Robert McCall

I came across this the home site for Robert McCall a few days ago.  What a treasure trove of great space art. I hadn’t been aware, but he had passed away on Feb. 26 this year at age 90. He was one of the first three artists chosen by NASA in 1962 to create art...

Final Space Shuttle Landing

A sad day. The Space Shuttle program made it’s final landing today. 135 missions over 30 years. When I was a kid I dreamed of one day riding on the Space Shuttle. I can’t imagine kids today dreaming of riding a Russian Soyuz capsule to space. But they may...

Fassbinder’s World on a Wire

Janus Films is rereleasing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire in a tour of art house movie theaters for the next several months. If you are lucky it is playing near you sometime soon. I’ve never seen the film, but the description and the trailer...

Doctor Who and Torchwood

I don’t know who’s “genius” idea it was to break up this year’s Dr. Who season into two parts, with six epodes at the start of summer and the rest in the Autumn, but I don’t see the logic. Not only am I deprived of fun summer sci-fi...

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