ThunderCon

Hey Chasers, Today (Sunday Oct 25th) Is ThunderCon! ThunderCon is a first ever comic convention being hosted in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada…our home town! We will have a booth open all day on the convention floor at the Valhalla Inn where the convention is being hosted. And I’ll be giving a talk in the “Cantina” at from 4pm to 5:30pm …

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Boldly Going…to Vegas!!

Hey Chasers! This past November, we shot an awesome interview with Rod Roddenberry. During the interview he asked if we’d had ever been to the Las Vegas Star Trek convention. Truth is we never have. Rod suggested we come down to experience the con (Khan) and we thought it would also be an incredible opportunity to meet with some of …

Pluto Flyby and The Ultimate Message in a Bottle

At the time of writing this we  are less than 11 hours from the Pluto Flyby! I missed out on the first images of the distant solar system. When I was old enough to fully realize my interest in space, we had already flown past of all the planets (all 8). Voyager 2 was the first to visit the outer …

Telling Stories in a Digital Age – The Game Narrative Toolbox with Ann Lemay

Hey Chasers, An incredible privilege we’ve had in producing this film is interviewing a diverse array of individuals from space station commanders to science fiction writers. Each of them is a larger-than-life personality and has contributed something amazing to our film that has helped us tell our story. Outside of their participation in Chasing Atlantis, our interviewees are contributors in their …

Sailing on Sunlight: Planetary Society’s LightSail

Hey Chasers! We are only a few hours away from a monumental experiment in space craft propulsion. Ever tried sailing on sunlight? The Planetary Society is going to be launching their solar sail space craft LightSail in a matter of hours. LightSail is designed to deploy 32 square meters of 4.2 micron thick sails once in space. The sails literally …

Climate Change Graffiti, Earth Day, and an Observatory

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” – Sir Fred Hoyle, 1948 When we set out to shoot Chasing Atlantis, we thought our film would primarily focus on the legacy of the Space Shuttle. However, Paul first noted how frequently our journey …

It’s Yuri’s Night – The WORLD Space Party 2015!

“Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!” — Yuri Gagarin, 1st human in space. Hey Chasers! It’s Yuri’s Night! Today, April 12th marks the 54th anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s epic journey into space; the first time …

The Dance of our Celestial Neighbours

Hey Chasers! This past weekend we had front row seats to a conjunction of the Moon, Mars, and Venus; our three closest celestial neighbors. One of the advantages of my day job working on campus at Simon Fraser University is having a roof access key to the residence dorm towers. It made for a great view of the conjunction especially …

Epic Close to 2014! And Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Chasers! The last few months have been absolutely amazing as we have headed into closing our primary videography for Chasing Atlantis. In October, we shot an amazing interview with Star Trek’s Rod Roddenberry, and more recently, through November and December, we “caught” Atlantis in her new home at the Kennedy Space Center as well as witnessed the historic …

Happy Holidays From the Cosmos!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Chasers!! A friend of mine sent this to me today and I wanted to share it with all of you! It is “Happy Holidays” written out by early galaxy formations! So Awesome. Below the image is a link that provides info on each of the galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital …