we have tickets for this Saturday at 1:45pm
I'm going to space, basically
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link
the Apollo 11 doc is insanesome of the footage is of things you’ve seen a hundred times on tv but seeing it HUGE in imax and so pristine with the audio matching, it’s like watching it in real time, it was wild. even the liftoff becomes new again...it’s like watching an A-bomb explode in your face, it put me back in my seat in a way i wasn’t expectingand good lord all that 70mm found footage is glorious. there’s a good rundown of the cool behind the scenes work that went into it here https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/apollo-11-50th-year-anniversary
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
ooh and easter egg breakdown here if you need more convincinghttp://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030119a-apollo11-documentary-film-details.html
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
Wow
― Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
god I wanna see this so muchin the meantime my copy of the nasa archives arrived and i clearly hadn’t read the description too clearly or thought too much about what it being a taschen production would mean because i was shocked at just how massive and heavy it is - it comes in a box with a carrying handle ffsit is absolutely incredible to look at though, just gorgeous
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 3 March 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
I had missed this a couple of years back - it's wonderful and features some of the Apollo 11 production team:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMDdaNLc8DU
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 March 2019 11:28 (five years ago) link
We haven’t mentioned yet the thing about one of the space nerds involved in this being Feist’s brother.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
YES! Very cool
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
I forgot to say that the Apollo 17 video above is also directed / edited by Todd Miller and features Ben Feist's work; it's like a short form of how I expect the Apollo 11 feature will be. Cool soundtrack too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 4 March 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
So there’s a new book out...
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5744977b22482e4393b418c2/t/58ac8feb03596e6e757048f6/1537304200387/ This one? I have it on the way, will report when I get it.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.apollopresskits.com/
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
🖼 This one? I have it on the way, will report when I get it.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
Has a blurb from Mike Collins about it being the best Apollo book,
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
holy fucking shit
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
ran the doc tonite
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
13 Minutes To The Moon
"How the first moon landing was saved. The full story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen and prevented it from going badly wrong."
specifically the 13 minutes before touchdown of Apollo 11, which were sketchy.
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
(that's from the bbc. iplayer radio stuff traditionally wasn't region-locked but i'm not sure whether that's true with the new sounds thing. oh, but it's World Service, so maybe it's ok.)
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
I can download it in Australia. Looks good. ANy idea how many parts it will be? It; doesn't seem to say anywhere.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
I *think* he says it's 10 parts somewhere within it, but I can't see that info anywhere else.
― koogs, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
(Episode 2 is up and 3 is listed for next week but no details beyond that)
― koogs, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link
episode 5 (briefly) talks about the DSKY system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn
Ep.05 The fourth astronaut13 Minutes to the Moon
The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”. This is the story of the world’s first digital portable general purpose computer. The work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, helped give rise to the digital age.
― koogs, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
I know this isn’t booksrelated but it’s super coolhttps://m.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Restored-Mission-Control-comes-alive-50-years-14057766.php#photo-17770659
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
No worries, VG, thread has long since widened its scope to included non-book-related discussion.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
also in book related news, just started reading Shoot The Moon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
i watched this with a friend last night at DOCUMENTARY CINEMA. bertha doc-house documentary cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_(2019_film)
it has no talkings heads* and is basically entirely stitched together out of archive footage from ground (cape kennedy and houston) and space (A11, columbia, eagle, the moon), the narrative also told only as a quilt of voices from the time. lots of split screen, plus some data readouts (time, speed, distance as they tick over at key moments). it goes from just before the launch to just after splashdown, in with some time-dilation (cuts, at least sly slow-down) bot only a very few flashbacks, one exception being kennedy's full "we CAN go to the moon speech from 8 yrs earlier), played in full at the close, as the astronauts re-emerge to the public eye down here
the thing i learnt: — as he orbited alone ("as lonely as anyone since adam" acc.the overvoice) while neil and buzz pootled around on the dusty ground, he GREW A MUSTACHE TO KEEP HIMSELF COMPANY. it's a shocker too, but lol, well done him
*lol one of the trailers was for a doc abt pavarotti and it included a TH of (wait for it) bono. i told my friend (who'd suggested i come) that if THIS doc featured bono i would stand up, punch him and leave the cinema at that point. however it did not
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
haven't seen this yet (saving it for a screening on the date of the 50th anniversary like a proper space dork) but mike collins' autobio carrying the fire is grate
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
how did i only just notice that the 50th anniversary of the moon landings is also the date of my wedding anniversry, wtf
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
uh oh
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
it's good! tho the format leaves some (minor) questions unanswered: it very much gets across the "atop a long metal tube full of searingly explosive heat, three men sit in a tiny weeny tin can full of electrical gear, their lives dependent on some other ppl's maths homework" aspect of it all)
lot of close-ups where you're thinking "so how much of this so-called lunar module is not just made of baco-foil?"
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
also i wanted to know the answer to the question here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2496/where-were-the-various-apollo-lunar-modules-lms-discarded
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
yeah, the contrast of the sheer staggering scale and power of the saturn v rocket on one hand and the extreme fragility of its human and technological payload on the other will never stop being fascinating to me
standing underneath a saturn v filling an entire giant hangar at kennedy space centre and contemplating its two million components is one of the very few genuinely awe-inspiring moments of my life
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
the real answer to 'where were the various apollo lunar modules discarded' is, of course, in a dumpster behind elstree studios once kubrick had finished filming
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
moon: reallanding: realspace: still fake
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
a galaxy brain take fit for a galaxy which does not exist
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Watching this National Geographic thing now.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
Meh, just skipped right from Apollo 8 to 11. Now another commemorative Bud ad featuring “Spirit in the Sky.”
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
:/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:02 (five years ago) link
It was pretty much all contemporary news(reel) footage, no modern day talking heads, which means in particular no Irishman wearing polycarbonate lunar visor sunglasses, just every once in a while a tiny bit of text to clarify something. Too many commercials, not much information, new or otherwise but it was still nice to soak up some of the vibe. Neil Armstrong doc afterward looked more interesting but I had to stop watching.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
i have dvr’d a few PBS moon docs airing this month, hopefully one or two of them will be good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
Please let us know.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:50 (five years ago) link
i will give go/no-go updates soon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
:)
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
happy moonday everyone 🌚
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
🌝
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
B-b-but isn’t it in four days?
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
"Sponsored by Kellogs"
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
so much moon stuff on tv, all the major channels are running bits. it's hard to keep i all straight.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link