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Movie Meltdown - Episode 446

This week we round out our coverage of this year\'s WonderFest as we talk with Rick Sternbach about space, art and the movies and projects he\'s worked on. (Including Carl Sagan\'s Cosmos, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Last Starfighter, The Black Hole, Solaris and Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Plus we are joined by our somewhat annual, reluctant co-host Eric Chu.

And while we work on building our own Cray supercomputer, we also bring up\\u2026 Deadpool 2, Better Watch Out, the new Lost in Space, doing artwork for science fiction and astronomy magazines, Larry Niven, set design, Alan Tudyk,you create something and then it goes back into it\\u2019s raw form, water slide decals, Harold had worked with Hitchcock, Juggernaut, Mars Attacks trading cards, Hal Clement, a different hand/eye skill set, we didn\\u2019t have computers in 1978, Theodore Sturgeon, she\\u2019d worked on the B-1 bomber, the early days of digital, his pencil drawings of the Gunstar, geometry, I got to see the evolution of the whole process,\\xa0the Air Force would pay him to play with future concepts, Gordon Dickson, scribbling, I was just nuts about marine mammals, Destination Moon, The Lensman series, Forbidden Planet, Isaac Asimov, Chuck Jones, the Kodan mothership, do the next polygon, Brad Pitt, Arthur C. Clarke,\\xa0wanted to learn more about cetaceans and pinnipeds, Star Trek 2: the second five year mission of the Enterprise, let them be messy, Joe Haldeman, control panel graphics, organic chem, space conference projects, a well-rounded art experience, planetary models, cell animation,\\xa0Virginia Madsen, a transistor radio, doggone it... I got to see them take off, Jackson Pollock, twist on a twist, Men into Space, nothing in Earth\\u2019s orbit, Gene Roddenberry, there is a lot of structure in there, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Josh Brolin in a catsuit, home invasion, I think my artistic output was a product of the times, one of the Gemini missions, Patrick Warburton, it was important to witness that history, for me\\u2026 old school was the best school, giddy and wanted to take the risk, X-Men cameos and the golden record on the Voyager spacecraft.

\\u201cI will tell you the crazy story\\u2026\\u201d

To keep up with Rick, check out his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rick.sternbach

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