Gem Stones from Space; Palladot™
A litte info on the coolest, rarest gemstones on the planet (and they are not even from this planet).
Blog 12, Today I discuss a new product I came up with using a by-product of harvesting the high quality gem rough out of the “Alpha” Pallasite.
Mythbusters Myth: Pretty Girls Don’t Fart
I had seen this video a long time ago, but this weekend, while Geoff and I were sharing the Science Channel’s tent and stage with Kari Byron from Mythbusters and Head Rush at the National Science Festival in Washington D.C., Kari mentioned this video that never made it to TV…but she reminded all of us, it was on the internet. So, since she is not too embarrassed about it, I link to it here for those of you who haven’t seen it, you don’t want to miss it.
Blog #9 How to Get Your Own Reality TV Show, part 1
In this vlog I discuss how Geoff and I got our own TV show Meteorite Men, and I explain why in Hollywood if it’s “YOUR idea, it is a BAD idea, but if it is THEIR idea, it is a GREAT idea.”
Blog #7
This was the first story where a reporter accompanied me, and I did NOT find a meteorite. I was worried it would make for a bad story, possibly so much so that the story would be axed. Ironically, it turned out great.
Reporter Ben Paynter, out of Kansas City recounted how talking with the editors about the story and when they approved his pitch of the idea of the story to them. They told Ben “You had us with ‘Meteorite’!” What do meteorites have to do with WIRED magazine? I still don’t know to this day, but I am glad some others felt it was a good mix.
This print story led to the TV segment on the PBS pilot show WIRED Science made.
Be sure to check out the SUPER COOL photos there at the story. These were made by Brent Humphreys http://www.brenthumphreys.com/ out of Austin.
An interesting story with the killer dark photo (my favorite photo of me of all time). WIRED sent Brent Humphreys and an assistant up to Brenham to take some still photos. Brent is a great guy, and this was the first time I had dealt with a truely professional photographer. We took a lot of various shots, but the main one was me looking into this lit up hole. It took about 2 hours to set up the one photo. Actually, he took a couple, but he snagged the perfect one that he loved. He sent a very small version of it directly from the field to WIRED, and they loved it. It was a wrap.
He got home, only to find out that for the first time in his career, his file was corrupted. He had lost the great photo.
So, instead of getting fired, they wanted him to come back and take the exact same photo all over again. I was back home in Arkansas, without plans to get back to Greensburg before the deadline, but I made the 8 hour trip up, so he could retake the photo.
I’m not sure how much it cost WIRED for that photo…but I think it was worth it. It made a great full page picture in the print magazine.
Blog #5
American Chopper’s Paul Sr. and his Orange County Choppers team built us a really cool motorcycle to help us hunt for meteorites. Meeting the guys at OCC was one of the highlights of my life. It would have been enough just to get a cool bike, but to get to be part their show made the event more than anyone could ask for. Yet in the end, what I appreciated the most was being able to get an inside look at the huge business that Paul Sr. built starting only a few years ago working out of his basement.
Blog #4
Prior to the Meteorite Men TV series, this was my favorite TV spot. We were honored to be part of the WIRED Science pilot episode, and then when the series was picked up, the segment was repeated on their second episode. Adam Rogers was really great to work with. He added an intellectual and entertaining spin to the story.
