Tag Archives: perspective
It’s just a video essay from The School Of Life. To wit:
The philosopher Spinoza shows us that our minds possess an under-appreciated ability to adopt a broader perspective, from which our anxieties appear vanishingly small – and eminently manageable.
Previously: You Good?
Paperscapes
atThe intricate layered paper dioramas of Japanese artist Ayumi Shibata – some small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, others encased in jars or big enough to step inside. Sez she:
White paper expresses the yang, light, (and) the process to cut expresses the yin, shadow. When the sun shines upon an object, a shadow is born. Front and back, yin and yang, two side(s) of the same coin.
Now for yeh.
More of her work here.
A new stop motion short by the excellent Kirsten Lapore, proving that if you wait long enough, you (or your kind) will end up as an exhibit in someone else’s natural history museum.
Previously: Move Mountain
An arresting one-take short by Australian director Tom Noakes. To wit:
Why is a metalhead singing ‘Old MacDonald’ on the side of a rural highway?
Let’s rubberneck, shall we?
Coastline
atAryah Nirenberg’s interesting (and more accurate) take on traditional time lapse videos of the night sky wherein the Heavens stay still and our relatively insignificant speck of a globe twirls beneath the galactic tapestry.
A sunset seen from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during his time as ISS commander last year.