Today I'm going to do something I haven't done on this blog: give some free publicity to a business. However, in my defense, this is a business I thoroughly believe in, and not just because it's my dad's!
My dad, Pal Virag, has always been interested in astronomy and he's always had a good eye for art, whether it was drawing or photography. Years ago, shortly after we moved to Canada, he started a mobile multimedia education project called the Travelling Astronomical Education Project, which brought information and unparalleled visuals to schools across British Columbia, Canada. Despite being a huge success with students and educators alike, a lack of funding forced my dad to cease operations a few years ago.
While running the show, he created countless scientifically-accurate (but self-composed) images of everything from spaceships and astronauts above earth (usually you only see one: astronaut taking pictures of the spaceship, or the spaceship taking pictures of the astronaut), to views one would see from distant planets and moons; ones no human or spacecraft has yet landed on.
The shows were filled with pictures like these: (note the two astronauts on the moon...no such picture exists, since they only ever took pictures of each other, yet this one is 100% scientifically accurate):
Or Canada In Space (again, obviously no cameras were standing by in mid-atmosphere to take pictures of the Space Shuttle launching)
Anyway, his self-composed pictures were a huge hit, and "Space Art" pictures, while popular, are not readily available, so he decided to see if he could fill that gap by starting his own Space Art company.
And thus Bright Planet Art ( http://www.brightplanetart.com ) was born. The one departure from his previous images is that these are much more Utopian (depicting a brighter, happier future) and not always as scientifically accurate as the previous compositions, in order to be more visually appealing.
As of a week or two ago, his first run of pictures went up for sale (they can be ordered in sizes ranging from postcard-size to massive ones fit for covering a wall in a living room...on either paper or canvas, wraps, etc). Having them finally go on sale (click on the "Order" tab at Bright Planet Art ) is pretty exciting news in my family as we're all hoping the business will take off. Hopefully the current Christmas season will give sales a boost!
Here is a sample of his pictures (on a personal note, I'm really stoked because his compositions, largely made from real images, use my photos rather extensively...for me, it's amazing to see where the things I saw in real life end up in my dad's imagination):
The current gallery on Bright Planet Art
These are just small resized versions of the originals, and the originals take countless hours (usually weeks) to compose, as his attention to detail borders on the obsessive.
Anyway, thanks for check it out and if you have a few minutes, please check out his website ( http://www.brightplanetart.com ) and if you like something, order it! It's one-of-a-kind art that'll be supporting the most amazing man I know. :)
Cheers and Happy Holidays,
T
No comments:
Post a Comment