Raven McCarter -What if the moon were just a jump away?

According to one theory, the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth. After the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact, it was much closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is taken to it's fanciful limit in Italo Calvino's story "The Distance of the Moon" (from his collection Cosmicomics, translated by William Weaver). The story, narrated by a character with the impossible-to-pronounce name Qfwfq, tells of a strange crew who jump between Earth and moon, and sometimes hover in the nether reaches of gravity between the two.

Written by Italo Calvino, brought to the world by Radiolab-a collaborative radio show by Had Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and narrated by  Live Schreiber, this collaborative work brings life to a story and further shower how in film, what you see is only part of the game. In filmmaking one must make so many technical decisions as to what they decide to put in from of the screen, but what about sound? Just as important right? Of course. And story? Don't get me started. 

I started listening to radio lab a year or so ago when I just happened upon it while in iTunes. I was immediately drawn to the entire storytelling aspect of the show; because as filmmakers and photographers what are we if not storytellers? 

Listen to the Podcast here:

THE DISTANCE OF THE MOON

LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

It's really not that long and you can totally just play it in the background as you do other work!