{"id":911,"date":"2006-06-23T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/06\/a_massive_dose_of_perspective\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T14:33:47","slug":"a_massive_dose_of_perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/a_massive_dose_of_perspective.php","title":{"rendered":"A massive dose of perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need a new sense of where you are in the universe (a common need for a Friday), just take nine minutes to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4i6B7HzijSo&#038;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Finfosthetics%2Ecom%2Farchives%2F2006%2F06%2Fthe%5Fpowers%5Fof%5F10%2Ehtml\">Powers of Ten<\/a>, the classic instructional film that&#8217;s finally available on the web.<\/p>\n<p>The film, created in 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames, begins with an image of a man sleeping on a picnic blanket, then zooms back by increasing powers of ten into the universe. Then it descends by powers of ten into the subatomic structure of his hand. It&#8217;s a massive dose of perspective for those fretting over tiny little issues like multi-million-dollar performance halls, exhibition halls, and capital campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The film has had a profound impact on viewers for almost three decades now &#8212; it even has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powersof10.com\/\">its own web site<\/a>, poster, and national celebration day. Trust me. It&#8217;s worth nine minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need a new sense of where you are in the universe (a common need for a Friday), just take nine minutes to watch Powers of Ten, the classic instructional film that&#8217;s finally available on the web. The film, created in 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames, begins with an image of a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}