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Come Let Us Adore Him
One of the many production resources that Jerry and I have often accessed over the past 30 years is the extraordinary collection of visual material contained in the archives of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). It’s a wealth of photographs, film and video footage that document the American space program, including the missions of Mercury, Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station.
As I’ve spent hundreds of hours
What–A–Wing
Before starting Illustra Media is 1997, Jerry Harned, Jim Adams and I made films for Moody Institute of Science. There was a catch phrase that was popular within the organization: Nature had it first. Basically, it meant that many important advancements in modern technology were originally inspired by the biological designs of animals and plants (each created by the master Engineer).
Aviation pioneers from Leonardo DaVinci to the Wright brothers studied bird wings as they laid
God is in the Details
For anyone who has followed the ministry of Illustra Media over the past couple of decades, the statement I’m about to make will come as no surprise: I ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY LOVE BUTTERFLIES!
Since 1989, Jerry Harned and I have studied these stunning insects, written about them, and followed them across North, Central, and South America in an effort to document their life cycles and anatomies. They are creatures that reflect some of