Starbase Hawaii Spaceport – Featuring Post Terrestrial Lifestyle, Environments & Architecture with HoloZone Training & Entertainment Facilities

[Image Rendering: Starbase by Eyoub Khan with Eileen Borgeson's Orbital Muse Sculpture Landmark]

Living in Hawaii is a lifestyle unmatched in any other location on Earth. One of the most remote outposts on the planet, the Hawaiian Islands are centered in an expanse of oceanic space thousands of miles from another body of terra-firma. The spirit and vision of most people of Hawaii includes a balance of nature, love of life, family & freedom and the desire to spread the ‘Aloha feeling’ throughout this planet and beyond. The islands were colonized by Ancient Explorers who used the stars to navigate, and with the creation of a Hawaiian Spaceport, a launching place would exist for a new breed of Space Explorers wishing to navigate the stars and eventually colonize the Universe.

Children now and in generations to come, need new frontiers to explore and new realities to expand their awareness and consciousness so they can make their own unique contributions. It’s time to go beyond just ‘what will be the newest gadget’ to be put into the marketplace for mass consumption, a constant for all previous generations.

We have mapped the world and we now need to expand our horizons and physical awareness to outer space (as well as inner space.) Space travel, by its very nature, requires a self-sustaining environment as we have all so lately become aware of living on this fragile planet nor can ‘take off’ into space without also taking care of our ‘home base’, planet Earth..

The spaceport under discussion would function as a ‘de-compression center’ not only for the returning space explorers but the ones blasting off for a new ‘off-planet experience’ and the new realities and perspectives that the trip will hold for them.

This two-way culture and life transition could best be served by the radical changing of past terrestrial-based design concepts and linear experience approaches and replaced with an evolved classical artistic expression in the spaceport design with a new ‘quantum’ attitude made capable through holographic imagery, applications and optical functions.

The spaceport experience should be aesthetically and sensory stimulating, as well as reflective, and unlike any other place on the planet. There is a real opportunity to evolve our past concepts and precepts to be more in line with the eventual ‘oneness awareness’ of the citizens of this planet…a perspective many come back with after their off-planet adventures. “I took off as an astronaut but returned a humanitarian,” Quote from Russia’s first astronaut, Uri Gagarin.

One of the training sessions to be offered in the HoloZone (HoloDeck-like) Complex is a ‘non-linear’ glimpse of the ‘Overview Effect’, a life-changing epiphany experienced by many astronauts during the viewing of Earth from space. I have been working on the “Overview Experience’ project for the last three years and the HoloZone concept for several decades.

Eileen Borgeson’s ‘post-terrestrial’ art imagery and sculptures will be seen throughout the spaceport and incorporated into the physical structure as well. Eileen’s 60 foot “Orbital Muse” sculpture will be the primary Landmark for the spaceport and will adorn the HoloZone training and entertainment complex building along with her ‘Virtress’ image in terrazzo and her ‘Cybernetic Circuitry’ laser cut into metal.

The “Orbital Muse’ has become the ‘Oscar™’ for the Space Exploration Industry and is the featured sculpture atop of the Dennis Tito Award (given to space explorers paying $20-35 million for 6 months of astronaut training and then blast off for a week’s stay at the International Space Station). The Orbital Muse sculpture and design is used also for other prestigious space awards including: the Space Ambassador (in crystal) and the Space Exploration Pioneer Awards.

Multiple Holographic transformational applications and techniques will be used where ever possible throughout the spaceport incorporated as building materials, solar energy conversion film to projected three-dimensional imagery. Holographic imagery, functions and optical effects create sensory impressions which our senses haven’t come to terms with nor can fully comprehend which enables an experience that is totally new and evolutionary plus it crosses the age barrier for spaceport visitors.

Eyoub Khan, main principal of Conceptual Design (www.condzngrp.com), is the master designer of the Starbase with extensive involvement in Space Development and Exploration. From his consulting work on the SpaceHab’s interior to designing major transportation hubs, Eyoub is a ‘deep well of knowledge and design’ with the capabilities of coordinating the master planning of the spaceport, operations and infrastructure into a comprehensive package.

Eileen and I have come away from the recent JUSTSAP Symposium and our Space Exploration Pioneer Award presentation with renewed interest in pursuing our spaceport collaboration with Eyoub. We live on the islands, are involvement with the Space Development and Exploration community and know that Hawaii is an ideal location for a spaceport with a renewed opportunity to continue its exploration spirit.

