Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world

what is the intersection

between, technology, art and science?

curiosity and wonder

because it drives us to explore

cause we're surrounded

by things we can't see

and i love to use film

to take us in this journey

to portal of time space

to make the invisible visible

because what that does

it expands our horizons

it transforms our perception

it opens our minds

and it touches our heart

so here there are some scenes

from a three diamex film

Misteries of the unseen world

there's movement which is still slow

for our eyes to detect

and time lapse

makes us discover

and broaden our perspective of life

we can see how organisms emerge and grow

how a vine survives

by creeping from the forest floor

to look at the sun light

and on the grand scale

time lapse allows us to see our planet motion

we can view

not only the vast swipe of nature

but the restless movement of humanity

each striking dot represents

a passenger playing

and by turning air traffic data

into time lapse imagery

we can see something

that´s both constantly but invisible

the vast network of air travel

over the United States

we can do

the same thing with trips at sea

we can turn data into a time lapse field

of global, economy and motion

and decades of data

give us a view of our entire planet

as a single organism

stained by currents

circulating throughout the ocean

and by clouds swirling to the atmosphere

posting a slight thing

crowned by the Aurora Borealis

it may be the ultimate time lapse image

the anatomy of Earth brought to life

at the other extreme

there're things

that move too fast for our eyes

but we have technology that can look into that world as well

with high speed cameras

we can do the opposite of time lapse

we can shoot images

that are thousands of times faster

than our vision

and we can see

how nature's ingenious devices work

and perhaps we can even imitate them

when a dragon fly futters by

you may not realize

but it's the greatest flyer in nature

it can hover

fly backwards

even upside down

and by tracking markers

on an insect´s wings

we can visualize the airflow

that they produce

nobody knew the secrets

but high speed shows that a dragon fly

can move all four wings

in different directions

at the same time

and what we learn

can lead us

to new kinds of robotic flyers

that can expand our vision of important

and remote places

we're giants

we're unaware

of things that are too small for us to see

the electron microscope

fires electrons

which creates images

which can magnify things

as much as a million times

this is the egg of a butterfly

and they´re unseen creatures

living all over your body

including bites

that spend their entire lives

rolling on your eye lashes

crawling over your skin at night

can you guess what this is?

shark skin

the caterpillar´s mouth

the eye of a fruit fly

an egg shell, a fly

a snail´s tongue

we think

we´re the voice of the animal kingdom

but there may be millions of tiny species

waiting to be discovered

a spider also has great secrets

cause spiders silk threads

that have powerful powers

stronger than steel

but completely elastic

this journey will take us

all the way down

to the downer world

the silk is a hundred times

thinner than human hair

and there´s bacteria

and near that bacteria ten times smaller

a virus

inside of that, ten times smaller

three strands of DNA

and near the limit

of the most powerful microscopes

single carbon atoms

with the tip of a powerful microscope

we can actually move atoms

and begin to create amazing nano devices

some could one day patrol our body

for all kinds of diseases

and clean out clot arteries along their way

tiny chemical machines of the future

can one day perhaps repair DNA

we´re on the threshold

of extraordinary advances

born of our drive

to unveil the misteries of life

hundreds and endless rain of cosmic dust

the air is full of pollen

microdimonds and jewels of other planets

and supernova explosions

people go about their lives

surrounded by the unseeable

knowing that there´s so much arround us

we can´t see forever changes

our understanding of the world

and that by looking to unseen worlds

we recognize

we exist in the living universe

and this new perspective creates a wonder

and inspires us to become explorers

in our own backyards

who knows what waits to be seen?

and what new wonders

will transform our lives

we just have to see

thank you

thank you