Comments on: Shine a Light

By: Space Videos Galore! at Asymptotia

Space Videos Galore! at Asymptotia — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:32:23 +0000

[...] of videos. Have you seen my films yet? Even if you have, it’s always fun to look again. See here and [...]

By: Meteorite Men! at Asymptotia

Meteorite Men! at Asymptotia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:46:14 +0000

[...] about it from Bob Melisso, my producer/filmmaker friend (and occasional collaborator: see here, here and here) who made the pilot and is the supervising producer for the series. From the website: [...]

By: Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:08:18 +0000

[...] Clifford Johnson helped make the very cool video Shine a Light, teaching kids about how atoms emit [...]

By: Laser at Asymptotia

Laser at Asymptotia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:45:38 +0000

[...] pleasure, and I promised a second and this is it. (The trailer was out some days ago.) Please read my post of last month for more on what this is all about. Here is some of what I said: For this [National Science [...]

By: A Little Behind… at Asymptotia

A Little Behind… at Asymptotia — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:40:16 +0000

[...] is the fact that I am two weeks late bringing out the film “Laser”, the followup to “Shine a Light”. The semester started, and all the time I thought I’d have to sit and cut a trailer for it [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:05:31 +0000

The photon’s just energy, so the electron maintains this higher state as long as it still has the energy, ie, the photon.

By: Summer Reading: Sheril on Science Friday at Asymptotia

Summer Reading: Sheril on Science Friday at Asymptotia — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:25:38 +0000

[...] on TV and radio shows, consulting for film, theatre, TV, etc, contribute to popular level articles, make films, and other things. It is vitally important, if we are a truly democratic society, for all to [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:32:41 +0000

Pretty good; but why is the photon still there after it lifts the electron to a higher state?

By: Shine a light | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Shine a light | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:00:19 +0000

[...] videos that teach some sort of basic concept everyone should know. His first in this series, Shine a Light, is, well, see for [...]

By: Shine A Light | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

Shine A Light | The Intersection | Discover Magazine — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:45:40 +0000

[...] short movie entitled Shine A Light… And now his science film is viewable online! In his own words: As I said before, this short film is (I hope) fun, engaging, and informative. I hope lots of [...]

By: cmj+

cmj+ — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:17:46 +0000

Congratulations - a fine piece of work!

By: Sara T.

Sara T. — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:27:14 +0000

Wonderful! I totally love the DANCE metaphor and theme Clifford.
Carita’s voice over is excellent.
Keep on directing!!
I love a good collision of art and science!
Will watch again (and again) and probably comment further.

By: Coming Soon! at Asymptotia

Coming Soon! at Asymptotia — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:51:16 +0000

[...] [Update: The film is here!] [...]

By: IrrationalPoint

IrrationalPoint — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:49:31 +0000

Nice work — congratulations! I really like the dance schema, so good job there.

–IP

By: matt

matt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:43:13 +0000

Hi.

I thought you were great on the Universe series and this just goes to show how talented you truly continue to be.

Keep up the good work!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:06:26 +0000

This is wonderful! I’ll be sure to forward this to some physics teachers I know.

By: Kortney

Kortney — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:54:21 +0000

Wow!! Bravo!!
Excellent musical score to enhance the dance!
Wonderfully descriptive, visually stimulating,
and musically delicious!
Great work! Look foward to the next in your series.
Congratulations & Cheers!

By: Eduard

Eduard — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:36:22 +0000

Thank you for the film and congratulations with the online premiere! Actually, using actors to schematically illustrate what’s going on at atomic scales is the idea I really like.
I look forward to seeing the following movie(s)!
Eduard.