Broadcast 864 (Special Edition)

Guests: Paul Devlin, Claire Missanelli, Amber Yoder. Paul Devlin, director of Blast: The Movie, Claire Missanelli, Producer, and Amber Yoder, Assistant Producer were the guests for this Space Show program. To learn more about Blast: The Movie and the ArtistShare program, please visit these websites: www.artistshare.com, www.blastthemovie.com, www.youtube.com/profile?user=pauldevlinproduction, www.blastthemovie.com, and www.blastshare.com. Mr. Devlin, an Emmy Award -Winning director, is finishing up a science documentary about launching a telescope to space on a balloon. Blast : The Movie is based on real and risky science, the real mission, and the ups and downs of the project, which you can actually participate in through ArtistShare at one of the above websites. As we learned, there are many ways for someone to participate in the movie. ArtistShare allows for participation and special offers so , as you will hear, it is an innovative partnership and business model. There were many questions not only regarding how the process works with ArtistShare, but also questions were also asked about film making, financing, science, and space movies. You will want to hear what Paul says about all of these subjects. Later in the program, educational outreach became the subject and we discussed ways for ArtistShare to promote this model in the space community by presenting at conferences and doing things such as a video on youtube. Paul is interested in your ideas for discussion purposes on doing a realistic space film, not the fantasy-based unrealistic films which Hollywood creates . He explains the beginnings of his concept and you are welcome to join the discussion with him. Use blast@artistshare.com and put The Space Show in the subject line. If you have other ideas, questions, or comments for Amber or Claire, you can use the same email address. We also talked about how artists can put their own projects up on ArtistShare. As we learned, the individuals at ArtistShare are very innovative so contact them with your project idea to see if it works with their model. This is an innovative concept with a terrific space science project with Blast : The Movie. Let them know what you think. Also, you will find three Earth and Sky cuts at the end of this archived program.