The sad news of the death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright last week, brings to mind a three part video synchronization of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with Pink Floyd's trippy Echoes track. Roger Waters, yet to balk at the sci-fi association, went so far as to say his 'greatest regret' was that they didn't do the score for 2001: A ... Read full entry

Weddings on the Moon aren't available just yet, but if you have a lazy two million dollars you can still tie the knot in a low sub Earth orbit instead. The wedding aboard the Rocketplane XP suborbital spaceplane will cost 240 million yen ($2.2 million), this includes a wedding ceremony aboard a 1-hour space flight that reaches an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. Brings to mind the lyrics from ... Read full entry

A Pig's Tale: Roger Waters Traces the History of Rock's Most Famous Prop Roger Waters talks about Pink Floyd, Battersea Power Station, and the story behind possibly the most famous inflatable pig in musical history, "Algie", who stared on the cover of Pink Floyd's album "Animals" The first day was that beautiful sky, but the pig escaped. The rope broke and it drifted off, up into the flight path ... Read full entry