for those who asked! Spotify playlists!! 

(coming from me? my favorite playlists are tommy’s, the crime duo, and bench trio ones. would reccomend them highly)

Tommy & Wilbur [Spotify Link]

Riot - Three Days Grace

For a Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic - Paramore

I’d Rather Drown - Set It Off

Freak Show - Set It Off

I’ll Sleep when I’m Dead - Set It Off

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day

Knives and Pens - Black Veil Brides

Oh Raven - Unlike Pluto

Wilbur [Spotify Link]

Atlas Drowned - Gang of Youths

Four Seasons - Los Campesinos!

Do It All The Time - IDKHBTFM

Duality - Set It Off

Partners in Crime - Set It Off

Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy

Last of the Real Ones - Fall Out Boy

Monster - Ghost Town

House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance

Bench Trio [Spotify Link]

The Kids Aren’t Alright - Fall Out Boy

Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

Burning Pile - Mother Mother

You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring

Horrible Kids - Set It Off

The Kids from Yesterday - My Chemical Romance

Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

Miserable at Best - Mayday Parade

Mean Kids - Ghost Town

Tommy [Spotify Link]

Aint it Fun - Paramore

I’m Not Angry Anymore - Paramore

The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy

Blah Blah Blah - The Oozes

Could Have Been Me - The Struts

Sing - My Chemical Romance

This is War - Thirty Seconds to Mars

Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day

The Only Hope for Me is You - My Chemical Romance

Fourth of July - Fall Out Boy

Tubbo [Spotify Link]

Na Na Na - My Chemical Romance 

Popular Monster - Falling in Reverse

Bulletproof Heart - My Chemical Romance

Save Me - Unwritten Law

Liar - Taking Back Sunday

The Kill - Thirty Seconds to Mars

Had Enough - Breaking Benjamin 

Pain - Three Days Grace

Young and Menace - Fall Out Boy

Favorite Record - Fall Out Boy

Ranboo [Spotify Link]

Eighth Wonder - Lemon Demon

Touch Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon

Two Trucks - Lemon Demon

Killer in the Mirror - Set It Off

Why Worry - Set It Off

Planetary Go - My Chemical Romance

It’s Alright - Mother Mother

21 Guns - Green Day

Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace

Bring Me to Life - Evanescence 

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back - My Chemical Romance

Dream [Spotify Link]

Oh Ana - Mother Mother

Hypnotized - Set It Off

A Mask of My Own Face - Lemon Demon

Damage - Fit for Rivals

Heathens - Twenty One Pilots

Mama - My Chemical Romance

Dead - My Chemical Romance

Distance Disturbs Me - Set It Off

Sugar We’re Going Down - Fall Out Boy

Sleep - My Chemical Romance

Quackity [Spotify Link]

You’re All Scotch, No Soda - Sarah & the Safe Word

Just One Yesterday - Fall Out Boy

Icarus - Bastille 

Cult of Dionysus - The Orion Experience 

N.M.E - Set It Off

I Don’t Care - Fall Out Boy

Still into You - Paramore

I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace

Vegas Lights - P!aTD

Fresh - Artist vs. Poet

Badboyhalo [Spotify Link]

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears/Lorde

Venom - Icon for Hire

Make A Move - Icon For Hire

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Nightmare - Set It Off

Cancer - My Chemical Romance

Headfirst for Halos - My Chemical Romance

Eret [Spotify Link]

Heavy Is the Crown - Daughtry

Paper Crown - Alec Benjamin (unavailable on spotify?)

Body - Mother Mother

King for a Day - Pierce the Veil

Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance 

Dr. Doctor - Ghost Town

Bishops Knife Trick - Fall Out Boy

Irresistible - Fall Out Boy

Technoblade [Spotify Link]

Blood - My Chemical Romance

Plastic Promises - Set It Off

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing - Set it Off

Violent - carolesdaughter 

American Idiot - Green Day

Party Poison - My Chemical Romance

Champion - Fall Out Boy

Uma Thurman - Fall Out Boy

Philza [Spotify Link]

Helena - My Chemical Romance

I’m Not Okay - My Chemical Romance

Centuries - Fall Out Boy

Blvd of Broken Dreams - Green Day

Hourglass - Set It Off

The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance

Novocaine - Fall Out Boy

My Trains - Lemon Demon

Techno & Phil [Spotify Link]

Demolition Lovers - My Chemical Romance

Choke - IDKHBTFM

This Aint A Scene, It’s An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy 

Holiday - Green Day

Immortals - Fall Out Boy

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Fucking Deathwish - My Chemical Romance

Twin Skeletons - Fall Out Boy

[redarsenal]

The Story of Icarus

A summary of the story of Icarus!

