This week marks the 9-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Meteor event, the largest meteor to strike Earth since 1908. This is a compilation of all the footage recorded from that day: On the morning of February 15, 2013, a 20m/66ft wide asteroid detonated 30km/97,000ft above the southern Ural region of Russia. Light from the…
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Fun fact: Before Wes Ball directed the Maze Runner trilogy, he made a fun little CGI short called ‘Ruin’ that’s presented for this Sci-Friday. Take a look: Ruin is a masterpiece of diegetic storytelling – no dialogue, no extraneous detail. A lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic wasteland confronts a faceless villain in a desperate bid…
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Spotted this week – a hysterical Star Wars fan film made with Unreal Engine. I admit, I was a little skeptical at first, but ‘First Day’ just kept getting funnier and funnier as it went on. You’ll definitely want to enjoy this for Sci-Friday. Take a look: As you might be aware, Unreal Engine is a…
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Fascinated by space? Me, too. That’s why I love fun scifi stuff, especially tools that let you explore low earth orbit. According to NASA, “low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers. […] The orbital velocity needed to maintain a stable low Earth orbit is…
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As promised last week, I present ‘Bingo’ by Chris Landreth for this week’s Sci-Friday. In this CGI short, a young man is psychologically brutalized by circus characters into believing he is a clown. Sound weird? It is! Bingo is a mad romp through a whimsically menacing world and you’ll either love it or hate it. Please…
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Good morning and Happy Friday – grab your favorite hot beverage and watch as Chris Landreth Bends Your Head with ‘the end’: + Add New Category I love films like these, they challenge and subvert your expectations about the nature of storytelling and self while exposing you to new dimensions of visual possibility. Chris Landreth…
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