We know that the entire JUSTSAP group, the Rocketplane organization, our island friend, master technical wizard, Kyle Brown and many others share our vision of seeing a spaceport here in Hawaii and we will all continue to forge new alliances to synergistically proceed in this endeavor. We’re open to connect with other like-minded individuals so please contact us with your thoughts, concepts and how you may contribute. My email: Jeff@Holographics.com.

JUSTSAP’s 4th Annual ‘Space Exploration Pioneer Award’ by Eileen Borgeson honors Michael Duke in Hawaii

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On November 9th at JUSTSAP’s (Japan – U.S. Science, Technology & Space Applications Programs) 19th annual space symposium, Michael Duke (chief geologist for the Apollo Lunar Mission) was honored for his over 5 decades in pioneering space exploration, his contributions to JUSTSAP’s efforts, and especially for implementing space education programs.

After an introduction honoring Michael Duke by Jim Crisafulli, Director, Office of Aerospace Development State of Hawaii, and Dr. Frank Schowengerdt (U.S. Vice-Chairman – JUSTSAP), Eileen Borgeson and I made the virtual presentation to Michael who was unable to attend the event.

Previous recipients of the JUSTSAP ‘Space Exploration Pioneer Award’ were: The Honorable George R. Ariyoshi (former Governor of Hawaii) in recognition of “his sustained and distinguished contributions promoting international collaboration in space exploration”, and Takaji Kuroda, also an accomplished artist in Japan, for “his sixty year involvement with Japan’s space program.”

Each year Eileen and I have offered a different art sculpture for JUSTSAP’s awards. In 2007 George Ariyoshi received a sculpture entitled ‘Pele’s Gift’, which was a bronzed resin organic flame sculpture offering a cast crystal earth with the Hawaii Islands sandblasted into the Pacific. IN 2008, Takaji Kuroda received a frosted blue acrylic sculpture (cast by R. S. Owens – maker of the Oscars, Emmys and Eileen’s original classic Promax Muse award.) The award was mounted on a metal chromed/holographic base which included a 3-D image projecting off the earth.

In 2006, JUSTSAP itself was honored with the first ‘Space Exploration Pioneer Award’ by E Art Gallery and Mark McGuffie, presenting for the Hawaii Island Economic Development Board. The award was the “Orbital Muse’, the featured sculpture on top of the Dennis Tito Award (for space explorers who pay $20 million+ for 6 months of astronaut training and a weeks stay at the International Space Station). Another award, a sub-surface etched crystal ‘Space Ambassador Award’ was given to Anousheh Ansari by X Prize’s Peter Diamandis and Alan Hale (Hale-Bobb Comet founder) at the X Prize Cup in New Mexico.

This year’s JUSTSAP ‘Space Exploration Pioneer Award’ was a Hot Glass Sculpted Rocket Eileen designed and collaborated to create it with amazing hot glass artist/friend Daniel Moe here on the Big Island. He’s one of the best to come out of the Pilchuck School in Washington (Dale Chilhuly’s baby.) Assisting Daniel was Summer Campbell.

Our good friend and now ‘family’, Kyle Brown, attended the award presentation with us. Kyle’s a New Yorker we refer to as ‘street wise with heart’. In a discussion about the future of JUSTSAP, Kyle offered a suggestion of approaching the new minds of this generation with educational, science and art projects starting with the students of Hawaii. The suggestion was well received and discussed at some length. Kyle has been lending his technical expertise to the local school systems for some time now and was chief technologist for the Imiloa Center in Hilo when it was first launched. He is now in discussions with RocketPlane of Oklahoma to approach the Hawaii school system with some of these concepts.

The theme of JUSTSAP’S 2009 symposium was “Asia-Pacific Strategies and Projects for the New Space Age” held at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Kohala Coast. Notable speakers included: Dr. Osamu Odawara (Japan Vice-Chairman – JUSTSAP), Stephen Day (Chairman – JUSTSAP), Douglas Craig (Strategic Analysis Manager – ESMD/Directorate Integration Office NASA Headquarters), Charles Miller (Senior Advisor for Commercial Space Innovative Partnerships Programs – NASA Headquarters), Susumu Yoshitomid (Special Counselor, Japan Space Forum), Hiroshi Shimoji (Deputy Director General, Dept. Planning, Okinawa Prefecture), Dr. Galina Xanthopoulou (Professor, Institute for Materials Science, NCSR “Demokritos”), John Mankins (President – ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions), Dr. Daniel Rasky (Director, Space Portal – NASA Ames Research Center), Christopher Pestak (Manager, NASA Programs – Battelle Memorial Institute), Robert Wegeng (Chief Engineer – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Jerry Comell (Site Executive, State of Hawaii, The Boeing Company)

Cirque du Soleil’s, Guy Laliberté qualifies for Space Tourist Society’s Dennis Tito Award by Eileen Borgeson and Jeff Allen.

