Creator - Educator - Artist making music, videos, words, & codes that connect you to the Universe & the spirit of curiosity
Passionate about science-accurate story-focused art for education
Proud generalist, uninterested in boundaries of medium, format & style
Verse is a project about the Universe & our place in it,
with a scientific foundation & an artful frame.
Inspiring educational awe & personal reflection, Verse aspires to remind us that we are not only deeply connected to the Universe, but we are made of the Universe. Come along as we explore our beautiful, ridiculous, poetic cosmos!
Verse is a synthesis of what I love to make
writing the videos,
composing their music,
& building code for accurate visuals
One journey around the sun, contemplating the future time still to unfold, in all its surprising duration, even when squeezed into 365 seconds!
Having some fun on the surface of Mars using VerseView's high quality Unreal Engine Landscape pipeline!
Discovering the lunar surface using VerseView's high quality Unreal Engine Landscape pipeline!
Behind the scenes making an acoustic, folksy rendition of Clair De Lune, which you can listen to here!
If you could visit every planet in the solar system... Where would you go first, and why? 🪐
Trailer for the Verse Planets Series!
Calendars are sooo boring! I don't wanna live a rectangular life, fit into a bunch of square boxes, so I redesigned the calendar to reflect NATURE and the true motions of Earth around the sun 🌎🌞
The truth about where we come from, shamelessly anthropomorphizing massive stars and supernovae 🤍 Happy Birthday to you, even if it's not your birthday!
Exploring foundational questions of the Universe's arrival, departure, and togetherness, by contemplating the clouds above
Relativity of simultaneity as discovered by a cloud who walks into a subway train
Deep technical dive into a photometric simulation of Starlink satellite streaks and their impact on Astronomy
I've been SO CURIOUS about what Starlink's impact on astronomy really is. In the video, I'm excited to share the nerdy details of this issue, which I've been learning about for the last year.
When citylight erased the night sky, astronomy shifted to rural corners of the world. Now, Starlink and other internet constellations are threatening the darkest astronomical skies
- even as communities in those rural places hold promise for equitable access
Interview deep dive into the effects of light pollution on plant & animal biology
What if everyone turned the lights off? What would we see above? these are the cities nightified during the Verse live stream!
The citylight disappearance of the night sky has changed ecosystems, animals, and... us
Behind the scenes of how I took mediocre equipment and made it look 10x better in Goodbye Night Sky Ep.1!
The definition of bittersweet is a goodbye. What is happening to us as we transform the night? This is only the beginning. This is Goodbye Night Sky Ep. 1!
For good and for ill, what happens to us when the deep dark night sky disappears due to city light? This question has beguiled me for the last year, and the findings of my research have been far more surprising than I ever suspected.
Interview deep dive into the Synestia proposal to explain the formation of the Earth's Moon!
HOW THE MOON WAS BORN... Synestias are a pretty new idea, with lots of fascinating subtlety.
Published at exactly 9:48am Pacific Time, 12/22/18, the very moment of full moon.
The first Verse episode ever, exploring the ancient curiosities of the Moon and how it influences daily life on Earth
A folksy, acoustic rendition of the classical classic, made to score a Verse short about taking a Road Trip to the Moon!
Between 2019 to 2021 I produced four albums-worth of music for the popular YouTube science channel Veritasium, often made whilst in the middle of editing, animating, researching and co-writing the videos!
Original score for a Verse series probing the question "What happens to us as individuals and collectively as the Night Sky is lost to citylight?"
A compilation of eight seasons of songwriting, a record of my heart through the light and dark of two years
Original score created for a Verse video about the Moon's formation, its 4.5 Billion-year history of coalescence, from giant impact through orbital stabilization, through lava ocean cooling, to the Moon we love today.
A site-specific album inspired by a road trip we took to the Mojave National Preserve in Spring 2019
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, story, animations, audio mix & master
Bortle-Scale visualizations, night skies above rural and urban skies
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Code-driven animations for a tutorial introducing the $1,000,000 Scroll Prize challenge to the world!
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
A short oral-history style documentary about the outcomes of homeschool graduates. Worked on editorial, story, and all aspects of production
Editing, animations, visualizations, audio mix & master
Animations, visualizations
Supplemental writing and research
Data generation and visualization
Conway renderings, animations, research, writing, ideation
Post-production rescue, render wrangling
Animations, visualizations
Construction engineering (CAD), animations
Visual effects, animations, writing, sound design
Visual effects, space animations, music
Research, writing, visualizations, visual effects
Compositing, editing, sound design, music
Laser cutter pattern engineering, editing, animations, score, coloring
Original score, edit, audio master, all the non-cartoony animations
Visualizations, animations, editing, audio
Visualizations & animations
Visualizations & animations
Visualizations & animations
Edit, audio master, camerawork
Visualizations & animations
Editing, animation, hardware engineering
Camerawork, editing, animation, original score
Editing, animation, some camera- & drone- work
Editing, animation
Editing, animations, score
I almost want to keep the bug in my code. The invalid syntax that I wrote, the moment we locked eyes across the room
And in the mess it made, was you: A cloud floating through
I simply wish to send my presence your way, for a moment as you read this, some world away
Crashing exhausted, we wouldn’t have wanted anything but this maddening bliss
VerseView is a fast and flexible toolkit for making high-quality visuals of phenomena in the Universe
How I made the site you're currently on!
Streamlining and Extending DaVinci Resolve's Live Collaboration
A collection of scripts and snippets for my own learning of manim
A Schrodinger-equation quantum wave function visualization
Visualizations of the connections between chaos theory and fractals through the logistic map; made for Veritasium YouTube video
Python symbolic canonicalizer and C code generator for embedding convex optimization problems
The collection of code used to teach and created during my programming classes at Learn Beyond The Book!
Rocket Landing "Guidance for Fuel Optimal Diverts" in Python
A simple, powerful Python text editor and installer (archived)
Rocket engine/motor testing software for safe realtime operations. Software counterpart to a larger hardware integration for rocket engine development!
Embedded code generation for convex optimization, based on CVXPY, Windows port
This code analyzes the range, endurance, and performance of an aircraft given simple inputs, simple calculations, and simple outputs
This code is designed to keep track of initial fan cascade performance specifications, and calculate the aggregate performance of a cascaded fan propulsion system
This code is intended to estimate initial size and performance requirements for Propulsor Zero, an electric fan for long duration electric flight
An experimental electric induction motor optimization tool
❤️ Made with love by Jonny of Earth
