Look Closer, Look Further 

Your videos are awe-inducing. Liked, favorited, shared on facebook, yet I still don;t feel I've done enough.

Terrific video, a feast for the senses. Thanks for crafting it so well.

you can count on it, me enjoying all your videos. . greetings from cgn, #k.

Thanks for posting great videos

beautiful video.

Thanks for the kind comment!

Yeah, and what I really wanted to show was that is becomes more beautiful the closer we look. The typical examples of beauty (sunsets, mountains, flowers etc.) pale in comparison with a swirling galaxy.

Vielen Dank! Dass freut mich sehr!

wow. just wow.

very, very nice man! How did you manage to get some HD footage? where is it from?

Hi Kripptic2. Thanks for the comment, and you obviously read my message, which I appreciate too! I have read about the shifting baseline. The mistake I think you are making though, is to think that because it is possible to find isolated examples of decreasing beauty, that means that the entire planet is decreasing in beauty. Earth is a complex dynamic system, where things are constantly in flux, so we can find cases of decreasing beauty and cases of increasing beauty.

Oh, that's Keith Jarrett himself. He's one of my favourite musicians ever, but he had a tendency to vocalise along with his playing, a bit like Glenn Gould and Thelonius Monk. It's mostly inconspicuous, but I have some recordings of him where he simply won't shut up!

The sources of the images are listed in the sidebar, but getting them in HD has meant either ripping DVDs into mp4 or downloading the footage from the internet. I'm a bit obsessed with making sure everything is as HD as possible.

Planet Earth ftw

Yes, and if I were officially asked to take it down for that reason, then I would of course immediately comply. For now however, I hope people can get some enjoyment from it.

@Fnordicus Yup, I see what you mean. Basically, I wanted viewers to follow our journey inwards, understanding that it began with the microscope, but that it's not ONLY the result of the microscope.

oh and what's the deal with the noises of people in the background?

did you find any sites to download copyright free material?

Love your videos, but why are you attributing protein folding animations etc. to the microscope...? A bit misleading.

I take it the footage is actually copyrighted then?