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Happy Halloween: Sam Bell Whittles A Lunar Industries Pumpkin

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MOON Lunar Industries Halloween Pumpkin By Charles KlineAlways great to come across an out take from MOON, and here we have the result of a bit of pumpkin whittling from Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell while up on Sarang one Halloween, either that or it’s the result of some very handy carving from our own Sam Bell, Charles Kline from Colorado, USA.

Charles is an old friend of the blog, check out his amazing Sam Bell uniform if you’ve not seen it already.

Have a great Halloween everyone, and rest assured, if you are unable to get out Trick or Treating, Lunar Industries will be able to provide someone to do it for you, as you, while you have a…sleep…

CNN Features MOON In Odd Energy Sources In Film

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CNN - Energy sources in film - MOONCNN has this slidehow on odd energy sources in the movies, and while some may seem completely impossible (Dilithium crystals) , nice to see MOON there as a representative of future energy solutions through nuclear fusion that may actually be possible within our lifetime… Continue reading →

MOON Screening At Denver Film Society Sci-Fi Series With Ka Chun Yu

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MOON at Denver Film Society Sci-Fi Series 2011Any of you lucky enough to be near Denver between July 6th and August 10th will have the chance to see some great Sci-Fi courtesy of the Sci-Fi Film Series Presented By Denver Museum Of Nature & Science And The Denver Film Society.

Sam Rockwell In Duncan Jones' MOON

The key date from our point of view is obviously a screening on August 3rd at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax of Duncan Jones’ MOON starring Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, isolated employee of Lunar Industries, alone on the Moon with only the company of his robotic assistant GERTY (Kevin Spacey) to see him through his three year contract mining valuable Helium 3 to provide energy to the people of Earth. As Sam approaches the end of his contract, with thoughts of home providing hope, things take a turn for the worse, and Sam discovers not all is as it seems.

Always great to see some of you getting the opportunity to see Duncan’s award winning debut on the big screen, as for many, their first experience of MOON may have been home viewing due to the limited original theatrical release.

An added bonus with this Sci-Fi Film Series screening is a post-film discussion with Ka Chun Yu, PhD, curator of space sciences at Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

As well as MOON, the Sci-Fi series will also be screening classics of the genre such as Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyessy, Ridely Scott’s Alien & Alfonso Cuaron’s Children Of Men, most screenings also include a post film discussion with Denver Museum Of Nature & Science staff.

Dates and times available on the Sci-Fi Series programme guide.

Thanks to Ryan Boulding for the heads up :)

MOON: Sam Bell Spotted At Starfest 2011 In Denver

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We were alerted yesterday to the fact that Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell, may have been in the Denver area of the United States over the weekend, sightings had been confirmed in and around the Starfest Entertainment Convention 2011.

We’ve obviously been wondering what he’s been up to lately. Further investigations however have revealed that our search for Sam will continue, in the meantime we can let you know how the sighting came about in the first place, with the help of MOON fan, Charles Kline…

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MOON Fan Contribution – Lunar Landscape by Jack Stevens

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Here’s another one I’ve been meaning to feature for a while, beautiful Lunar Lanscape by Jack Stevens, and details from Jack on MOON as the inspiration, also how he put it all together. Brilliant! The little version there does it no justice however, click image for full size :)

Jack Stevens:
Ever since I read the synopsis for MOON I was enticed, a few weeks later when trailers and images started to come out I got really excited. This was around the time I had just started reading in-depth into quantum physics expert Michio Kaku. I love Science Fiction films that could one day be possible. For example Helium 3 (which is what is being harvested on the moon’s surface) is essential for Nuclear Fusion, being rare on earth is abundant on the moon. The Moon mission for a Lunar base in 2020 also makes this film feel more sci-real than sci-fi.
Not only did the story inspire me, the landscape that very few have been able to experience and see the earth suspended in the sun’s gravitational field where everything looks so delicate did as well.
After seeing the movie at the start of January I was convinced into making a matte painting based on the movie and perhaps using it to make an animation in Adobe After Effects.


MOON – Lunar Industries from jack stevens on Vimeo

And here are the progress steps.

MOON – Lunar Industries (Progress Steps) from jack stevens on Vimeo


Jack is already convinced he will be adding to his amazing portfolio in the future with new images inspired by Duncan Jones’ next movie “Source Code‘. Can’t wait to see what you come up with Jack, but for now, pop over to Jack’s online gallery and have a gander at some of his other work, great stuff :)