Grassroots Spacecraft

• Client Work
• by Dugan Lunday

Recently I’ve been in contact with a Japanese Nagoya-based private space venture. They have two really distinguishing characteristics. The first is the mechanism that they are developing. Their concept is a reusable spacecraft that relies on a dual jet/rocket combustion method, allowing the spacecraft to takeoff and land like an ordinary plane and eliminate the…

Tunnel Temple

• Creative Journal
• by Dugan Lunday

I have a temple obsession. They’re really like dictionaries of symbols. There’s a Shingon (Vajrayana Buddhist sect) temple near the office that interests me in particular and I’d like to make a mini-doc on it. The main hall itself is the same as every other temple, maybe even a bit dingier. The real point of…

Answering the Phone

• Miscellaneous
• by Dugan Lunday

I relearned how to answer the phone in an unfamiliar speak. I’ve been jogging my memory with a lot of memories that I don’t actually have. Kind of like Wile E. Coyote suspended in space after he dashes off a cliff edge before his cartoonish descent. This kind of false recollection is like loitering midair. Though, there’s…