Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. Created by iconic designers Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Tenembarks on an adventure in magnitudes, as we travel from a lakeside picnic in Chicago to the furthest reaches of the cosmos, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. This means that every two pages, you see a view ten times smaller than two pages earlier. Both works depict the relative scale of the. The book takes you on a journey through 38 powers of ten, at a pace of two pages per power, moving from big to small. The Powers of Ten films are two short American documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. The zoom-out continues to a field of view of the size of the observable universe. Slowly the camera zooms out to a view ten meters across, revealing that the man is picnicking in a park with a female companion. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Today, we were delighted to discover that Pentagram designer Joe Marianek filmed and narrated the original Eames Powers of Ten flipbook. The 1977 Powers of Ten begins with an overhead image of a man and woman picnicking on a blanket one meter across. In 1977, Ray and Charles Eames produced Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effects of Adding Another. Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. If you have not seen it, you might be surprised to hear that Powers of Ten is one of the Eameses’ best-known films. One of my favorites was an exercise in illustrating magnitude, Powers of Ten. An earlier version dates back to 1968, the same year as a very similar National Film Board Of Canada animated film, Cosmic Zoom. Some were as short as 1 minute in length and others were as long as 30 minutes. His Powers of Ten soundtrack, though, features ‘spacey’ electronic sounds.

Photographs created and used to develop and document production of two versions of short educational film created to illustrate the relative size of. 90 items (479 images) : photocopy, graphite, and ink 8 x 10 in. 17 photographic prints (16 images) : b&w and some color 4 x 5 in. 'The video is a tribute to Eames, to Powers of Ten, to the universe and of course to the fact that everything is colourful. The classic documentary film by mid-century modern masters Ray and Charles Eames, Powers of Ten, features an electronic soundtrack by composer Elmer Bernstein.īernstein is best known for his orchestral soundtracks to films like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven and True Grit. 167 contact sheets (1,602 images) : b&w and some color 8 x 10 in.

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