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After recasting the superhero genre with a dark realism in the "Dark Knight" Batman trilogy and dissecting dream manipulation in "Inception," director Christopher Nolan is tackling the final frontier.

"Interstellar," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, has taken Nolan into what he described as the furthest exploration of space in film. The movie balances an intimate father-daughter relationship within the backdrop of an intergalactic journey to save mankind.

Nolan, 44, talked to Reuters about casting Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey as his leading man, the challenges of constructing "Interstellar" and the effect of "Gravity."

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Q: What does Matthew McConaughey embody as Cooper?

A: He has the right stuff. Cooper, he's a pilot, and the great thing about the American iconic figure of the pilot, the Chuck Yeager, (is that) there's a little of the cowboy about him. And I think Matthew embodies that wonderful, earthy sense of an everyman who has great integrity and is extremely competent, somebody you trust to guide you through this story and take you through this journey.

Q: What was your biggest challenge in balancing an intimate family story with an intergalactic journey?

A: The biggest challenge in that respect is creating a reality on set so that the actors, who are very much the human element of that - they're the intimate, emotional element of that - so that they can actually connect with the larger scale of the film, they can see it, touch it, taste it.

So we tried to build our sets not so much like sets, more like simulators, so the actors could look out of the windows and see the real views of what would be going on there, they could experience the ship shaking and reacting as they flew it.

Q: Why did you choose to set 'Interstellar' in a future that bears close resemblance to the present world?

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1. Nolan Used Full Scale and Miniature Models for his Spacecrafts, Not Special Effects The connecting theme of Nolan's work is his devotion to creating movies that feel real. In Interstellar, the director carried that notion into the design process of the space station and shuttles used in the film."For me, the starting point of the movie is a familiar Earth. We didn't put a lot of futurism in the designs," says Nolan. "I wanted to carry that tone into the spacecraft, not jump too far in the future." Nolan and his production designer, Nathan Crowley, constructed detailed models, like in Star Wars, for some exteriors and they even built full scale versions of the ships for landing sequences. Along with Star Wars, Nolan has cited 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, and Blade Runner as inspirations.

The shuttle and space station used in Interstellar. (Paramount Pictures)

4. Nolan Created a Virtual Reality for His Actors

Nolan also created the film's visual effects in advance of shooting so he could project those images for the actors. When they looked outside their spacecrafts, they saw the dark of space instead of a green screen. Anne Hathaway, who plays astronaut Amelia Brand, told USA Today, "...When you see us looking out the window at a celestial body, there is a celestial body projected onto a screen outside a practical window. I don't know of any other filmmaker who can inspire people to do that."

Nolan and McConaughey talk Interstellar on set. (Paramount Pictures)5. Hoyte Van Hoytema For the first time in his career, Nolan used a Director of Photography not named Wally Pfister (who was busy directing Transcendence). Enter Hoyte van Hoytema, the eye behind Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In, as well as The Fighter and Her. In short, Van Hoytema's work is awe-inspiring. The shots of the celestial bodies (especially Saturn) will take you there, and the cinematographer did it with old fashioned ingenuity. Under the careful eye of Nolan, who used more IMAX shots in this movie than any of his others, Van Hoytema modified an existing IMAX cam to make it handheld for certain interiors. He also installed an IMAX cam in the nose cone of a Learjet for some of the space sequences.

Nolan on the set of Interstellar. (Paramount Pictures)

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Ball Aerospace's Operational Land Imager for the Landsat 8 mission. (Credit: Ball Aerospace)

Data analytics and imaging company OmniEarth is partnering with Ball Aerospace on a planned constellation of 18 imaging satellites, which is set to be fully deployed by 2018.

The 18 satellites will be about the size of a dishwasher, OmniEarth CEO Lars Dyrud told me. Were focused on small, low-cost satellites. Something that wasnt even conveivable 5 or 10 years ago.

The past few years have seen a number of new satellite imaging companies like Planet Labs, which builds low-orbit, inexpensive satellites only about a foot long, begin to compete with older companies such as Digital Globe, which builds satellites that are larger and more expensive but also with more capabilities). OmniEarths planned satellites are something of a middle ground in both size.

One key thing that OmniEarth seeks to use to differentiate themselves is the quality of the planned instruments. Thats where Ball comes in. The company has manufactured imaging systems for a number of satellites in the past, most famously the Hubble Space Telescope. Recently they also produced the instruments NASAs Landsat 8 satellite, which is used to image the Earth for a number of research projects.

Landslide in Washington as seen by Landsat-8. (Credit: NASA)

The Landsat science community is giddy at the results theyre seeing from the latest Landsat instrument, Balls Operational Space VP and General Manager Cary Ludtke told me. Its that much better than the last one. And this is really an unhappy group of scientists.

