The SoundWorks crew explores the sound of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi film Interstellar. First, a video interview with supervising sound editor and sound designer Richard King about the mix, sound design and foley aspects. To follow that, a conversation with composer Hans Zimmer about the very intentional approach to the sound, his collaboration with the crew and how they recorded a pipe organ at the Temple Church in London.
The Making Of The Big Sound Of Interstellar
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If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
We came across this interactive infographic by Josh Worth which he calls a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system and it’s totally worth your time if you have a few minutes to get scrolling.
Amazing Images Of Saturn’s Giant Hurricane Vortex: 20x Bigger Than Average Earth Hurricane
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.
In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles [2,000 kilometers] wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph [150 meters per second]. The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.
The Sound & Music Of Oblivion
This one’s for the audio and cinema nerds.
Get a great behind the scenes tour of the making of the sound and vision for the new film Oblivion. SoundWorks talks with director Joe Kosinski who was also the director behind 2010′s TRON: Legacy and if you see Oblivion, you’ll see the stylistic similarities. Also featured in the video are composer Joseph Trapanese, M83′s Anthony Gonzalez, re-recording mixer Gary Rizzo and re-recording mixer Juan Peralta.
Meteor Hits Russia: See The Amazing Crowdsourced Video
One of the largest astral events to strike planet earth in a century happened today in Russia, in the Ural Mountains region striking in the city of Chelyabinsk and surrounding areas. This meteor, a blazing fireball, entered the atmosphere moving at 40,0000 MPH and now a thousand people are reportedly injured and several buildings have been damaged.
The Universe Is Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Big
How big is the universe compared to a grain of sand? It may be difficult for the human brain to understand just how vast the universe is but let’s try to put things in perspective a bit.