Tag Archives: space
A short by Michelle Brand exploring our perception of time, bodies, objects and our inability to comprehend the ‘full motion of things’.
Wake up sheeple.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explores an alternative means of getting to space. To wit:
Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.
Previously: Extreme And Violent Things
Aryah Nirenberg’s interesting (and more accurate) take on traditional time lapse videos of the night sky wherein the Heavens stay still and our relatively insignificant speck of a globe twirls beneath the galactic tapestry.
A composite image (top) of the Moon and stars created by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who combined 50,000 individual images of the night sky into one huge, highly detailed photo.
Peruse the original full sized image here.
A short by Parisian motion designer and animator Raphaël Bluzet in which an astronaut (voiced by Gary Dourdan) discusses the challenges of life in space.
70 years in the life of a naïve explorer – a journey that begins with a coin-operated space ship – chronicled in a charming, award-winning short by Nicholas Arioli.