nicholas latkovic

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Editing: Michael König.

Featured music:

Jelinek, Jan. “Do Dekor”. Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records. Efa Imports, 2001.

“I had no ripple of the fabric — my pressure suit. I had no visual reference of anything, so I thought I really was suspended in space. We really don’t appreciate what a beautiful planet we have.”

- Joseph Kittinger

The giant impact hypothesis proposes that the Moon was created out of the debris left over from a collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body. This is the favored scientific hypothesis for the formation of the Moon. Evidence for this hypothesis includes Moon samples which indicate the surface of the Moon was once molten, the Moon’s apparently relatively small iron core and a lower density than the Earth, and evidence of similar collisions in other star systems (which result in debris disks).

Featured music:

Murphy, John. “In the House – In a Heartbeat”. 28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album. 2003.

In fluid dynamics, gravity waves are waves generated in a fluid medium or at the interface between two media (e.g., the atmosphere and the ocean) which has the restoring force of gravity or buoyancy.

Human Planet. Nar. John Hurt. Pro. Brian Leith and Dale Templar. BBC One: United Kingdom. 13 Jan 2011.

Featured music:

Zimmer, Hans. “Dream is Collapsing”. Inception (Music from the Motion Picture). Reprise, 2010.

Life out of balance.

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music, composed by Phillip Glass.

The film debuted on October 4, 1982 with more than 5,000 people filling Radio City Music Hall to experience a film unlike any before.