#3: How we are dealing with our loneliness.

Hello folks!

Now is the second day of Christmas and I’m sitting in my room in front of two laptops :D

Nowadays it is so easy to share information, links, to share your near future plans or even emotions to friends around the globe, or comment something and so on and at the same time we can be alone. Kind of sad thing isn’t it?

So my particular situation is similar. I know that nobody cares what I’m writing here and to be honest this is a silent complaint to myself of this situation where I’m now at this very moment :)

I saw very inspiring movie called Another Earth and when saw it - I liked this movie immediately because it had some resonance with me. Mike Cahill made interesting explanation about this movie. I would like to quote him here [on the concept of Another Earth (2011)]: “I think we were wrestling with the idea of the loneliness of life. You may have great close friends, a great lover or a great family, but there are certain things that you have got to deal with yourself. There's this inner monologue inside your head.. What if it were externalized? “

So in this line of thinking I’m and thinking :) now. So what I wanted to say, that nowadays there is a lot of abilities and opportunities to popularize yourself, easy to get friends and not to be lonely. But this is just a cover and in reality you do feel alone, despite what I have mentioned before. Yes, writing, like I’m doing now, can help to think about this situation. Other people find other solutions in order to escape from this feeling (I guess) and at free time (especially at Christmas time at New Year and in between this period) they are starting to drink alcohol, I mean a lot... Others are going into virtual realities (into favourite game character) for hours, or starting to watch movies one after another (that’s me :), or reading books (that is very strange I liked to read them before very much but now I do feel that I’m addicted to the Internet so sad but I just almost can’t find a free time to read a good old book in a quite place (in fact, may be it is not just for Internet thing, but also because my neighbours are drinking alcohol a lot and I can’t find a quite place and in other words I can’t find quietness within myself) and because of that I’m diving to internet: articles movies and so on.

I like to write because when you are expressing in this kind of form of your particular situation of this moment, you can indeed find the reasons and even the reason how to fix that. I already found out. I found why I cannot find a silence in my mind :) but maybe I will never find the answer why do we feel so alone sometimes. Maybe because you born alone and feel painful moments of your life alone (you do not share a painful moments of your life in social networks, you share only just good moments of your life) and we die alone... Metaphorically speaking loneliness is always near you and everybody do feel that, but maybe there is more important thing – how people trying to do with this kind of issue...

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Cosmic Dance and Cassini-Huygens mission

Hello folks
This clip contains a few shots and videos from cassini/Huygens space mission. Other images have been taken from http://apod.nasa.gov/ site (I like these archives very much BTW :).
Why I have edited these video? Well, recently at free time I have been watching these NASA archives and from there I saw images and video material which have been captured by this Cassini/Huygens mission. I saw very poor video of Saturn and its rings but that immediately impressed me and I thought that I also have to use this material in my personal clip.
But when I started to make this clip I connected images and videos of Saturn not bad, but I raised a question: what to do next. So I just attached a few images from telescopes and edited them a little bit.
To be honest, I wanted to do something more about this video. I wanted to insert images from other probes (like spirit, opportunity, curiosity, maybe even from Apollo missions and (or) from Voyager 1 and Voyager2), but immediately thought that it could be too long and too boring nowadays to watch unfortunately, and my time in doing it a little bit more interesting (or just thinking and trying to do so) could be spent too much and it could be meaningless. So I decided to make it shorter and more interesting just with Cassini Huygens mission (and for me personally this mission was amazing, despite the fact, that it didn't collect much data and images, but still it is amazing). Of course also is magnificent to watch spirit, opportunity and especially curiosity launching and landing. This is amazing and incomparable for me.
At the end of the clip you can see a few shots of lifting up a space shuttle (of course maybe it is not the same but just in symbolic way) showing that it all has just begun.
What about the music. I like to mention that every time :) I have been listening 'The xx' band for a couple of weeks now, and I really liked their music style. So because of that I inserted Basic Space remix into my clip. I do think that my clip has tune with this sound. But it is just my opinion anyway :)
So I'm hopping in the near future to do something similar (well, I promised that at the end of the clip, when showed a space shuttle launching (this is one of many interpretations of this action :))
Bye now.

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