Bowls
Some time ago my good friend ladigue_99 told me about little wild gardens that grow in natural bowls scalloped out of the top of Dance Hall Rock. The first time I saw them it occurred to me that the environment was one of isolation, with each little community completely separated from the outside world; but also it was one of protection: from predators, the wind, bad weather, and a provider of life-giving water. You don’t see these trees growing in the area surrounding the rock. They could not survive without the protection and nourishment that the bowl provides.
It made me wonder whether life would be worth living in a bowl, whether the benefit of closeness of community would outweigh the isolation. (Or, if you’re a habitual loner, vice-versa.) And then after my last trip in April I realized that we all live in a bowl, one carved not by weather and erosion but by the very geometry of space-time, curved by the mass of the earth into gravity. And the earth exists in another bowl created by the sun. And the solar system rotates in a gravitational bowl created by our galaxy. These thoughts led to the making of this video. It takes a certain amount of geekiness, I guess, to get it. But Geekdom is just another bowl ...
Stefano Mocini’s “Once we were angels” is the perfect soundtrack. If you want to hear more of his work, look here:
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/365142/stefano-mocini
Watch the video in full-screen HD if possible, and turn up the sound.
Bowls
Some time ago my good friend ladigue_99 told me about little wild gardens that grow in natural bowls scalloped out of the top of Dance Hall Rock. The first time I saw them it occurred to me that the environment was one of isolation, with each little community completely separated from the outside world; but also it was one of protection: from predators, the wind, bad weather, and a provider of life-giving water. You don’t see these trees growing in the area surrounding the rock. They could not survive without the protection and nourishment that the bowl provides.
It made me wonder whether life would be worth living in a bowl, whether the benefit of closeness of community would outweigh the isolation. (Or, if you’re a habitual loner, vice-versa.) And then after my last trip in April I realized that we all live in a bowl, one carved not by weather and erosion but by the very geometry of space-time, curved by the mass of the earth into gravity. And the earth exists in another bowl created by the sun. And the solar system rotates in a gravitational bowl created by our galaxy. These thoughts led to the making of this video. It takes a certain amount of geekiness, I guess, to get it. But Geekdom is just another bowl ...
Stefano Mocini’s “Once we were angels” is the perfect soundtrack. If you want to hear more of his work, look here:
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/365142/stefano-mocini
Watch the video in full-screen HD if possible, and turn up the sound.