Althouse: "Humanity, I've got a lot of problems with your work as a species..."

November 13, 2011

"Humanity, I've got a lot of problems with your work as a species..."

"... but I gotta hand it to you, sometimes you do something pretty cool."

17 comments:

bagoh20 said...: Beautiful, but the soundtrack was distracting. Another choice would have made a big difference to the overall impression. Also, I don't think humanity was responsible for the best parts or the artwork.; 11/13/11, 10:56 PM
Revenant said...: Pretty amazing stuff.; 11/13/11, 11:45 PM
JAL said...: Thank you Ann Althouse.

(I watched it with the sound off.); 11/13/11, 11:47 PM
kimsch said...: I watched without sound as well. Beautiful.

wv: efelife; 11/14/11, 12:17 AM
edutcher said...: We do love the light, don't we?

WV "satedi" When we have a big night out.; 11/14/11, 6:07 AM
TWM said...: Visually beautiful but the music sucks.; 11/14/11, 7:04 AM
John Burgess said...: The clip of the brightly lighted Indo-Pak border was an eye-opener.

Yeah, the music didn't push any of my positive buttons, but a few in the annoyance register. Don't know what would have been better though... maybe the sound of silence?; 11/14/11, 7:59 AM
Anonymous said...: A better soundtrack would have been the first few minutes of this.; 11/14/11, 8:12 AM
MadisonMan said...: Another silent watcher.

I'd be looking out the window all the time if I were on ISS.; 11/14/11, 8:39 AM
Sofa King said...: I really think if it has time lapse photography, it has to use music from this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGr-vs9fl5U

And MadMan, as cool as the view from the windows would be, you wouldn't see this. It's the magic of CMOS low-light sensors that makes this possible.; 11/14/11, 8:45 AM
Patrick said...: I think I saw Lambeau Field.; 11/14/11, 8:47 AM
Patrick said...: Paul Z: Yes, that would have been much better.; 11/14/11, 8:50 AM
Rick Lee said...: That video was a much better version than the one I'd seen before... but where did they find that scratchy old record for the soundtrack? Geez that was awful.; 11/14/11, 8:56 AM
Anonymous said...: Aside from the twisty red ribbon that turned out to be the India-Pakistan border, the other thing I really wondered about was the large orange-lit area that's in the middle of the screen at 00:34. Is it that new oil patch in North Dakota that all the unemployed people are supposed to move to now?; 11/14/11, 9:13 AM
Tibore said...: Man, that was gorgeous! I want a really high res version of that so I can figure out how to make a "screen-saver" out of it.; 11/14/11, 9:40 AM
Henry said...: Crazy squid boats.; 11/14/11, 9:44 AM
Tarzan said...: I saw my house!

wv shrourei: The Japanese art of corpse covering.; 11/14/11, 1:29 PM