Two of my personal favorite and inspirational (to my own art & design work) designers of the 20th century are Charles & Ray Eames. I absolutely feel in love with their short documentary / art piece Powers of Ten while attending Art School, which lead me to explore there entire body of work. This morning I had a thought come to mind which made me think of this film, so where better to share it then Steemit. I included a short write up from their official website explaining the film. Enjoy! 

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

# Powers of Ten #

Powers of Ten is one of the Eameses’ best-known films. Since it was produced in 1977, it has been seen by millions of people both nationally and internationally. As with A Communication Primer and 2n (a 2-minute Peep Show from the exhibition, Mathematica), in this film, Charles and Ray employed the system of exponential powers to visualize the importance of scale.

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When the Eameses came across the 1957 book by Kees Boeke, Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps, they decided to use it as the basis of a film investigating the relative size of things and the significance of adding a zero to any number.

Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. It begins with a close-up shot of a man sleeping near the lakeside in Chicago, viewed from one meter away. The landscape steadily moves out until it reveals the edge of the known universe. Then, at a rate of 10-to-the-tenth meters per second, the film takes us towards Earth again, continuing back to the sleeping man’s hand and eventually down to the level of a carbon atom. 

In 1998, Powers of Ten was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

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Learn about the importance of Powers-of-Ten thinking <a href='http://www.eamesoffice.com/education/powers-of-ten-2/'>here</a>.

9 MINUTES.  COLOR.

SOURCE - http://www.eamesoffice.com

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