Crystal Day
Summer 2013
Before I saw Sci-fi movies, I did not really have any particular passions or interests. I was all over the place, a teenager. My interest was peaked via films and I was hooked.
Sci-Fi films influenced me in a big way as far as my interests and career choices. I chose to work in the healthcare field because of my interest in the sciences. I always loved the films that mixed some science with imagination and vision focused on the future. So I had to pick one I am going to talk about the most recent show I saw that was part of the series, Ted Talks found at Tedtalks.com.
Rachel Sussman was the author of this particular episode. It was more like going to a work seminar only more fun. She stood on a stage and talked to the audience. The authors were told that they would be given 15 minutes to talk about anything they thought relevant. I watched her DVD-type seminar, which in the Ted Talks series called: “Beasts, Bugs, and Bio-wilderment”, on Netflix. Pretty fascinating on oldest living things in the world which she defined as being over 2000 years old.
The series talks about survival and the environment. She traveled to different parts of the world. She said that she started out just wanting to take some pictures but after seeing the different things and different places, it turned into much more. Her interest was peaked and her theory was that if we studied why these certain things were still alive and thriving after 2000 years, it would tell us something about the environment and survival. It sort of makes sense that some people say, we can tell the future by our past patterns.
It excites me to know that things like that are still being discovered or re-discovered today and people like her are still out there with their childhood wonder and imaginations and visions about the future, doing things that sometimes accidentally helps us all out medically or scientifically. I have a couple of friends who are also devoting their lives to science and saving the environment so, I can relate to their cause and passion.
There is a guy named Larry Brilliant, who “Wants to stop pandemics.” He lived in a specific place that was very remote and studied the environment there. Since he was a scientist, it sort of evolved as far as how he came to study different bacterias and survival rates and new species not previously discovered. Another person devoting their life to a cause that perhaps could help the world.
After looking them both up in Wikipedia, and searching their websites, their resumes appear very credible as well as their topics, research and photographs/records. Rachel Sussman’s strength is Art and Larry Brilliant’s strength is that he is a doctor.
The thing I know from experience about science is that it involves art which helps with being able to measure and document. That is a big part of science. My first microbiology class was probably my very first attempt at drawing something other than a straight line. I quickly had to adapt to documenting bacteria and pond scum which sounds dull but not
if you are actually doing it. These things we overlook on our walks every day, tree fungus and the like, are really very beautiful when looked at under a microscope. It took my breath away the first time I saw pond scum. And I still think about the things I learned in class, like how everything is made up of molecules and there is space in between them, we just can’t see it.
REQUESTED INFORMATION LIST:
TITLE: Ted Talks: Bugs, Beasts & Biowilderment: Rachel Sussman 2011
GENRE: Sci-Fi/documentary/art
DIRECTOR’S NAME: Kelly Stoetzel, Content Director
WRITERS NAMES: There is only one writer of the 15 minutes, my understanding is that Rachel Sussman herself wrote her speach. There are however a team of editors for Ted Talks and it’s about 4 pages long. I will attache the info.
CINEMATOGRAPHER’S NAME: Not sure if that would be the same as the Creative Services Director or Digital Traffic Manager. Or the HP Color Project people who are listed as Ted Talks Partners.
EDITORS NAMES: As stated above. I have attached the editor’s names as there is a team and it’s about 4 pages long.
WHO ARE THE PRINCIPLE CHARACTERS: There is only one character, Rachel Sussman and her photographs and her speech.
WHAT IS THEIR SITUATION: She is talking about her life’s work and her interests that became a sort of science project, about the environment.
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Larry Brilliant, (2011). Found on Netflix: Ted Talks: Defying Disease. Wants to stop pandemics.
Sussman, Rachel. (2011). The World’s Oldest Living Things. Found on Netflix. Her website is: www.RachelSussman.com. Ted Talks: Bugs, Beasts & Biowilderment-Netflix. And, www.oLtw.blogspot.com
www.Wikipedia.com searched on 06 11 13 at 4p.m.
