LIFE: A Cosmic Story
Production Coordinator
California Academy of Sciences
Visualization Studio
Fulldome Film 2010
Narrated by Jodie Foster
How did life on Earth begin? Starting with the Big Bang and ending with the biodiversity on Earth today, Life takes you on an incredible tour of our ancient cosmic origins.
Life: A Cosmic Story begins in a computer-generated redwood forest, modeled after Muir Woods. | California Academy of Sciences
Audiences plunge inside the chloroplast of a redwood leaf cell. The fl at, stacked structures are called thylakoids, where the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis occur. | California Academy of Sciences
An astrophysical simulation of a Giant Molecular Cloud, a region of cool, dense gas and dust in which stars and planets form. | California Academy of Sciences / NCSA
An astrophysical simulation of a protoplanetary disk, like the one in which the Sun and planets formed. | California Academy of Sciences / NCSA
A volcanic island is one of two sites that the show explores for the origins of life on Earth. | California Academy of Sciences
About the production…
https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2011-12-26/capturing-place-and-time-through-sound
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/62376?m=false
https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/life-a-cosmic-story
https://astrobiology.com/2010/12/astrobiology-video-narrated-by-jodie-foster-life-a-cosmic-story.html
https://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2011/California-Academy-of-Sciences-Tells-Story-of-Li.aspx
https://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/Outreach.html
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2011-07-07-turning-data-wild-rides-through-dark-domes