The Galactic Gala was a smashing success. Pilots rubbed elbows with debutantes, explorers cavorted with bespangled performers, and mechanics cut a rug on the dance floor in the arms of pan-galactic ambassadors. All were united in common cause: Raising funds to launch the Raygun Gothic Rocketship from Black Rock City. Even an alien invasion could not dim the high spirits of those assembled – the attack was quickly quelled and all that remained was dancing, romancing, and the orbular eye of the friendly rectangular photo robot.
GALACTIC GALA
June 5th, 2009 by admin
Get Out: A blastoff party for Raygun Gothic Rocketship
June 3rd, 2009 by admin
A mention in Contra Costa Times: [more]
Introducing the Raygun Gothic Rocket
June 1st, 2009 by admin
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship (RGR) is an 80 year old vessel of scientific discovery and exploration. In her time she has crash-landed on the frozen seas of Mars, gathered specimens from every last one of the 400 volcanoes of Io and charted the caves of Mongo.
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is also a large-scale, interactive sculptural art installation, being built this very moment at a warehouse in West Oakland, California. Both realities coexist simultaneously, and will do so until the Raygun Gothic Rocketship arrives at Black Rock City, Nevada in late August of 2009, to embark on her next voyage.
The Rocketship is 40′ tall, 8′ in diameter, and is estimated to weigh 7.5 tons. It is being crafted in part from recycled, reclaimed, and reused materials. A fuller description can be found here.
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is intended to creatively explore our ideas about evolution and technology as they relate to our notions about progress and The Future. This project exists at the blurry edge where science and fiction blend and become both our reality, and the stories we tell ourselves about that reality.
Raygun Gothic Rocketship Model
May 23rd, 2009 by admin
Almost Scientific has done a solid body model of our Raygun Gothic Rocketship, complete with some sexy details like sheet metal, rivets and two door.
This is very close to what we hope the final rocket will look like.
After 3d-printing this model Jo Slota is going to cast it.
Here are some of the renderings, including the front, back, nose cone, and a close up of the front door a embossed logo.
Laughing Squid Update (by Burstein)
May 22nd, 2009 by admin
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is the new art piece by Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor, David Shulman, which is the same crew that gave life to the Steampunk Treehouse. Art, however, does not exactly grow on trees…[More]
