Benjamin Grant: What it feels like to see Earth from space
ベンジャミン・グラント: 宇宙から地球を見るのはどんな気持ちか
Through his mesmerizing satellite photographs, Benjamin Grant offers us a new way of seeing of our planet and ourselves. Full bio
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has successfully completed
three days before,
打ち上げの3日後で
beyond low Earth orbit.
旅に出たときでした
周回をしているとき
その姿を現しました
above the Moon's horizon.
asks his crewmates where their camera is,
慌ててカメラを探し
points it towards the window,
シャッターを押し
写真を撮りました
important photographs of all time:
a few days later,
戻った乗員たちは
質問を受けました
発見したものは—
いったい何を感じたのでしょう?
研究ですが
at the University of Pennsylvania
of hundreds of astronauts
証言を集めました
to view the Earth from space.
よく見られることが明らかになりました
three common feelings:
感謝の気持ち
for Earth's beauty;
繫がっている感覚が強まったというもの
of connection to all other living beings;
often overwhelming sense of emotion.
感情に圧倒される感覚です
the Earth from a great distance
new cognitive frameworks
新たな認知的枠組みが発達するのだと
were forever changed
この新たな視野
as the "overview effect."
知られています
have ever been to outer space.
たった558人だけです
地球の姿に
もっと多かったらどうでしょう?
あるミッションを開始しました
I set off on my own mission:
of overwhelming scale and beauty
体験させられないものか
狭い私のアパートにある
コンピュータを使ってです
that I launched "Daily Overview."
というサイトを立ち上げました
overhead view of our planet.
1000枚を超え
have been created thus far,
フォローする人が
of perspectives.
from the massive archive
衛星画像から見付けています
called Digital Globe.
運用していて
of five satellites,
taking pictures of the Earth
28,000 kilometers per hour.
地球を周回しています
is equipped with a camera
カメラを搭載しています
55mmレンズと比べ
with a standard 55 millimeter lens.
one of their satellites
この劇場の屋根に
取り付けたとすると
サッカーボールの写真を
at the stadium in Amsterdam.
of this project
素晴らしい科学技術を使って
that incredible technology
the Earth for resources,
地球を掘り返し はぎ取り
and cultivate crops for food,
移動してまわり
of doing all of these things,
都市の景観を形作り
control and impunity.
制御を強めています
a few of my overviews with you now.
皆さんに見ていただきたいと思います
待っているところです
to the port of Singapore.
in the world by terms of total tonnage,
of the world's shipping containers
you'll see a lot of little specks.
小さな斑点が見えるかと思います
in the United States.
and placed on a specialized diet.
特別な食事を与えられます
牛は体重を180kg増やした後
the cows gain an additional 180 kilograms
about this glowing pool at the top there.
訝しんでいるのではと思います
combination of manure, chemicals
独特な組み合わせによるものです
that grows in the stagnant water.
ピルバラ地方にある
of Western Australia,
美しくも恐ろしい傷跡です
on the face of the Earth.
in the construction of buildings,
主要材料となり
such as your dishwasher or refrigerator.
電気製品の主原料にもなります
in Seville, Spain.
太陽光集光装置です
140mのタワーを中心に
around an 140-meter-tall tower
of light reflected upwards
to a storage tank underground,
to power 70,000 homes
二酸化炭素を削減します
of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
森林破壊の様子ですが
in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
to untouched tracts of rainforest.
隣り合わせになっています
has primarily been driven
the demand of its growing population
of its rainforest
lost 4.5 million acres of rainforest
10年だけで
in Barcelona, Spain.
アシャンプラ地区です
can be incredibly helpful
非常に有効で
smarter solutions for urban planning,
考え出す参考になります
世界の都市人口が
will live in cities around the world
予想され
増すばかりです
厳密な碁盤目状で
by its strict grid pattern,
better ventilation
状況が大きく異なります
but under much different circumstances.
in northern Kenya,
ダダーブ難民キャンプで
of its kind in the world.
難民キャンプです
who are fleeing Somalia,
流入に対処するために
gridded out at left
格子状の区画を作り
these white dots,
白い点に居住します
the area over time.
埋めていきます
1枚手に入れたら
about changes in time.
語ることができます
「並置」と呼んでいますが
of the project "Juxtapose,"
of it with you now.
bloom every year in April.
チューリップ畑が満開になります
撮られた画像と
captured in March a few weeks before
taken a few weeks later.
比較します
in this magnificent cascade of color.
壮麗な色彩の川のようです
4.3 billion tulip bulbs every year.
年に43億個生産されています
in southeastern Brazil,
最悪となる
environmental disasters
引き起こしました
cubic meters of waste
in the process,
seen here before ...
こう変わりました
were killed in this disaster.
きれいな飲み水を得らない人が
have access to clean drinking water
into the Doce River,
of plant and animal life along the way.
植物や動物の命を奪っています
related to the crisis in Syria,
シリア危機に関するものです
of hundreds of thousands of people
命を落とし
余儀なくされました
is seen in Mafraq, Jordan in 2011,
ヨルダンのマフラクで
撮られたものです
captured just this year in 2017,
比較すると
見ることができます
of the Zaatari refugee camp.
初めて目にした
地球の姿のように
the lunar landscape for the first time,
宇宙からの景観は
that you could have imagined
look like from outer space.
できないものでした
the aesthetics of an image,
what it is you're seeing,
戸惑うかもしれません
that you still like it.
そういう緊張感です
I want to create with my work,
it is that contemplation,
interest in our planet
注意を払うことに繋がるからです
of what we're doing to it.
from the overview perspective
なっていると思います
of these high-flying cameras,
驚くべき技術を用いて
that we are having.
政治家であれ
芸術家であれ
取り入れることで
a more expansive perspective,
真実を受け止め
health of our planet,
深く考えるなら
より賢明な未来を
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Benjamin Grant - Artist, authorThrough his mesmerizing satellite photographs, Benjamin Grant offers us a new way of seeing of our planet and ourselves.
Why you should listen
By curating and composing high-resolution aerial imagery, Benjamin Grant has repurposed a medium once reserved for security experts into a tool that provides us with a thought-provoking look at human impact on our planet. As the founder of Daily Overview, he tells a story not only of man's relationship to the earth but also of how a determined search for novel perspectives can shift our psychology, inspire greater collaboration and stimulate visions for a better future.
Grant has grown Daily Overview into one of the most popular blogs on social media, garnering the largest following on Instagram (currently 556,000+ followers) of any brand with an environmental focus. His best-selling book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth has been critically-acclaimed by the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, CNN and was selected as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Amazon, The Smithsonian and the Los Angeles Times. First published in October 2016, the book has been translated into seven languages.
Images from Daily Overview have been featured in hundreds of publications around the world including the New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED, The Economist, VICE and more. Grant has shown large-format prints at numerous exhibitions around the world with noteworthy installations in Munich, San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and Hjo, Sweden.
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