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Slow slide show for a slippery snowy day
By roberta
February 10, 2010 · 3 Comments
From Culture Monster
The hypnotic video, “Things that Float” (see it after the jump or full screen at YouTube), is the creation of Stephen Nowlin, director for Art Center College of Design’s Williamson Gallery in Pasadena. It represents the first installment in a curated series organized by NASA Images, a division of the Internet Archive, which seeks to make public-domain pictures more accessible.
Nowlin said he created the video using the iMovie application on his Apple laptop.
The project is hosted on NASAImages.org
This is so beautiful — and the Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy is so sweetly sad — I cried. Be forewarned all you sentimentalists out there.
Tags: claire de lune, debussy, moon, nasa, space, stephen nowlin
Readers Comments (3)
I couldn’t agree more with you. This is a beauty and I already shared it through facebook and twitter. I wish more folks could see it. Some of the best things out there are for free and this is an excellent example. Thanks for spreading sharing your thoughts and feelings. I loved your quote!
well done! reminds me of the scenes in 2001 – A Space Odyssey where the shuttle is docking with the space station, set to Strauss’ Blue Danube Waltz. I remember a reviewer called it “the music of the spheres.”
Yes, it is like that scene in 2001–different music but same kind of awe-inspiring imagery. But Strauss’ music there is heroic and Debussy’s is melancholy, and so this slow movement of images adds up to a kind of elegy.