Live From Vancouver FanExpo

Hey Chasers!

If you are at FanExpo Vancouver today, be sure to come and find us at table 54 in Artist’s Alley. We are sharing a booth with our friend Peter Chiykowski from the Web comic Rock Paper Cynic. Pete designed out Chasing Atlantis Buttons and you can find his awesome comic on “constructive cynicism” at rockpapercynic.com

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Chasing Booth at FanExpo Vancouver

We shot 10 YouTube Challenge videos yesterday right at our booth. If you’re unfamiliar with the challenge, we are getting people on camera sharing their “Atlantis” with us; third dream calling or passion, that we are filming and sharing with others to encourage them to do the same and publicly share something awesome that they are into as well. I’d you’re around the convention, come visit us and not only could you end up in the film, but you could win an awesome Lego space shuttle set! Hope to see you!

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Matt

Chasing At Fan Expo Vancouver

Hey Chasers!

Tomorrow marks the start of Fan Expo Vancouver running both Saturday and Sunday. If you are headed to the convention, be sure to come and find us. You can:

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1) geek out about space

2) pick up a sharp looking Chasing Atlantis Tee

3) win a sweet limited edition Lego space shuttle set

4) end up in our film!

So we hope to see you there. Just look out for one of us in a booth wearing a Chasing Atlantis Tee!

Yuri’s Night in Review

This past Friday April 12th marked the 52nd anniversary of human space flight with Yuri Gagarin’s breaching of the Earth’s Atmosphere into the final frontier.

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Shuttle Trainer at the Seattle Museum of Flight

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Yuri’s Night The WORLD SPACE PARTY!

Hey Chasers!

Tomorrow the Chasing Atlantis team is getting their groove on for Yuri’s Night: The World Space Party!!

What’s Yuri’s Night? Yuri’s Night is 3 things all wrapped up into one bundle of space awesomeness

1) Yuri’s Night is a date: The date is April 12th which commemorates the first human in space. Yuri Gagarin completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12th 1961. We have had humans in space since that time sporadically and consistently since the construction of the International Space Station. But Yuri was the first! One brave human being, and certainly the first of many steps that led to the moon, shuttle, the space station, and hopefully the outer planets and deep space (sign me up BTW)

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Chris Hadfield Becomes First Canadian Commander of the International Space Station

Hey Chasers!

We are proud to follow up on the story of our own Chris Hadfield taking the wheel (so to speak) of the International Space Station. We were fortunate enough to have Chris as our FIRST Chasing Atlantis interview back in July of 2011 when he was on the road to the Soyuz launch this past November and subsequent 6 month tour aboard the station, taking command yesterday. Chris becomes not only the first Canadian Commander of the ISS, but the first Canadian commander of any space vehicle.

Interviewing Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Cr. Melanie Godecki

Though orbiting hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface, Chris has remained highly connected with our Pale Blue Dot in the Universe through social media becoming somewhat of a Internet phenomenon. Articles have been writing stating that Hadfield’s journey and subsequent efforts at engaging the world’s population looking up at the night sky have made him the most recognizable name in space since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Chris’ words always connected with me, even when I was very young, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to interview him for the film. When interviewed or reflecting on this time in space, Chris spoke mainly of Earth, what it looked like from above, its fragility and its unity without borders or colored maps. This was the perspective I wanted to experience as well as share if I ever had the opportunity to become an astronaut; the Earth as small and fragile and shared by many who MUST co-exist. While I may not be able to do this from space directly, I am excited to find other means of doing the same such as sitting down with Chris directly, as well as the multitude of others we have talked to while shooting Chasing Atlantis who proudly carry a message of peace; that we’re all really made of star dust and share this one tiny speck in the cosmos.

You can check out these articles from  space.com and Universe Today about Chris Hadfield’s command transfer below and I’ve also included a snippet of the interview that we did with him prior to his launch to the ISS.

O Canada! Hadfield Becomes First Canadian Commander of ISS

http://www.space.com/20223-canadian-astronaut-space-station-commander.html?cmpid=514648

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NckmK6wY6k4]

Keep Chasing!

-Matthew

We’re Live at Toronto Comicon!

Hey Chasers!

You may have seen some people dressed up like this at Comicon!

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CA Team (Mike and Paul in Tees) with interviewees Elaine, Adam and Ray (left to right)

If you see people running around in Chasing Atlantis Tees during the day or later this evening. Be sure to stop by and say hello. We have been doing interviews talking to folks at the convention about SPAAAACE and Science Fiction and in general sharing the #geeklove

I’ve been stationed here back in Vancouver but surfing the Twitterverse keeping up with the #torontocomicon and #comicon traffic. If you’re on twitter, be sure to follow those tags as well as #chasingatlantis to connect with us!

The team is, as of this very moment, about to line up for the Star Trek the Next Generation Reunion Panel! I’m so Jealous! In the meantime I’m watching the show on Netflix #nextbestthing

-Keep Chasing!

-Matthew &8-) 

Toronto Comicon in T-7 Hours!!

Hey Chasers!

We are going to be setup at Toronto Comicon this weekend! You have the chance to interact with our team, and even get interviewed and/or end up in the film credits! Plus we are running a cool promo this weekend during ComicCon to win a trip to SPAAAAAACE through I Dream of Space 

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ComicCon Weekend Promo

If you’re at the Toronto Comicon, be sure to Tweetup with us to find Paul and the camera crew. We’d love to geekout with you!

Keep Chasing!

-Matthew &8-)