This is a very thought-provoking essay from SEED magazine worth a read. And it’s one of the first things I’ve come across that addresses the core themes in Outside In. It’s my view that answers, discoveries – actually even the right questions, are not to be found in the consumptive and internal/virtual angst-ing that [...]
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In 1966, another crazy guy (and I mean that it in a good way, like “the crazy guy making an IMAX film in his basement”) started a public campaign to get NASA to release a rumored satellite photograph of the whole earth. This guy, Stewart Brand, actually made a quite a stir with his [...] Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics (1949) #7: “Too Much Data” If you recall from reason #5, “a 5.6k IMAX image at 32-bit color will contain 752,640,000 bits of data or nearly 1 Gb (gigabyte) for each frame.” In non-technobabble that means the finished film [...] Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu #6: “Space Cams are too small” So, this one does not sound nearly as dramatic as “It’s impossible!”. But actually, it’s a bigger deal. It seems like a great idea on paper to use the images from space missions to animate in [...] NASA does very cool things like repairing Hubble and of course the Cassini mission, Mars Rovers and more. But one of the initial inspirations behind “Outside In” was NASA’s very lame “Why Saturn” page from several years ago at the beginning of the mission. I can’t find it now, they have at least improved [...] I’m currently working on downloading new images to update the Zeitgeist image database. The database has images based on Google’s Zeitgeist (and other sources) that reflect what images people are interested in over time. These images are building blocks for several sections of “Outside In” – right now there are about 30,000 images in [...] Whenever I show footage, invariably I get the question “Are you making this on a Mac?” or even more pointed “So, you are making this on Mac, right?”. What’s interesting about this question is that it’s both irrelevant and reveals more about the person asking the question than whatever my answer might reveal about [...] The original tagline to “Outside In” was “context is everything“. This was from the original dialogue based version of the film long before it was going to be an giant screen IMAX film. The dialogue is long done, over a dozen drafts ago and the original teaser trailer that had the line of dialogue [...] This, or some variation like “so when will it be done” is the most common question I get about “Outside In“. And it’s understandable – that’s what I wonder about as well with other film projects. But having just completed Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project, it does seem reasonable for people to ask “how [...] A big part of “Outside In” deals with the spiritual, physical and environmental impact of the lost dark night sky, full of stars, above us each night. It impacts everything from our beliefs about ourselves to animal behavior. This is a great, must-read article about how much of the whole planet see near nothing [...] |
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