Commissioned for the Horizons pavilion at Disney EPCOT, Robert McCall’s painting, “The Prologue and the Promise”, was on display for a few years. This is a high-resolution image.
After being taken down, the painting disappeared. Its whereabouts are unknown. Not an easy canvas to hide, at 60 ft. wide by almost 20 ft. tall.
https://www.mccallstudios.com/the-prologue-and-the-promise/
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Prologue_and_the_Promise
Red Dwarf was the nerdiest of all nerdy Sci-Fi shows, as well as also being the raunchiest.
Fans who are wondering where Craig “Lister” Charles is today will find him on BBC Radio 6.
If Star Trek is Wagon Train in space, then Dune: Part Two is Lawrence of Arabia in space. That isn’t intended to be a slight. The movie is a bit of a overly long mess, but it’s a fun ride. Which describes a lot of movies these days, I guess.
At last, the promise of what Star Wars could be, that George Lucas was unable to fulfill, is here. Andor is the Better Call Saul of Sci-Fi.
I’m almost done watching season 1. In one of the episodes there is an absolutely brilliant integration of the dystopian existence of Lucas’ THX 1138 into his Star Wars universe, along with a nod to Star Trek’s “Journey to Babel” episode. Season 2 will be out next year.
Long ago, boys of a certain age — that would be 12 — would discover Ray Bradbury’s short stories. When Bradbury was a young writer, EC Comics adapted a couple of his stories without credit… or payment. What happened next is explained in this video.
This is the famous, curiously friendly, letter that Bradbury sent to the EC offices.
Update: April 1, 2024. Ed Piskor, one of the voices in that video, has committed suicide. Not an April Fool joke.
The second part of the Freakonomics Radio podcast series on physicist Richard Feynman.
