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Spacefest 2009 will be held in San Diego Feb 19-22 next year in San Diego. This trailer is a great taster. It is also a way to plug the place where I found it, my favorite new weblog: Bad Astronomy, which is bad ass, indeed.
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This has to be the most extreme example of what Smashing Telly set out to promote, the antithesis of ‘moronic 30 second dog on skateboard’ clips, this is 42 hours of gloriously intelligent video.
With people not much older than Fuller, like George Orwell, having not a single audio or video recording of themselves in existence, Buckminster Fuller fans can consider themselves lucky that such a film legacy exists.
In 1975 Buckminster Fuller recorded these sessions entitled ‘Everything I know’, in Philadelphia. This is the first film in the series, the entire set is available at the Wiki below.
1 hr 19 min 59 sec
conversationswithbuckypbwiki.com
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
Gell-Mann is possibly the single most important human being alive. Worth a listen. I particularly like his innocent, eccentric giggling at his own jokes and his enthusiasm - the mark of someone who has never been coached in public speaking by a PR flack, because he transcends that kind of crap and appears genuine.
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Day to Day communications at CERN in 1974, what a wonderfully prescient title for a short film about a place that would permanently change global, day to day communications, a decade and a half later, when the Web was invented there.
I love this film. it perfectly represents a time and place. The opening sequence with Cat Stevens and time bleached, aerial footage of Geneva makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
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The innovative 2005 documentary which used state of the art 3d computer graphics to simulate a mission to an inhabited planet around a remote star. The beginning is awful, why is George Lucas an expert in astro-biology? However, the film warms up as it passes some conventional alien life to encounter some really imaginative ones such as the giant 50 foot high beasts that walk over an amoebic sea.
1 hr 33 min 42 sec Jan 31, 2008 www.albca.com
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