Blue Garden

While I was away I came up with a plot involving Alice In Wonderland and named the Story Blue Garden.
So I drew a picture for the cover art.

 Let me know what you think!

Media Monday: Just a small post here

I'm off to my new job so I can't be too long here.

The cold weather has finally arrived and I am shivering!!

I got a little lazy the last few weeks, especially with the schedule changes and all. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things.

See you Wednesday!

Picture Wednesday

Another illustration from my book!

Media Monday- Special Post

Something wonderful has happened- I finished my book! It is done! Yippee! Three months of typing, drawing, coloring, and editing. 
If you would like to see some of  the work or even purchase a copy, let me know!

Space Race... And Beyond!

it could be considered one of the biggest and most famous conspiracies about outer space, and it does have an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to it. What is it? The infamous faked lunar landing of course!
The idea came from Bill Kaysing who wrote the book We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, saying that the government,along with a Walt Disney sponsorship, created  an elaborate hoax. Don't trust Micky Mouse people, don't trust the Mouse...
This theory popped up right after Watergate, and a lot of people were feeling very distrustful towards the government. Being that there were people with a grudge can they be trusted?
Let's check out the theories shall we? (courtesy of National Geographic)

1.
You can tell Apollo was faked because ... Aldrin is seen in the shadow of the lander, yet he is clearly visible. Hoax subscribers say that many shadows look strange in Apollo pictures. Some shadows don't appear to be parallel with each other, and some objects in shadow appear well lit, hinting that light was coming from multiple sources—suspiciously like studio cameras.

The fact of the matter is ... there were multiple light sources, Launius said. "You've got the sun, the Earth's reflected light, light reflecting off the lunar module, the spacesuits, and also the lunar surface."

It's also important to note that the lunar surface is not flat, he added. "If an object is in a dip, you're going to get a different shadow compared to an object next to it that is on a level surface."

2.
You can tell Apollo was faked because ... the module is shown sitting on relatively flat, undisturbed soil. According to skeptics, the lander's descent should have been accompanied by a large dust cloud and would have formed a noticeable crater. (Explore an interactive moon map.)

The fact of the matter is ... the lander's engines were throttled back just before landing, and it did not hover long enough to form a crater or kick up much dust, the Smithsonian's Launius said."Science fiction movies depict this big jet of fire coming out as [spacecraft] land, but that's not how they did it on the moon," he added. "That's not the way they would do it now or anytime in the future."

3.
You can tell Apollo was faked because ... the astronauts made no such exclamation while on the moon, and the black backgrounds of their photographs are curiously devoid of stars. (See more iconic space pictures.)

The fact of the matter is ... the moon's surface reflects sunlight, and that glare would have made stars difficult to see. Also, the astronauts photographed their lunar adventures using fast exposure settings, which would have limited incoming background light.

"They were taking pictures at 1/150th or 1/250th of a second," Bad Astronomy's Plait said. "In that amount of time, stars just don't show up."

4.
You can tell Apollo was faked because ... the American flag appears to be flapping as if "in a breeze" in videos and photographs supposedly taken from the airless lunar surface.

The fact of the matter is ... "the video you see where the flag's moving is because the astronaut just placed it there, and the inertia from when they let go kept it moving," said spaceflight historian Roger Launius, of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

The astronauts also accidentally bent the horizontal rods holding the flag in place several times, creating the appearance of a rippling flag in photographs (Apollo 11 moon-landing pictures).

5.
You can tell Apollo was faked because ... only two astronauts walked on the moon at a time, yet in photographs such as this one where both are visible, there is no sign of a camera. So who took the picture?

The fact of the matter is ... the cameras were mounted to the astronauts' chests, said astronomer Phil Plait, author of the award-winning blog Bad Astronomy and president of the James Randi Educational Foundation.

In the picture above, Plait notes, "you can see [Neil's] arms are sort of at his chest. That's where the camera is. He wasn't holding it up to his visor."


Personally I believe we went (I like to think good of my country) and we never went back becuase it was reaaaaallly expensive . But what do you guys think?

Picture Wednesday: Art from goddess girl and sky boy

I am almost done creating my poetry book goddess girl and sky boy. So I thought it would be nice to share some of the illustrations I am putting in it. Take a look and let me know what you think. Also did you feel that 5.0 earthquake on the East Coast? Now this hurricane coming in, what do you guys think of that?

Media Monday; Transformers and Apollo 18

So in honor of Friday's post ( I won't tell you what it is, you have to figure it out) I am reviewing two movies about the Space Race, one I've seen and one that is to come soon to theaters.

The first movie is Transformers; Dark Of The Moon. In continuation of the first two movies, the Autobots still are fighting beside the humans, but not against the Decepticons, who have mysteriously disappeared into the woodwork of Earth. However the discovery of a missing Autobot ship on the Moon, containing a secret weapon  sets off a chain of events, revealing that our Space Race was nothing more than a cover up.

Personally for me, the movie was good, though the new female lead barely acted, seeming like one of the robots herself.  I know that is what every other movie critic says about her, but if the shoe fits.... As for family friendliness, I suggest you keep your youngsters in another room, it is quite violent, involving scenes of humans being incinerated into bones and clothes. Though for your teens and young adults, it's alright.

The next movie has yet to come out and falls in the genre of horror and suspense (meaning I'm probably not going to see it, I hate horror flicks) Apollo 18 is about two astronauts sent to the moon in a follow up mission. However while they are there, strange things begin to happen....

If you by chance are interested in scary movies, then by all means go see it. The trailer itself scared me, though one must take into account I am a bit of a wimp.