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KEVIN W. KELLEY is an entrepreneur, artist, and best-selling author with an ability to effectively translate complex information about our existence into simple but powerful visualization that convey deep intuitive understanding. He is called upon as a consultant to assist others with this process.
Kevin funded and ran (until recently) World Perspectives--a corporation specializing in the creation and dissemination of inspiring earth imagery--and has been centrally involved in several related start-up companies.
He is the author of the New York Times best selling book, "The Home Planet." (1988), a large format book of stunning photographs of Earth taken from Space, accompanied by quotations from astronauts and cosmonauts, reflecting on their profound experience of being there. He personally reviewed every image in the half million JSC archive of Astronaut's photos and complied a premier selection of photos of the earth and moon.
The book was a great publishing success with over 600,000 copies printed and distributed worldwide in 11 languages, and it remains the largest co-publishing venture between American and Russian publishers. Jacques Cousteau wrote the forward for the "The Home Planet", and Ray Bradbury reviewed the book in the Christmas 1988 issue of the New York Times Book Review. It stayed on that newspaper's bestseller list for 8 weeks.
Following "The Home Planet", Kevin co-authored the widely acclaimed "Embracing Earth, New Views of Our Changing Planet"? This volume, also using NASA earth imagery taken by astronauts and satellites, was the first book to present an integral perspective of the earth's five interconnected systems: the geosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the chryosphere and the biosphere. It was published by Chronicle Books as their lead volume in the fall of 1992.
Kevin is currently producing Luminous Universe, a powerful new way of seeing and understanding our place in Space, Time, and Evolution. Luminous Universe combines the best of art and science, beauty and technology and, using a dynamic and revolutionary new 3D visualization, creates a comprehensive narrative of our 14 Billion years evolutionary journey. Through various media, including book, film and interactive technologies, Luminous Universe will impart a direct intuitive understanding and spiritual experience of our place within creation. Ultimately, as a web-based interactive timeline, it will enable the visual correlation of celestial and terrestrial evolutionary processes and events throughout time and project a realistic perspective of these processes into both a near and deep future. And by direct translation, Luminous Universe may become our new clock, calendar and timeline.
With Rachel Bagby, Kevin is co‐founder of Metanoiaa, which marries innovation and visualization technologies with empowering, artistic civic engagement strategies to provide audiences with immersive educational experiences. Known for the creation of large-scale, transformational projects that focus on perspectives seen from space, and for producing high quality images, animations, and simulations of Earth for commercial and educational markets throughout the world, Kevin is a member of the Overview Institute.
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