A couple of my favorite maquettes. X-Wing Luke Skywalker by Gentle Giant & Zero Suit Samus Aran by First 4 Figures.
Luke Skywalker and Samus Aran
Visualizing 3.7 million addresses in Switzerland in 3D using WebGL
Developed by Jonas Wagner as a real-time WebGL Chrome Experiment, this is a visualization of 3.7 million Swiss addresses as a point cloud landscape.
Space Shuttle Endeavour Drives Down the Streets of LA
NASA’s Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour is being driven to its new home at the California Science Center today, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. This means a 2 mph drive from LAX airport through the streets of LA to its final destination…
Inside the McLaren Technology Centre
At first you think it’s just a regular documentary on a car facility. They’re talking with one of the head guys and the showroom is pretty impressive. Great architecture, great…
The Space Shuttle is Silently Obliterated in the latest Gravity “Detached” Movie Clip
Anticipation is rising for director Alfonso Cuarón’s newest movie Gravity. We’ve written about the film before but I had to share this amazing sequence that was shown during the San Diego Comic-Con.
World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements
Watch the documentary “World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements” immediately. Formatted as a game, over the past 30 years retired teacher John Hunter has developed a critical thinking exercise that leverages the…
NASA and Star Wars at SpaceUp Houston
I’ve experienced few things as cool as when these pictures were taken.
The 501st Legion, a worldwide Star Wars costuming group, showed up to SpaceUp Houston and climbed on NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle. I was amazed at the audience reaction, they commented on the similarities between NASA and Star Wars spacesuits and couldn’t stop talking about “what if” scenarios. Our relationship with space is often one with science fiction and film. In Houston, for a moment, fiction became reality and the possibilities became endless.
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