Greek Mythology

TW: Imprisonment, mentions of drowning and mentions of death.

Request for: @tarotbee

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~The Legend of Icarus~

The legend of Icarus is a very famous story but only a very small amount of the story is wildly known.

Daedalus (Icarus’ father) was a very talented Athenian craftsman who build the infamous Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near the kings palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that was born of his wife and the Cretan bull.

Daedalus was imprisoned by Minos in the Labyrinth after giving Ariadne (Minos’ daughter) a clew (a ball of string) so that she could help Theseus, an enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.

To escape the Labyrinth, Daedalus managed to create two sets of wings for himself and his son, that were made of feathers glued together with wax. Daedalus tried his wings first and taught Icarus how to fly before warning his son to not fly too high, which would cause the wax to melt, nor too low, which would cause the feathers to get wet with sea water.

Too excited to fly, Icarus flew too close to the sun, resulting in the wings to melt, leaving Icarus to flap his wingless arms. This caused Icarus to fall into the sea, resulting in his death by drowning.

Daedalus wept for his son and called the nearest land Icaria, an island southwest of Samos, in memory of him. Today, the location of his burial on the island bears his name, the sea near Icaria in which he drowned is called the Icarian Sea and the island’s airport is named Icarus Airport.

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~Medieval and Renaissance~

Icarus’ story has been interpreted by major writers including Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Joyce.

In the Orion Fountain at Messina, Icarus is one of many figures associated with water; but he is also shown on the Bankruptcy Court of the Amsterdam Town Hall – where he symbolizes high-flying ambition.

The 16th-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, was the inspiration for two of the 20th century's most notable English-language poems, "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams.

Other English Poems referencing Icarus are "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" by Anne Sexton; "Icarus Again" by Alan Devenish; "Mrs Icarus" by Carol Ann Duffy; "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert; "It Should Have Been Winter" by Nancy Chen Long; "Icarus Burning" and "Icarus Redux" by Hiromi Yoshida; and "Up like Icarus" by syllabic poet Mark Antony Owen.

The Norwegian Axel Jensen used Icarus as a metaphor for troubled modern young men, in the 1957 novel Icarus: A Young Man in Sahara.

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~Modern~

There has been many studies on Icarus’ myth and there has been many interpretations.

In psychology, there have been studies of the Icarus complex (first used by Henry A. Murray to describe a particular type of overambitious character). Icarus complex symptoms in mania can be seen as being fond of heights, fascinated by both fire and water, narcissistic and observed with fantastical or far-fetched imaginary cognition.

Seth Godin's ‘The Icarus Deception’ points to the historical change in how Western culture both propagated and interpreted the Icarus myth arguing that "we tend to forget that Icarus was also warned not to fly too low, because seawater would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high, because it feels deceptively safe."

This myth is mostly known due to its coined term: “don't fly too close to the sun".

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Jacob Peter Gowy's The Flight of Icarus (1635–1637).

[angel-archivist]

!! tjis ask is a permission to Please talk about the villains of dead air, do they hav athird act breakdown if so pls ... tell us abt it

YES... I WILL TELL U ABOUT 👉👈 SOME OF THEM!!!

Apollo: When the illusionist ‘trapped’ Eret, they tricked Apollo into destroying it. And they then got sent to the inbetween where they woke up in a castle and everyday had to choose between completely destroying the mirror ‘Eret’ was trapped in and being freed from the castle, or drink from a cup and forget until the evening. The only way he could extend his time was to trap people in his castle or convince someone else to destroy the mirror which would free ‘Eret’ (whereas if Apollo did it, it would keep Eret trapped in the mirror realm) So when Orion beats Apollo in the duel, he’s forced to free his friends but still begs Orion to destroy the mirror. 

