Saturday, March 19, 2022

Videos: NASA / Hubble Sounds of the Universe plus TED Talk: "What does the universe sound like?"

 


TED Talk: Whats does the universe sound like? Musical Tour

Is outer space really the silent and lifeless place it's often depicted to be? Perhaps not. Astrophysicist and musician Matt Russo takes us on a journey through the cosmos, revealing the hidden rhythms and harmonies of planetary orbits. The universe is full of music, he says -- we just need to learn how to hear it.

Website: System Sounds

Website : My Starry Night

Video: Youtube Channel

NASA Sounds of the Universe

Video: Sounds of the Sun

Video: Space Sounds

Video: Sonification of a Hubble Deep Space Image

Art Video : Hubble's UItra Deep Field in 3D is an amazing journey through space and time



Video: Sonification of the Bubble Nebula





In this Hubble image, a super-hot, massive star is blowing an enormous bubble into space. 

Bubble Nebula, a beautiful cosmic object is roughly seven light-years across and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth. 


Scanned from top to bottom, color is mapped-to-pitch in this sonification of the nebula. 

The bright blue of the bubble can be heard as higher pitches; the red and orange regions’ lower pitches are heard most clearly at the beginning on the left and in the top half of the bubble in the middle.

Brightness controls the volume and stars are represented by chimes.

Instagram : systemssounds






Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Building a Quantum Internet (using Photons)


Video "How do you build a quantum internet with the same latency as our current internet?" 

Michele Reilly is a mathematician addressing questions in quantum physics. She is the founder of Turing Inc. - Turing is developing portable quantum hard drives.

Today's best proposals for doing so (Quantum Satellites and Quantum Repeaters, i.e. sending photons through fiber optical cables) do not have this feature. That is essential for the technology to be meaningful for future adoption. 
 Other questions discussed and addressed in this video from Foresight Institute
- Error correction results 
- Digital error correction i.e. what's the difference between error correction and error suppression. 
- Quantum memory times. 
- Qubit Resource comparisons between quantum memories made by Turing with running quantum algorithms. 
- What will it take to make this a real industry? 
- Why Amazon Benchmark's model is not your friend. 

Speaker Info:
Michele Reilly is an entrepreneur, mathematician, and philosopher of science. She is the inventor of real-time information processing methods for quantum computers and a set of quantum instructions in firmware which control input and output operations. Reilly developed a mathematical theory called Quantum Computational Epistemology. It was first introduced at Princeton University on December 1, 2018. There, she critiqued the views of Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom for failing to update towards a "post-Church-Turing-Deutsch" metaphysics. 

Quote: Michele Reilly
 "...the prospect of generally intelligent algorithms finding (i.e. simulating) one another, in a universe like ours, may actually necessitate quantum algorithms―or at the very least―reversible-in-time computational processes, requiring access to a possibly infinite amount of computation." 

Reilly was an early adopter of blockchain technology in 2010 and Chief Investment Officer for renown trader Victor Niederhoffer, the so-called father of Statistical Arbitrage and Market Microstructure Studies. 

On January 15, 2015, she was a leading participant and then signatory on the Future of Life Institute's Open Letter for Artificial Intelligence when Elon Musk committed $10 million to fund a global AI research endeavor.

Monday, June 4, 2018

Videos of Deep Field Space by NASA + Hubble Telescope in 360, Zoom-in and Flythrough photography


About these NASA videos: Start by watching this short film which explains how Deep Space Extreme Deep Feld data is captured, photographed and made into videos.

Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time  (2:52 minutes)
This award-winning short film transforms images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into a voyage that sweeps viewers across the universe and back into cosmic history. 

The film opens with looming images of two mature galaxies that are relatively nearby Earth, and then pans through the vibrant and diverse panorama of thousands of galaxies in an image from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. 

The ensuing 3-D journey through these galaxies provides more than just a new perspective in space; it also takes the audience back in time.

Because light takes time to journey across space, the galaxies farther away from Earth are seen further back in cosmic history. 

The virtual voyage reveals galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago, when they were still in the process of forming. 

Originally released as an IMAX film, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time" was named "Best Short Film" of 2004 by the Large Format Cinema Association. 

A production of the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

Flight Through Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light (2 minutes)
This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The contrast between visible and infrared views of the nebula is examined using two spatially matched, three-dimensional models. As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views.

Lagoon Nebula Zoom and Flythrough (2 minutes) This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge.

Zoom-in to the Pleiades (13 seconds)
This video begins with a ground-based image of the Pleiades. It zooms into Merope, eventually settling on Hubble’s image of the reflection nebula that is being destroyed by the star’s radiation.

