Way back when life was simpler, my lovely friend Gareth Jones made a children’s programme for the BBC on the 25th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, called Afternoon On The Moon. He was lucky enough to get to talk to Buzz about his trip.
When Afternoon on the Moon was commissioned, I was overjoyed and delighted when Gareth asked me to assist on the film he made at Kennedy Space Centre. I’d known Gareth for two years by this point and about one year of that was spent talking about the Apollo Missions. To get to go to Kennedy together was a dream! When we were filming at the Apollo Graveyard, I’d rip things off the rusting bits of Apollo junk when Manny V’s back was turned… :) [Read more]
Wow! My unboxing of the X Files script video has got about 2,000 views in a day. X Files fans are talking about it all over the place. Most are excited and supportive. A few, however, are very negative. Hostile even.
It makes me think about ‘belief’ and how our own personal attitudes colour our view of reality. Some of the X Files fans who think that my video is fake and that I a) didn’t really get the script sent to me b) am not working for Fox c) invented ‘the hoax’ myself for some unknown reason, are unwilling to accept any ‘proof’ I give to them. They remain ‘unbelievers’ in the face of ‘the facts’. [Read more]
The day has come. I can start talking about the X Files: I Want To Believe! I am an X Files fan- I own books, toys, trading cards, I even used to dye my hair red like Scully- so when I found out about the new film I emailed a colleague at 20th Century Fox who I met when doing Sunshine and told him that I’d love to help out on the film in any way possible.
I was hoping that I’d maybe get to organise a bloggers’ screening or something… Imagine my joy and excitement when they asked me to do a bunch of ‘online stuff’ for the film for the next few months! The first thing I needed to do, however, was read the script…
Sunshine is on at the Rio Cinema Dalston in London this weekend as part of the Physics On Film festival run by the Institute of Physics (and organised by my friend Sam Rae:).
Unfortunately, I’m not going to be in London this weekend otherwise I’d be there. I’d love to see ‘Sunshine’ in the cinema again. The last time I saw it on a big screen was at an IMAX After Dark screening.
I finished working on Sunshine when the DVD came out in the UK last September. I then had a bit of a physical collapse and needed to restructure everything again in order to not end up a complete wreck. So last autumn, I spent 6 weeks in bed. When I tell people this, they think I must have been depressed. Not at all. I was happy, but genuinely physically exhausted. When you do 7 days a week, 16 hour days for two years, you end up needing 6 weeks in bed. My colleague Stephanie at Fox in LA told me that would happen, so it’s not like I wasn’t expecting it. She said they’d suck my brain dry and leave me with very little left. And that they did. [Read more]
What a great time I’ve had over the past five days! As you will have already known, Phil Plait was over in the UK to visit CERN with us over the weekend. You can read about it on his site and, of course, the podcast he and Brian did will be going live soon, too.
Last night, Phil did a talk at Skeptics in the Pub. I was so happy to see Andrew Jaffe and Violet Berlin who both wanted to meet Phil. They only got a few brief moments with him as Phil was mobbed by the throngs of people there.
Phil is now on his way back home. I think he had an excellent time and hopefully he’ll be back soon.
So, after redesigning Brian’s site and after redesigning CERNPodcast, I figured I should update my site. I hope it’s working OK for everyone. Please, let me know if it’s not.
Tomorrow, Phil Plait arrives in the UK! Weeeeee! He’s coming over to visit CERN with Brian and me. We’re visiting both ATLAS and CMS and getting a close-up look at the LHC proper. [Read more]
I just thought I’d let everyone know that I’ve updated the design of CERNPodcast today. It might still be messy in places, but I can’t do anymore on it. I’ve been staring at a screen for 6 hours straight and now have eyestrain…
Still, I think it’s so beautiful that my temporary partial blindness is acceptable.
Katie Lee posted her fave women's sites and mentioned the rampant misogyny at sites like Fark. Now, Farkers are behaving like extremist Islamists who bomb embassies and threaten everyone with beheading when someone says, 'You guys are just a bit too reactionary and violent' by posting endless streams of unfunny anti-women comments and threats aimed at Katie. Dumb, dumb boys. More at the FWord.
You know when both Scoble and The Bad Astronomer link to you on the same day? Well, d'ja ever notice how the number of whackos emailing you goes up, too?
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