imagine one day for a human being this would be trivial.. the way skyping the other side of the planet is trivial for us today
One of my teachers says we spend too much time worrying about other planets ( I am not a buddhist of any kind and caution against purchasing into any programs and seminars with big promises.. but sometimes people speak and out comes something that is worth a listen ). What NASA does for me is to ground me into the largeness of the world. I wanna be grounded into a reality with possibility, with ambition beyond lunch, dinner, shopping and my own DNA.
It is important to remind ourselves that we are specs, on a spec in a vast ocean of specs.. and our only chance to outgrow our physical smallness is to use our minds.. responsibly.
Palpatine’s Last Moments | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim
Right, Palpy… says Dar Dar Binks, and it goes downhill from there… maybe Turkish music, mama Palpy, it all makes sense.
How breathtakingly beautiful it is
Swiss researches said there are 21,647 characters in the Star Wars Universe Spanning over 36 000 years of history. But the reason I liked Star Wars and loved working on it is because it is breathtakingly beautiful. I would go into the Paris and Pandora databases at ILM to look at concept art for fantastical worlds.. for hours on end. A lot of concept pieces never made it to film but the quality of the art George always demanded was world class.
http://www.sciencealert.com/data-scientists-map-every-important-character-in-the-star-wars-universe
The desire for the beautiful is encoded in our DNA, we seek it and we want it. We try to untangle its secrets and repeat its effects. We like how it makes us feel. Otherwise we wouldn’t have beautiful glass panes on our windows so we can see the world outside, we would still be on wooden sticks and huts. But something pushes us to better our surroundings, to create things more beautiful and perfect. That’s what movies give us – a never ending perfection that we can gratify ourselves with over and over. It’s a manufactured bliss.
This shopping bag holder looks like Jar-Jar Binks and 19th Century Firefighters Were Darth Vader and C3PO
I continue to love Jar Jar and the Phantom Menace and would fight to the death George’s critics on this. Do you remember what computers looked like in 1999 ( actually more like 1997-8 ) ? That’s when George did the Menace. At the time he was running Lucasfilm ( hey it is a big business ), he was inventing computer graphics, visual FX and visual FX software, the hardware that will run it, CG characters and sets no one has ever attempted before.. and making a movie. Give him a break.
19th Century Firefighters Were Darth Vader and C3PO Before Darth Vader and C3PO Were Cool
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/before-steampunk-star-wars%E2%80%99-1800s-roots/
Richard Miller, my sculpture teacher at Lucasfilm always said – push the clay up, because it comes down anyway.. because of gravity
He also designed Princess Leia’s gold bikini costume. And provided a letter of authenticity when the bikini sold at auction.
A letter of authenticity from designer Richard Miller, of the Star Wars creator George Lucas’s special effects firm Industrial Light and Magic, was included in the sale to an anonymous bidder by the Hollywood auctioneer Profiles in History on 2 October.
One more thing about Dreams and Louis CK on Flying
I was recently reading on the Wright brothers.. isn’t it amazing that I can read on and use their life experiences in my life today? I try to imagine their contraptions out in a field somewhere in Dayton, Ohio. I lived in Ohio for a bit and can imagine a field… but to setup a Da Vinci style contraption on a hill ( well they commuted to North Carolina for this ) with the intent to get it up in the air past the cows? Ridiculous and at the time the European press ridiculed the brothers calling them “either fliers or liars”.