Andrew J. Fletcher

From my Files: Eight Articles

I was going through my Down­loads folder the other day and doing some sort­ing and throw­ing out of old tor­rents and what not, and noticed a sev­eral arti­cles that I had read in the past year. Just PDFs that I had down­loaded and read. Some of them were sources I used for classes at UNCA, some were just points along my per­sonal learn­ing jour­ney. I think they were pretty inter­est­ing and eclec­tic, and had good mem­o­ries of read­ing them. So I’m shar­ing them, with a brief descrip­tion. I’ve put them in alpha­bet­i­cal order. PDFs will open in a new window.

  • Ambi­ent Tem­per­a­ture and Vio­lent Crime: Tests of the Lin­ear and Curvi­lin­ear Hypothe­ses
    • Do changes in tem­per­a­ture cor­re­late to crime rates? If so, what is that rela­tion­ship? Jour­nal of Per­son­al­ity and Social Psy­chol­ogy. Pub­lished 1984, Vol. 46, No. 1, 91–97. 6 pages. 775 kb.
  • Apollo 11 Tech­ni­cal Crew Debrief­ing
    • Aldrin, Collins and Arm­strong dis­cuss the entire Apollo 11 mis­sion, from suit­ing up to moon land­ing, return­ing to Earth and com­ments on the nuts and bolts of how every­thing worked from the view­point of the men who had to make it work. National Aero­nau­tics and Space Agency, July 31st 1969. 156 pages. 1.2 mb.
  • Hand­gun Wound­ing and Effec­tive­ness
    • There is a lot of mis­in­for­ma­tion about what makes a gun deadly, and what exactly the effects of a bul­letin on the human body are. Here is a fright­en­ingly well-researched study by the FBI on just that. Bonus: “FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT DISSEMINATION ONLY.” US Depart­ment of Jus­tice, Fed­eral Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion. Pub­lished July 14, 1989. 16 pages. 203 kb.
  • Hydrofrack­ing: The Need for Respon­si­ble Gas Drilling Reg­u­la­tion and the Role of Nat­ural Gas
    • Looks at the prob­lems of hydrofrack­ing, and assesses what could be done to make it safe way to access energy. More arti­cles from the pub­lisher, an inde­pen­dent energy think­tank, are avail­able here. I don’t smell petro-dollars here, but as always, reader dis­cre­tion is advised. Energy Vision. 2011. 14 pages. 720 kb.
  •  McMahon-Hussein Cor­re­spon­dence: Com­ments and a Reply
    • Why does the state of Israel exist? What estab­lished the bor­ders? Who was involved in those deci­sions and how did that make them? McMahon-Hussein is a big piece of that story. Arnold Toyn­bee addresses these ques­tions from an aca­d­e­mic, not a polit­i­cal view­point.  Jour­nal of Con­tem­po­rary His­tory, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1970), pp. 185–201. 18 pages. 518 kb.
  • Road to Riches
    • Where does wealth come from? Over thou­sands of years, the stan­dard of liv­ing of humans has crawled slowly for­ward, until about 250 years ago in West­ern Europe. Why? Given Mitt Romney’s recent com­ments about the eco­nomic advan­tages of Israeli cul­ture. The Econ­o­mist, Dec 23rd 1999. 8 pages. 228 kb.
  • Power Notes: Slide Pre­sen­ta­tions Recon­sid­ered
    • Most Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion are awful. But it can be used with pur­pose and serve to enlighten rather than bore and dis­tract your audi­ence. IIID Inter­na­tional Insti­tute for Infor­ma­tion Design Swin­burne Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy. 2011. 67 pages. 7.2 mb.
  • A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apoc­a­lypse
    • A fun and styl­ish look at how the tech­nol­ogy of the past could help you sur­vive the dis­as­ter of the future. Steam­punk Mag­a­zine. Octo­ber 2007. 31 pages. 7.9 mb.

Poster: Firecracker Jazz Band #2

Firecracker Jazz Band 8.5x11 Olive or Twist

This is some­what deriv­a­tive of the last poster I designed for Fire­cracker Jazz Band, but we needed one for our weekly per­for­mances at Olive or Twist so I came up with this design. Whipped this out in about an hour.

Portfolio: Nostalgia Dance Party

There’s a new club open­ing up in Asheville, the Arcade Asheville, in the loca­tion of the old and much mourned Joli Rouge and they are plan­ning to have rag­ing dance par­ties every Fri­day night. For a dance party to rage, you need the right DJs and they landed the best in town. By best, I mean with the best taste and widest appeal. They got Mar­ley and my good friend Par. I’ve worked for Par’s for­mer project, Under One Beat Pro­duc­tions, and designed lots of posters and other doc­u­ments for them. So he called me up and said he found the best image ever to use as the basis for a poster. And he’s right, this pho­to­graph is dope. Super dope. It inspired this design.

Been try­ing to beef up the ol’ port­fo­lio lately, and this was just the sort of project I was look­ing for.

Speak­ing of that, you should check out my port­fo­lio.

Poster: Screaming Js

Screaming Js

Good friends Scream­ing Js, the house band at MoDaddy’s, needed a poster to help with some pro­mo­tion. So they asked me to put some­thing together, and this is what I did. I tweaked the type (I used Black­moor) and stole the piano from the 1902 Sears, Roe­buck Cat­a­logue. They liked it, I liked it and I think it rep­re­sents their music pretty well.

You can catch them, and often me, tonight at MoDaddy’s and every Wednes­day. They put on a kickin good show, and you owe it to your­self to catch these guys. And it’s free. See you there!

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