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Kim
Poor 09-10-06: Novaspace invites you to the VIP reception of
our Harrison Schmitt
book signing, Saturday evening November 18, 2006 from 5-10:00 PM at our
NEW Tucson workshop. (720 W. Prince) Admission to the event is $20 ea,
or $30/couple, children under 12 free.
We'll have catered food, wine, desserts, telescope viewing, free photo,
police security...our usual extras. Dress is high casual. See our last
VIP booksignng report, pix, & video at:
http://www.novaspace.com/AUTO/SIGNINGS/Aldrin2005/Report.html
Kim
Poor 09-07-06: Novaspace is sponsoring a major event –
SpaceFest 2007 (next year) August 17-19 in Phoenix (Mesa). We will
feature an astronaut autograph show, space art show, live auction,
exhibits, vendors, speakers and banquet.
Please see the website for
details. Check back for we update daily.
http://www.novaspace.com/Spacefest/
It seems early to announce the show, but we will be in China for a month
of stem cell treatments for Kim.
Dr. Mark A. Garlick 07-26-06: My latest
book has just been published. It's called the Illustrated Atlas of the
Universe, and is published (in the UK) by Fog City Press. I don't know
who is publishing it in America. I wrote it and did over 70 of the
illustrations.
Michael Carroll 07-19-06:
The most time-consuming recent project is a book I am coauthoring with
volcano expert Rosaly Lopes of JPL. The book will be called Alien
Volcanoes, and comes out through Johns Hopkins University Press late
this year. I am doing 15 paintings for the book, which covers volcanism
on the Moon, terrestrial planets, and Io, then proceeds to the outer
system to explore the bizarre cryovolcanoes of Enceladus, Triton, and
possibly Titan.
Lynette R. Cook 07-19-06:
Regarding new news, I have created eleven illustrations for Dava Sobel
to visually express the individual chapters in her new book The Planets.
These images will be featured in the paperback version of The Planets,
available in November 2006.
I don't recall if I mentioned my book Infinite Worlds when I sent you
material before. "Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets
Beyond Our Sun," co-authored with Ray Villard is available via
Amazon.com, and other major booksellers. It is about planets and life in
the universe and includes nearly 70 of my illustrations. The Foreword is
by Geoffrey W. Marcy, the after word by Frank Drake, and the Publisher
is The University of California Press.
Frank Hettick 07-18-06:
Only real excitement on our end is the move-in now underway with our new
private studio/gallery building. About 4,000 sq. ft. total with
over half devoted to gallery exhibits (which includes some Bonestell
pieces, Alan Bean prints, plus a couple of dozen of my own canvas
pieces.
Looking forward to some personal gatherings off and on over the next
couple of years - and hope you might make it up this way for a quick
stop/lookey thing (let us know a few days in advance if you do ever plan
anything up our way and we will dust everything off and throw open the
doors for you).
No new pieces recently that I can talk about since
almost all my time has been devoted to overseeing the finishing of the
gallery - plus completing 12 very unusual and different pieces for a
2008 calendar (the deadline is this November for the set to be completed
- and I have finished seven pieces so far). I haven't even had
time to post anything new on our Selection of the Month page since
April!
After the calendar is published (and if it is successful) the publisher
wants to start on a coffee table book of my art to be printed a year or
two later (retirement just seems to be slipping further and further from
my grasp these days).
Had an art-showing at a coastal gallery for three days (last weekend)
and have been so busy trying to catch up from that I haven't had time to
post the up-to-date pics and notes on my news link page (will probably
accomplish that later next week - in the meantime here is the link to
the overall News page -
http://www.skyhighgallery.com/news.htm
Joe Tucciarone 07-17-06:
Let's see, I've been creating computer-generated astronomical video
clips. For example, in one video we travel through the early solar
system and see Jupiter as a molten ball while in another we descend into
the bowels of a black hole. Several of my newest clips appeared in
the History Channel's "Asteroid Apocalypse" show in May. These
clips depicted the Tunguska Impact event of 1908.
My current "work-in-progress" involves the violent impact of a
proto-planet with the proto-Earth which is thought to have formed our
moon.
David A. Hardy 07-17-06:
Until 10 September I have some very early (1950s) work in an exhibition
called 'Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe' at Compton Verney --
see:
http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/?page=exhibitions/universe.html
Last March I saw the total solar eclipse from the Sahara, which was
great -- I've put some pictures up on my website. In October the
paperback, revised edition of FUTURES, re-titled '50 YEARS IN SPACE:
What We Thought Then . . . What We
Know Now' is due out. I'm giving my Keynote video talk to
the British Interplanetary Society at the British Space Centre in
Leicester on 28 October. And _next_ September (21-23)
I am Artist Guest of Honour at Eurocon, the SF convention, in
Copenhagen.
Chris Butler 07-02-06:
I guess the biggest things for me these days are finishing up the new
planetarium film for Griffith Observatory (after 3 years). We'll
be opening in the fall or winter, so it has been a huge project. I
can't talk about what’s IN the film, but as art director, I have been
responsible for the "look and feel" of everything, and doing a lot of
research to assure any historic locations that appear are right.
Also, I have been continuing to perform my own planetarium shows
aboard the Queen Mary 2, most recently in February 2006 when she sailed
from Los Angeles to Hawaii and back. I'll be aboard again this
December in the Caribbean, and then again in February 2007 when she
sails from San Francisco to Sydney.
Other than that, life is proceeding pretty uneventfully! | 
