Why does this man make so much money? I can’t answer this question for everyone, but I can answer it for me. I’m a girl who got her first SCUBA mask at 15 and got certified in a rock quarry in Pennsylvania in winter (which means I am both nitrox and dry suit certified, thank [...]
November 1, 2008 – 11:31 am
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! If you didn’t notice, my last two blog posts were a little… unusual. While stargazing is a favorite pastime of mine, a few of the things I wrote about were… shall we say… “slanted” for entertainment purposes. Hey, at least I’m telling you. Hollywood never extends you that courtesy [...]
By Courtney
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Also posted in stories, tech, ufos, web
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Tagged aliens, fiction, h g wells, halloween, orson welles, prank, ufos, war of the worlds
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October 31, 2008 – 9:51 am
Exciting stuff today! Turns out last night was the perfect night to look at the stars! Check out this atmospheric weirdness: And: What is all this stuff? It’s NOT a meteor shower, I can tell you that. The quadrantids? I wish they were that cool! Not only that, but the first two burnt up like [...]
Boy, if this post really tried to sum all of that up, it would be a really long post! I guess a better title for it would be “a specific question that we still cannot answer:” Why does the moon look so big when it is close to the horizon and so small when it [...]
September 19, 2007 – 12:06 pm
This could be a shocking expose about life with a celebrity. It’s not. It’s actually the name of a group that studies the interactions between the sun and life on Earth, or space weather. Furthermore, it’s a cool way for me to show you something… cool. Well, cool relative to the rest of its surroundings, [...]
Finally! I feel so neglectful of poor little Callisto. I got my firewire cable in the mail on Monday and re-rendered Callisto last night. Callisto is the final film in The Galilean Satellites series. She is silent. This film was complete magic toward the end. I had not quite expected the results that I got, [...]
By Courtney
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Also posted in animation, film, videos
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Tagged astronomy, callisto, courtney hoskins, experimental film, galilean satellites, independent film, jupiter, liquid crystal, new york film festival, short film
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February 13, 2007 – 12:27 pm
If Europa could be considered the “audience favorite” of my films, Ganymede would have to be her cute little brother. This is the third film in The Galilean Satellites series. It is quite a bit shorter than the previous two, but was easily the hardest of the series to make (easily the hardest- bad English, [...]
By Courtney
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Also posted in animation, film, videos
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Tagged astronomy, courtney hoskins, experimental film, galilean satellites, ganymede, independent film, jupiter, liquid crystal, new york film festival, short film
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