Vision Across the Full Spectrum: The Crab Nebula, from Radio to X-ray (1:12 minute)
The Crab Nebula (Messier 1) is the remnant of a supernova that exploded in the year 1054 AD. This mysterious “new star,” as early skywatchers called it, was observed around the world and most notably recorded by Chinese astronomers. The supernova was triggered when the progenitor star abruptly collapsed onto its iron core, and rebounded to expel most of its layers of gas into a blast wave. This wave is seen as an optical and infrared set of filaments that continues to impact surrounding material. This material was expelled from the dying red giant progenitor star 20,000 years prior to the supernova. The ultra-dense remnant core, called a neutron star, is crushed to the size of a city. Spinning furiously, the neutron star sends out twin beams of radiation, like a lighthouse. A lot of this energy comes from the neutron star’s intense magnetic fields. The initial radio image (from the Very Large Array Radio Telescope) shows the cool gas and dust blown out by the supernova winds. The infrared (Spitzer) image shows synchrotron radiation, an unusual form of light produced by electrons trapped in magnetic fields. The infrared image also shows hot gas. The visible-light image (Hubble) shows the detailed filamentary structure of the blast wave as it impacts the surrounding material. The ultraviolet image (XMM-Newton) shows hot, ionized gas. Finally, the X-ray emission (Chandra) from high-energy particles ejected from the pulsar shows the expanding nebula. The bipolar structure represents a powerful jet of material funneled along the neutron star’s spin axis.

Colliding Galaxies (48 seconds)
NGC 2207 is a pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Their bright central nuclei resemble a striking set of eyes. In visible light, trails of stars and gas trace out spiral arms, stretched by the tidal pull between the galaxies. When seen in infrared light (IR), the glow of warm dust appears. This dust is the raw material for the creation of new stars and planets. Complementary to the IR, the X-ray view reveals areas of active star formation and the birth of super star clusters. Though individual stars are too far apart to collide, the material between the stars merges to create high-density pockets of gas. These regions gravitationally collapse to trigger a firestorm of starbirth. The galaxy collision will go on for several millions of years, leaving the galaxies completely altered in terms of their shapes.

HH 901: Pillars in the Carina Nebula (36 seconds)
Herbig Haro 901 is an immense pillar of gas and dust inside the Carina Nebula, a huge star-forming region in our galaxy. The pillar is several light-years tall and contains a few massive young stars. They shoot out powerful jets that emerge from the cloud. In some cases, the jets create bow-shock patterns similar to the effects of a ship plowing through the ocean. In the visible-light view, very few stars can be seen because the gas and dust block starlight. But in the infrared view, stars become visible and numerous. The visible-light colors emerge from the glow of different gases: oxygen (blue), hydrogen/nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The Carina Nebula is approximately 7,500 light years from Earth.

Exploring Turbulent Space Around Earth (10 seconds)
Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment — the magnetosphere — shown here in blue, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. As the particles flow around Earth’s magnetosphere, it forms a highly turbulent boundary layer called the magnetosheath, shown in yellow. Scientists, like those involved with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, are studying this turbulent region to help us learn more about our dynamic space environment.

Zoom in to Globular Star Cluster NGC 6397 (21 seconds)
This video zooms into a Hubble Space Telescope view of globular star cluster NGC 6397. This ancient stellar jewelry box, a globular cluster called NGC 6397, glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of stars. The new measurement sets the cluster's distance at 7,800 light-years away, with just a 3 percent margin of error. NGC 6397 is one of the closest globular clusters to Earth.

Zoom Inside the Heart of the Trifid Nebula (26 seconds)
The video zooms into Hubble’s image of the heart of the Trifid Nebula. The zoom starts by looking at the Sagittarius constellation in the night sky and dissolves into the Lagoon Nebula. The video then goes deeper into the sky to show the Trifid Nebula, with the star birth region appearing as the final spectacular image.

Zoom into Spiral Galaxy M83 (50 seconds)

Zoom into an Infrared 3D Visualization of the Horsehead Nebula (53 seconds)

Hubble Extreme Deep Field Pushes Back Frontiers of Time and Space (2 minutes)
This video explains how astronomers meticulously assembled mankind's deepest view of the universe from combining Hubble Space Telescope exposures taken over the past decade.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Video documentary "Rising Voices / Hótȟaŋiŋpi - Revitalizing the Lakota Language"


Watch "Rising Voices / Hótȟaŋiŋpi - Revitalizing the Lakota Language" (57 minutes 2016)
Award-winning documentary movie which profiles the history of Lakota cultural identity changes tied to the Lakota language's loss, reinvigoration and revitalization. "Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi" aired on public television across the USA. Story wise this film supports our ancient voices being heard, and respected, in present time. The documentary covers the Lakota people's cultural history, cultural identity, impact of manufactured pop culture on public image and cultural appropriation trends. The Lakota language was also severely impacted due to the deliberate post-colonization language erasure in the residential school system and popular mass media business. This story tells of the challenges and fight to revitalize the Lakota language before the Elders pass, and the children grow up without their language. Our world thrives at it's depth through ancient languages gifting cultural diversity.

