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http://memories-restored.net/GG3012/index.html Karl has been busy adding to the Galactic Geographic--it used to run in Heavy Metal Megazine, but I think Karl is enjoying being able to add to it on his own schedule, on his own website. And yes, he does photo restorations, too--it's spooky how he can drag up the correct colors and shapes out of the past, like a spirit medium with photoshop. He did a couple of pieces for me and the photos looked like they were when they were new and fresh!

My friend Karl wrote, after receiving the Star Trek communicator (c.1960's) from generodenberry.com: Both detectable from orbit. The one on the left has many more functions, including a camera, and is smaller. My complaint is the the "beam me up" function is broken on mine. Image courtesy of Karl Kofoed

My friend Karl Kofoed also likes cats, so one of his cats, "Mille" is on an earlier blog post here, and I have another photo of Nium, his other cat, that I will post eventually. Karl is also a remarkable artist, with two unusual talents--he can "see" color in black and white images, perhaps from years in the tv industry dealing with black and white images; and, I swear, he can see into outer space. (He took some of the early Huygens raw data and brought them up to a level of detail that not even the Huygens team could surpass.) He has done some visualizations of Titan and Enceladus that turned out to be scientifically accurate -- some of his images are on the Cassini site. As a sideline to his other art and his photo restoration business, he's been doing the "Galactic Geographic" for years, turning out pages of future history for Heavy Metal Magazine. Recently he updated his website and started uploading pages of it there, if you would like to see t...

Here we have Guest Cat Mille, with her personal assistant Karl. Mille still enjoys print media, possibly because it is hard to sit on the new ultra thin monitors. (Photo credit Janet Kofoed)