Wanderers Video

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

This video explores the solar system in a fantastic combination of actual footage and computer generated special effects showing humans colonising our local planets and moons.  A dazzling bit of space exploration.

Alternative Ending to GRAVITY

Saddily this alternative and much funnier ending was not used.

Skydiving From the Edge of Space

October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner ascended more than 24 miles above Earth's surface to the edge of space in a stratospheric balloon before skydiving back to Earth, and in the process was the first man to break the sound barrier.

After over a year GoPro and Redbull have published video of this amazing feat.

Sketches

A little more work on Bowie.

A quick colour job on Bowie.

A few sketches I did tonight.  More on this soon.

Rain on the Sun

After months of not updating my blog I am back.  There were technical issues that I have been unmotivated to fix until now, so after a little work I am able to post and keep everyone up to date again.  This is a video from NASA that I have wanted to share for the last few months.  It shows a spectacular solar flare that rains down molten matter on the surface of our Sun. My new favorite solar flare clip.

OVERVIEW: An Astronauts View of Earth from Space

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

A 20 minute long documentary with some awesome HD footage of our planet from space.

Curiosity's Descent onto Mars

HD video of Curiosity descending down onto Mars and landing on the red planet surface.  The first thing you see is the heatshield, use to protect the rover from burning up on entry, dropping.  Once it lands it looks at the landscape and then uses the camera to inspect itself for any damage.

Earth's Weakening Magnetic Field

Earth from Mars

An image captured by Curiosity of Earth from the red planet.  Pretty cool.

Space's 10 Most Stunning Wonders

Weirdest Planets

An hour long National Geographic documentary on recent discoveries of planets and their strange existence around alien stars.  It is amazing that in less then 20 years since humans discovered a planets orbiting an alien star we have uncovered so many amazing and totally unique alien worlds and possibilities.

Skeleton Astronaut

A quick update to fix my problems that I had with the previous version.  I am still not completely happy so I hope to return to this one day with an idea to fix it because I really like the skeleton astronaut.

I'm not sure about this but I am tired of working on this.  Will see what I decide to do.

Making of Prometheus Clip

Ever shot I see for this film looks absolutely fantastic

Landing a Man on the Moon Once Again

Russia has reveled its plans to land a man on the moon within the next decade and beginning constructing a lunar base in order to studying the possibility of water and life on the Moon.  In Focus by the Atlantic has published a collection of photos, which I have posted a select few below, documenting the nearly decade long Project Gemini, which was the precursor to the first man landing on the Moon in 1969.

Tour of the Moon

This video from NASA shows and explains many of the craters on the Moon and the formation of the surface of our orbiting rock

We are the Explorers

Curiousity's Journey to Mars

Slowmo Space Launch and the new NASA rover

This has some really spectacular shots from the last few launches of the recently retired shuttle program.



Today, November 26, NASA launched a new rover, Curiousity, to explore Mars.  The rover will land on the Red Planet sometime in August 2012 and is equiped with multiple HD cameras, which will give us our first clear images of the surface of another planet.  These images are from In Focus, as well as many others and details of Curiousity and its mission.

Time Lapse from Space

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Thinking about Space

This video is from about 6 months ago showing a solar flare on the sun.  To understand just how enormous and amazing this video is the Earth would be about half a cm (about a quarter of an inch).  The molten materials and gases shoot off about 100 times the diameter of the Earth in about a minute before the gavity of the sun pulls most of the material from the flare back into itself.  Right now Nasa and the US media is starting and will continue to run with the story that these flares will bring about the end of the world in the next year and a half.  So you will be hearing a lot more about this and contrary to the way it is being presented this video should inspire awe not fear.

These videos show a theory that the Earth (as well as other planets) are possibly expanding.  True or not it is an interesting idea.



The shape of the Earth without the oceans.



I am currently thinking about doing an illustration that will have to do with time and space.