Watch the short film "Tradition Transformation" by Lakota filmmaker Dana Claxton.


Florentine Films/Hott Productions, in association with The Language Conservancy, presents this new documentary project: "Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi". Five years in the making, this multi-platform project tells the story of a powerful threat to a Native culture. This threat is an insidious, impersonal villain – one that comes through TV sets and social media sites, through Tweets and comic strips and the daily news. The menace is the English language, and the victim seemingly marked for extinction is the Lakota language itself – the language of the Lakota nation, once usually called the Sioux. For the Lakota people, it’s a local problem, but it’s just one instance of a massive global one – a worldwide epidemic of language extinction.





Saturday, July 29, 2017

Video animated short: "Cosmos Laundromat"


Watch "Cosmos Laundromat" (12 min 2016)
On a desolate island, suicidal sheep Franck meets his fate in a quirky salesman, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. Little does he know that he can only handle so much lifetime.


About: "Cosmos Laundromat" started in 2014 as an experimental feature film, in which an adventurous and absurdist love story is being told by multiple teams - each working in their own unique style. The opening of the film, the 10 minutes pilot "First Cycle", has been made in the Netherlands by the studio of Blender Institute in Amsterdam. The film itself and all of the artwork files were made with free/open source software and are available under a permissive license. Free to share, free to remix and free to learn
ABOUT the filmmaking TEAM
PRODUCTION WEBSITE



Monday, June 26, 2017

Video Short Documentary: 4.1 Miles by Daphne Matziaraki (Winner of 2017 Student Oscar Academy Award and 2017 British Academy BAFTA Student Award for Best Documentary)



Watch full documentary "4.1 Miles" by Daphne Matziaraki (2016 21 minutes)
A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea. Daphne Matziaraki is a Greek documentary filmmaker who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her student documentary has won multiple international awards.  Watch the Trailer

The story of her documentary by Daphne Matziaraki 
(as published in the New York Times Op-Docs forum for short documentaries
"When I returned home to Greece last fall to make a film about the refugee crisis, I discovered a situation I had never imagined possible. The turquoise sea that surrounds the beautiful Greek island of Lesbos, just 4.1 miles from the Turkish coast, is these days a deadly gantlet, choked with terrified adults and small children on flimsy, dangerous boats. I had never seen people escaping war before, and neither had the island’s residents. I couldn’t believe there was no support for these families to safely escape whatever conflict had caused them to flee. The scene was haunting.

Regardless of the hardship Greeks have endured from the financial crisis, for a long time my home country has by and large been a peaceful, safe and easy place to live. But now Greece is facing a new crisis, one that threatens to undo years of stability, as we struggle to absorb the thousands of desperate migrants who pour across our borders every day. A peak of nearly 5,000 entered Greece each day last year, mainly fleeing conflicts in the Middle East.

The Greek Coast Guard, especially when I was there, has been completely unprepared to deal with the constant flow of rescues necessary to save refugees from drowning as they attempt to cross to Europe from Turkey. When I was there filming, Lesbos had about 40 local coast guard officers, who before the refugee crisis generally spent their time conducting routine border patrols. Most didn’t have CPR training. Their vessels didn’t have thermal cameras or any equipment necessary for tremendous emergencies.


Suddenly, the crew was charged with keeping the small bit of water they patrolled from becoming a mass grave. Each day, thousands of refugees crossed the water on tiny, dangerous inflatable rafts. Most of the passengers, sometimes including whoever was operating the boat, had never seen the sea. Often a motor would stall and passengers would be stranded for hours, floating tenuously on a cold, volatile sea. Or the bottom of a dinghy would simply tear away and all the passengers would be cast into the water. The coast guard felt completely abandoned, they told me, as if the world had left them to handle a huge humanitarian crisis — or allow thousands to drown offshore.

I followed a coast guard captain for three weeks as he pulled family after family, child after child, from the ocean and saved their lives. All the ones in this film were shot on a single day, October 28, 2015. Two additional rescues happened that same day but were not included.

 The problem is far from over. Many of the refugees come from Syria, where Russia is intensifying bombings that are killing thousands of civilians and devastating Syrian cities. The United States is planning to respond. According to the Greek Coast Guard, thousands of families with children are lining up along Turkish shores to make the unsafe crossing to Greece.

