Not Everything Steven Johnson Writes Is Good For You
With glee we gathered up the NY Times Magazine this Sunday because we’d caught wind of an article by Steven Johnson about Spore, the contagious new timekiller designed by Sims creator Will Wright. We saw Spore demoed at e3 back in May where we were psyched to hear that it was based, loosely, on the Eames’ film “Powers of Ten.” But this is what we read yesterday:
To date, books and documentaries have done the best job of making the long zoom meaningful to mass audiences, starting with the Eames Brothers’ proto-long-zoom “Powers of Ten” documentary of the 70’s, which took the viewer from the outer cosmos to the atoms spinning in the hand of a man lying by the lake in Chicago.
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