Static: they have,,, villain time :((( When they think that they were being used by Orion to find a way into the inbetween, this becomes apparent with (unintentionally) orion begins to push them aside after they’ve successfully pulled them into the in between to search for [REDACTED]. Mr.A kind of exploits this anxiety and fear when they get separated in The Mist (area thats run by Icarus) and mr. A makes it seem like their unwanted and that with his protection he’d never let any harm like what happened with the head scientist happen to them again if they just promised to help him. yeah but :(( yeah 

The Gameshow Host: He traps Orion, Ricky, REDACTED, and Static in like a horror gameshow where he forces them to reveal some of their secrets to each other and play through multiple different game show eques scenes with Sofia (having revealed accidentally she was a journalist) being sat in the audience and giving the show a ‘rating’ to be published in her paper. Hes defeated when she realizes the one place in the entire studio that he doesnt want her to look and the place that is hardest to look at and hurts to look at is a ‘storage closet’ where she when she gets away from the audience she sees is full of monitors and realizes the host is a projection and destroys the monitors trapping him into one specific monitor. 

Lucy: She’s Mr.As right hand, shes normally the face of the Unnamed Research facility. she typically goes around and delivers cryptic letters that lead to fucked up news stories, this typically happens when shes trying to divert news media attention from the Facility onto other places. While Mr. A is sitting in his shitty little mansion she’s running around trying to take care of ‘loose ends’ Eventually in Part 2 she gets like flung out of Mr.As office into like a fiery portal and :( yeah. 

Head Scientist: I dislike :] the head scientist :]]]] a lot!!!!! Shes super responsible for a lot of the people who are now intertwined with the In Between and stuff. She just kind of likes her job??? She enjoys exploring the inner machinations of like humans and stuff. She kind of meets her end in Part 2 when, Static purposefully sabotages the machine that would’ve lead her directly into the In Between and as a result it implodes in on itself, its unclear what exactly happened when it imploded. but uh after that happened Mr.A kinda gets >:(((( at static and then :/// bad stuff happens 2 them 

[aiaalalv]

(July 18, 2020) Apollo 11 (51st) and Vikings (44th) Anniversary 2020

(July 18, 2020) Apollo 11 (51st) and Vikings (44th) Anniversary 2020 with James French Jul 18, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM (PT) RSVP and Information: https://conta.cc/2SMuHLl   Volunteers are needed for all AIAA activities, please contact cgsonwane@gmail.com   (Online) July 18, 2020, 10 AM (Add to Calendar) Apollo 11 (51st) and Vikings (44th) Anniversary 2020 (Neil's Day) James R. French, JRF Consulting, AIAA Fellow "Gone But Not Forgotten, The Test Stands for the Rocket Engines of Apollo"     Prof. David Barnhart, Director, USC ISI / SERC, Faculty Liason to RPL/LPL "Moving Past Apollo: This generation's tools to build the 2nd major step for Mankind in Space"     Carl Stechman, Aerospace Propulsion Systems Consultant, Aerojet-Rocketdyne / Marquardt Retired, Apollo, Space Shuttle, Orion Engineer "Evolution of the Apollo SM/LM RCS rocket engine into Cassini and Orion" Gerald Blackburn, North America Rockwell - Retired, Engineer, Project Manager, Boeing Corporation Founder and CEO of Tinkers Corner LLC "250,000 miles a Proper Social Distance? - The Aerospace Industry was a significant developer of the Contamination Control Technologies and Techniques used today." Event Calendar http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/calendar/monthview?eso=0010gqoU-_jblZTmCh7qkkm8w%3D%3D&llr=p9tbt6cab   Join Mailing List https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/FnG0zoy   RSVP & Information https://conta.cc/2SMuHLl   Upcoming Events https://aiaa-lalv.org/events   Join AIAA Membership https://aiaa.org/membership   "Gone But Not Forgotten, The Test Stands for the Rocket Engines of Apollo"     Before they lofted the Saturn launch vehicles into space and landed the Lunar Module on the Moon, the rocket engines in these vehicles had to be tested on the ground. This was first done on test stands at Santa Susanna, Inglewood, and San Juan Capistrano California before moving on to Edwards Rocket Base and NASA facilities. These original stands are mostly gone now but they appear again in the pictures of this presentation. Jim French worked on these engines and test stands and shares his memories of those days.           James R. French AIAA Fellow (60+ year member of AIAA !) President, JRF Aerospace Consulting LLC

