A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. With thanks to Emm Gryner, Jim Corcoran, Andrew Tidby and Evan Hadfield for all their hard work. Find out more: Twitter: twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield Facebook: www.facebook.com/AstronautChrisHadfield?fref=ts Google+: plus.google.com/113978637743265603454/posts/p/pub
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Commander Chris Hadfield has made his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, shot and recorded on the International Space Station.
I am so blown away by this guy: photographer, creative as all get out, funny, an ASTRONAUT, doing it all from his tin can. Bad ass!
All Time-lapse sequences were taken by the astronaunts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) (Thanks guys for making this available to the public for use!) All footage has been color graded, denoised, deflickered, slowed down and stabilized by myself. Clips were then complied and converted to 1080 HD at 24 frames/sec. Some interesting tidbits about the ISS. It orbits the planet about once every 90 mins and is about 350 Km/217 miles. The yellow/greenish line that you see over the earth is Airgolw. Hope you all enjoy it and thanks for watching! P.S. It would be a dream to actually be up there in the ISS. Btw NASA, if you need a Biochemistry Ph.D to do some work for you up there, I’m your man, LOL! Music: "Manhatta" composed & performed by “The Cinematic Orchestra” https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cinematic-orchestra-presents/id527221766 All rights reserved to their respective owners. Edited by: Bruce W. Berry @ Website: http://www.bruce-wayne-photography.com/ Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth eol.jsc.nasa.gov http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/ nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ Footage Note: The slower video represents a closer resemblance to the true speed of the International Space Station; this footage was shot at one frame per second. Clips are all marked with an *. Locations of Footage in the order they appear: 1. A Jump over the Terminator 2. Sarychev Volcano 3. From Turkey to Iran* 4. Hurricane Irene Hits the US 5. Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean Through the Cupola* 6. Central Great Plains at Night* 7. Aurora Borealis over the North Atlantic Ocean* 8. Aurora Borealis from Central U.S.* 9. Up the East Coast of North America* 10. Myanmar to Malaysia* 11. Western Europe to Central India 12. Middle East to the South Pacific Ocean 13. Aurora Borealis over Europe* 14. City Lights over Middle East* 15. European City Lights* 16. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night 17. Moonglow over Canada and Northern U.S.* 18. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (1) 19. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (2) 20. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (3) 21. Stars and the Milky Way over the Atlantic* 22. The Milky Way and Storms over Africa (1) 23. The Milky Way and Storms over Africa (2)
This Hi-Def timelapse of Earth from the International Space Station not only makes gorgeous use of publicly available photography, but photographer Bruce W. Berry brings a cinematic eye and the sensibility of a poet-explorer, tinkering with the timing of the frames to give us a sense of the actual speed one experiences as a crew member.
Further Up Yonder is available for download in 2K original resolution on my blog: http://wp.me/p2fVm6-bv Facebook page - Making of coming soon! https://www.facebook.com/furtherupyonder ***UPDATE / SUBTITLES*** Dutch, Latvian, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Bulgarian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and English subtitles on universalsubtitles.org bit.ly/WuZ4z2 You are welcome to add subtitles in your language, you will be credited for your help. Thanks! ***UPDATE / 100.000 Plays!*** After just a week, we reached the awesome goal of 100K plays. Thanks to everybody who shared, commented, liked and got inspired by watching Further Up Yonder. It has been an intense week, spent answering a ton of nice messages that people from all over the world sent to me. You made possible to have this video featured on blogs, forums and major media websites during this week. You helped this video crossing borders, as the astronauts asked us, reaching out to every continent. Thanks for your incredible support. Keep sharing! ***TO THE STARS!*** A timelapse message from ISS to all Humankind. - 2K version available on my blog: http://wp.me/p2fVm6-bv I wanted to use pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years. They are working to open a Gateway to Space for all humankind, but people on Earth must understand that they have to get rid of the concept of borders on our planet if they want to follow the astronauts to new worlds in outer space. While the cosmonauts speak a day passes on Earth, from dawn to sunset, until the Gateway opens with a burst of light. The ISS then gains speed, the astronauts are leaving our planet which they see spinning faster and faster, merging earth, oceans and people together, ready to follow them, Further Up Yonder. Making of As a filmmaking student, this was my first attempt to craft a timelapse video. It has been a time consuming process, but it turned out as one of my most satisfying projects. I focused my workflow on colours and harmony of movements, syncing every frame with the music and the voices of the astronauts. Every picture has been post processed individually before being imported in the NLE software, as I tried to take the most out of every image in terms of colours, contrast and neatiness. Pictures were downloaded from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center and edited with Photoshop CS6. Even if they were Hi-res images shot with Nikon D3S cameras, a lot of noise removal and color correction was needed, especially for those shots at ISO 3200, which was the highest ISO speed limit I've allowed myself to use, exception made for the last sequence of the spinning world, which comes from a sequenze of shots taken at ISO 12800. Daytime shots were taken at ISO 200. I've used Topaz Denoise 5 for noise removal, as it is very powerful and accurate when dealing with shadows and blacks. Editing was made with Adobe Premiere CS6, with a 2K workflow, which allowed me to scale, rotate and pan image sequences whose native resolution is 4K. The video was downscaled to 1280x720 resolution for Vimeo. The original 2K version is available for download on my blog (link on top of this description). Credits Images courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, downloadable for non-commerical use from http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Music: Synthetic Truth, by digitalR3public - licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 License: http://soundcloud.com/digitalr3public/synthetic-truth Audio messages courtesy of NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
Film student Giacomo Sardelli:
"Pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years."
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