“I’m Female A, because I’m gonna have a special job, on the space camp. I am going to be breeder.”[click for video]
Bryan Versteeg has worked for over 20 years in the graphics industry and specifically the last 15
years working as a conceptual artist in the architectural and engineering field.
He has run his own studio for the last 6 years and in 2011 started Spacehabs.com to focus on
conceptual visualizations for space exploration. Bryan is responsible for all the beautiful
animations and illustrations on the Mars One website.
“I think privately funded missions are the only way to go to Mars with humans because I think the best way to go is on “one-way” colonization flights and no government will likely sanction such a risk. The timing for this could well be within the next 20 years. It will fall within the hands of a small group of tech billionaires who view such missions as the way to leave their mark on humanity.”
“The cost, complexity and risk of round trip missions is too high. I also am concerned that they typically result in flag-and-footprint missions which is what happened with Apollo. Government space mission budgets always get cut and compromised in the long run – it’s just the nature of the beast – and the science and meaningful long-term infrastructure is what gets cut out. With a one-way mission, you have to make sure you have the long-term infrastructure in place.”
“A private Mars mission is likely a five to ten billion endeavor and you won’t see multiple teams ever raising this level. If we ever re-invent launch technology to reduce the cost by 100-fold, then I think a “humans to Mars prize” would make a lot of sense.”
“I’m a big fan of heading to the asteroids first. In this light, I’d be very interested in a human outpost on Phobos before heading to the Martian surface. I do think this type of a human mission is within the scope, cost, and risk of governments.”
Their goal was to reach out to a 13-to-17 demographic in time for female students to take foundational courses in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), in time to launch STEM careers. That’s a laudable goal. The video message came across as “Wear short skirts; girls are decorative, first” rather than “Take Algebra and prepare for the thrill of achievement in STEM. Female scientists can be hot too.”
| International Space Station Floating ’round in the air Floating ’round in the air We have made a decision To do a concert up there Do a concert up there So we called NASA just to ask ’em If we could have a shuttle rocket machine But when they said it was against the law We ask them “what do you mean?!” They can not tell us no No! They can not tell us no to go Oh oh oh! ‘Cause space is the next place We’re gonna do our show Oh Oh Oh! We took all of our keyboards And loaded them in the jet We loaded them in the jet Then we revved up the engines As high as they could get As high as they could get We flew through the clouds and through the ozone And right up to the Space Station door When they came to let us in They didn’t know what was in store! They can not tell us no No! They can not tell us no to go Oh oh oh! ‘Cause space is the next place We’re gonna do our show Oh Oh Oh! They can not tell us no No! They can not tell us not to go Oh oh oh! ‘Cause space is the next place We’re gonna do our show Oh Oh Oh! If NASA says no then we’ll do it on our own We’ll build our own rocket and we’ll go to space alone If NASA says no then we’ll do it on our own We’ll build our own rocket and we’ll go to space alone The Space Station’s doing nothing up in orbit But floating So this is why we are promoting you to come up to our show. If NASA says no then we’ll do it on our own We’ll build our own rocket and we’ll go to space alone! They can not tell us no No! They can not tell us not to go Oh oh oh! ‘Cause space is the next place We’re gonna do our show Oh Oh Oh! They can not tell us no No! They can not tell us no to go Oh oh oh! ‘Cause space is the next place We’re gonna do our show Oh Oh Oh! |
http://davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr/2012/07/mars-mosaic-01-red-green-blue-mars.html
This is a personal blog which I’ve been maintaining over more than 3 years with lots of personal creations and various external references, plus articles on Mars exploration and colonization.
My visual work is 100% inspired by the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I invite you to visit the whole blog, but if you want to have a general view on my photomontages and 3D pictures, you have a “best of” here in the gallery : http://davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr/p/gallery.html
And in the end, here is the link to the posts tagged by “storyboard” : http://davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr/search/label/storyboards
I’ve made many pages of fast storyboard ideas specifically based on the Mars trilogy. Some of my photomontages are directly based on storyboards.
A word about me : I’m 30, based in Grenoble, former architect and now working as a freelance graphic artist. Here is my graphic artist website : http://ludoviccelle.com/
