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April 12, 2014
Here comes THE BIG PHOTO SHOW @LAConventionCenter @TheBigPhotoShow #photography #seminar @PopTechRadio @PCWCARS #camera
So excited about this year’s BIG PHOTO SHOW at the LA Convention Center next month as they’ve asked me to bring in some crazy cool new MOVIE CARS courtesy of the shop, PICTURE CAR WAREHOUSE. What will they be? Well, hit the jump to their BIG PHOTO website from the link and check out all the great things that are happening. If you’re into photography then this is the greatest show on the globe! I’ll be giving 2 Car Photography Seminars as well as hanging out with my good friend Mike Kahn from Popular Technology Radio!
Hope to see you there!!
IN THE BEGINNING… a New Sci-fi HyperShort by Ethan Lawrence #story #sciencefiction #tale #inthebeginning
The end of the world only brings possibilities in this new tale from Sci-Fier and Fireball Bro, Ethan…
“IN THE BEGINNING…” by Ethan Lawrence
The asteroid Hermes has been orbiting the sun and the outer planets for a thousand years, and is now coming into its closest affinity to the earth. It will soon pass close enough for the International spacecrafts to reach the double synchronous bodies that will continue to arc along an orbiting pathway toward the planet Mars. NASA’s calculations indicate that, even if they could hitch a ride on one or the other of the asteroids, they could not actually reach the surface of Mars, but there is a better than even chance they could make it to one of Mars’ orbiting moons.
As the Senior Officer, Commander Benjamin Acker soon finds himself in the unenviable position of having to choose between those who may live and those who will definitely die. Only a certain number of the crews and remaining humans would fit into the two dozen spaceship’s constricted cargo holds should they launch the vehicles, one-by-one, toward the near-earth asteroid Hermes. It is a risky but desperate attempt to land them on the small surfaces of either of the two orbiting components that make up the doubly synchronous bodies. Then, there is an even slimmer chance one of the spacecrafts can manage to survive hitch-hiking on the asteroid until its orbit brings it close enough to allow them a second launch from the asteroid to the single closest planetary body on its course. It would be for a calculated landing on the surface of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, (the innermost moonlet) both mysterious remnants of the original accretions of the solar system, that is, the long sought but still undiscovered “Rosetta Stone” of early planetary formation and evolution. But no theory has yet explained the existence or origins of Phobos and Deimos.
A strong conflict emerges over the plan, so little being known about the ‘diseased potato’ shaped moonlets or their capacity to sustain life now that the earth is dying. It would be too far to jump from either one to the surface of Mars, so they would be stuck there. But the determined Acker points out that some scientists have long thought the two moonlets would be more interesting than Mars itself. What they do know would indicate that the grooves seen in photos of Phobos may be raised lip craters strongly suggestive of outgassing, or the escape of vapors from within the moonlet. Trapped water ice within the interior rocks could be found, mined and utilized for primitive but survivable terraforming.
The Deepstar, Acker’s ship, is the first vehicle to make the attempt to hitch a ride on the orbiting asteroid, managing a skillful slide into the surface soil, the ‘regolith’ that covers a system of grooves on Phobos’ three-mile-wide crater called ‘Stickney’. But the second attempt proves fatal, with the next spacecraft smashing into the edge of the crater, disintegrating the shuttle’s occupants in a ball of fire.
The rest of the ships manage to successfully land on Phobos and, in an exploration of the moonlet’s surface, the crews discover steam vent crater chains from the interior of the moonlet. But instead of discovering pure deposits of water ice in the interior, it is Acker who uncovers the incredible fact that Phobos, Mars’ orbiting satellite, long known to involve a mysterious “secular acceleration,” is due to the fact that it is hollow and artificial, the apparent construct of intelligent life. Inside Phobos, the crews ultimately discover the source of visitors to earth for a thousand years, the alien beings who had created a base here but are now long gone into the blackness of space. Acker and the rest of the spacecrafts’ population can now begin a new destiny as strangers on a strange ship seemingly capable of traveling anywhere in the known universe.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.” REVELATIONS 21:1
©2014EthanLawrence
Ethan Lawrence has served on the writing staffs of the TV series The Pretender, Murder in Small Town X, Fearing Mind, So Weird and SyFy’s acclaimed series Eureka. He has developed web series for Generate Management/Alloy Entertainment such as Full Metal Alchemist and has sold TV pilots to NBC, ABC and The Gold Company. He wrote the screenplay Hellraiser 5 for Dimension Films, Nevermore for Propaganda Films, Downloader for Stuart Gordon/Red Hen Productions, Mortal Velocity for Warner Bros. Studios, Creepers for Papa Joe Films (based on the David Morrell New York Times bestseller Creepers) and wrote the feature film Asylum for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios/Hyde Park Entertainment.
Jet Powered SNOWBOARDER… #snowboarding #stmoritz #snowboard #jet #jetpowered
Pretty incredible new item. Find out how fast he really goes…
April 11, 2014
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… Spiderman 3 & 4 #Venom #SinisterSix #Mystique #TMNT
• THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 hits theaters June 1oth, 2016… but SPIDEY 4 hits May 4th 2018! And that gives me the creepy crawlys.
