http://www.dankohn.com/archives/330 Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:04:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dankohn.com/archives/330#comment-40 Eiji Hirai Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:28:37 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/330#comment-40 This reminds me of the excellent CGI sequence at the start of Contact <a href="http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html" rel="nofollow">http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html</a> the Robert Zemeckis film based on Carl Sagan's novel. The sequence is a pan out from Earth amidst a cacophony of radio and television noise, and the further we pan out, the further back in broadcast history we go and the less you hear. We also pan past various landmarks in the universe like the Oort cloud, past the Horsehead Nebula and past the local group of galaxies, as if we're interactively moving through images of the Hubble Deep Field, <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html</a> . Very nice. This reminds me of the excellent CGI sequence at the start of Contact http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html the Robert Zemeckis film based on Carl Sagan’s novel. The sequence is a pan out from Earth amidst a cacophony of radio and television noise, and the
further we pan out, the further back in broadcast history we go and the less you hear. We also pan past various landmarks in the universe like the Oort cloud, past the Horsehead Nebula and past the local group of galaxies, as if we’re interactively moving through images of the Hubble Deep Field, http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html . Very nice.

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