Monday, March 27, 2017



Ash  [to the medievil villlagers]: “Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?”
-----Ash (Bruce Campbell) in Army of Darkness (1992)

Fancy Film Words

Mis En Scene (miz-en-scen)- Translated as "Placing on stage". It is the arrangement of all of the visual elements of a theatrical production within the scene or stage. There are generally 4 elements:
1. Physical setting and decor
2. Staging of the action
3. The way in which the elements are framed
4. The way in which the elements are photographed

Monday, March 6, 2017

Here's the second of three launches we had last night, sorry I can't share the video footage (you'll have to see that on the big screen). What you are seeing is: the bright spot at the bottom of the light streak is the second stage ignition followed by the solid motor burn; the streak below that, and slightly left, is the first stage falling back to earth; the exhaust trail from the second stage of the first rocket can be seen in front of the aurora; residual smoke from the first stage of the first rocket is visible on the far left; the rocket engine is illuminating a very large area around the launch facility, as well as creating shadows, on the snow, of the trees in the foreground.---James Neihouse

For more information go to: http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/launch_info