10/12/11

Making Waves



Statement:

    There is one single ingredient that makes up nearly everything on this planet we call our home, and that is water. Water is vital to the existence of every living thing, whether it is consumed or dwelt in.
  Too often it is the things that are always in front of our eyes that tend to get ignored or become unnoticed, and the importance of water is most likely one of them. There is a beauty and mystery to this common chemical that can easily be missed simply because it is common. Rivers rush by and ocean waves repeatedly rush onto the shores of beaches all over the world. The Earth itself is 70% covered in water, in all its various forms.
    Now it can possibly be said that it is 70.000001%, as I contribute this video. True, the video itself is not entirely of water, but within the raw footage is a river, dirt, ducks; things that are all related to water, and then i've added the features of water itself to the overall video. Water moves, it bulges and ripples, flows and spins. My video is a reflection of the activeness that water is always in, even when it seems to be still, something is happening beyond what our eyes can see. The film itself is unsteady, as water isn't something that can be walked on (with a religous exception, of course) as we would concrete. Even in water's solid state, as ice, it is unsteady and precarious. Video montages have been created solely based on people falling down while on ice, an addition to water's precarious nature. It can be dangerous, when in the form of a storm or perhaps a tsunami, and it can be fun, such as its use in water parks and fountains.
    I hope somehow with this video that in some small way this vital substance can be seen in a way that is both different and typical of its nature, as water now presents itself in a fourth form beyond the common states of liquid, solid and gas. Now, it's been digitized. (note, there would be audio, but due to technical difficulties this video creation of mine is without noise, so feel free to add  your own sound effects mentally, with a relationship to water, ducks, and dirt of course)

1 comment:

  1. due to the size of the video, i was forced to upload it via YouTube, and so this cannot be found on Vimeo. My apologies

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