On a trip, you take many photographs (10+3) on your digital camera. You can delete the bad ones (10+2) and download the good ones (10+2) onto your laptop. Then you decide to post one image (100) on the web. 72 ppi (pixels per inch) is still the standard size for posting an image on the [...]
Wherever you (100) live becomes your community (10+3). If you are fortunate, you are surrounded by choices (10+4) and you are making selections (10+2) all the time. But what happens if there are too many barriers? A feeling of cultural isolation from the community can develop. Art can bridge that gap between an individual and [...]
A view from above of the picnic set-up from the 1977 production of Powers of Ten. The site of the picnic, a golf course in Florida in the 1968 film, has been moved to a park on Lake Michigan in Chicago. The journey out into the cosmos follows a perpendicular line from the hand of [...]
Eames Office staff members Alex Funke, assisted by Michael Weiner, shot Powers of Ten (1977), frame-by-frame, over the course of a year on a forty-foot-long animation stand. In the book, Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1982), by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison and the Office of Charles and [...]
Eames Office staff members Parke Meek and Dick Donges in action measuring the 10 meter square frame for the 10+01 shot for Rough Sketch, 1968.
From the Eames Office archives in Santa Monica, a production image from Powers of Ten–Charles Eames shooting the hand of the sleeping man at the picnic. Paul Bruhwiler, at the Office of Charles and Ray Eames from 1967-1968, was the man in Powers of Ten: A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the [...]
So here is my world and where my concentration on the Powers will fall – while not exact in the scale of things, I spend a lot of time thinking about and working in about 10-2of the real world. In my hobby world a 6 foot tall human is about 1.8cm. Part of what we do [...]