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11 Reasons to NOT to make an IMAX art film in your basement: #3: “It’s Still Impossible"

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles

#3: “It’s Still Impossible”

So, arrived the summer 2006 arrived and I pushed my brush with IMAX out of my mind. But, these things have a way of not going away. Within the space of a couple of [...]

11 Reasons to NOT to make an IMAX art film in your basement: #2: “It’s Impossible"

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It always seems impossible until its done. Nelson Mandela

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney

#2: “It’s Impossible”

(read #1 here)

So as I sat in the Vegas airport, my flight delayed for hours, it was clear, despite James Hyder’s enthuasium for the [...]

11 Reasons to NOT to make an IMAX art film in your basement: #1: "It's CrAzY!!!

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Mark Twain

#1: “It’s CrAzY!!!

So, January 2006, I’m in Las Vegas and I’m miserable. I had scraped together my last few dollars to attend “The Amazing Meeting”, a conference about “Science in Politcs” at which [...]

The New Series: 11 Reasons to NOT to make an IMAX art film in your basement

#0: Prelude

This a prequel post about an upcoming series of blog posts between now and April 12th. Needless to say, this adventure has been a challenging journey. So I’m gonna cover all the big points that would have been perfectly acceptable reasons for giving up. It’s a solid list of reasons that anyone [...]

Galactic Sized News

It’s now official: the 64-bit version of Adobe After Effects, the primary software for animating “Outside In” will finally here very soon after years of wishing and waiting.

Visit Adobe’s official launch site http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ for the entire CS5 line of products.

Much, much more to come about this in the next month as [...]

See Saturn with your naked eyes!

It just so happens, right now is a perfect time to view Saturn with your naked eye, although some good binoculars or a small telescope would make it even better. Tonight and tomorrow night are two excellent viewing windows (the best this year).

Frank J. Melillo via Space.com

Nice article here on best [...]

Cassini as an Artist

Outside In "Big Bang" image featured on Planck Mission

The Planck Mission, which is using a satellite to look for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation to study the Big Band is using my quite popular Big Bang concept image on their site. It’s very pleasing that a test image like this has been used by various scientific and educational institutions around the [...]

Cosmos Now on Hulu

“Cosmos” by Carl Sagan changed my life and led directly to “Outside In”. The TV series (on which the book was based) is now completely available on Hulu, so now no excuses for not watching the series again (or for the first time).

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"Outside In" Featured on DocumentaryTech

Kurt Lancaster did a very nice profile on “Outside In” over at DocumentaryTech.

Read it here.