Some people were brought to tears; others simply gasped in surprise – but every single one of them was moved by the incredible view.
“It’s incredible!” exclaimed one of the pedestrians. “I feel like I just landed on the moon!”
The video, which is appropriately overlapped with the soothing sounds of Claude Debussy’s “Clair De Lune”, is a compilation of people’s reactions from ten different nights over the course of one year.
Overstreet describes the experience in the video by saying: “To be able to see it up close, and feel like you can almost reach out and touch it – that’s what makes it real to us. It makes you realize that we’re all on this small little planet and we all have the same reaction to the universe we live in. I think there’s something special about that. Something unifying. It’s a great reminder that we should look up more often.”