1/31/2024 0 Comments Power of ten eames![]() ![]() ![]() Rosa Parks Sit Down to Stand Up for Freedom Day, December 1: “Why do you push us around?” Rosa Parks asked the cop.December 7, 2022: Fly flags for Pearl Harbor Remembrance, and for Delaware statehood - and at half staff.Rare and alternative Christmas songs 2022: “It’s Beginning to Snow,” Thisbe Vos.Rare, new and alternative Christmas songs, 2022: Joni Mitchell’s “River”.2022 Reprise, best editorial: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” It must be so, it was in the New York Sun.We have questions in 2022: Who invented Santa Claus? Who really wrote “The Night Before Christmas?”.Typewriters of the rich and famous: John F. Kennedy.Blinken takes down Republican complaints about foreign affairs.Pollute around, deny problems, and find out Annals of Global Heating: Karma, sort of.How can you use this in class, teachers? (I recommend buying it on DVD, as I did better sound and pictures, generally.) There’s a series of these films this one, published on YouTube by the Eames Office, was done in 1977, one of the later versions. The Eames’s genius showed the scale of things, from a couple picnicking in a park, to the outer reaches of the universe, and then back, zooming into the innermost reaches of a human down to the sub-atomic level. Of course, that means wer are just small parts. I like to use films like this as warmups to a year of history, and as a reminder once we get into studying the history of space exploration, of just how far we’ve come in understanding the universe, and how big this place is. Putting up that last post on the film, I looked back and noted that when I had previously written about the brilliant predecessor films from Charles and Ray Eames, “Powers of Ten,” the Eames films were not freely available on line. From IconEyeĪMNH’s “The Known Universe” is a cool film. Images from “Powers of Ten,” 1977 edition.
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