Wow. This was pretty damn cool. At first I was amazed by how much it was able to show me by zooming out. Then once it zoomed back it and kept zooming in on the guys hand, I found that to be fairly creepy and looked at my own hand to see if I was equally as creepy (for some stupid reason). Then as it zoomed in further and further, I went from being creeped out to tripping out. I can't imagine what it'd be like to watch this film on acid. I love it.

A Eames short produced for IBM to inspire American children losing interest in Maths and Science. A camera, projected directly overhead a family having a picknick, moves upwards 10 metres, then 10 times 10 metres, and 10 times that, and so on, into the outskirts of the galaxy, and then back in reverse into microscopic detail.

This sort of thing is commonplace now, with colour photos taken on Mars even, but at the time, this 10 minute short was surely innovative, inspirational stuff.

There are more interesting ideas in this short film (Powers of Ten) than in most feature length pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Wow. This was pretty damn cool. At first I was amazed by how much it was able to show me by zooming out. Then once it zoomed back it and kept zooming in on the guys hand, I found that to be fairly creepy and looked at my own hand to see if I was equally as creepy (for some stupid reason). Then as it zoomed in further and further, I went from being creeped out to tripping out. I can't imagine what it'd be like to watch this film on acid. I love it.

A short video that brings perspective to the physical magnitude of everything from atoms to galaxies using cutting edge editing for 1968.