• Also greenlit are VENOM and SINISTER SIX from the Spider-Man world… coming out BEFORE Spidey 4 but after Spidey 3, ok, ya’ll gettin’ this? Now I have the heebie jeebies.
• Will MYSTIQUE get an X-MEN Spinoff? Seriously, are you asking me that? A blue smokin’ hot blue kick-asser with her own movie? Done.
• POSTERS… PIONEER, TMNT
April 10, 2014
Today’s RANDOM FIREBALL COMIC… Mr. Mayor #comic #cartoon #artist #cartooning #random
Elections in Malibu can only mean one thing… let’s go swimming instead.
Filming with United Pilot ALBERTO DIAZ today on 5Minute Drive… @United #pilot #filming #plane #5MinuteDrive
Shootin’ down to Pacific Palisades to shoot our latest 5Minute Drive episode with my buddy ALBERTO DIAZ. He’s a Pilot for United Airlines and currently scoots the A320 Airbus. Maybe he’ll teach me a thing or two about flying a behemoth… while we DRIVE the 2014 BMW 3Series SportWagon (It’s RED!). Meeting up with the Palisadian Post for a new article afterwards. Gonna be cool…
April 8, 2014
Sharpen your pencils & get ready for HOLLYWOOD HEROINES… #digitalart #artist #designer #bookcover
Today’s Heroines are steamy cool, in an artistic way that is. This set from CrowGod, Dan Panosian, Chris Rallis, Yui Shi & Chen Bo.
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… #CaptainAmerica3 #KarateKid2 #StarWars7 #Gremlins #SinisterSix #BattlestarGalactica
• CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 is now slated for May 6th 2016… It’s gonna take that long to clean up the mess in D.C.
• Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith will be back in KARATE KID 2, directed by Breck Eisner. “Break a Brick, Breck.”
• Peter Mayhew will be returning to STAR WARS EPISODE VII as Chewbacca… And that makes me very BaccaowchodeegaaaAAAA!!!!
• GREMLINS is getting a Re-Boot… Or a Re-Do… Or a Re-AMC Gremlin. Ok, I’m lost.
• STAR WARS EPISODE VII is already filming… so THEY LIED! That’s it, I’m throwing away my Star Wars RePro Lunch Pail and buying a BumbleBee Action Figure with Chopping Motion. Wait… did I just write that out loud?
• Director Drew Goddard is helming the Spider-Man spin-off SINISTER SIX… That might include Doctor Octopus, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, Sandman and The Vulture. Gonna be a Spidey beatin.’
• Transcendence writer John Paglen will be scripting the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA… Glen Larson producing…. wait, again? Isn’t Glen 104?
April 7, 2014
What’s happening @TheFireballPad this week? PopTech Radio, @AutoFilmFest #BMW @TheBigPhotoShow 5MinuteDrive @WaldorfPress
Ok, so this week is pretty exciting, so let’s get to it…
• Doing an interview at Picture Car Warehouse tomorrow afternoon with POPULAR TECHNOLOGY RADIO. My good friend and Host Supreme is Mike Kahn. We’ll be talking cool cars and cool tech, plus bring in PCW Owner Ted Moser for a chat. I’ll post here when it airs.
• The WORLD CLASS AUTOMOTIVE FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL is coming again to the Pebble Beach Concours and as Host, I’ll be introducing a bunch of new films. Meeting this week to go over them. If you’re headed to the Concours this year, be sure to get your tickets so you can come see some of the greatest new car films.
• BMW is delivering a 2014 3-SERIES WAGON today for my upcoming episode of 5MINUTE DRIVE that we’re filming on Thursday. My guest this week is United Airlines Pilot and Palisadian Alberto Diaz. And that means that the 2014 KIA SOUL is gettin’ the boot. But it’s a seriously cool ride. Review coming…
• Here’ comes THE BIG PHOTO SHOW again in May! I’ll be there LIVE with 4 cool MOVIE CARS and giving 2 Car Photography Seminars. Be sure to get your tickets here and experience the world’s best photography convention right here @ The LA Convention Center.
• Personal Vehicle for Actor BEN AFFLECK is still coming together. No photos, as it’s top secret… but awesome.
• TOY Designs are coming together nicely also, but we’re branching into other products for Christmas as well. Who am I working with? What am I designing? Ohhh…. I could tell you, but then…
• My new article for THE MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS this week features a very cool guy with and awesome ALL ORIGINAL 60′s classic. Pick up a copy on Tuesday afternoon, or home delivery happens Wednesday. Check out last week’s article on Bill Wall Leather!
• KCL UPDATE! Kathie is just finishing up the Ostrich for The White House Easter Egg Roll. It’s gets shipped tomorrow! Maybe he’ll lay a chocolate egg? And my design for the new SUPERBOWL 2015 mascot will be revealed soon!!
• PLUS! Something may be happening soon with my second kid’s book, “Fireball Tim’s BIG BOOK OF WACKY STATES!” T-Minus Coolness…
