The Crow: Cosmic Poetry, Part Eight

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Cosmic Poetry, Part Eight

This was waiting for me in my email box when I returned home from class. Thought some of you might enjoy watching it, if you haven't already.

PS: good quote found at Whiskey River -

"Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder.
We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?"
- Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos

5 comments:

Deedee said...: Hello Sofie One Crow- Glad to see you back and posting. I have been thinking of you and wishing you well. ~Deedee; Thursday, January 20, 2011
Deedee said...: Wow - this is cool. How do they choose a tune that fits the narration so well? I love it. Thanks for sharing!; Thursday, January 20, 2011
Steve said...: Genius is everywhere... even on YouTube!; Friday, January 21, 2011
Roderick Robinson said...: But that's Magnus Magnusson I said, longtime questioner on the BBC's egghead quiz Mastermind. Famous in GB years ago but unlikely to mean anything in Crow territory. But I was forgetting the universality of the Internet.

Two things:

(1) Stephen Hawking must have the most recognisable voice in the world, which is odd, sad and then (on reflection) not so sad.

(2) Adding the music was surely no casual matter and I suspect required remarkable skills. And yet it seems it was all done for free. Altruism's where you find it.; Friday, January 21, 2011
Lucy said...: Hello Crow!; Friday, January 21, 2011

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Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)