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Joby Harris

Joby Harris is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Joby Harris rather than just read about it. In short: Joby Harris (born February 21, 1975) is a designer and director in Los Angeles, California. He is also the lead singer and guitar player for the American post-hardcore band Crash Rickshaw.

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Reference excerpt

Joby Harris (born February 21, 1975) is a designer and director in Los Angeles, California. He is also the lead singer and guitar player for the American post-hardcore band Crash Rickshaw.

Music According to a March 16, 2025, Spin magazine article, Harris first performed in a local Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania punk band called PHATSO while attending art school. The band submitted a demo to Seattle-based Tooth & Nail Records, which included one of their songs on a punk compilation album, providing the group with its first national exposure. Harris left the band after accepting a position at Walt Disney Imagineering in California. After relocating to Southern California, Harris became active in the Orange County punk, hardcore, emo and ska music scene. He later joined and performed with the bands Rainy Days and The Moodswingers, opening for acts including At the Drive In. In 2000, Project 86 members Stephen Dale, Alex Albert and Randy Torres invited Harris to form a side project inspired by their mutual interests in bands such as Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu. The group, Crash Rickshaw signed with Tooth & Nail Records after label owner Brandon Ebel heard their two-song demo on a cassette. The band subsequently recorded its debut album at Eldorado Recording Studios in Burbank, California with producer Bryan Jerden. Crash Rickshaw have two albums to date: A self-titled album on Tooth & Nail Records in late 2001 and a second album entitled Big Sir released on August 1, 2025 by Huntington Beach, California indie label Velvet Blue Music.

Directing In December 2011, Harris became a finalist in the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl commercial contest. His commercial "Bird of Prey" airs on television in the United States and Canada. Harris co-directed the 2013 short film Turnipseed: Second Chances, and Directed the 3rd installment Turnipseed: Legacy produced by Five Stone Media. The films star Lawrence Gilliard Jr. of The Wire as John Turnipseed, a former Minneapolis gang leader whose life was transformed following years of violence and incarceration. Based on Turnipseed's life, the film was developed as part of Five Stone Media's educational curriculum and has been used in prison rehabilitation programs throughout the United States.

JPL and NASA Visual Strategist For 13 years, Harris worked as a visual strategist, illustrator, graphic designer and video creator for JPL and NASA supporting programs and missions such as Mars Perseverance, Mars Insight, Europa Clipper, Voyager 1 & 2, Cassini (Saturn), Juno (Jupiter), NASA Universe Exoplanet programs as well as Earth and Lunar Mission programs. In 2015, Harris illustrated several vintage-style travel posters showing terrestrial getaways to other planets, moons and exoplanets such as Kepler-186f, HD 40307 g and Kepler-16b entitled "Visions of the Future". The posters received international attention in major news outlets, television shows such as The Big Bang Theory, and Marvel's Runaways. In 2020, he served as an Art Director for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter missions, leading the creation of graphics, illustrations, data visualizations, branding, and digital media supporting news, public engagement, mission milestones, launch, and landing. In December 2024, Harris created a video of his cat "Taters" chasing a laser beam amidst technical graphics pertaining to light communication. The video was uploaded to an instrument aboard the Psyche spacecraft and launched into space where it was beamed back to Earth as part of a technological test called the Deep Space Optical Communications. The demo transmitted the 15-second test video via a cutting-edge instrument called a flight laser transceiver. The video signal took 101 seconds to reach Earth, sent at the system’s maximum bit rate of 267 megabits per second (Mbps). The video was a nod to the first television test broadcast in 1928 starring Felix the Cat.

Discography With Crash Rickshaw

Big Sir (2025) Crash Rickshaw (2001)

References

External links Official website Joby Harris at IMDb Project 86 Video Premier - Indivisionmusic.com

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Joby Harris

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Joby Harris claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Joby Harris before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Joby Harris ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Joby Harris

In research: Joby Harris appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Joby Harris in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Joby Harris is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1975 births, 21st-century American male musicians, American male guitarists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Joby Harris outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Joby Harris in simple terms?

Joby Harris (born February 21, 1975) is a designer and director in Los Angeles, California. He is also the lead singer and guitar player for the American post-hardcore band Crash Rickshaw.

Why does Joby Harris matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Joby Harris?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

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