James R French graduated from MIT in 1958 with a degree of BSME Specializing in Propulsion. While at MIT, Mr French became the Founding President of the MIT Chapter of The American Rocket Society, an AIAA predecessor. In the ensuing years he has pursued additional education both in technical subjects and management.  Upon graduation, he accepted a job with Rocketdyne Div. of North American Aviation and during a 5 year employment, worked on developmental testing of H-1 engines and combustion devices hardware for F-1 and J-2 engines used in Saturn 5. He was also involved in various experimental programs. Moving on to TRW Systems, Mr. French was Lead Development Test Engineer on the Lunar Module Descent Engine and was responsible for bringing on-line the High Altitude Test Stand use for all-up LMDE testing at TRW’s Capistrano Test Site. He also was involved in experimental testing of exotic propellants. After leaving TRW as propulsion work ran down, Mr. French joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on testing and launch vehicle integration for Mariners 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Viking 1 & 2 and Voyager 1 & 2. Mr. French was Advanced Planetary studies Manager for JPL for several years as well as Chief Engineer for the SP-100 Space Nuclear Power System. He was Chief Engineer of a RTG powered Mars Rover study for a vehicle essentially identical to Curiosity. Leaving JPL after 19 years, Mr. French was VP Engineering and Chief Engineer for American Rocket Company developing hybrid rocket launch vehicles. Since leaving AMROC in 1987, Mr. French has been consultant to a variety of aerospace companies, SDIO, NASA, and USAF. As a consultant to SDIO he functioned as the government’s chief engineer on the DC-X project. He has participated in various startup companies in the private space flight arena and currently consults extensively to Blue Origin, a company in which he has been involved since its beginnings. He has worked with Project Icarus investigating interstellar missions. His current efforts draw primarily upon his extensive experience in rocket propulsion development and operational aspects of launch vehicles. Mr. French is co-author with Dr. Michael Griffin of the best-selling text Space Vehicle Design, published by AIAA. For over 20 years he taught a 4 day short course, mostly through AIAA, on the same topic. The second edition of the book has received the Summerfield Book Award for 2008. Mr French is also the author of Firing a Rocket, a reminiscence of testing rocket engines for the Apollo missions. Mr. French is a Fellow of both AIAA and the British Interplanetary Society and a 60+ year member of AIAA. He has held several Technical Committee and other posts in AIAA. In 2018, Mr. French was named Engineer of the Year by the Orange County Section of AIAA.     Moving Past Apollo: This generation's tools to build the 2nd major step for Mankind in Space"           Prof. David Barnhart Director, USC ISI / SERC Faculty Liason to RPL/LPL  

David Barnhart is currently an active Research Professor in the Department of Astronautical Engineering at USC, the faculty liason to USC’s student rocketry groups (RPL/LPL), and the Director/Co- Founder of the USC Space Engineering Research Center located at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) operated jointly with Astronautical Engineering. At USC David specializes in developing innovative technologies and architectures for 2nd generation space morphologies, rendezvous and proximity operations technologies/techniques, and hands-on projects with students, faculty and staff through an “engineering teaching hospital” construct. The SERC created and launched USC’s first two Cubesat’s into space in 2010 and 2012. Over 200 students have graduated through the SERC’s hands on training capabilities and every summer hosts US and international student interns. SERC is currently the technical arm for a national and global standards development push for commercial rendezvous and servicing missions (CONFERS), creating a larger re-usable Lunar Lander simulator project, and has the third USC Satellite flight planned for Summer 2019. David was most recently a senior space Project Manager at DARPA, pioneering cellular spacecraft morphologies, satbotics, space robotics and low cost high volume manufacturing on the Phoenix and SeeMe projects. He represented the first DARPA space project at the United Nations COPUOS in Vienna Austria addressing new technology pushing the need for updates to space regulations and policy issues for next generation missions. Prior to USC and DARPA David helped initiate two commercial space companies; co-founding and serving as Vice President and CFO for Millennium Space Systems in Los Angeles CA; and was the youngest elected member of a three-person international Executive Management board for a German startup in Bremen, Vanguard Space, one of the first companies working commercial spacecraft servicing. David started his career as a civilian for the Air Force Research Labs spending over 13 years helping to birth several notable innovations in micro-miniature electronic technologies, micro-chemical/electric propulsion systems, some of the first small satellites for remote observations, and the first independent RPO missions. Evolution of the Apollo SM/LM RCS rocket engine into Cassini and Orion             Carl Stechman Aerospace Propulsion Systems Consultant, Aerojet-Rocketdyne / Marquardt Retired, Apollo, Space Shuttle, Orion Engineer

