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Ctein
Ctein is a professional photographer and writer, best known in the SF community for his photographs of eclipses, aurora, natural and unnatural scenics, and space launches and for his hand-printed fine-art books.
Ctein's a columnist for The Online Photographer and the author of Digital Restoration from Start to Finish.
Ctein's been an industrial consultant on computer displays, a technical writer of computer manuals, has degrees in English and Physics from Caltech, and has engaged in pollution research, astronomy, photocopy research, world designing for CONTACT, and radical feminist queer activism.
If he grows up, he wants to be a dilettante.
Ctein lives in Daly City with technical writer Paula Butler, four demented psittacines, a half dozen more-or-less normal computers, and twenty kilobooks. He reports that the house seems to be shrinking...
Photo of Ctein by David Dyer-Bennet
Programming for Ctein
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| Wed | 14:00 | (A03) | 1 hr |
Designing Believable Physics
Is it possible that the laws of physics behave differently in different parts or times of the universe? How would that impact world creation? Would biological development even happen, or might intelligence arise in some other way? |
| Wed | 16:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
Have We Reached the Ecological Tipping Point? The Near Future of Earth's Environment
Biological species invasions, species extinctions, peak water, peak oil, new pollination patterns, shifting watersheds, carbon sequestration, dramatically changing weather patterns...and that's just since 2010. Has the climate changed too much? Is it too late for some parts of the Earth? How can we adapt? |
| Thu | 14:00 | (A03) | 1 hr |
Science Fiction, Gender, and Social Change
The workings of any society are a confluence of many different forces and movements. As society changes, its literature and arts (including SF) reflects, anticipates, and perhaps influences the direction and scope of change. How has SF influenced and reflected the changes in gender and gender roles over the past quarter century? As we look back to the work of writers such as Ursula LeGuin and Joanna Russ in the sixties and seventies, what can we say about their impact and that of their heirs today? |
| Thu | 21:00 | (A01+6) | 1 hr |
Pictures or It Didn't Happen: Photography and Other Fan Art as Arbiters of Shared Experience
If a man tapes bacon to his cat and no one can see it, does anyone care? If a fan is drawn in a bikini and the picture is printed, is the speculative experience more real? How photos and illos affect how we share and form our concept of the fannish community, and how that is changing in the digital era. |
| Fri | 14:00 | (Hall 2 Art Show) | 1 hr |
Art Show Docent Tour with Teresa Nielsen Hayden & Ctein
Tour the Art Show with Docents Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Ctein. Meet outside the entrance to the Art Show. |
| Sat | 13:00 | (A05) | 1 hr |
The Year in Physics and Astronomy
A review of key news and developments in physics and astronomy over the past year. |
Home Page: http://www.ctein.com
Web Page: http://www.photo-repair.com