Kacey Musgraves has tapped a trio of mariachi-playing brothers, who were detained by ICE earlier this year, to open three of her shows in Texas next month.
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This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
The median age of homebuyers has risen to a record-high…**56 years old** in 2024
That’s up from 45 in 2021
In 1981, the median age of homebuyers was 31 years old
(Apollo’s Torsten Slok)
So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny.
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On this day in 1994, Green Day unleashed Dookie, a pop-punk landmark that brought the genre to the mainstream. Fueled by hits like 'Basket Case,' 'When I Come Around,' and 'Longview,' the album redefined alternative rock for a new generation.
"There's a narrative out there, that's created another chip for us, people can stick that narrative up their you know what." 😤
Indiana head coach caught up with @jess_sims ahead of the No. 5 Hoosiers clash with the No. 2 Buckeyes.