Visual: [First Dennis Tito Awards, Jeff Allen, Eileen Borgeson, Dennis Tito and Rick Searfoss.]

[Visual 2: Eileen Borgeson's Private Space Explorer Pin Rendering.]

Who would not be thrilled at the news that the founder of Cirque du Soleil would be honored by an award you were involved in creating? Both Eileen Borgeson and I had collaborated together designing the Dennis Tito Award for the heroic space tourists who train as astronauts and then visit the International Space Station (ISS).

We were both also very pleased to find out that Guy Laliberté, an artist, not a scientist, would host the First Poetic Social Mission in Space during his Sept 30 to Oct 11 visit to the ISS. His "Moving Stars and Earth for Water" took place on October 9, 2009 (GMT) in 14 cities on five continents simultaneously around the world. Each city had an "artistic moment" and unfolded with the presence of artists and world-renowned personalities, including: Al Gore, Peter Gabriel and U2.

How appropriate that John Spencer, helmsman of the Space Tourist Society (STS), was the person to tell Eileen and me that Guy Laliberté had just docked at the ISS an hour previously. We had called John to discuss Guy becoming the seventh honoree of the Dennis Tito Award.

During the historic 25th Annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC06) (Free Commemorative Poster Link: http://www.eileenborgeson.com/pdfs/OrbitPoster.pdf), Dennis Tito personally presented the first two Dennis Tito Awards to Gregory Olsen (second space tourist) and Mark Shuttleworth (third space tourist.) at the Orbit Awards Event. Mark’s award was accepted by two time commander of the Space Shuttle, Astronaut Colonel Rick Searfoss.

Dennis was then surprised with his own award by the artist Eileen Borgeson who was escorted by her collaborator on this award, me. (Link to video on Eileen and me displayed behind the stage before our presentation: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/654966/3034939)

The Dennis Tito award is two tiered with four sculptures of Eileen’s featuring the Orbital Muse on the top. Eileen and I created the concept as well as the design. The award was assembled by the fine crafts persons at Saxton Industrial who also manufactured the three sculptures that supported the Orbital Muse. Saxton Industrial also sponsored the initial three Dennis Tito Awards for the ISDC06’s Orbit Awards event.

Guy Laliberté and the other three space tourists, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi (who went twice) and Richard Garriott will be honored with their own Dennis Tito Award at the next prestigious Orbit Awards event tentatively scheduled by the Space Tourism Society in 2011, the 10 year anniversary of Dennis Tito’s first flight to the ISS. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has also placed a $5,000,000 deposit for a trip to the ISS in 2011.

At the ISDC06 event, the ‘holographic crystal’ Orbit Awards, also created by Eileen and me, were awarded to significant astronauts, pioneers and entrepreneurs of the private space exploration community. The list of honorees, included: Buzz Aldrin, first man who walked on the moon, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, Richard Branson, of Virgin Galactic and everyone’s aeronautical hero, Burt Rutan, designer of the SpaceShip One. His SpaceShip One won the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize for two consecutive Sub-Orbital Flight above 62 miles.

Eileen Borgeson is also designing a selection of Space Explorer Wings for private individuals who take an orbital flight around the Earth. The FAA has recently ruled that individuals reaching a height of 64 miles in space now qualify for their Astronaut Wings.

Eileen Borgeson’s Lumiére – 3D’s “Oscar”?

[Visuals: Eileen Borgeson with Jim Chabin collaborating on the original Lumiere sculpture. Original Lumiere (somewhat damaged in mold making) and the Gold Lumiere award manufactured at R. S. Owens (Oscars, Emmys, MTV awards.)]

3D is having a renaissance in the 21st Century. Thousands of theaters are being retrofitted with digital equipment offering the capability to create immersive live and recorded experiences. Starting this year, all the future movies produced by DreamWorks will be in 3D…most of the new flat screen TV sets are incorporating the hardware to display 3D programming… and computer gaming consoles are increasingly offering their interactive adventures in immersive 3D.

This industry has been growing for over a hundred years now and it deserves some recognition.

Eileen Borgeson has been brainstorming with Jim Chabin for many months now in a stealth capacity creating one of her ‘”signature’ sculptures as the award for this industry.

Jim Chabin has served as CEO for several organizations including the Emmy’s and Promax/BDA. Both have presented prestigious awards to ‘peer recognized’ recipients. Together with Jim’s creative vision, Eileen Borgeson sculpted and ‘birthed’ the Promax ‘Muse of Creativity’ award which was first launched in 1995 in Washington DC with 100 awards.

