{"id":235,"date":"2010-10-13T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-10-14T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:41:55","slug":"powers-of-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Powers of Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been intrigued by numbers and dates &#8211; and on Sunday we passed the memorable date of 10\/10\/10  &#8211; which works which ever side of the Atlantic you live on!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Sebastian, for reminding me of the clear, succinct and beautifully conveyed video <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;Powers of Ten&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 the classic nine-minute film made for IBM by the legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames in 1977.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">As  intended with all Thursday Thoughts, this one really makes you think!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"460\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0fKBhvDjuy0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More on the story from IBM at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/ibm\/ideasfromibm\/us\/powers_of_ten\/20101010\/index.shtml\">http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/ibm\/ideasfromibm\/us\/powers_of_ten\/20101010\/index.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and at: <a href=\"http:\/\/powersof10.com\/\">http:\/\/powersof10.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been intrigued by numbers and dates &#8211; and on Sunday we passed the memorable date of 10\/10\/10 &#8211; which works which ever side of the Atlantic you live on! Thank you, Sebastian, for reminding me of the clear, succinct and beautifully conveyed video &#8220;Powers of Ten&#8221; \u2014 the classic nine-minute film made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Powers of Ten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42,5,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-3N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":888,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=888","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":0},"title":"The Scale of Things","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"08\/03\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I was chatting to Oscar the other night and he pointed me to a really interesting site: If the frame above does not work for you, then you can link to the site HERE. \u00a0It makes you think how extraordinarily small in the Universe we are. \u00a0And how big we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Animated&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Animated","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=70"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":72,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=72","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":1},"title":"The Secret Powers of Time","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"23\/06\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I am presenting a paper at Tom Gilb's annual conference in London later this afternoon - and will be showing this amazing animated video. \u00a0Hope you enjoy!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Design&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Design","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":410,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=410","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":2},"title":"Hereafter and History Homework","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"06\/02\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night I went to see the Clint Eastwood directed movie - Hereafter. \u00a0I thoroughly enjoyed it as I had a near-death experience in the 1980s - and it sang true to many of the things that happened to me at the time - but which I have not really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Ideas","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=42"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":625,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=625","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":3},"title":"Honey, Pumpkins and Two Ninths","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"15\/09\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"What joy! 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