In Progress
To Scale: TIME
BROADWELL LAKE BED, CALIFORNIA
The next episode of the To Scale: films, TIME seeks to reveal the astonishing depth of cosmic history, and present the most comprehensive, understandable, and accurate illustration of the evolution of the universe put to film.
2018
A New View of the Moon
Los Angeles, California
One warm summer evening I found myself bored at home. Then I noticed the moon was out. I rolled my telescope into my apartment elevator and took it out to the sidewalk. Soon, a young couple walked up, clearly curious, and asked to look through it. Their incredulous reaction and expressions of awe over seeing the moon brought close was a joy to watch. I thought to myself, hey, maybe there’s a good short film here. And there was.
2017
Go See This Eclipse
Mojave desert, California
On August 17th, 2017, North America saw its first total solar eclipse in nearly forty years. This short film, put together in a mad rush in the weeks prior to that event, sought to reveal the mechanics and scale of a total solar eclipse, and and encouraged viewers to find a way to stand in the path of totality.
2015
To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Black rock desert, nevada
In the summer of 2014, I had an idea. By the fall, I’d figured out how to create this idea, and lassoed some friends to help. And this is how, over the last few days in October of that year, on the cold, empty lake bed of Black Rock Desert, we constructed the first scale model of our solar system with complete planetary orbits. After a year of work, the film of that endeavor was released a year later in September of 2015.
Making the Solar System
Black rock desert, nevada
This behind-the-scenes film gives a peak at how we built our solar system model.