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I have attached screenshots from the Youtube video below to demonstrate my point. the largest and smallest powers of ten that push the limits of human understanding), there is not much difference visually. One thing I noticed when viewing the film for around the 10th time, is that as we reach the outer limits of both opposite extremes (i.e. We begin by zooming into the man’s hand, and delve into the cells in his skin, right into a single proton lying within a carbon atom in one of the many millions of cells that make up the man’s hand (this is 10^-16m). The next journey takes us the opposite direction into the negative powers of 10. We then zoom quickly back through the mind-bending journey we have just been taken on, and zoom back into the couple having a picnic in the park.
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We zoom further and further out by continuous powers of 10, until we reach the edge of our current scientific understanding…the edge of the universe (a square 100 million light years in each direction, or 10^24m). Very quickly we escape from the leafy park in downtown Chicago, and are gazing at the blue and green sphere of the earth, coated in fluffy white clouds. It then zooms out by one power of 10 every 10 seconds. The film begins by showing an image of a couple having a picnic in a park in Chicago. To think that this couple orchestrated the production of this film way back in the 1970s beggars belief. The video is simply mind-blowing to watch, even nowadays, with our modern movies dripping with computer-generated imagery, and mind-blowing graphics bursting out of every street corner. A small snippet of the 13-minute film can be seen below. It depicted images of American couples in love, vast highways allowing citizens to get to their day jobs, and provided an insight into fashion, current technologies, eating habits and much more. At that time, before the introduction of the internet and commercialised flight travel, the only inkling the populations of both countries would have had of the lives of one another would have been through word of mouth or propaganda in the news. The film was to be broadcast onto no less than seven 9m圆m screens in Moscow, and its purpose was to show the people of Russia what life was like for their American counterparts (normal citizens like themselves). They became so well known for their ability to convey messages through films that the US government commissioned the Eames office (run by the pair) in 1959 to create a short film for the USSR-USA Cultural Exchange Program. They had a way of expressions ideas and opinions using the vehicle of film in a way that had never been done before. The pair tried their hand at film-making in 1950, and turned out to be extremely competent in the area to say the least. Ray, an incredibly talented artist and designer with a keen eye for colour.
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Charles, a handsome and hugely charismatic man who’s talents lay predominantly in architecture and design. There is no denying the fact that Charles and Ray Eames were one of the busiest and most influential couples of the 20th century when it comes to all things design.