About
Brandon Davis has a professional background as a soldier and as a visual effects artist in Hollywood. He spent 12 years in the US Army jumping out of airplanes, speaking foreign languages, and wearing different color berets. His service has taken him around the world to some of the best drinking establishments and most hostile war zones. As a visual effects artist he’s merged his passion for art and science into an effects animation skill set that has allowed him to work on such films as Armageddon, The Core, The Day After Tomorrow, Flags of Our Fathers and Speed Racer. He has a high school education but thoroughly enjoys applying advanced math and physics to fluid simulation and long range precision shooting. He promises to stop pretending that he works at the Griffith Observatory on the weekends as soon as they tell him to stop acting like a docent.
The mission of this blog is to help energize the interest of the public in Science and hopefully educate them along the way. Scientific knowledge and progress has benefited us as a species and society in countless ways, yet it appears as though much of the public seems rather indifferent to this reality. Pseudo-science continues to be held in equal or higher regard by many who are quite frankly ignorant of reality. With a little effort, people can be shown the “way we know things” and why the Scientific Method is a superior methodology to understanding and gaining knowledge about reality. So how does that fit in with warfare and visual effects, you may ask? Well, quite simply it’s a matter of having knowledge of relatively obscure subjects that the public may want to know as well. This means you can expect to read about why we know aspects of the Big Bang are correct or why whales came from tetrapods one day then read about how sniper rifles have changed over the years or how we added that big computer generated robot into a movie another day. Mental roller coaster time…hang on!
Point of Contact: brandon AT illuminatingreality DOT com