Film by Cristobal Vila
*Image credit (used with permission of CC license)–
“Fibonacci” by Cedward Brice
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Dimensions Of Possibility
“By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.” ~Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
*Artwork: Created by NIKOtheOrb using CC licensed stock from Arwen Arts.
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Infinite Introspection
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.” ~Rollo May, Man’s Search For Himself
*Artwork created by NIKOtheOrb, using CC license stock:
“Cosmos7_007” and “Simple Starfield” produced by Funerium, distributed by Resurgere Stock Resources.
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Persistence of Memory
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” ~Jerry Spinelli
A Slip In Time
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future. . .
I want to fly like an eagle to the sea. . .
Fly like an eagle let my spirit carry me. . .
I want to fly like an eagle til I’m free. . .
Oh, Lord, through the revolution
Feed the babies who don’t have enough to eat. . .
Shoe the children with no shoes on their feet. . .
House the people livin’ in the street
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future
Credits (in order of appearance)–
“Majestic Sunrise” by Spreng Ben
“Time Flies” by Neal Fowler
“Flying Milk” by Chaval Brasil
“Nature At Its Will” by Akshay Moon
“Lightpainting” by Armene
“Til The End Of Time” by Akshay Moon
“I’ve Reached The End Of The World” by Trey Ratcliff
“Past” by Desdester
*Quotes from Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller
A Transformation of Consciousness
Heal the world
& remember to hold on–
everybody hurts.
*Image credit: “Transformation of Consciousness” by Cornelia Kopp
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The Element of Surprise in Life
I saw then that my sense of me being me was exactly the same thing as my sensation of being one with the whole cosmos.
I did not need to have some sort of different, odd kind of experience to feel in total connection with everything.
Once you get the clue you see that the sense of unity is inseparable from the sense of difference.
You would not know yourself, or what you meant by self, unless at the same time you had the feeling of other. Now the secret is that ‘the other’ eventually turns out to be you.
The element of surprise in life is when suddenly you find the thing most alien turns out to be yourself.
Go out at night and look at the stars and realize that they are millions and billions of miles away, vast conflagrations far out in space.
You can lie back and look at that and say, ‘Well, surely I hardly matter.
I am just a tiny little speck aboard this weird spotted bit of dust called earth, and all that was going on out there billions of years before I was born and will still be going on billions of years after I die.’
Nothing seems stranger to you than that, or more different from you, yet there comes a point, if you watch long enough, when you will say, ‘Why that’s me!’ It is ‘the other’ that is the condition of your being yourself, as the back is the condition of being the front, and when you know that, you know you never die.
*Quotes by Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life
Image credit (used with permission under CC license)–
“Fractal Flower” by Daniel Chapelle
“Fractal Stock 01302012” by DsyneGrafix
“Fractal Gap” by Barabeke
“Fractal” by Patrick Theiner
“Fractal Stock 11912-2” by DsyneGrafix
“Fractal Stock 43” by BFstock
“Fractal Dragonfly” by Christoph Zurbuchen
“Fractal Valentine” by Laura Harris
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Dystopia
D Y S T O P I A: a visual poem
One Day in the Future —
What if humans were extinct? What would the planet be like then? This isn’t a nightmare or a dream because there is no dreamer. Imagine a future world in which humans are gone, extinct, what record would remain to memorialize our existence. With current technology, it is already possible to record human thoughts and memories, using a digital camera/camcorder. The true dystopia would be this kind of environment, video memories/thoughts/dreams/ambitions still floating around and playing randomly throughout the world. This is how I would imagine a future Dystopian world.
DYSTOPIA: A Visual Poem (a part of Videotry series, video + poetry = Videotry. Videotry is a new style of poetry using moving images rather than written or spoken words to convey a meaning. Prose is in the form of film, a new way of ambient writing. Instrumental music and images illustrate the concepts, creating a flowing architecture)
More Visual Poetry:
Soar
Credits–
Film Clips* (all film clips from Vimeo.com and used with permission through CC license):
Where Are All The People by Jonatan Lerche, Sr.
To Wall Street by Benjamin Dewey
Still There by Hotaka Matsumura
*[All footage filmed in HD, recommend 720p or 1080p for optimal viewing]
Sound clips (all samples from FreeSound.org and used with permission under CC attribution license from the following):
“Play Ball” CGEffex
“Highway Urban” Cognito Perceptu
“Deep Bass Rumble 3” ERH
“Primary School Children Playing Interior” Nick Pursehouse
[all other clips under CC licence public domain]
Music:
“Tenebrous Brothers Carnival–Snake Lady” & “Peace of Mind” by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com
Other Footage:
Swings & Cage in Field filmed by NIKOtheOrb
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You Must First Invent The Universe. . . To Laugh At It
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” ~Carl Sagan
© Damien Bouchard / StockProject1
“An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” ~Dalai Lama
“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.” ~James Bertrand
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” ~Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.” ~Steve Jobs
“The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.” ~Bill Nye
*Image Credits–
(in order of appearance)
“Cosmos8_0007” produced by Funerium and distributed through Resurgere Stock resources;
“Mountain Lake” by Damien Bouchard, distributed through StockProject1;
“The Future Is Now” produced by Kuschelirmel Stock;
“Premade Background 1478” by AshenSorrow;
“Zebra Profile Fractal” by Nicholas Raymond; and
“Feather Dreams” by Mohamed Raoof.
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We Feel Our Environment
We feel our enviroment.
Our whole world is filled with sound, various frequencies sensed by a variety of organisms. However, is it necessary for the presence of a sense organ in order for there sound to exist? It’s like if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? All sounds are sounding at every moment, and those soundings interact with you. Like sunlight, they bounce off you, wrap around you, hit you, go through you. Well, what does that mean? When one atom hits another atom, what happens? This atom hits that atom, and those atoms start talking to each other. They communicate. They start gossiping and telling each other stuff and sharing information. Well, what happens to those atoms? What are they doing now? Now, they are borrowing from each other. They are trading stuff…all entangled with one another. And they, together, are something else all together. Something new. This new body is not this atom or that atom or this atom and that atom, it is something…else. A new vibration, a new frequency. . .multiplied within all the rest that makes you a you.
Sit back, put on your headphones*. . . listen and experience the spatial sensation.
*headphones recommended for optimal binaural experience.
Credits (used with permission through Creative Commons license and Public Domain)–
All sounds from Freesound.org
Artwork is a photomanipulation created by NIKOtheOrb using stock produced by:
Cosmos, Planets, Starfield; Funerium (distributed by Resurgere Stock)
Premade Background (water and moon); AshenSorrow Stock Art Resources
Model; Daniel
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