Video Editor Max Shishkin combined the soundtrack of Intersellar, the voice of Anthony Hopkins reading “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, and footage from 35 space films to make this amazing mashup.

Films featured in the tribute:

Our Bond With the Universe, A Movie Mashup Tribute (Video)

This video is fun for anyone who ever wanted to ride through space at the speed of light! The above video is a sped up version of the original in case you don’t have the time to take a 45 minute ride through the universe.

At first I was like, “45 minutes!!”, but then I realized that it was 45 minutes to get through the whole universe and that tripped me out even more.

Peppered with little tidbits of information throughout this interstellar journey, riding light is a fun trip through our universe! You can check out the original video below.

Godspeed!!!

Riding Light Through The Universe

Riding Light Through The Universe (Video)

This short film provides an inspiring look into the future, where humans visit other planets in the galaxy. The narration by Carl Sagan, philosophically explores our natural instinct to go far beyond our starting point.

The film is a vision of our humanity’s future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might be like, if it ever happens.

All the locations depicted in the film are recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where possible. – Erik Wernquist, Filmmaker

Wanderers – Short Film Narrated by Carl Sagan (Video)

This psychedelic art gallery showcases the surreal imagination of Larry Carlson.

Each image has an out of this world feeling. The colors and visuals all coalesce with the viewer’s imagination, it’s like looking into an optical illusion where there’s more behind each artistic piece.

Psychedelic Art Gallery – Larry Carlson

Surreal Video Art – Pyramid Power

> The Wonderful World of Larry Carlson | Larry Carlson

Psychedelic Dimensions of Consciousness, Larry Carlson Art Gallery

Like his mentor Carl Sagan, Neil knows the universe is best explored and appreciated while stoned.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a beloved astrophysicist, and this hilarious spoof of his show Cosmos let’s you in on a little secret: Watching it is better high.

And don’t forget, Neil knows where to get the good shit.

Stoner Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Video)

Visions of space and the future from Japanese culture in the 70s and 80s. 

Kazuaki Iwasaki

One of our favorite sites, 50watts’ has a running feature where they showcase Japanese sci fi art scans from their ever-growing collections of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design.

We love looking through old book illustrations, and the sci-fi genre always is chalk-full of the most surreal, colorful, and bizarre. This is a fantastic collection of obscure artists and their fantastic imaginations that you would otherwise never see! – Juxtapose

Sadao Sato

Hisashi Saito

Noriyoshi Orai

Shusei Nagaoka

Takuro Kamiya

Akira Yokoyama

Natsuo Noma

Yoji Kuri

Yasuhiro Yomogida

Nayoyuki Kato

Tadanori Yokoo

McDonalds Apocalypse, Artist Unknown

Kazumasa Nagai

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Psychedelic Japanese Sci Fi Art (Gallery)

Astronaut Suni Williams gives an in-depth tour inside The International Space Station.

Suni does a great job taking us through the different modules. Showing off everything from the kitchen to the work stations, Suni even takes the time to show us the bathroom and viewing stations.

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station, Nov. 9, 2013.

NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, poses for a photo with his Thanksgiving meal in the Unity node of the International Space Station, Nov. 28, 2013.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 23 flight engineer, adds potable water to a soft beverage container at the galley in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station, May 26, 2010.

NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman assists cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev of Russia’s Federal Space Agency with a haircut in the Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station, Jan. 15, 2011. Kondratyev and Coleman used a vacuum cleaner to remove free-floating hair particles from the air.

Space Tour: Inside The International Space Station (Video)

Nathan Spotts has always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and he would:

Often dream of the things that lay just beyond what we can see.  I wanted to create images of scenes that are not-quite real, but that almost could be.

This ongoing project of composite photographs is meant to be viewed large, in print or on a vertical screen from the lower third looking slightly upward.

 Bizarre Star-Studded Landscapes Gallery

> Unrealistic Scenes | Photography Served

Unrealistic Scenes: Bizarre Star-Studded Landscapes

Experiencing the Overview Effect isn’t yet a realistic option for many of us, however we can enjoy the next best thing while we wait for Public Space Travel to become affordable.

These Timelapse Earth videos are a wonderful way to gain a new perspective on our Planet, each other, and ourselves.

As always, please make sure to watch these videos in High-Definition.

For pictures of the Earth from Space go: here, here, and here.

Timelapse Earth | Fly Over View from Space | NASA, ISS

Beautiful View of Northern Lights from Space

Planet Earth Seen from Space

Timelapse Earth – Wondrous Views of the Earth from Space (Video)

The Voyagers is a beautiful short film by video artist and filmmaker Penny Lane, made of remixed public domain footage — a living testament to the creative capacity of remix culture — using the story of the legendary interstellar journey and the Golden Record to tell a bigger, beautiful story about love and the gift of chance.

Lane takes the Golden Record, “a Valentine dedicated to the tiny chance that in some distant time and place we might make contact,” and translates it into a Valentine to her own “fellow traveler,” all the while paying profound homage to Sagan’s spirit and legacy.

In 1977, NASA launched two unmanned missions into space, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Though originally intended to study Saturn and Jupiter over the course of two years, the probes have long outlasted and outtraveled their purpose and destination, having recently exited our Solar System entirely. Attached to each Voyager is a gold-plated record, known as The Golden Record — an epic compilation of images and sounds from Earth encrypted into binary code, the ultimate mixtape of humanity. Engineers predict it will last a billion years.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Golden Record was conceived by the great Carl Sagan and was inspired by his childhood visit to the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where he witnessed the famous burial of the Westinghouse time capsule. And while its story is fairly well-known, few realize it’s actually a most magical love story — the story of Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan, the creative director on the Golden Record project, with whom Sagan spent the rest of his life.

It’s hard to imagine the Golden Record being made now. I wish Carl Sagan were here to say, ‘You know what? A thousand billion years is a really long time. Nobody can know what will happen. Why not try? Why not reach for something amazing?’ There is no way to forestall what can’t be fathomed, no way to guess what hurts we’re trying to protect ourselves from. We have to know in order to love, we have to risk everything, we have to open ourselves up to contact — even with the possibility of disaster. – Penny Lane

> A Short Film About How Carl Sagan Fell in Love | Brain Pickings

The Voyagers: A Short Film About Love, Hope, Space, and Carl Sagan (Video)