True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames
Their ingenious Powers of Ten film which zips you through the universe in
ten-fold scale jumps is justly famous. Not as well known are their other
short films which exhibit their pioneering sensibility (now mainstream):
the marriage of technology and design. Try the Eames’ short ode to toy
trains, a review of their early industrial-chic home, and a Mathematics
Peep Show, among others. All reward re-watching.
With Charles Eames
and Ray Eames
2000, 6 Volumes
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
A wonderfully charming
view of toy trains (top).
Overhead shot of a
picnic, then the same
view 10 times higher
in the fantastic Powers
of Ten. A kaleidoscopic
view of the Eames’
metal chair (left). One
slide (bottom) in their
atlas of power timeline
for Europe shows how
power flows and ebbs in
history.
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