The Promax Muse Award is now a global icon for the television industry. BBC has referred to it as ‘television’s Oscar’. Awards are given out globally in eight different awards shows annually. Every award has multiple winners (sometimes up to 15) which now total into the tens of thousands with nearly 20,000 physical Muse awards created and given. Jim later spawned the ‘MI6’ organization for the interactive computer gaming community and Eileen’s Muse was chosen for their award also.

Throughout her career, Eileen’s art has been presented as awards and recognition pieces. In addition to the television and computer gaming industries, her award sculptures have also become icons for the entire space exploration industry and numerous art pieces of hers have been used for celebrity recognition and birthday pieces.

Last November, Jim’s organization, ‘Chabin Partners’, collaborated with the Singapore government to produce ‘3DX’, the first major international 3D film festival event to date which featured 3D ‘luminaries’ such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and James Cameron.

Jim’s newest exciting endeavor is the ‘International 3D Society’ which was formed to service the 3D industry and to recognize the pioneers and artists in this industry as it continues its international rapid growth.

Jim and Eileen’s past collaboration has successfully produced one of the most successful media awards of all time for it prestige and sheer number of recipients. With 3D rapidly becoming the entertainment choice of the future (at least until Holography finally plays its hand), the Lumiére could very well become the ‘Oscar’ for the entire international 3D industry.

Members of the X Prize ‘Vision Circle’ were gifted with Jewelry Pins designed by Eileen Borgeson honoring them for their $2.5M contributions

[Visual - Larry Page wearing his Vision Circle Pin with friend Robin Williams at Google Gala]

The members of the X Prize Foundation's 'Vision Circle' share Peter Diamandis vision of ‘Revolution through Competition’ to benefit humanity.

This month (October 2009) the X Prize Foundation is featured on the cover of WIRED UK magazine with the feature article “SAVE THE WORLD. WIN A PRIZE”

Time warp to 2007 - Eileen Borgeson was approached by the X Prize with a very special request. Create a jewelry art pin they could ‘gift’ their Vision Circle members that would be worthy of each of their $2,500,000 contribution towards the X Prize foundation’s $50,000,000 campaign for future prizes embracing space, education, poverty and the environment.

Eileen was given a very short window to create this exquisite piece. She developed many different design concepts which were first reviewed by the management of the X Prize Foundation with founder, Peter Diamandis, making the final selection. (One of Eileen’s ‘design finals’ was later made into a holographic cover for A & E magazine as well as an E- Holocard with the angel-like images surrounding a holographic earth). Eileen’s mission was to physically create these pins to be delivered in time for their event three weeks away.

Eileen, in conjunction with jewelry artist, Allan Baird and his expert knowledge of 3D CAD programs and with his Rapid Prototyping machine, were able to complete the finishing, polishing and last detailing of the Vision Circle Pins while the patient Fed Ex driver waited. It’s amazing how the Universe works! They arrived next day (March 3, 2007) at the Googleplex location in the nick of time for the ‘Radical Benefit for Humanity’ gala hosted by Larry Page. The event successfully raised $2,700,000 for the X Prize Foundation. Eileen’s Argentinium silver ‘Vision Circle’ pins were also presented to honor the seven founding ‘Vision Circle’ members.

Now the Vision Circle Member’s number has risen to 10 with some of most successful entrepreneurs and pioneers of the computer, Internet and space travel evolution as supporters: including, the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the original sponsors of the $10,000,000 X Prize, Anousheh and Amir Ansari. Note: Anousheh had previously received Eileen’s Space Ambassador ‘sub-surface laser crystal’ Orbital Muse Award given to her by Peter Diamandis and Alan Hale (co-discoverer of Hale-Bobb Comet) at the X-Cup event in New Mexico.

The other members are Anner Wojcicki (with Sergey Brin), The William James Foundation, Eric Schmidt, Gil & Elyssa Elbaz, Rey Sidney, John Templeton Foundation, Bita Daryabari and Dr. Stewart & Marilyn Blusson.

Eileen also enlisted some of her friends and local talent here on the Big Island in Hawaii to create the native Hawaiian Koa wood presentation boxes. Master woodworker (and computer artist) Frank “Big Kahuna” Chase came to the last minute aid creating ten tiny elegant and precision-made Koa wood boxes. Mark and Karen Stebbins then laser ‘burned’ the X Prize Logo into the lids (each individually numbered #1 through #10) which they then inlaid with Abalone. The finishing touch was the black satin velvet cushions to rest each pin.

Please Don’t Feed the Flowers

Living in Paradise doesn’t mean there aren’t any challenges and oddities.

