So whatever the era and whatever the means, I think the film retains a modernity still today. Now it's handily available for your viewing pleasure online. On a very clunky film projector, I remember quite well. And I think every American science teacher of the era screened it in their class, too. It's a film adaptation of the book Cosmic View, written by the Dutch educator Kees Boeke in 1957. It's called Powers of Ten and was written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1968, later re-released in 1977. If you are of a certain generation (namely the one called X), which is to say a school kid of the 1970s, then you're probably familiar with this short film. But that said, I do have a little something to share today, and hopefully so much more soon enough.
Well, in my defense, I did start a new job and I'm also in the early throws of a workshop dedicated to prodding its participants into producing a very rough, book-length manuscript in thirty days time. That I can hardly put out a blog entry in thirty days leads me of course to question what I was thinking. I pretty much abhor a blog post that starts with 'Sorry I haven't been on lately.' and yet here I am practicing what I preach (against).
