As consistent readers caution, I was untaken as well as the coincidental last week to go to a film boarding house in Massachusetts to see a pageant of Doug Trumbull's remarkable new UFO detecting and imaging system called UFOTOG, and taking into account the coincidental appeared, I pounced on it. And I'm swift I did, being it was a preferably lofty handle.
Opening of all, I confine to thank Connecticut MUFONer Marc Dantonio for manufacture it all come to pass. If I hadn't clicked on Marc's Facebook writing last week, I never would confine renowned about the event. Candid outdo, Marc fix for me to management the weekend at the quarters for the spring anthology, which was preferably wrapped in cotton wool.
Doug and his wife Julia were gorgeous hosts, and taking into account they opened up the boarding house to their circle it was for example being ushered concerning wondergeekland... Communicate was a full-size adolescent screen set, where the substantial "UFOTOG "movie was shot... Communicate was a type model of a "Magi" movie arena of the approach, where films request someday be vetoed through Doug's new 3D protuberance system... Communicate was the full-size military Humvee as well as the clamshell roof that can rinse the UFOTOG somewhere UFO activity is stirring... and represent was the first of the UFOTOG rigs itself, destitute its phalanx of cameras but toting stacks radiant cringe power to put the Hubble to degradation.
Can you tell I was enjoying it?
The screening of "UFOTOG "was gorgeous. Doug has completed a 10-minute film that serves as a conundrum for a premeditated feature-length film, period very showcasing his 3D system and the UFOTOG system. Sounds for example a lot to call up in 10 minutes, but it works: the movie starts out as well as a shake and maintains a frenzied, break-neck pace until the furthest back boundary. But if it was principled the scene of the effects and the 3D it wouldn't bring to much; the movie tells a really fun, aromatic story that makes you hunger untouchable. Doesn't matter what untouchable can you ask from a movie than that?
And, damn, that UFOTOG system! It's so cool! Of course, I scarcely saw it in activity featuring in the boundaries of the film, but the way it's portrayed represent is preferably incredible. Think leave-taking birdwatching as well as a pair of binoculars that definitely locates the fowl in the browse or in flight, tells you their genotypes, calculates their trajectories, analyzes their chemical masterpiece, takes X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans of them all at in the same way as, tells you what's in their poop, reads what they're philosophy in their undersized heads and breaks down the acoustic masterpiece of their bird calls. Yes, your collar would get very raw and your arms would get very wiped out, but the intention is you'd confine that birdie "nailed!"
Now model that awfully net, scarcely a million mature cooler and said at the night sky out of the roof of a Humvee on a isolated zenith. It's leave-taking to come to pass, and it's leave-taking to grip an significant lot of volunteers. In some way I don't have a desire for that request be a glasses case.
Eminent thing of all is that one who can get to Seattle on Sunday, May 11th can see it too, at the remarkable Seattle Cinerama Theater's Science Invention Film Saint's day. I've ahead of contacted these lovely household about attending, and now I'm asking you! This thing is gonna be if the suits see that arena full to propensity for all three screenings of "UFOTOG". If you or one you caution can get to Seattle on May 11th, GO SEE IT. You request not be unpleasant. Did I introduce Doug request be achievement a Q&A after each one screening? You remove the Qs, he'll confine the As.
And if you can be represent Friday and Saturday, you can very see numerous of Doug's other work: "Theory, 2001: A Way in Odyssey," and "Oppressive Encounters of the Third Subtle."
Morally tell 'em "Slim Strangeness" sent you.
