You can see where this is going: zooming out until we see the park, the city of Chicago, the Great Lakes, North America, the planet Earth, through our local solar system, to a nearby star (Arcturus, at 36.7 light years away, for the nerds in the audience, is one of my favorite stars for its cute little nickname “Alpha Boo”), our neighborhood in the Milky Way, neighboring galaxies, etc., etc. In forty-two consecutive scenes, each at a different power of ten level of. Every ten seconds, the distance becomes ten times farther, and the field of view becomes ten times wider. Over 100000 copies of this spectacular journey have already been sold. Made by the famous designers, the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, and available on video-cassette, this remarkable film has given many people their first. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of. The film starts with a couple on a picnic blanket in a single square meter field of view. Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. The Powers of Ten films are two short American documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames.Both works depict the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude (or logarithmic scale) based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed. I was immediately struck by its clear inspiration from “The Powers of Ten,” a 1977 film by Charles and Ray Eames, the husband and wife design team whose chairs you know, and whose multidisciplinary works include architecture, furniture design, photography, graphic design, fine art and film. I saw a video getting a little traction on Facebook recently that explores the relative size relationships between our life here on Earth and the true expanse of the universe. Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero Paperback Octo. The Staying Power of the Eames’ ‘Powers of Ten’
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