From the first lunar footsteps of Apollo to the threshold of humanity’s return aboard the Artemis missions, Ted Michalek has been part of the fabric of Goddard for 55 years — and counting! Name: Theodore “Ted” MichalekTitle: Chief technical engineer (retired), now consultantFormal Job Classification: Thermal engineerOrganization: Thermal Engineering Branch (Code 545), Mechanical Division (Code […]
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Santiago Michalek specilises in oil paintings of varaious modes of transport, from horses and cars to hot air baloons and trains. They really are quite beautiful and i love the worn, used look that he’s able to inject into his paintings. Santiago states in his bio that he is fascinated by the concept of time in his subject. The effect of time on the machine, when it was built and how the machine…
Found an unopened hockey pack from dollarama while decluttering. I stopped buying hockey cards more or less around 2019 so there's nothing too recent here. I used to buy any mixed packs I saw with any of the pens visible. Time to get my binders out again, reorganize everything and visit dollarama to buy packs cause I've almost 5 years of hockey cards to catch up on XD
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents David Michalek
David Michalek has put together "SlowDancing/NYCB" for New York City Ballet’s 2024 Art Series. The installation features hyper-slow-moving images of dancers, providing a deep dive into the distinctive archive and style of a ballet company that remains one of the most important artistic engines, and creative mainstays, of New York’s cultural fabric. Get your tickets today. (Sponsor)
OTD in Music History: German composer, conductor, and pianist Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) dies in Vienna after a long battle with liver cancer -- the very same ailment that had previously killed his father right around the same age.
Brahms made his final public appearance several weeks earlier on March 7, when he dragged himself out of bed to watch famed conductor Hans Richter (1843 - 1916) lead the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms's 4th Symphony. The audience was well aware of both Brahms's rapidly declining health and his presence at the concert, and they afforded him an extended standing ovation after each of the four movements of the work.
Brahms remained a staunch agnostic right up until the end. Indeed, the devoutly religious Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904) famously expressed his shock after befriending Brahms in the 1870's: "He is such a very fine man, with such a fine soul – and yet he believes in nothing!" When Brahms was asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler (1822 - 1896) to consider adding some more explicitly religious text into his "German Requiem" (1865), his reported response was as follows:
"As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would have actually gone further in the other direction and gladly omitted even the word 'German', instead using the term 'Human'. I also would have dispensed with passages like John 3:16... On the other hand, I have chosen one thing or another because I am a musician, because I needed it, and because, with such venerable authors, I cannot easily delete or dispute things… But now I had better stop, before I say too much…"
PICTURED: A contemporaneous print of an original photograph showing Brahms lying peacefully on his deathbed (with flowers laid out beside him), which was shot and then commercially issued by Eugen von Miller zu Aichholz (1835 - 1919), a member of a prominent Austrian family with whom Brahms spent much time in his later years. This photograph served as the basis for Ludwig Michalek's (1859 - 1942) famous drawing, viewable here: https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/410320216043474817/