Dyrud concurred with that sentiment. Were looking to leverage that scientific and commercial understanding of Landsat, he told me.

The instrument on the OmniEarth satellites wont be precisely the same as in Landsat-8, Ludtke told me. But the technology is largely the same.

Lars and his guys have a need and requirement for scientific quality data to enable their success in the marketplace, Ludtke continued. Our experience on programs such as Landsat is directly applicable. Weve spent many years developing those kinds of products and capabilities.

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A few months after dropping his new album Neon Future I -- a record that topped the Electronic/Dance Album chart -- Steve Aoki is pressing forward in his quest to release a futuristic music video for every track on the project (part two is still forthcoming).

Now, Billboard is excited to exclusively premiere the latest video, a clip for his will.i.am collaboration "Born to Get Wild."

The video for this dubstep-flavored track imagines a future where technology and the human body/mind interact in strange ways.

The "Born to Get Wild" world is a future dystopia ruled by Verne Troyer (yep, Mini-Me from Austin Powers). We see ruthless men in black outfits playing with video game controllers that move human bodies around like they're spastic toys.

As the hero of the clip, Aoki is the human who attempts to break free of his walking coma. While he's knocked out, his strike gives other people enough time to stage their own rebellion against Troyer and his henchmen.

Speaking to Billboard a few months ago, Aoki explained how his vision of the future influenced Neon Future. "I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology," Aoki says, citing work by Aubrey de Grey. "That concept of futurism is underlying the full process of the album."

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Nebula award celebrations focus on futurism
Chinese-language science-fiction writers and fans gathered in Beijing over the weekend for the annual Nebula Award ceremony and related celebrations. This ye...

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Husqvarna has a certain cachet, even if you remove the overblown Steve McQueen connection. Combine that with the recent interest in lightweight, entertaining rides (see: Ducati Scrambler), and you've got a recipe for success. And that's exactly what we have with this menacingly beautiful pair of 401 concepts.

Created for Husqvarna by the industrial designers at Kiska the same Austrian company the shaped the KTM X-Bow the two 401s go by the Swedish names Vit Pilen (White Arrow) and Svart Pilen (Black Arrow), and were inspired by the Silver Pilen, one of the lightest, fastest, and smallest bikes of the 50s. But that's where the nostalgia stops.

Both bikes weigh in at 397 pounds and use an exposed trellis frame, combined with upside-down TP forks, and 17-inch wheels. The neo-retro body work flows into the incorporated fuel tank and both bikes wear a dual-LED headlamp with a lit halo surrounding the outer bezel just like the Scrambler.

The Vit Pilen is the more road-focused of the two, embracing the stripped-down cafe racer vibe and adorning it with a clean, ovoid exhaust, bronze and yellow detailing, a swept-back seat, and semi-slick tires.

The Svart Pilen adds knobby, street-legal rubber, an incredibly trick high-mounted exhaust, dirt bars, skid plates, and a pair of racks one on the tank and another on the tail to strap down some gear before tackling the trails.

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Lorenda Ward, investigator-in-charge of the SpaceShipTwo accident. (Credit: NTSB)

A press briefing by the National Transportation Safety Board regarding its investigation into the crash of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo revealed new information and more questions about its surrounding circumstances.

On Sunday night, NTSB Acting Chairman Hart explained that SpaceShipTwos tail section has the ability to feather, which enables the spacecraft to make a safer descent. He then revealed that shortly prior to the spacecraft breaking up in flight, the feathering system deployed prematurely.

According to the spacecrafts flight procedures, said Hart, there are two steps required for the feathering system to deploy. First, the system must be unlocked by one lever, then a second needs to be moved to deploy the system. The system isnt supposed to be unlocked until the spacecraft reaches a speed of Mach 1.4, however it appears that the co-pilot moved the lever to unlock at a speed of just over Mach 1.0. The second lever was never activated but it appears the feathering system deployed anyway.

During the briefing, Hart emphasized on several occasions that this is a statement of fact, not of cause, and that determining exactly what happened still requires a lot of analysis.

To that end, Hart noted that the NTSB has recovered nearly every important part of debris from the spaceship crash. In particular, both the fuel tanks and engine were recovered intact, with no indication of breach.

This is of interest because since the accident, a lot of attention and speculation has focused on whether an engine failure caused the crash, as this was the first flight of SpaceShipTwo with its new fuel mix. Hart indicated that the engine data gathered so far appeared to be normal.

Of course, as Hart stated, investigators are a long way from finding the cause. The NTSB still has a number of people to interview and a lot of data to go through. It will be months, possibly even a year, before the agency issues the final results of its investigation.

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