Our Story

the video above is inspired from the video below. both worth watching

video 1:

A tapestry of footage tracing the cosmic and biological origins of our species, set to original music. mp3: melodysheep.bandcamp.com/track/our-story

Video sources:

• Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
• Do We Really Need the Moon? BBC
• How Planet Earth Was Made
• David Attenborough’s First Life
• Dinosaurs Alive
• Journey to the Edge of the Universe
• Last Day of the Dinosaurs
• Walking With Cavemen
• Human Planet
• Mankind: The Story of All of Us
• Hubble Ultra Deep Field
• Wonders of the Universe
• Quest for Fire
• Baraka
• The Tree of Life

video 2:

“My final project I made for my video productions class “Cutaway Productions” at my high school. I don’t own the rights to the song or the pictures and I am not trying to claim them, I just did this video for fun and i spent many a hour on it.” drivinman687

Song: Mind Heist (yes it is from Inception)
by: Zack Hemsey

Pictures: from all over the internet

some of the space pictures, are made by the digital artist “antifanfan”

Grounded

by Kevin Margo

“One astronaut’s journey through space and life ends on a hostile exosolar planet. Grounded is a metaphorical account of the experience, inviting unique interpretation and reflection by the viewer. Themes of aging, inheritance, paternal approval, cyclic trajectories, and behaviors passed on through generations are explored against an ethereal backdrop.  About this Tip Jar - Did Grounded inspire you? My dad’s life inspired me and his death inspired Grounded. 100% proceeds of this Tip Jar (note vimeo’s 15% service fee) goes to the American Cancer Society in memory of Paul Vincent Margo. Or donate yourself to www.cancer.org “

Kevin’s website / Grounded website / Credits

Celestial Lights

a video by Ole C. Salomonsen

“auroras are caused by solar activity. This is shortly visualized in the video. Our suns activity varies in 11 year cycles, and we are closing solar maximum (solar max) for our current solar cycle somewhere between 2012-2013, and solar activity has clearly been picking up. The beginning of 2011 was lots of clouds but weather improved late 2011 and out 2012. This video contains recordings from some of the most spectacular auroral displays I have ever witnessed, and I have seen a few.

For this video I did shoot approx 150.000 exposures from sept.2011 - april.2012 using Canon DSLR’s and various wide angle lenses. Approx 6.000 frames in this video. To achieve pannings I used the fantastic Stage Zero + MX2 controller time-lapse gear from Dynamic Perception.

The video is a merge of two parts; the first part contains some more wild and aggressive auroras, as well as a few milky way sequences, hence either auroras are moving fast because they are, or they are fast due to motion of the milky way / stars. Still, some of the strait up shots are very close to real-time speed, although auroras mostly are slower, she can also be FAST! The second part has some more slow and majestic auroras, where I have focused more on composition and foreground. The music should give you a clear indication of where you are…” more

The Most Astounding Fact

by Max Schlickenmeyer

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.

the videos and photos combined in filmmaker’s work are from NASA, BBC and other…

follow this link for more info about this video and credits

gazette-ic:

PULL

is a second year animation project by Eleanor Michalka