by Jeff Cunningham
Ni hao, everyone!
We’ve got another con coming up soon on our end (hopefully, some of you are planning to take the fight to the streets, as well!). In the meantime, among the renovations to our site are several new additions to the “Resources” section, including a complete listing of every single app that NASA has developed for smartphones and tablets–Shiny! You’ll find it under “Resources” above, or at the link below.
by Chris Tobias
My relatively lengthy palaver with Summer Glau on Sunday morning was definitely one of the highlights of my experience at Wizard World Philadelphia, but by no means did it mark the end of the memorable moments I had on the convention’s final day. After all, there were still three other cast members from Firefly and Serenity present at the con, and I was determined to get all of them to autograph the Dark Horse graphic novels I intended to auction off for Equality Now at Can’t Stop the Serenity Pittsburgh. Continue Reading
by Chris Tobias
Sunday, June 2 was the final day of Wizard World Philadelphia and the shortest day of the con. We had already been working at the Take Back the Sky table for three days, and our crew had seen pretty much everything the event had to offer. The Firefly panel and my photo op with Summer Glau had already taken place the previous day. Truthfully, my expectations for Sunday were somewhat low. We’d collect a few more signatures for our online petition and letters to Elon Musk asking him and SpaceX to name the next US spacecraft Serenity, say goodbye to our new friends from the PA and NY Browncoats, pack up the vehicle, and head home. That is, of course, exactly what happened, but along the way Sunday would become the most memorable day of the con for me.
by Jeff Cunningham
Are you a college student looking for something to put on your resume that stands out? Or do you just want to be a part of studying how astronauts will one day live and work on the surface of Mars?
The Mars Desert Research Station is now opening up for volunteers again, both for simulated “crew” and for other positions, like ground controllers. Play astronaut! You can’t lose!
by Chris Tobias
I know it’s been almost two months now since this year’s Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, and I honestly didn’t expect to be writing about it still. (I can already hear those late-summer cicadas buzzing in the trees outside as I write this. I guess I should be thankful I didn’t have a deadline!) Though they may be later than I’d like, I nonetheless want to share some final thoughts with you about one last aspect of the con before I move on to other, more current topics. Continue Reading
by Chris Tobias
Take Back the Sky Honored as “Geek of the Week”
We are pleased to announce that Take Back the Sky has been honored as “Geek of the Week” by allgeektome.net. You can read their very shiny article by clicking on the link above. Take Back the Sky would like to express our sincere thanks to All Geek to Me for this honor and for helping to boost our signal with their great account of our interview.
by Chris Tobias
We are proud to announce that Take Back the Sky will be at the Pittsburgh Comicon September 27 through September 29. We’ll be reprising our panel “One Small Step for Fans: Browncoats in Space” on Friday, September 27, and we’ll have a table at the con all weekend where you can sign our petition and/or write a letter to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. If you’re at the con, be sure to stop by our table and say hello. We’d love to chat about Firefly, the future of space exploration, and why we love ships named “Serenity.” We’ll post more information as soon as it becomes available.
by Chris Tobias
Prior to Wizard World Philadelphia my experience working a table at a large public gathering was mainly restricted to fundraising. I’d worked carnival-style games at community day events while raising money for the high school fencing team I used to coach, and of course I’d helped run a game at Pittsburgh’s Can’t Stop the Serenity event for the past two years. Manning the table at Wizard World Philly was really very much the same, except the object was to convince people to put pen to paper instead of handing over their cash. (They would still have plenty of other opportunities to do that at the con. I swear when I got home from Philadelphia my ATM card was still hot to the touch! Not that I’m complaining. I came home with a lot of very shiny original artwork.)
Jeff mentioned in a previous post that you shouldn’t feel like you’re “stuck behind the table” when working at a con, and that it’s actually a way to enhance your convention experience. I could not agree more. Continue Reading
by Chris Tobias
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con. I had meant to write this much sooner, but this was my first year as my town’s organizer for Can’t Stop the Serenity, and since our CSTS Serenity screening took place less than three weeks after my return from Wizard World Philly, I had to turn my attention to making sure that our CSTS event went off without any major problems. Now that that event is also behind me, Independence Day has already come and gone and the real fireflies have already started answering the beacon call of my car’s headlights when I pull up the driveway at night, I finally have a little more time to sit back and reflect on Wizard World Philadelphia and what it meant to me and to Take Back the Sky. So, I figured it was about time I shared some thoughts with you.
by Jeff Cunningham
We came back not long ago from our first boots-on-the-ground event, which was a great success. It was so successful, in fact, that we’re happy to announce that we’re now moving to “Phase II.” You see, “Phase I” of our efforts was building up our audience, garnering what publicity we could, and getting the numbers we needed to get started. While we’ll continue to do that (and hope that you’ll help us in that regard), the time has now come for the next stage on the way to Serenity’s launch day: The transition from a couple of fans and Browncoats having fun online to a loosely-bound “network” of “cells” of Browncoats staging their own tabling events all over the world to collect letters. Continue Reading
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