In making this film, I was struck by the fine lines that separate us, the moments when our paths cross fleetingly, and we look at one another for the first time and sometimes for the last. This film shows that crucial moment between life and death, where regardless of political beliefs, fears or preparation, some people will go beyond themselves to save a stranger.

And it raises questions about our collective responsibility — the choices we all make for ourselves, and for others. We don’t all confront the refugee crisis with the same immediacy as the coast guard captain portrayed here. But as our world becomes more interconnected, and more violent, we do all face a choice — would we act as he does, to save the life of stranger? Or would we turn away?"
by Daphne Matziaraki 
(as published in the New York Times Op-Docs forum for short documentaries


Awards 
(website list is not up to date does not include the 2017 Student Oscar and the 2017 BAFTA Student Award for Best Documentary)


Saturday, February 25, 2017

Video short documentary: International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) "Meet the youth at the heart of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline" by ABC News




The International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) seeks to empower youth to become leaders of their indigenous communities. Through action and ceremony, the IIYC inspires generations of today to progress humanity forward, taking into consideration the implications our society has on those future generations. The IIYC acts in alignment with the following virtues: Perseverance, Respect, Love, Sacrifice, Truth, Compassion, Bravery, and Wisdom. The International Indigenous Youth Council was formed at and in response to the call of Youth from the Sacred Stone Camp resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Article "Meet the youth at the heart of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline"


Thursday, November 3, 2016

Video full animated Film: The Secret Path and animated short film The Stranger by Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire about Chanie Wenjack



Watch Full Animated Film "The Secret Path" (60 minutes Oct 2016) 
Adapted from Gord Downie’s album and Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel, "The Secret Path" chronicles the heartbreaking story of Chanie Wenjack’s residential school experience and subsequent death as he escapes and attempts to walk 600 km home to his family. Full animated film screening (first 60 minutes), then watching continues with a post-show CBC Arts live panel discussion "On the Road to Reconciliation" (beginning at the 59:45 minute mark)

Watch “The Stranger” by Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire about Chanie Wenjack (6 minutes Oct 2016) 
The first full chapter and song of "The Secret Path".


After Canada's "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" report came the recommendations on how to heal Canada, inclusive of all Canadians, for the healing of all Canadians. A whole country is a healthy country. 

The Truth and Reconcilation Commission is closed, after honourably serving it's purpose of taking First Nations and non-native testimony then recommending nation-wide next steps to be taken by all citizens (for their own personal healing). 

The next step of Canada's nation-wide healing. 


Gord Downie (1964-2017) talks about his cross-country tour, and why he's focusing on First Nations issues. 

A National Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support to former students. This 24-Hour Crisis Line can be accessed at: 1-866-925-4419







Saturday, March 26, 2016

Video short animation "The Looking Planet" by Eric Law Anderson


"The Looking Planet" by Eric Law Anderson (16:40 min, 2015) During the construction of the universe, a young spacetime engineer decides to break some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression. Winner of 55 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Design, and more.
Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube
Filmmaker's Website
Spanish version El Planeta que mira
French version La Planète Qui Regarde
Chinese version 星視界



Watch "Horses On Mars" by Eric Law Anderson (7:27 min, 2014)
Four billion years ago a microbe is blasted into outer space by a meteor impact and takes a journey across time and space. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival. Best Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and more than 25 other awards. Music by Liquid Mind.











Monday, August 3, 2015

Video short animation: "The Alchemist's Letter" directed by Andre Stevens



Watch "The Alchemist's Letter" (5:17 min, 2015) on the filmmaker's Vimeo Channel
Directed by Carlos Andre Stevens, "The Alchemist’s Letter" is a visually rich, darkly inventive animated fairy tale starring two-time Academy Award® nominee John Hurt (V for Vendetta, Alien, Hellboy, The Elephant Man, Midnight Express) and Eloise Webb (Cinderella, The Iron Lady). The filmmaker raised funds to make this film via launching an internet Kickstarter campaign. I suggest if you want to share this film, but do not want to share via forwarding my post, then PLEASE do NOT use the YouTube link to share - USE the FILMMAKER'S VIMEO CHANNEL link. The YouTube link is only provided in case you live in a region where Vimeo is difficult or impossible to watch. It is challenging to raise money to Make Art, so support the maker Artist by promoting the Artist and their Art. Filmmaker's Website with Credits, Downloads and "Making Of"

YouTube lower resolution (not Filmmaker's link). USE ONLY if Vimeo does not play in your region

Watch "Toumai", the filmmaker's 2008 debut film, a Student Academy Award® nominee