This is an incredibly fascinating little documentary.
“Making ‘Making Mirrors’”- Gotye
This is fantastic. Also: teenager Gotye (around the 3:25 mark) could totally get it. Just saying.
What they said. But he’d still get it everyday of the week & twice on Sundays.
Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
[okgo.]
Lights Out: Michel Gondry tries his foot at directing a Japanese department store commercial.
[copyranter.]
If I found out these two are married I will die of adorableness.
I am not a robot.
Stop-Motion Sculpture of the Day: “MÖBIUS” by award-winning Melbourne-based art and design practice ENESS is a “collaborative stop-motion sculpture” made up of 21 variously sized triangles.
ENESS elaborates:
MÖBIUS is a sculpture that can be configured into many cyclical patterns and behave as though it is eating itself, whilst sinking into the ground. The result is an optical illusion and a time-lapse of people
interacting with the sculpture and moving through Melbourne’s landmark location throughout the day.Filmed in and around Melbourne’s Federation Square.
[core77.]
Time-Lapse Thing of the Day: “A Day in California”: Time-lapse footage of the Golden State set to the tune of Cinematic Orchestra — now with 100% more tilt-shift!
[feingut.]
Earlier: LA Light.
Fifty People, One Question - Ireland 2011 by Kamil Krolak
I found this video a while ago and it got me thinking.. I know a lot of people say they don’t have regrets but I have a few. I even think I’ve started to learn from them.
Although most of the time I appear quite calm and easy going, underneath I’m a worrier. I’m much better than I used to be but I still find myself sleepless on occasion because I don’t know exactly what I should be doing with the rest of my days.
I used to get so caught up in what was happening tomorrow or the next week that I gave myself panic attacks. Can you imagine? I worked myself up so much that I ended up in hospital because I didn’t have the next year of my life planned out.
When I learnt that I can’t plan every little thing, and that even if I did, life rarely works out as planned - everything was so much easier. I’m well aware that ‘living in the moment’ is one of the biggest cliche’s out there but those 4 little words have changed my day to day life. That cliche helped in dealing with my panic attacks, allowed me to step so far out of my comfort zone that I’m finding out how strong I am as a person and made me realise that although I don’t have a lot of family outside of my siblings, I have this whole other set of people in my life that are nothing short of amazing. I’m working towards looking on the brighter side of things, to fully appreciate what I do have, rather than what I don’t and more than anything, doing something with my life so that in another 23 years I don’t look back and have any more regrets..
In the spirit of this video, some of my regrets at 23 are:
- Not spending enough time with my Mam. She’s been dead 15 years and as I get older I wish I had known her as an adult. From all accounts, I am almost a carbon copy of her, in personality, heart, looks and everything else. As I’ve gotten older, I spend more time wishing she was just a bus ride away so that I could spend a few days just being with her and to know who she was when she wasn’t busy being a mother to us.
- Not telling him how I felt about him years ago. I spent a long time thinking about just asking him what was happening between us personally but went through other people, got some answers I didn’t like and spent the rest of the time quietly longing. Thinking about it, he almost definitely knew and had I been braver, there maybe could have been something between us but I was a coward and it just never happened..
- My first month in Latvia I spent a lot of time wishing I was back home. Knowing now how great my 6 month EVS was going to be, I wish I had sucked it up and just enjoyed the first month to the fullest extent. It really did change my life and that extra month of pining for Dublin could have been spent doing better things.
- Going to counselling sooner. I had quite a rough few years when I was younger and even though I resisted going back to therapy for 8 years, the last 2 years of having someone else listen and help me through the shit that went on in my childhood has made me finally see that counselling is nothing to be ashamed of and can actually help to get past things that are otherwise bottled up..
- And finally, because I’ve already shared a whole bunch.. I wish I hadn’t been ashamed of growing up in the foster care system. Yes, there are massive problems with the HSE and really, looking back on the 10 years of my foster care, they did quite a number of things wrong. But all of the moving around from home to home, bickering with foster mothers about every little thing and finally settling in to the residential unit that I finally grew up in, all of those 10 years made me the person I am today. So, I wish I hadn’t told people I lived in my aunts house when in reality I was living in a house with 6 girls and 3 staff at any given time. The people that really matter don’t judge you for what your situation is, they only care about you.
This post has been a bit long winded but it’s been a long time coming and I’d like to look back on this in a few years and realise, that at 23, I’m working on having no more regrets..
I just spent 10 minutes trying to describe the Moonwalking Manakin Bird episode of QI to Ciaran but until you see it, you don’t really understand..
James Blake “The Wilhelm Scream”
