christopherbollinger
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A Space Odyssey
Part Two of Debunking Stupidity: ‘2001’ set the standard for motion picture special effects, a standard that few films today meet. Kubrick, as we know, was a multitalented auteur; a man of many arts who could achieve nearly anything he set his mind to. The visuals of ‘2001’ were concocted by a team of new…
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Serious Moonlight: Debunking Stupidity
“Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up… the main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that…
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On 35 Years of Voyaging…
It is the 35th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1. I felt that it’s a good time to trot out a poem I have written for this occasion (though it does mention BOTH Voyagers). Enjoy. Taking our first steps away from home seeing just how far we could roam men in ships to our nearest neighbor walking…
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The Wright Colors
I colorized this really awesome image of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of my artistic heroes: and the original, boring black and white image:
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Carl’s Dream
We look to see the small fires in our galaxy around which float pebbles and gas balloons mostly icy rocks and dots festooned- to be able to discern from a distance their construction, we learn that we exist amongst many worlds- billions in just this whirlpool alone. We now see the exciting possibility that the…
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Stormy Seas
My most recent drawing which I am calling “Stormy Seas” for lack of a better name. It started off as something totally different…and is now something far more atmospheric than I had originally intended.
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Discovery 2
For anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series of books, you would know that the Americans were building a second spacecraft to rendezvous with the original Discovery 1, only to book passage with the Russians when they found out that the Discovery 1 would plow right into Io. In this drawing I am imagining…
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That Means A Lot
I love to edit Beatles bootlegs to make something close to a “what if” version that could have been released during their incredible and prolific existence. This is my version of take 21 of “That Means Alot,” a funky little song that had all the earmarks of a Paul McCartney I-wrote-this-in-20-minutes-what-do-you-think-guys? tune.
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If Only We Had Taller Been…
There is a video circulating from the 1971 conference revolving around Mariner 9’s mission to the Red Planet. I found it while browsing io9.com- it was embedded in an article describing how NASA has named the Curiosity rover’s landing spot “Bradbury Landing.” There gathered in that room are three of the greatest thinkers of any…
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Intro to Greatness
The single theme of life is to continue living. Without the desire, without the voracious need for experience and knowledge, life would not be worth living. There have been great people throughout history who lived-lived lives full of vigor, ideals, and hypnotic paroxysms of creativity. Their minds were rich fields where the grains of genius…
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A Fine Line
I have been an “artist” since I could pen to paper. I have dabbled in all the major mediums from oil paints to watercolor. I have found that pen and ink is my favorite. When I show my work to people the most common comment I get is “how do you not make mistakes?” I…
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The Crutch
“Guns are the crutches of the impotent” -Arthur C. Clarke I believe, as Arthur C. Clarke did, that guns are crutches for the impotent. Guns are not cool, guns are not some nifty little toy you pull out on the weekend to prove how awesomely manly you are. Guns are weapons. Tools designed to murder…
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The Color of History
Of the many forms of art I enjoy, photography is the one most closely associated in my mind with total immediacy. The camera captures the details of a scene instantaneously…providing us with photons frozen in time. One of my deep interests is developing a way to “restore” color information to black and white imagery for…
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Ray Bradbury’s Words
I love and miss you Ray…I wish I took the chance to send you this: I’ve walked with you through so many ages, smelled the odors of countless alien winds on a multiplicity of worlds, braved the frights of ghouls and felt summer suns shine on youth benign. Being a child with limited access to…
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1939
I recently completed this music video for the band Pinataland. They specialize in a sort of Americana-cum-whatever sound that always gives me the chills. Great lyrics, incredible technique, and very hummable melodies. They have a website at: http://www.pinataland.com http://youtu.be/5TK76zz8dN8 Hope you enjoy it as much as I liked making it!
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How Fair the World
Seattle is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Century 21 Exposition. This event is marked as a turning point in their self-appraisal of what Seattle was and where it was going. The fair imagined a bright future full of high-speed monorail transit, towering structures of steel and glass, cathedrals of commerce, and a population driven…
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VJ Doran’s Story~Helping a Friend in Need.
Please visit the new blog I created for VJ here: http://helpvjdoran.wordpress.com I also created a Chip In page, http://supportvjdoran.chipin.com/vj-doran-and-family Please donate whatever you can, this man deserves it.
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The Great Frontier
The history of space exploration is studded with examples of ‘what could have been’. So many missions of discovery shut down, underfunded, and left to rot as infeasible. The Soviet Union and the United States made an art form of one-upmanship-The Soviets had the first man in space, the US the better interplanetary probes; the…
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Upon What Ventures Gained…
So far out here the sun appears as faint as a firefly at twilight. The vast and terrible worlds of gas and thunder are imperceptible; the insignificant rocky retinue of the inner planets might as well not exist. The cold is tantamount. The spaces between molecules ensure that even dust is a stranger. Out here…
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Teach your Children
My name is Christopher Bollinger. I am starting this blog to share my writing, my artwork, and my views on life, the universe, and everything. I hope the adventure is entertaining for everyone involved. The lyrics to the song “Teach you Children” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young are some of the ones I have…
The Numinous Cosmos 