As the world marvels at the latest US Mars landing, a Dutch start-up is aiming to beat NASA at its own game by sending the first humans to the red planet — and film it all as a reality show. The big hitch: it’s a one-way trip. Fact, fiction or publicity stunt from the land… Read More Human settlement on Mars in 2023 via reality show
A case of suspected vandalism in a church in a northeastern village in Spain has turned out to be probably the worst art restoration project of all time. An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring a century-old “ecce homo” fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns, in Santuario de la Misericordia,… Read More Botched Restoration of Ecce Homo Fresco Shocks Spain
MANILA, Philippines — Vehicles from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) that can travel both on land and in water have been rescuing people stranded because of heavy rains pounding Manila and nearby provinces. A photo of PRC’s “amphibian” vehicles was uploaded on the Facebook page of Philippine Red Cross chairman and former senator Richard Gordon… Read More Netizens cheer Red Cross’ ‘amphibians’
It’s been called seven minutes of terror. But to NASA experts, the Curiosity rover’s Mars landing—set for 1:31 a.m. ET Monday—is more a series of distinct transitions, each a potential mission killer. To go from hypersonic space capsule to naked, wheels-down rover, “the vehicle reconfigures itself seven times,” said mechanical-systems engineer Tommaso Rivellini, who helped… Read More NASA experts pinpoint two scariest moments in “seven minutes of terror”
The dreaded Friday the Thirteenth is not all about being unlucky, consider the following: Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday. A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer accidents and reports… Read More Friday the 13th
Dolphy, dubbed the country’s “King of Comedy,”whose body of work on stage, movies and television mirrors the history of Philippine entertainment, died on Tuesday night. He was 83. With his lean physique and humble demeanor, Dolphy’s memorable characters, notably as the down-on-his-luck family man John Puruntong in the long-running sitcom “John and Marsha,” effectively captured… Read More Curtain Call for Kevin Cosme
The 8th Cinemalaya 2012 Independent Film Festival will feature Fifteen full length films and will have screenings in Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Greenbelt Cinemas and Trinoma Cinemas this July 20 to 29 2012. Ticket price is P150 per screening. Student price is P75.00 per screening. FULL LENGTH NEW BREED Intoy Syokoy ng Kalye… Read More Cinemalaya 2012 Screenings and General Information
Finalists for the New Breed Full-Length Feature category and Directors Showcase for the 2012 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition were announced recently. Now on its eighth year, Cinemalaya is a project of the Cinemalaya Foundation, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Film Development Council of the Philippines and Econolink Investments, Inc. It is an all-digital… Read More Cinemalaya 2012
NASA has released a new panorama from its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, showing the terrain where the robot spent the four-month Martian winter. The full-circle scene combines 817 images shot by the panoramic camera (Pancam). You can download the complete image and learn more about the expedition on NASA’s website. North is at the center… Read More Explore the Martian landscape
Talking to yourself to the mirror might have been the closest you could get, but how about talking to your younger self— not in front of the mirror but through a vcr? Brilliant Jeremiah McDonald, filmmaker and actor, experienced that process — in a way — thanks to a video tape he made for his… Read More Man Interviews His 12-Year Old Self
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