{"id":2257,"date":"2015-03-10T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:50:23","slug":"shoot-the-moon-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Shoot the Moon update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks creating Shoot the Moon<\/a> – a story about Liftport<\/a>‘s effort to build a space elevator – have posted another update for their Kickstarter funded project.<\/p>\n

Hey, everyone!<\/p>\n

Since our last update, we’ve converged on the Seattle area for a month of shooting. This week alone has been packed with activity. Here’s a quick recap:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Our storyboards our in! The talented Ben Granoff has visualized what our special effects sequences might look like. Now that we have these in hand, we’ll pass them onto our model designers\/makers (more on that later), and they’ll get started building. Take a look at some of Ben’s work below.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, we stopped by the Tethers Unlimited’s (TU) headquarters in Bothell, Washington. Since a tether is the central component of a space elevator, you can imagine why we wanted to chat with CEO Rob Hoyt and VP of Engineering Jeff Slostad…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read more<\/a>, including seeing some of the storyboard pictures (one shown above) and pictures from the workshop of the people who are designing the model miniatures being used in filming.<\/p>\n

As noted above, the team visited Tethers Unlimited<\/a> and spoke with VP of Engineering Jeff Slostad.\u00a0 Mr. Slostad gave the Keynote presentation at the 2012 Space Elevator Conference and spoke about “Thinking Unlimited<\/em>” – not letting your thought process and expectations being bound by previous experiences.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He’s a handsome man…<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to the film…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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