A new selection of short films:
** Alientologists
** Robot & Scarecrow
** Human Interviews – Jessica Zollman
** The Stowaway
** AstroKnot
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Category Archives: Space films and videos
Videos: Space music from Nigel Stanford
Many of the compositions of Nigel Stanford appear to be space inspired as seen in this video, which really stands as a nicely made sci-fi short film:
One Hundred Hunters comes from the Automatica
Aurora from Solar Echoes
Sea of Tranquility from Solar Echoes:
Deep Space from Solar Echoes:
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Chesley Bonestell documentary to debut at Newport Beach Film Festival
A new documentary movie about pioneering space artist Chesley Bonestell will debut May 1st at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
The film is titled Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future:
Behind every architect and builder is an artist who takes designs and ideas, morphing them into beautiful images for everyone to understand. Chesley Bonestell was this artist, yet very few know his name. He worked on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Building, as a matte artist on famous movies like Citizen Kane, and his mesmerizing paintings of planets and star systems helped jumpstart America’s space program. His iconic “Saturn As Seen From Titan”, became known as “the painting that launched a thousand careers.” Discover the power of the forgotten man whose art inspired Americans to conquer “The Final Frontier”.
Note that back in 2013 the AIAA Houston Section‘s Horizons Newsletter posted hi-res reproductions of the famous and influential series of articles on spaceflight by Wernher von Braun in Colliers Magazine in 1952-54, which included many illustrations by Bonestell. I wrote about this in these postings:
- Colliers Magazine space series reproduction – issue number 3
- Horizons Newsletter Jan/Feb 2013 with 4th part of Colliers Magazine space series
- Horizons reproduction of Colliers Magazine space series – issues 5 & 6
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Videos: A selection of Sci-fi shorts
Video: “Falcon Heavy & Starman”
Elon Musk on Saturday released a short video of the Falcon Heavy launch made by Jonathan Nolan, the co-creator of HBO series Westworld. It includes brief footage of the central core nearly crashing into the droneship landing pad at high speed. Elon Musk on Twitter:
“Why Falcon Heavy & Starman? Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did for you.”
More about the
- Elon Musk and the creator of Westworld made an inspirational trailer for the Falcon Heavy launch – The Verge
- Elon Musk debuts dazzling Falcon Heavy videos at SXSW – Mashable
- Elon Musk stops by ‘Westworld’ panel at SXSW – CNET
- Elon Musk crashes SXSW panel to talk about space travel | TechCrunch
A photo that provides some scale for those side boosters, which were on their second flights to suborbital space and back – AlanStern on Twitter: “Rockets are big!… “
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