Powers of 10
From Core 77:
“In 1977, the Eames’ made a great movie called Powers of 10. Starting with a sleeping man at a picnic, the film takes the viewer on a journey out to the edge of space and then back into a carbon atom in the hand of the man picnic, all in a single shot.
Today, we can experience Nano Journeys, an interactive tour into the worlds of the micro- and nano-cosmos. Three different tours lets us scale down into the human arm, into a computer processor, or into the LED of a car’s headlight to discover the smallest dimensions of our universe.
The latter journey is part of an information campaign by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to inform the larger audience about the research and everyday impact of nanotechnology.”
I have yet to meet a kid who is not blown away by the magic of scale. Especially, the kind of scale on display in this interesting look into the smaller than small.Maybe it’s because the dynamics of scale are much more immediate to little people who are growing into big people. Or perhaps it’s just that they’re happily surprised by how much more there is to the universe than meets the eye. In an infinite world anything is possible, and that seems to suit kids just fine.
I’ve posted the original Powers of 10 movie below and another one featuring my main man Homer.
Enjoy.
