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169. I Had a Dream I was a Jellyfish Floating Through Space
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I don't know about anyone else, but I could watch macro footage of jellyfish all day long... seriously. Something about it that makes me feel tiny and in awe :P
Maybe it's because there's no scale reference in much of this video... and I can easily imagine I'm surrounded by bus-sized translucent jellyfish...
Okay... does anyone know if there is an IMAX movie about jellyfish? Cause if so, I need to go see that.
I took all this when Erica and I went to the Long Beach Aquarium :)
Maybe it's because there's no scale reference in much of this video... and I can easily imagine I'm surrounded by bus-sized translucent jellyfish...
Okay... does anyone know if there is an IMAX movie about jellyfish? Cause if so, I need to go see that.
I took all this when Erica and I went to the Long Beach Aquarium :)
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Mike: "That's what she said" :P
Thanks baby *
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haha <3 love it
That is all <3
nice video!
Thanks Loonachic :)
I agree. I could watch all day.
Not an indictment...just curious about how directors are dealing with their music... :)
Great video btw :)
The colours are amazing..
I would've used faster cuts though :)
Faster cuts? ;) If I would have shot a straight 10 minute clip of these jellyfish... I would have left it as is - ha ha. I'm strange...
what i want to know is: are those translucent blobs that create a rainbow sheen on their teeny little fins jellyfish? They're so cool. I've never seen that before...
Yea, the rainbow ones are jellyfish too - I forgot their name, but they were awesome... tiny little things. With your eye you couldn't really see that the lights were made up of little individual hair-like things. I had to zoom way in to get that detail... and the footage is slowed down to like 80% :P
amazing job, as always. :}
Oh and yes there is an IMAX with jelly fish. It's not purely for them, but there's at least a few good minutes on the many different species, etc. in the Deep Sea IMAX film. I'd highly suggest it anyway!
Although, now I'm all excited about 'Deep Sea' - Erica and I just watched a 3D film (at the Aquarium where I took this footage) and it was crazy-interesting.
only like a bazillion times cooler
... cause they're alive! :D
i remember you took some pretty amazing pics of the jellyfish back when we went to the LB aquarium.
i wish this was my desktop.
oh and btw- i don't think you could ride on one and they float through water not space :P
I think even back then my camera was low on power - why do I always go to see awesome stuff with no battery :P
You could make your desktop - there's apps that do that.
Don't piss on my dreams. Someday it will happen.
good video
es.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVADKwqwnc
amazon.com/Deep-Sea-IMAX-Kate-Winslet/dp/B000MRA5EM
You video was featured today at Scene 360 Video Channel, site of the day at Scene360.com and illusion.Scene360.com.
That's cool - do you have anything to do with that site?
Yes, of course. I'm founding editor, and I'm currently making the video selections for our channel.
the music choice was perfect.
And yea, I <3 Eluvium.
Have you seen them ?
There is the documentary and the fiction.
For fiction : you can begin by Aguirre and Sign of Life, and fitzcaraldo
For documentary : you can begin by My best Fiend, grizzly man, lessons of darkness, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, La Soufrière
And after, if you want to go farther, he made more than 55 films... And also, his last movie shot in New Orleans with Nicolas Cage starring seems to be good !!
Actually, he was in paris these days for a retrospective : I saw him twice to introduce some of his last movies, he was a great speaking, very funny too...
they look so real and this lightshow one !
Great stuff, thanks for sharing this
Gorgeous.
Made me remember what one of Murakami's characters said when standing in front of jellyfishes in "Norwegian Wood":
"But one thing did occur to me when I was really focused on them. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to forget all that... Two-thirds of the earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see of it with the naked eye is the surface: the skin. We hardly know anything about what's underneath the skin."
beautiful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Sea
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...Palau Islands, which contain an unusual jellyfish habitat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_films#1990
Glad to meet you too!
Soooooooo soooooooooooooothing, thank you :)
I'll defenitely prescibe it to me when I need to slow down calm down and just relax some time :).
I know I have commented on this video before, but i just wanted to let you know that this has really meant a lot to me over the past year. Honestly, it has in some ways helped me understand how I feel about life.
"I hope that we are all jellyfish caught in the same current."
Just wanted to say thanks.
Sincerely,
Chris
I kinda' forgot about the contest till you left this comment - I guess I should write a blog post or something about it :P Thanks again!
twistedsifter.com/2009/06/10-amazing-facts-about-jellyfish
"Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. The discovery of a new world, in the form of an atmosphere filled with transparent creatures, would be the beginning of a knowledge of the vast unknown. But beyond opens up the illimitable domain of the possible, teeming with yet other beings, and characterised by other phenomena. All this would be nothing supernatural, but merely the occult continuation of the infinite variety of creation. Sleep has a close relation with the possible, which we call also the ‘invraisemblable’. The world of sleep has an existence of its own. Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell us that a column of air forty-five miles in height continually presses, is wearied out at night, sinks into lassitude, lies down, and finds repose. The eyes of the flesh are closed; but in that drooping head, less inactive than is supposed, other eyes are opened. The unknown reveals itself. The shadowy existences of the invisible world become more akin to man; whether it be that there is a real communication, or whether things far off in the unfathomable abyss are mysteriously brought nearer, it seems as if the impalpable creatures inhabiting space come then to contemplate our natures, curious to comprehend the denizens of the earth. Some phantom creation ascends or descends to walk beside us in the dim twilight: some existence altogether different from our own, composed partly of human consciousness, partly of something else, quits his fellows and returns again, after presenting himself for a moment to our inward sight; and the sleeper, not wholly slumbering, nor yet entirely conscious, beholds around him strange manifestations of life–pale spectres, terrible or smiling, dismal phantoms, uncouth masks, unknown faces, hydra-headed monsters, undefined shapes, reflections of moonlight where there is no moon, vague fragments of monstrous forms. All these things which come and go in the troubled atmosphere of sleep, and to which men give the name of dreams, are, in truth, only realities invisible to those who walk about the daylight world. Dreams are the aquarium of the night".
Victor Hugo, ‘The Toilers of the Sea’ (Les Travailleurs de la mer)