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Heavenly Fire
I love making films about beautiful things in the natural world. Visually stunning creations that take your breath away. During the past 36 years I’ve had more than my fair share of opportunities.
The images are seared into my memory: a sunrise over the Grand Tetons on a crystal clear February morning; 10,000 Monarch butterflies flashing their orange and black wings in a Mexican forest; a river filled with brilliant red Sockeye salmon fighting their
David and the Pale Blue Dot
A few months back I received an email from a friend of a friend. It contained a link to a YouTube video that had generated more than two million views. When I clicked play the content was immediately familiar to me. Astronomer Carl Sagan was reciting his famous ode to the “Pale Blue Dot.”
During a lecture at Cornell University in 1994, Sagan reflected on the philosophical implications of a picture
How Many Stars?
In 1982, I saw a short film that offered a well-reasoned attempt to answer a timeless question: How many stars are there in the universe? It was fascinating and unforgettable. I remember thinking that someday I’d like to make a film like that. Thirty-six years later someday finally arrived.
During the past six weeks, Jerry Harned and I have been working on a new five-minute video. In it we try to calculate the star population of the