A Different Kind of Frontier (The End of the Race for Space)

Lately, I have given a great deal of thought to my childhood dream of going to space. Reflecting on space has certainly been a central part of Chasing Atlantis, the documentary we shot this past Summer about the final flight of space shuttle Atlantis. The famous lines from the opening of Star Trek described Space as the Final Frontier. It …

Headed to FanExpo Vancouver

Hey Chasers, Quick update. Tomorrow is Vancouver’s first ever FanExpo. Typically FanExpo is centered in Toronto. The convention marks one of my favorite times of the year. As someone keen on community building, it is harder to find a more diverse, welcoming, passionate and engaging community than at the Toronto FanExpo. Having now become a permanent Vancouver resident, I was disappointed I …

“We’ve Chosen to Not Afford It”

A very cool friend of mine, James Joyce (not to be mistaken for James Joyce the Irish Novelist), sent me a link a while back to an article in Discover Magazine that I just resurrected from my Facebook Inbox. James studies astronomy at the University of Toronto and gets access to much cooler equipment than I do *shakes fist. Anyhow, …

I (You) Dream of Space: A New Opportunity for us Both to Get to Space

Hey Chasers, Over the last few weeks I have been promoting my entry in Metro Newspaper’s Race to Space, an online voting competition to send one of Metro’s readers to Space. That competition has now closed and I am ever grateful for your support. We closed yesterday at midnight EST at just under 30,000 votes putting my entry in 13th …

The Race for Space Continues

Hey Chasers, Metro’s Race for Space continues, and with the addition of a celebrity, there is stiffer competition than before. In an effort to inspire some more votes to get into orbit and to give a 3 minute overview of this website, I put together this short spoken word. I had performed it at SFU a few weeks ago and …

Day 9 in the Race for Space

Hey Chasers, Although there has been some site issues with Metro In Space lately, we have managed to crack the 19K mark and move into 12th place overall in the Canadian competition. So awesome. The plan is to try and hit top 10 by the end of the competition, April 5th, and come out over 27,000 votes. Totally achievable.  Thank …

Day 7 In the Race for Space

Hey Chasers, Now passing 15K votes in the Race for Space. 2500 more and I move up into 12th place overall in the Canadian competition. I’ve sent out the information about the event to a number of news media outlets now and it has started to get picked up. Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario’s Netnewsledger.com  posted an article about the Race for …

Day 6 in the Race for Space!

Day 6 in the Race for Space Hey Orbiters, It’s now Day 6 in the Race for Space! Yesterday I was setup with my booth at SFU. Got to talk to some folk who are also space geeks. Printed flyers with QR codes on them so that everybody could scan on their smart phones straight from the booth.  The Link …

Day 5 In the Race for Space

Day 5 In the Race for Space It’s been 5 days competing in Metro’s Race for Space, a competition to win a trip on one of the first space tourism flights with aerospace company SXC. As of right now, I just hit 8500 votes. Amazing! I thought I’d be struggling to hit 1000, and here we are. I want to …

Day 2 in the Race for Space

Hey Chasers, Only a day and a half in and I’ve already grabbed 3400 votes for my entry in Metro Newspaper’s Race for Space Competition. Thanks to everybody who’s been voting for the support. Here’s the current strategy. The top voter is still a ways off from where we’re at. However, we have moved to 30th place out of approx …