Remix artist Torrey Meeks uses a split-screen technique to combine footage from the Tunisian and Egyptian pro-democracy revolutions with time laps video set to Carl Sagan’s voice reading a famous passage from his 1994 book Earth – The Pale Blue Dot. The resulting powerful mashup adds a moving new layer of context to Sagan’s words which were originally inspired by a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it left our solar system.
Here is another remixed take on Sagan’s words by David Fu who inserts a wide variety of iconic Hollywood movie scenes to illustrate the second half of the narration (the movie clips begin at around the 2:00 mark).