Cosmonaut (2010)

After disaster strikes the first manned mission to Mars leaving him marooned, Cosmonaut Yuri Tominsky decides to spend his few remaining hours exploring the red planet. - "A simple but moving story of a man coming to terms with his impending fate"



Steve

Stargate Universe - Incursion pt 2 (2010)

 

Steve

Unearthed (2010)

Unearthed is a short film available in the usual corners of the internet.

You can see the twist coming a mile off but its still very nicely done and worth twenty minutes of your time

Are these the suits used in Plymouth?  I think the answer is probably yes with a little modification here and there.

 

Cheers again Michel


Steve

Tertiary Node by Jim Burns (2010)

Tertiary Node (2010)

 “Sheer located the first of the invasive nodal eruptions near the rear of the ship . . . the semi-sentient invader, oblivious to her alarmed presence, appeared to have been seeded at least three days previously, ship-time”.

 

One of Jim's personal works and all the lovelier for it.

 

Steve

Despicable Me (2010)

 

There is a lot to love about Despicable Me, so much in fact that its barley worth mentioning the rather nifty pink spacesuit.....but I just did so there you go.

 

 

Go watch the movie.


Steve

WWF The Monkey Returns (2010)

Can't believe I only discovered this a few minutes ago but it's too cool not to share right away.

The images are screen grabs from the video for Australian musician Ben Lee's single Song For the Divine Mother of the Universe and it was made in collaboration with WWF Australia.

It's the story of a space monkey returning to Earth after 65 years and finding its home world to be a very different place from that which it left all those years previous.

Its a good cause, a stunning video and a rather addictive little song that grows on you much quicker than you would expect.

I don't do links so you'll have to go look it up in all the usual places.  It should take you about five seconds to find and leave you with images to last a life time.

It's pop music video as an art form.

Steve

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier Video (2010)

Screen caps for The Final Frontier video by Iron Maiden.

As space suits go it does the job but looks like its made for a small budget, pieced together from bits of protective body armour from various dangerous sports.

Still it is nice to see someone doing sci-fi based pop videos and so adding to the history of the space suit

Steve

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (2010)

The artwork, with and without titles, from Iron Maiden’s 2010 album; The Final Frontier.

An Alien redesign for Eddie, the band's monstrous mascot but they seem to have gone a little further back than that for the space suit designs which have a very retro 50’s/60’s style.  Slightly disappointingly this is not the same look of the space suit which is seen in the bands video although that's nice enough but very modern.

Art work by Melvyn Grant

Steve