IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
🕑 Added 2021-01-29 23:35:09 +0000 UTCWATCH THE VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/506259327/6e110a85ed
PASSWORD: blink
When we look up at night, the universe seems pretty quiet. Not a lot going on. But that perspective is an illusion; in reality, there are millions of world-shattering events happening every instant across the cosmos. This short film explores just how much is going on every moment in our ridiculously enormous universe.
In the fraction of a second it takes to blink your eyes, thousands of stars will be born, hundreds will explode and die, millions of planets will form, and our universe will expand by half a million kilometers in diameter.
And these numbers only account for the observable universe -- not for what could be happening beyond, where some scientists believe there could be an infinite expanse of space.
Think next time you blink.
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THANK YOU patrons for choosing this topic and supporting this short film! I've spent many weeks developing new visual techniques and I think they paid off. Your support helped me make it through this experimental phase. I hope you find it as mind-blowing as I have.
Please note that some of the statistics in this video are wild estimations, and in some cases could be off by orders of magnitude. For a list of sources see below.
Song and art downloads coming next week.
Special thanks to:
Franck Marchis, Avi Loeb, Juan Benet, Morrison Waud, Rowdy Jansen, & Tim Stupak
I plan to make this video public on YouTube on Feb. 9th, and will include all patrons whose rewards include credits in the video description then.
Peace and love,
melodysheep
Comments
Cecilia Maiorana
I am literally in tears because it's too beautiful
Chaos Penguin
The ethereal tone of your music is wonderful. Sound design is top notch as always. Fantastic video and I look forward to future ones! :D
Ilja Kocken
I really loved the bombastic regular beat drops that made me want to blink along :-)
That's how I explain the amusing and sometimes amazing art of flipping channels to other people. 1+ 1+ 1+ 1+ 1+ 1- 1+ 1- 1+ 1+ 1+ 1+ now I'm a content creator in real time.
John Boswell
I goes both ways -- sometimes I have a track I edit to, sometimes I have a rough edit that I sculpt a music track for. But for either case, there is a constant interplay between the edit and the music, each one evolving to fit the dynamics of the other.
I love it! Super interesting facts ♥♥ But as a fellow music producer - do you "hear" the music to your video production as you go along or do you have tracks ready beforehand? I assume you design the visuals before creating the music, yeah?
Makes me feel so small (which is a good thing). Awesome work!
Absolutely beautiful.
Awesome nebula shots! Love it.
Very impressive work! Your CGI shots are always amazing!
I think you should collab with Marshmellow
John Maier
Amazing, as always. Love the music and how it reinforces the awe and wonder of the universe. Perfect unison of art and science. Keep doing amazing things!
Leto
Just watched, such incredible video, really makes you think about your blink.
Leto
Oh heck! It's already out? You work fast! Now I got something to look forward to when I wake up!
John Boswell
Gah! I knew I would screw up something. Thanks for pointing this out, I will get it fixed. Good eye.
Dan Thomas
There's only so many times I can say great work! :) But I'll probably say it every time you create something new!
Great video! I noticed that the video states "[The Sun will] produce 961,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts of energy" (9.61 * 10 ^ 23 W), but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun, the Sun produces 3.846 * 10 ^ 26 W. In the blink of an eye, that's 3.846 * 10 ^ 26 W * 0.25 s = 9.615 * 10 ^ 25 J So I think the number in the video needs two more zeros, and it should be joules, not watts.
Jeff Munn
Beautiful as always. Your stuff is my gospel music.
As always I am impressed but not surprised by the quality of your work!
B.J. Tomiko
Freaking amazing, mind blown.
Appropriately short given the subject but still amazing!
This is just what I needed. I'm in the last year of a physics degree and was feeling quite disillusioned in general with it, doubting everything. But this? Yeah this is why it's all worth it. Isn't it a beautiful universe that we live in? Thank you! As always
Mind-blowing as ALWAYS!
Effing beautiful!
Gorgeous as always! And the music is stunning! The parallels to life beyond are cool and your style really cuts through :D love it!
Eric Malette
Goddamn John I loved this thank you
TacticalNewt
The production value of your videos is incredible keep up the amazing work
Bradley Gallant
Amazing as always. Loved how the soundtrack at the end started to sound a bit like the Life Beyond 2 soundtrack. Not sure if it was intentional, but it kinda makes you think about all the other things that take place among potential alien life/societies during those 0.25 seconds.
amazing idea and awesome video
Dharamjit
Great work!
Augustine Alvarado
*Proceeds to blink as much as possible*
So good🔥
NightDocs
Fantastic work
Zann
Yay! Thanks Sheep! Let’s get some popcorns and have fun.