Carl Stechman has 60 years of experience related to the conception, design, development, qualification, production and marketing of small (4-4000 N thrust) liquid hypergolic propellant based rocket engines and propulsion systems using hydrazine compounds, nitrogen tetroxide, hydrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and other space related liquids and gases. He graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1958 with a BS in chemical engineering and a subsequently an MS in engineering from California State University, Northridge. After a short one year at Rocketdyne he moved to The Marquardt Company and after many company name changes retired from Aerojet in 2011. During his more than 50 years he was a project engineer, program manager, chief engineer, chief scientist, rocket systems director and director marketing. His specific engineering specialties included heat transfer, thermodynamics, mechanical design and chemical engineering. In the early 1960’s he was heavily involved in the Apollo reaction control engine (Model R-4D) development and qualification subsequent to his co-authoring a report for NASA on the design of liquid rocket Engines. His primary duties during that time period as manager of the Marquardt development group was to insure the reliability of the Apollo engine through extensive off limit testing.  His many subsequent achievements include: The design, development and qualification of the first integrated satellite propulsion system for Space Systems Loral which included a performance and material uprated Apollo R-4D-164 490 N bipropellant rocket engine. This engine is still produced today for the Orion program.Design and subsequent development (as project engineer) of the Space Shuttle 4000 N and 110 N liquid bipropellant control thrusters.Patent holder for the model HiPATtm 445 N R-4D-15 Rhenium material based combustion chamber liquid bipropellant rocket engine using both MON-3/MMH and MON-3/N2H4.Design and development/qualification of the R-42 900 N Liquid rocket engine and its upgrades.Design and development of the model R-6C 22N thruster which provided ACS for numerous satellites and spacecraft.Design and development of the Model R-1E uprated 110 N engine used on the IHI HTV and the X-37. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 250,000 miles a Proper Social Distance?  - The Aerospace Industry was a significant developer of the Contamination Control Technologies and Techniques used today.

Gerald Blackburn North American Rockwell - Retired, Engineer, Project Manager, Boeing Corporation, Founder and CEO of Tinkers Corner LLC Gerald is an engineer and was a Project Manager with the Boeing Corporation. He has been in the Aerospace Industry for over 40 years. His career has spanned the entire manned space program from the X-15 at North American Aviation to the Apollo, Saturn SII, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs. His proactive leadership in business and education partnerships is widely known. Gerald has taught at the California State University in Los Angeles, University of Southern California and Cerritos College. He has been an active member of several business and education advisory boards and served on the California State Department of Education Advisory Committee for Career Technology Education. Gerald is also a professional international speaker on the history and programs of the Aerospace Industry of Southern California. He is author of “Downey’s Aerospace History” by Arcadia Publishing. Mr. Blackburn has an MBA from Pepperdine University and is a native Californian. He is a Director of Columbia Memorial Space Center Foundation and Past President and Executive Advisor of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation developing historical preservation and outreach projects. Gerald is the Founder and CEO of Tinkers Corner LLC a STEM education resource company in Southern California. He enjoys spending time with his seven grandchildren and traveling with his wife Kathy. Contact: blackbga@yahoo.com 562.447.5552c ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Read the full article

[mr-orion]

Icarus is so full of angst... wet pizza roll of a man when hes not putting up a front tbh...

[mr-orion]

My sketches really do be the grungiest crap sometimes. anywayyyy this is tied to a piece i've written but am too shy to post. so im procrastinating by saying once this is finished I'll post it! Which is a trap, lets be honest...

[mr-orion]

@doriyangrey you made me actually do lineart for icarus smh

now i just need to color it.... ugh

[mr-orion]

im cooking. im fucking cooking jesse

[mr-orion]

icarus sketchhhhh

we'll see if i finish it

[mr-orion]

flat color??!? finally??

still need to add all his piercings in tho

euaghghgh

[mr-orion]

I WENT THROUGH MY SKETCHBOOKS AND CAUGHT EVERY PHOTO OF ICARUS HAHAHAH

its bad! i love it! he went through such a glow-up. And to think, months ago, i redrew him on a whim. a whim.

WHAT IN BOY BAND TARNATION. Also bonus, mostly inaccurate lore !

I want you to know that these were from when I first started drawing 3-4 years ago as a high school sophomore. I was bad at drawing, I knew it, my peers were better and wouldn't pay me much attention. I kept at it though, strictly for me. My drawings were an extension of me. Now Ive had artwork in galleries and shit. Never too late for you to start. and look! its not even that bad! and so what if it is, learn to like your own art okay? would have saved me a lot of self loathing

[mr-orion]

he's going through it