I wake up in the morning still faced with myself and that same nagging question…“What do I want to do with the rest of my life?”

After some reflection, I realize I might as well continue to fully live in this present moment ‘til I figure it out.

So today I got up and walked over (two driveways away) to Kalani to swim, sauna and soak in the hot tubs. Eileen Borgeson biked over later and joined me.

I start the jaunt midway on the three acres that we’re living on which is lined with many different varieties of trees, including coconuts, mango and papaya…all, except the papaya, about 40 feet tall for some odd reason. Along the way, I pass the crazy fruit tree section: noni (think the smells and taste of really dirty gym socks-a fruit that possibly cures anything and everything), breadfruit (think super glue that’s good for you and can taste like potatoes or pudding) and jackfruit (think juicy fruit gum, gooey latex, a mango/banana flavor with seeds that when steamed or roasted taste like some exotic nut.)

A short stroll along the tree canopied road bordered on the makai side by the waves crashing on the lava cliffs and then I start walking on the beautifully landscaped grounds up to the pool. Kalani is situated on 120 acres of grounds which Richard (the delightful owner whom I just met) has been evolving since the late seventies into a retreat he shares with many while respecting and preserving that land’s ancient and sacred Hawaiian history.

A few hours later after my meditative and ‘spa’ experience I’m back at our Puna Kalapana Retreat…and now back to Please Don’t Feed the Flowers…

I’m looking at a scattered selection of sublimely exquisite plants and their flowers…some, look they must have been designed by Dr. Seuss himself. Most of the flowers are beyond verbal description so you just have to see them yourself (above.)

In one picture my Son Chris’ ‘spider orchids from Mars’ have encountered an as- yet-unknown-to-me ‘pink woven something’ with delicate purple flowers growing from its side. And in the other visual there is a banana flower who was about to eat a pink perfection hibiscus when she was politely reminded of our ‘Please Don’t Feed (or feed on) the Flowers’ rule here…later they became new ‘best friends’ (even without a workshop.)

Houston Hotties sent by Mission Control to Dolphin Encounter in Alohaland

(Pics: top - Eileen Borgeson, Patty & Becky Busmire and Jeff Allen; middle - Drew Busmire, Josh Withers, Eileen and Becky; bottom - Patty and Kim Peeples)

Chance meetings are sometimes the most memorable. Eileen Borgeson and I had just landed at the Point House on Kealakekua Bay. While checking out the terrain we encountered other visitors in this strange yet bewitching piece of paradise.

There they were sharing the same vista of the ocean with the sacred Hawaiian Heiau on our right and Captain Cook monument directly across the bay.

There’s always something so special about a close family on vacation. They’re sharing new experiences and playing like a pod of Dolphins.

Speaking of Dolphins, Eileen was put on Dolphin alert to call the Houston Hotties (Kim Peeples, sister Patty Busmire and a ‘much to bright for her age’ daughter Becky – who’s much prettier when she smiles) if she saw any Dolphins. Luckily, our friend Gary Stice’s Point House is closest to where the Dolphins swim and offers a perfect ‘crows nest’ for viewing.

Well, as if on cue, Eileen spotted Dolphins playing in the bay at 6:30AM. After a quick call to Patty, Eileen swam to a location where the Dolphins could swim up to her if they chose… which they did.

Eileen’s Experience “I was off to the side of the other swimmers and found myself almost constantly surrounded by the over 30 Dolphins that were with us in the Bay for nearly an hour…several pods were cavorting above and below the surface, leaping, spinning on top and two ‘teenage Dolphins” were below me flipping the leaves I had brought them and acting very clownish. One whooshed by me so close it almost touched my cheek…I nearly kissed a Dolphin! My best ever encounter in Kealakekua Bay”.

Shortly after Eileen’s call to Patty, the Houston Hotties arrived ready to see if they too would be greeted by the Dolphins.

Kim (now a Hawaii resident for 11 years) opted for shore duty and Patty and Becky plus me in tow climbed over some rocks and sailed (actually swam) off to Dolphinland.

Our expectations for success were high since Pattie had paved the way eight years earlier with her first visit with the Dolphins. (Becky was unable to attend at that time due to a commitment to higher education that has since forged her character even to this day.)

Well another accomplishment for Houston Mission Control. The Houston Hotties were well received by the Dolphins and that special epiphany happened when two species meet on friendly and even playful terms.

Later more of the Houston Hotties clan showed up and we were able to share the vistas of Gary's Point House with Patty's son Drew Busmire and his friend Josh Withers before they took off to college for their commitment to higher education.

More about the Houston Hotties in episodes to come…