2001, Part II (and believe me, I could go to part 8, but I’ll pull it back…)
Here’s the thing about the making of 2001, a Space Odyssey that made it a giant leap for sci-fi filmmaking-kind: The entire film was done...
2001, 50 years later
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the movie "2001, a Space Odyssey" which still arguably stands as the most impactful and...
NASA turns 60
Happy 60th Birthday, NASA – lookin’ spry! It all started on July 29th, 1958. Which I’m sure had NO relation to the launch of the Russian...
What Laurie Anderson Lost in the Flood
Groundbreaking performance art, multimedia immersion, musical artistry, electronic immersion. All things Ms. Anderson has projected to --...
Stardust
The other day, I sat with Mike Paul Hughes, a genuine rocket scientist and researcher at Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, to talk about...
Birth of a Genre
Ol’ Jules had no clue he was pioneering one of the most profitable niches in the film industry when he penned Journey to the Center of...
Suspend Me, Part Deux
You wanna make the 7-month “hop” to Mars? We’ve determined ‘tis a far better thing to sleep through the trip than to look out the window....
Suspend Me
Remember the movie “Passengers” from a year or two back? It’s a couple hundred years in the future and big space-liners are ferrying...
On Auto
So I'm cruising along at 350, enjoying some big puffy cumulous formations and breathing some sweet pistachio synth air, when Boom, the...
Where was the future in the year 1700?
From all the info I can gather, science fiction got its more or less official start in the early 1800’s with the appearance of one Dr....