{"id":257,"date":"2008-03-12T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:14","slug":"bardeen-cachet-the-japan-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Bardeen cachet, the JaPan way"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when projects come at you from all sides. Then again, there are times when said projects come at you like a runaway train\u00a0right when you’re supposed to be doing something else such as, oh, C-U Confidential<\/strong> #2<\/strong>. What’s a boy to do? Why, all<\/em> of it, of course!<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, March 6<\/strong>, the physics department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong> celebrated the inclusion of the late faculty member and double Nobel Prize<\/strong> winner Dr. John Bardeen<\/strong> in a stamp set honoring American scientists\u00a0issued by the United States Post Office<\/strong>. At the Loomis Laboratory<\/strong> ceremony, the Champaign-Urbana Stamp Club<\/strong> also issued a first-day cover (a commemorative envelope with a stamp placed in the upper corner and cancelled on the stamp’s first day of issue)\u00a0featuring original artwork done in a pen-and-ink style that a few of you might be familiar with:<\/p>\n

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Well, that’s<\/em> a bit of a change from dinosaurs, monsters, and super-charged marsupials, ain’t it? Thanks to CUSC president and daytime co-worker Louise Toft<\/strong> for giving yours truly a shot at\u00a0honoring Dr. Bardeen, who helped develop the transistor and\u00a0the BCS theory\u00a0of conventional superconductivity, among other things. You can\u00a0read over\u00a0this official UIUC press release<\/a> and the proverbial Wikipedia biography<\/a> to learn more about Dr. Bardeen (because you’d have to actually pay<\/em> to read the News-Gazette<\/u><\/strong>‘s freshly-archived coverage), and then check out this envelope mock-up graphic<\/a> posted on the CUSC Web site; ordering instructions can be found underneath it.<\/p>\n

\"Sirens<\/p>\n

Just prior to sketching away furiously at ye olde drawing board (for the first time in way<\/em> too long), I turned around words and design for two of my regular divergences from MICRO-FILM<\/strong> skullduggery. Next month’s issue of Sirens of Cinema<\/u><\/a><\/strong> magazine will feature my profile of Los Angeles<\/strong>-based actress Monique Parent<\/strong> (BLOOD SCARAB<\/strong>), while the fresh-off-the-press third edition of Champaign’s very own Bachelor Pad Magazine<\/u><\/a><\/strong> emerged complete from the very same computer where I type these words. Go get ’em from your nearest bookstore or Web site if you have a hankerin’ for a bit of stylish ‘n’ sexy fun!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On three consecutive freelance jobs that cut in during the current C-U Confidential dance, your editor demonstrates the three basics of print media: writin’, illustratin’, and designin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jp-confidential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}