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History – IdeaLust Studios https://idealuststudios.com A Passion for Ideas Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:39:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.28 Entry to Video Contest: The Past Re-imagined as the Future – “Make Space, Not War” https://idealuststudios.com/entry-to-video-contest-the-past-re-imagined-as-the-future-make-space-not-war/ Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:28:48 +0000 http://idealuststudios.com/?p=95 After several weeks of planning and tossing around a handful of ideas, 2 weeks of dedicated work on combining two ideas into one new idea, and a grueling 3 day edit fest, I have completed my video remix for the Free Music Archive and Prelinger Archives hosted video contest “Sound for the Moving Image : The Past Re-imagined as the Future.”

 

Make Space, Not War

Vote here: http://videoremix.freemusicarchive.org/video/160/make-space-not-war

You’ll have to sign up for a Free Music Archive account. It’s a great website and they provide a great service. The people who run it are awesome as well. Do it. I’d recommend it even to not vote for my video.

(Update: Nov 13, 2012: Having been able to sit back and no longer being lost in the trees. I see the forest and realize that I should’ve left a lot of the war and nuclear blast footage on the cutting room floor in order to make the argument/story flow better. The meat of the video doesn’t really get started until 4:34 in. Far too long. I plan to make and updated version and maybe even a TL:DR version.)

]]> Moon Landing Play by Play https://idealuststudios.com/moon-landing-play-by-play/ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:43:24 +0000 http://idealuststudios.com/?p=85 I found the script for the first Moon landing. Did I say script? I meant interactive play by play. You can act it out in real time. (Just as they did! 😛 I kid. I kid.)

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

]]> Stumbling through Space History https://idealuststudios.com/stumbling-through-space-history/ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:29:38 +0000 http://idealuststudios.com/?p=81 I just learned a very insightful piece of historical information – the Soviets beat the USA into space due to their lack of technology. What? Yes.

They were building massively huge Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in order to launch their awkwardly large and unsophisticated nuclear arsenal. The US was streamlining the tech. Going for quality and accuracy over quantity and brute force. This gave the Soviets the foundation and advantage in sending heavy launch capsules that carried satellites, animals, and eventually people into orbit.

I found this great information completely on accident.

I’m working on several video compilation projects for an upcoming contest. (Update: Here’s the contest entry – http://videoremix.freemusicarchive.org/video/160/make-space-not-war) I haven’t really made much in that arena and I need a good motivator, enforceable deadline, and would love to find out what latent talents the competition can bring out of me.

I was browsing Space.com and stumbled upon an article on Jon Glenn’s historic space flight back on February 20, 1962.

I tried finding the full video so I could download it and possibly use some clips for my current and future video remixing. First stop wasn’t a stretch: archive.org. Since my video compilation research was in that domain I figured might be a good shot to find the video and maybe some related to it. Didn’t hit pay dirt, but I did find some similar videos. A broader interweb search led me to c-span. Yes, that C-SPAN. But there was no easy way to download what I found: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/303736-1.

I then scoured Nasa.gov. Their footage – pictures, audio, and video – is public domain. It’s our well spent tax dollars that pay for all the greatness. But the closest thing I was able to find were pictures available to download from the History of Mercury Control. Great stuff and highly interesting, but not the video I was seeking.

Then I found it in one of the last places I would’ve thought it to reside: vimeo.

Friendship – 7 50th Anniversary from Guy Noffsinger on Vimeo.

Available in all it’s glory and even more than expected. A truly great documentary. Sit back and enjoy.

]]> NASA is walking in the footprints of dinosaurs https://idealuststudios.com/nasa-is-walking-in-the-footprints-of-dinosaurs/ Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:20:22 +0000 http://idealuststudios.com/?p=48 “One small step for man. One giant… huh… dinosaAAAAAAUUUUGGG!” [Chomp!]

Dinosaur footprints have been found at the grounds of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This combines my love for space exploration and dinosaurs in one convenient degree of separation. Then I stumbled upon this…
The Dinosaurs didn't go extinct. They advanced beyond needing to stay on Earth. If only we were as bold... wait, we might run into them. And they might be hungry. Prepare Earth's defenses!
Tyrannosaurus Astronaut by Piya Wannachaiwong. [Found here: http://piyastudios.blogspot.com/2012/02/tyrannosaurus-astronaut.html]

This person, Piya Wannachaiwong, is a great artist. Check them out at http://piyastudios.blogspot.com/.

Which leads me to to fabulous future conclusion that never was… The Dinosaurs didn’t go extinct. They advanced beyond needing to stay on Earth and left before the great asteroid impact. If only we were as bold. Wait! We might run into them. And they might be hungry. Prepare Earth’s defenses! This might be the one thing to unite humanity – the threat of space traversing dinosaurs.

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