http://sol.spiraltime.com a SUNSHINE fan blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en sorry for not posting for so long - not much to do until the US release got closer - i'll post more info this month and also track some of the happenings on other fan sites.for now, please keep checking the sunshindna.com site or the searchlight site (both in links ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=15 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/04/19/nasa_to_release_3d_images_of_the_sun/ these are going to be coming from the STEREO (love the acronym) satellite.  nice! sorry - i have been a reticent fan blogger these days - actually very busy with day work and a bicycle fabrication project for Make Magazine's "Maker's Faire" in the Bay Area next month... i have been tracking the ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=14 nice interview with Alwin Kucher, BSC for Sunshine, on the ARRI site from last year, it highlights a special lens the SUNSHINE film crew used to get certain wide angle shots: http://www.arri.de/news/newsletter/articles/0406/up8r.html i also think this article, which came out last april but never got much visibility (it was several google pages down ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=13 i used the UK poster as a letterbox to frame this 'animated fan poster' (so named since it's not interactive) - it's my absolute favorite image (so far) from SUNSHINE:  a  satori (?) moment in the observation room on icarus II, animated with a public domain NASA video clip from the SOHO orbiting observatory.  click ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=12 i went camping, worked at work, and also made a fun animated fan poster (AFP?) in Flash, which I'll clean up and post here tomorrow... if you are a major fan you may have been 'spoiled' and not only know about the movie details, actors, etc.  but also the strong positive and negative opinions about ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=11 well, it looks like those of us in the U.S will have lots of time before we see this... so for a quick update i thought i would drop some 'selecta' science and share some songs i think of when i think of this movie... i'll add more as they ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=10 great article on the NY Times website (click via Digg) on this SUNSHINE-related topic: http://digg.com/space/Dark_energy_an_invisible_undetectable_force this is a very in depth article on dark energy and dark matter, which the SUNSHINE bomb is known to use... the article's suggestion that we know a lot, but that we may be at the limit ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=9 Sunshine delayed... http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070302j.php i am confused... just when we've gotten 2.5 great trailers, new production stills and screening reports, an interactive ship tour, the date gets pushed back until... december? i am taking this with a hefty grain of salt for now.  if so perhaps i'll have time to complete a special ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=7 by now anyone who's seen the trailer will be associating the music in it with something they heard before... the music is a remixed version of a track from the score of the Darren Oronofsky film, "Requiem for a Dream".  it's a brilliant piece of music and has a high degree of ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=6 so.... this fan blog is not affiliated in any way with the official movie site, the studio or other sites about the movie. all information i'm posting here is based on public knowledge and my commentary is based strictly on my own analyses and points of view. all images and ... http://sol.spiraltime.com/?p=4