Want to see a movie that'll make you feel good and probably stay with you the rest of your life?
This one may be it. It's got natural drama and some suspense, too.
Maybe it will fill you with some hope.
This movie, less than 9 minutes long, ought to do the trick. It did more for me than lots of feature length films.
Enjoy!
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Clouds and Sky
As you may know, teachers get terribly busy at the end of the school year. I don't have time to visit your blogs or to develop my thoughts into posts. I expect to be on hiatus till past mid June.
On occasion, though I find something to put up here that may lift your spirits or just inspire some awe. So, here: The last post featured a slo-mo video of tiny droplets colliding. This video, the one below, takes us in the opposite direction: vast spaces as can only be seen with a time-lapse camera. We get to see long periods time compressed into a few minutes.
The beauty on this end of the time spectrum is just as stunning. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.
Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the Canary Islands
Credit & Copyright: Daniel López, IAC; Music: Matti Paalanen, Angel's Tear (Aeon 2)
Explanation:
If you could sit back and watch clouds and the sky move all night and day, what might you see? One answer from the island of Tenerife, captured over the course of the year, includes sequences that are not only breathtaking but instructive. Visible in the above time-lapse movie include clouds that seem to flow like water, a setting sun that shows numerous green flashes, the Milky Way Galaxy rising behind towering plants, a colorful double fogbow, lenticular clouds that appear stationary near their mountain peaks, and colorful moon coronas. The above video was shot solely from the Teide National Park on Tenerife in the Canary Islands ofSpain, off the north west coast of Africa.
On occasion, though I find something to put up here that may lift your spirits or just inspire some awe. So, here: The last post featured a slo-mo video of tiny droplets colliding. This video, the one below, takes us in the opposite direction: vast spaces as can only be seen with a time-lapse camera. We get to see long periods time compressed into a few minutes.
The beauty on this end of the time spectrum is just as stunning. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.
Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the Canary Islands
Credit & Copyright: Daniel López, IAC; Music: Matti Paalanen, Angel's Tear (Aeon 2)
Explanation:
If you could sit back and watch clouds and the sky move all night and day, what might you see? One answer from the island of Tenerife, captured over the course of the year, includes sequences that are not only breathtaking but instructive. Visible in the above time-lapse movie include clouds that seem to flow like water, a setting sun that shows numerous green flashes, the Milky Way Galaxy rising behind towering plants, a colorful double fogbow, lenticular clouds that appear stationary near their mountain peaks, and colorful moon coronas. The above video was shot solely from the Teide National Park on Tenerife in the Canary Islands ofSpain, off the north west coast of Africa.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Droplet Collisions
I've been fully engaged in my non-virtual life as a kindergarten teacher, ukulele player and family man in the past few weeks/months, with little time for online life. Once in a while I find something I want to share here. This wondrous video, I think, is worth the two minutes it takes to see.
In this video you can see droplets splashing and colliding at 5000 frames per second. It's astonishingly lovely.
The world is so beautiful!
In this video you can see droplets splashing and colliding at 5000 frames per second. It's astonishingly lovely.
The world is so beautiful!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Lovely Interesting Discussion
Richard Feynman was a legendary thinker and teacher. The best education is personal. It's one-on-one. No pressure. Just lovely interesting discussion.
Feynman reminds me very much of my own father. Watching these videos (the first in a series of five is below) about the Pleasure of Finding Things Out brings back the same feelings I had as I listened to my dad when he was feeling good and sharing his wide and amazing view of the world.
If you want to listen in on the kind of conversation that stimulates thinking—deep, deep thinking—find 10 minutes and watch:
Be well.
Feynman reminds me very much of my own father. Watching these videos (the first in a series of five is below) about the Pleasure of Finding Things Out brings back the same feelings I had as I listened to my dad when he was feeling good and sharing his wide and amazing view of the world.
If you want to listen in on the kind of conversation that stimulates thinking—deep, deep thinking—find 10 minutes and watch:
Be well.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
EARTHLINGS
I saw recently a movie called “Earthlings” by Shaun Monson. I learned of it from blog pal, Sabio Lantz at Triangulations.
This movie was very difficult for me to watch. Some scenes were so painful that I turned my eyes away. But I’ve come to know that suffering arises, as the Buddha taught, from ignorance. If watching this movie would dispel some of my ignorance and empower me relieve some small bit of the suffering in this world, then, painful as it might be to watch—and it was very painful to watch, I must make myself see it.
I am almost sixty years old, and I felt my naïveté evaporate as I watched this movie. It is only about an hour and a half long but felt, without question, like the longest movie I’ve ever seen.
This movie disabused me of some of my delusion about animals as they encounter humans, a delusion I have a hand in perpetuating. As a kindergarten teacher I often paint fairy tale picture about animal husbandry practices in the America today, a fairy tale which suggests the norm in America is something resembling the Arable’s family farm in E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. (My son reminds me that in some parts of the world, as in Togo, West Africa, where he just spent two years in the Peace Corps, people follow more humane animal husbandry practices.)
This movie, Earthlings, takes an unflinching—and horrifying—look at how it really is in America and other parts of the “developed” world. We allow our animals to be treated—I’m sorry, but “tortured” is the apt and accurate word here—in order to fulfill, at minimal economic cost, our desires for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and “scientific” research.
So, if you’re interested here’s a link to the movie’s website. You can watch it there or see the trailer: EARTHLINGS.
Here's the trailer. Warning: Don't watch it unless you're prepared to see a disturbing side of reality (and contemplating becoming a vegetarian).
Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com
This movie was very difficult for me to watch. Some scenes were so painful that I turned my eyes away. But I’ve come to know that suffering arises, as the Buddha taught, from ignorance. If watching this movie would dispel some of my ignorance and empower me relieve some small bit of the suffering in this world, then, painful as it might be to watch—and it was very painful to watch, I must make myself see it.
I am almost sixty years old, and I felt my naïveté evaporate as I watched this movie. It is only about an hour and a half long but felt, without question, like the longest movie I’ve ever seen.
This movie disabused me of some of my delusion about animals as they encounter humans, a delusion I have a hand in perpetuating. As a kindergarten teacher I often paint fairy tale picture about animal husbandry practices in the America today, a fairy tale which suggests the norm in America is something resembling the Arable’s family farm in E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. (My son reminds me that in some parts of the world, as in Togo, West Africa, where he just spent two years in the Peace Corps, people follow more humane animal husbandry practices.)
This movie, Earthlings, takes an unflinching—and horrifying—look at how it really is in America and other parts of the “developed” world. We allow our animals to be treated—I’m sorry, but “tortured” is the apt and accurate word here—in order to fulfill, at minimal economic cost, our desires for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and “scientific” research.
So, if you’re interested here’s a link to the movie’s website. You can watch it there or see the trailer: EARTHLINGS.
Here's the trailer. Warning: Don't watch it unless you're prepared to see a disturbing side of reality (and contemplating becoming a vegetarian).
Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Printing Ink
The Printing Ink Company made this short video about how printing ink is made. The ink is so beautiful that I started salivating. I'm not kidding!
It's less than 9 minutes long and reminds me of a Mr. Roger's field trip in his neighborhood. Only better.
The soundtrack is luscious, too. It's Alfred Brendel's Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major Op.73 - "Emperor" - 2. Adagio un poco mosso
If you need a pleasant break today, I suggest that you put on your headphones (or plug in some good speakers to your computer) set the video to full screen, and enjoy the show.
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