{"id":184,"date":"2009-06-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/06\/26\/mars-artists-community-2\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:19:34","slug":"mars-artists-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/06\/26\/mars-artists-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Machmer: Mars Artists Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/SorAvuridrI\/AAAAAAAAAZA\/No86sA5o6v4\/s1600-h\/LER+Screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/SorAvuridrI\/AAAAAAAAAZA\/No86sA5o6v4\/s640\/LER+Screenshot.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span>Enough is enough: artists can make Martian exploration and settlement favorable to languishing in LEO or cowardly returning to the moon&#8230;simply by making the coolest, most cutting-edge, professional space imagery &#8212; ENTIRELY &#8212; Mars-centric.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The idea is to establish a model library copyrighted solely for creation of Mars imagery &#8212; but, otherwise open to use by any contributing artist or studio. Since 3D modeling is extremely labor intensive an artists&#8217; cooperative centered upon developing Martian vehicles, habitats, and astronauts, will lower the cost of high-quality creative iterations by artists taking advantage of free Mars Only models. With a library of easily modified Mars Only models, through trial and error of creative processes, Mars Only productions will evolve to be of higher-quality, more pervasive, expressive, and cool!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>This is in addition to the self-selection of artists who realize a Mars-oriented space exploration program &#8212; NOW! &#8212; is much more desirable than one languishing in LEO or returning to the moon. Not only will the most informed artists work on Mars-Only models &#8212; but, they will work together for a greater cause: the promotion of Martian exploration and settlement over the bureaucratic intertia of dream-crushing Lunar\/LEO bullshit.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>Eventually we will have our own website, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marsartists.blogspot.com\/\"><span><span>blog<\/span><\/span><\/a><span>, and online Mars-Only library, but, in the meantime checkout <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/\"><span><span>MarsSociety.org<\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> and send us a message if you are interested in hearing more or contributing: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inspired@FactualFiction.com\"><span><span>Inspired@FactualFiction.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough is enough: artists can make Martian exploration and settlement favorable to languishing in LEO or cowardly returning to the moon&#8230;simply by making the coolest, most cutting-edge, professional space imagery &#8212; ENTIRELY &#8212; Mars-centric. \u00a0 The idea is to establish a model library copyrighted solely for creation of Mars imagery &#8212; but, otherwise open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-model","category-eric-machmer","category-mars-artists-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}